commonrail:
…the interlink driver wants hanging.
…and what do you propose we do with murderers and rapists then if we’re going to start hanging people for going the wrong way round a roundabout?
You’re not a woman by any chance are you? They have a tendency to overreact sometimes. 
Conor:
I take it from you’re comment that you’re one of those who if someone was overtaking you and it was obvious they weren’t going to make it before running into an oncoming car wouldn’t back off and just think it was their own fault.
and the possibility that they,themselves may get caught up in the aftermath doesn’t even register 
Contraflow:
…and what do you propose we do with murderers and rapists then
oh…i can think of a more grotesque ending for them
Maybe the Idiotlink driver didn’t want to hammer the brakes and bugger up his Fleetboard score 
Conor:
Both parties are at fault - Interlink man for doing a stupid overtake, dash cam man for not doing anything to prevent a bad situation getting worse.
That’s about the size of it. The initial situation was Interlink’s* fault, but it only ended up as bad as it was because dash cam just continued on his merry way without a care in the world.
*convenient shorthand for “the Interlink driver”. I’m not suggesting that Interlink the company are to blame for this driver going the wrong way around a roundabout …
posting it up on youtube indicates to me that dash cam man might have caused it all by perhaps speeding up once Interlink was overtaking leaving Interlink nowhere to go . All sorts of silly games go on at night is my experience
altitude:
DrivingMissDaisy:
Just off the bus from Poland/Lithuania/Bulgaria/Spain/Portugal etc…delete as required!Sounds about right.
And how do you know he didnt just get off the bus from wales. Thats the problem with this forum these days… You think just cause its ■■■■ driving its a foreigner. He/she could very well be british as well…
nickyboy:
tachograph:
TTX boy:
Has anybody seen this video before ■■? this driver wants banning not just sacking!youtube.com/watch?v=n0Sit4lg1zw
sorry if it’s been posted before.
Again we see someone posting a video that shows potentially dangerous driving and also highlighting their own appalling driving.
That was terrible and potentially dangerous driving by the Interlink driver but why didn’t the driver with the dash-cam slow down and let him in when he realised that he’d made a mistake.
I’m not sure which driver displayed the worst driving attitude, but if I was an employer I wouldn’t employ either of them.
I suppose now people will say it wasn’t his mistake so why should he slow down
What planet are you on?
The only dangerous driver was the one driving around the roundabout the wrong way.
The Interlink driver was overtaking on a curve, there is no way he could have seen what would have been coming until he was close to the front of the other truck. He might have thought he was on a duel carriageway but that just shows his lack of concentration. He also made no indication that he had made a mistake either by braking earlier or putting a left indicator on which shows he knew what he was doing and was doing it deliberately. The speed he went onto the roundabout shows he was intent on getting ahead of the other truck.
There was no appalling driving by the other driver, his only mistake was posting it on YouTube where the usual Trucknet brigade berate them and support someone who has no place on our roads.
I’m on a planet where hopefully most people don’t just ignore dangerous situations and insist on standing their ground so they can post videos of idiots.
As has already been said if the driver with the dash-cam had backed off the situation where to Interlink driver went the wrong way round the roundabout may have been avoided.
The Interlink driver braked and started to pull over as if to pull in to the left but was unable to because the other driver kept him out, whether or not he would still have gone round the roundabout the wrong way we will never know because of another drivers incompetent driving.
mickyblue:
spin it around, why didn’t the tool just cancel the overtake and get back behind him?
Possibly because he was already forward of the dash-cam driver and making good ground when the roundabout sign could first be seen, possibly he thought he was sharing the road with a competent driver who would do the right thing and back off.
Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying, no way am I making excuses for the Interlink driver who drove like a complete idiot, but that doesn’t excuse another driver refusing to do the right and sensible thing to avoid a potential accident happening.
The interlink drivers a tool plain and simple but if it was me he was overtaking I would off backed off as soon as he pulled out and just let the idiot past. If he had hit a car going around the roundabout it would off been his own fault but I would off spent my life wishing I had just stopped and let him in before he had the chance to hit anyone. I’m not saying the dash cam drivers at fault just that he could off changed the outcome if he had wanted to maybe he had a better view up the road and saw nothing was coming who knows.
A couple of mistakes have been made!!! 2 drivers were involved in a ‘filmed episode’ no one was injured in any way and I truly believe that they both learnt something on that occasion.
Hind sight is brilliant when you can re run the video…I also think that the overtaking wagon made the right decision on the roundabout - rather than panicking and going straight on while trying to stop.
Fortunate that no one else was around really 
What I would HAVE done is immaterial really as I wasn’t there.
Karl86:
The interlink drivers a tool plain and simple but if it was me he was overtaking I would off backed off as soon as he pulled out and just let the idiot past. If he had hit a car going around the roundabout it would off been his own fault but I would off spent my life wishing I had just stopped and let him in before he had the chance to hit anyone. I’m not saying the dash cam drivers at fault just that he could off changed the outcome if he had wanted to maybe he had a better view up the road and saw nothing was coming who knows.
Totally spot on. Was it just me that thought the dash cam driver was trying to get over the roundabout a bit quick to hold him off?
OVLOV JAY:
Was it just me that thought the dash cam driver was trying to get over the roundabout a bit quick to hold him off?
No, that’s the impression I got as well.
If the dash-cam man was a truck driver I cannot understand why he would want to put it on youtube, this profession already has a bad name and putting driving behaviour like this in the public domain just makes it worse!
Send the video to the guys boss, let him deal with it. And maybe copy it to the traffic commissioners if it’s really bad.
Good job none of you lot were racing to Stranraer 20 years ago! strewth no mobile phones or auxiliary power and a sat nav! 
perish the thought, 
overtaking a paddy at eighty plus on the A75 in the dark! 
Mary Ellens
Terry T:
Darby Flyer:
While you have drivers who are more impatient/in a rush then this will happen.Road safety parameters shouldn’t be set to appease those who are impatient or working to near impossible deadlines. In my humble opinion.
Wait till the EU fit a GPS speed limiter in the cab, then people really will have something to moan about
Lol I wasn’t suggesting anything like that. Its the same with car and van drivers, if they can go faster, they will.
Would the situation be any different if the limit on an ‘A’ road was upped from 40 to 50 for HGV??
I remember being passed like I was stood still one night in the A66 near Warcop. The Irish guy had no way of seeing oncoming traffic due to the bends, and I’ll admit I was on the limiter. The old bum hole did a 55p shuffle that night lol.
For our younger members, 55p shuffle - 50p / 5p / 50p / 5p = oOoOoOoO
Contraflow:
Lusk:
It’s a shame they did not go on to say what action they took, if any!!They did. They said they took the appropriate action.
Moved him on to a more time critical run probably.
Fatboy slimslow:
Good job none of you lot were racing to Stranraer 20 years ago!
Oh the good old days stuck on shap etc etc…you can keep the ‘good old days’ we are in 2013 now and like it or not, that is taught in school today as History!!
Own Account Driver:
Contraflow:
Lusk:
It’s a shame they did not go on to say what action they took, if any!!They did. They said they took the appropriate action.
Moved him on to a more time critical run probably.
Rhythm Thief:
OVLOV JAY:
Was it just me that thought the dash cam driver was trying to get over the roundabout a bit quick to hold him off?No, that’s the impression I got as well.
+1
Dash Cam driver actually speeds up to try and get round the island before Interlink can make it back in.
Like others have said he is just as bad by not backing off and letting him in he knew exactly what he was doing and that Interlink would run out off road and thought ‘right this will be just the job for a youtube vid’.
Also if you look as you enter the roundabout there is a large yellow diversion sign so this must have been taken on a diversionary route.
Enough on this surely or does everyone and their Grandmother have to make a comment 