CraigM:
Without looking at your post history… My bet is you are either a troll or just a complete muppet that shouldnt be allowed on a push bike nevermind in a hgv.
Spot on.
The ■■■■■■ driver would be in radio contact with the abnormal load driver, if that driver asked the ■■■■■■ to block you overtaking he would, if for instance the truck driver could see he needed to move out from the shoulder because there was some object in the shoulder that would cause damage.
What I don’t like is the idiot ■■■■■■ drivers who drive in front of the load and are on the CB telling the truck driver that a certain vehicle is coming towards them, the truck driver can see more than the ■■■■■■ driver can anyway.
sammym:
And as for being ‘thick’ - I’d love to compare our educational qualifications and our earning potential.
Not a problem. Highest I have is a BEng (Hons) Electronics Engineering degree gained at a red brick university. My qualifications are all mechanical, engineering and IT based.
Conor:
sammym:
And as for being ‘thick’ - I’d love to compare our educational qualifications and our earning potential.Not a problem. Highest I have is a BEng (Hons) Electronics Engineering degree gained at a red brick university. My qualifications are all mechanical, engineering and IT based.
I’m thinking he might not have been expecting that response… 
Conor:
sammym:
And as for being ‘thick’ - I’d love to compare our educational qualifications and our earning potential.Not a problem. Highest I have is a BEng (Hons) Electronics Engineering degree gained at a red brick university. My qualifications are all mechanical, engineering and IT based.
It’s great to see you putting your skills to good use dragging kitchen units between Howden and Lockerbie every night.
Conor:
sammym:
And as for being ‘thick’ - I’d love to compare our educational qualifications and our earning potential.Not a problem. Highest I have is a BEng (Hons) Electronics Engineering degree gained at a red brick university. My qualifications are all mechanical, engineering and IT based.
A good quote from when sammym was new on here…
sammym:
I’m currently doing a PhD in electrical engineering. It’s okay but the money is very awful and I get bored at weekends.
Conor:
sammym:
And as for being ‘thick’ - I’d love to compare our educational qualifications and our earning potential.Not a problem. Highest I have is a BEng (Hons) Electronics Engineering degree gained at a red brick university. My qualifications are all mechanical, engineering and IT based.
Congrats. I wasn’t expecting that. I run tutorials for people doing that course at the red brick uni I work at - and teach them how to operate lab equipment for their final year projects. Just to think I could have been teaching you if our paths had crossed - not bad for someone who is ‘thick’ hey.
Either way - I hope you are enjoying the sun and hope that you can refrain from insulting and calling people names in the future. If you disagree with someone I’m sure during that qualification you didn’t respond in a lecture theatre as you did to me. Otherwise you’d have been removed. Either way all the best - and I really do hope you aspire to more in life than being a driver with that qualification - otherwise its a terrible waste.
^^^ just sometimes you feel like suggesting it might be an idea to stop digging when already in deepening hole.
but nah, carry on digging 
It’s a common misconception that uneducated equates to ‘thick’ I know plenty of academic types who come across as ‘two short planks’ because they lack common sense, ok they can work out Pythagorean equations and algebra in a heartbeat but you wouldn’t trust them with a potato peeler let alone an artic on ever-changing road conditions and hazards, yet some of the best drivers I’ve seen probably struggle with basic speeling and maths, 1 + 2 don’t always = 4 you know.
Not a knock at anyone in particular just an observation.
sammym:
and I really do hope you aspire to more in life than being a driver with that qualification - otherwise its a terrible waste.
Getting more troll with every post.
mrginge:
sammym:
and I really do hope you aspire to more in life than being a driver with that qualification - otherwise its a terrible waste.Getting more troll with every post.
Maybe yes, maybe no, but you have to admit that the whole post was an epic comeback to a guy, who lets face it is a master of scathing comments. 
mrginge:
sammym:
and I really do hope you aspire to more in life than being a driver with that qualification - otherwise its a terrible waste.Getting more troll with every post.
I have nothing but respect for drivers. Without them within a few days our country would be on it’s knees. And I don’t think i’ll ever be able to call myself a ‘driver’ in the same way as most of the people on this forum. Our country owes drivers an awful debt of gratitude - and until I played at driving I never realised.
However if I were advising a friend or anyone I cared about, between working in a capacity of a graduate engineer or a hgv driver - it wouldn’t be a driver. And I don’t think anyone can put their hand on their heart and say they would tell their kids to drive a truck if they were qualified to be a graduate engineer.
If that’s trolling then I’m a troll. Or maybe it’s just common sense. Either way the weather is too nice to argue on the internet. I wish everyone a great bank holiday Monday.
Reef:
It’s a common misconception that uneducated equates to ‘thick’ I know plenty of academic types who come across as ‘two short planks’ because they lack common sense, ok they can work out Pythagorean equations and algebra in a heartbeat but you wouldn’t trust them with a potato peeler let alone an artic on ever-changing road conditions and hazards, yet some of the best drivers I’ve seen probably struggle with basic speeling and maths, 1 + 2 don’t always = 4 you know.Not a knock at anyone in particular just an observation.
100% Reef. Or as the saying goes,the more they know the less they know. The best wagon drivers I know are what you might call ‘uneducated’.
Radar19:
I normally try to get to the right of a wide load as much as I can when overtaking. A lot of the time I’m almost in the central reservation when I do go for the overtake. I’ve been driving 6 years in total and in that time, not once have I ever been blocked by an ■■■■■■ vehicle. I call BS on this story.
I’m with you on this. I’ve approached loads of AL’s and basically what I do is get near move out and see if ■■■■■■ are ok with it. And 100% of time they have no issues whatsoever and not once have they moved over to block me. Quite opposite in that they have slowed and let me past but I’ve been able to read road on approach to them can see ahead so know there’s no obstruction in either of our ways so probably why no drama passing them.
Ive no time for OPs posts tbh but can’t be arsed replying to some of the tripe. Tasted blood at times biting tongue but just leave him to his fantasy Walter world [emoji849]
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Having been an ■■■■■■ driver for 14 years (now retired) always had a pollicy where possible when a vehicle was having difficulty with speed differntial when try to pass, would request the abload/s to knock it back a notch to speed up the overtake, but would always give abloads two lanes on approaches to roundabouts
Rob K:
It’s great to see you putting your skills to good use dragging kitchen units between Howden and Lockerbie every night.
One of the great advantages of having a good education and training portfolio is that you have the option to do what you want to do rather than what you have to do.
I’m willing to bet that Conor gets more satisfaction from doing that night trunk than many others whose only marketable skill is the C+E on their driving licence.
sammym:
Congrats. I wasn’t expecting that. I run tutorials for people doing that course at the red brick uni I work at - and teach them how to operate lab equipment for their final year projects. Just to think I could have been teaching you if our paths had crossed - not bad for someone who is ‘thick’ hey.Either way - I hope you are enjoying the sun and hope that you can refrain from insulting and calling people names in the future. If you disagree with someone I’m sure during that qualification you didn’t respond in a lecture theatre as you did to me. Otherwise you’d have been removed. Either way all the best - and I really do hope you aspire to more in life than being a driver with that qualification - otherwise its a terrible waste.
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Hang on, so in four years you’ve gone from signing up to an open university course in physics to working at a red brick university as a teaching assistant whilst doing a PhD? Hats off to you young man, hats off.
Butterscotch…
I’m defo having butterscotch.
nom nom nom
Returning to the original point before things degenerated, should not a wide load follow the highway code if it has to pull out for any obstacles, ie, mirror, signal manoeuvre if safe to do so and not expect just to pull out because it has an ■■■■■■?
if it was plod as the ■■■■■■ then this post wouldnt exist as when you try to get past,it invariably results in 30 mins of tongue lashing as a matter of course and a harge if you tell them to ■■■■ off ( believe me i know).
sadly nowadays,ab load escorts,ambulance drivers,hato and other such cyclist traffic warden types seem to don the badge of utmost self importance quite often when they are in reality nothing other than joe bloggs doing a menial task of work.(this includes the " professional drivers " like the rest of us.
when they are not working they tend to be road warriors blocking the clear lanes on roads leading up to roadworks ect.
ive overtaken wide loads ignoring the escorts when i decide its completely safe to do so,other times you just have to sit and wait passing the time by imagining their face as they slowly die from strangulation and arguing with the satnav voice wifey.
the probem arises as to who decides what safe is.