Tuesday, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:05
Regarding post above.
95% of truckies (I hope) are conciencous operators.
They do play with their lives every time they get behind the wheel.
With up to 103ton behind them.
The most important thing any car driver must remember is.
Although they have VERY good brakes.
Momentum. iE Solid tonnage) will keep them going further.
ALways give them room and NEVER get in between one and his potentiol stopping point.
Traffic lights. intersections etc.
He will have judged his braking distance for that load at that speed in those conditions.
if you step in there. quite often. even if he wanted to. He can't sop his rig rolling over the top of you.
Yrs ago. I was in a town. dual carriageway. 80km. inside lane.
Lights changed. I had a 110 ton road weight crane under me.
just rolling along around 75/77.
1 Idiot blasted past. hit brakes Swung in front of me, put his indicator on.
then tried to turn into a lane turn off into houses.
Hmm.
He just kept on rolling along. on the front of my crane.
With the air horn piercing his eardrums so he couldn't hear what I called him.
There are lots of others too. we all have them. Fatal. Messy and otherwise.
We/they. CAN NOT stop. in same circumstances as a car or van.
Over the yrs I have come to realise SOME people leave their brains at
home when they step behind the wheel of a vehicle. Age irrelavant.
Get a camera. (similar to
mine. that records straight onto a Micro SD or simillar.
I have one 16gig in there and another in dash in caes I need to remove with evidence on it.
They have own program written on them so they will roll on any player/PC Lappie/tablet/phone etc.
not start and stop at every 3 min segment.
Plus. they very small. black and sit right behind or beside mirror
and 99% wouldn't see it. hence no thievery involved.
Honeywell 1000wge -8. with GPS.
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Follow Up By: Member - P and JM - Tuesday, Mar 31, 2015 at 16:52
Tuesday, Mar 31, 2015 at 16:52
Hi mack c,
I started this thread for some info on Dashcams not a lecture on trucks and cars, but don't take it the wrong way as I agree with a lot you have just posted, as the saying goes; been there experienced that.
Please let me tell you and everyone in this post I have been:
1) A truck driver 2) Heavy machine operator 3) Locomotive driver.
During my driving/operating span of 50 years I have never had an accident and only once fined for going over the speed, because I did not see the silly new 50 board behind a tree.
All I wish to say now is that the "B Double driver was at fault and he knew it and so did the semi behind him. I was doing 100kms/hour as I always do and he sat on my rear end where he was supposed to be 60 metres away, he passed me and cut me off even before the "B" section had passed me. I had to slow down so I did not end up in the prairie and to allow the idiot could get away.
He then went like the clappers and left us for dead so he was exceeding his 100k/h. The incident was reported to NSW Police at
Balranald and I visited the trucking company on my return trip with all rego numbers and info needed.
I will be getting a Dashcam very soon. Thanks and regards P&J
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