Road Rage - Directed at Truckers

When driving through New Cross, I’ve noticed disgruntled cyclists on three occasions now pull the red button out when a C+E truck was waiting at the traffic lights above New Cross station. This last occasion takes the biscuit though, because the same cyclist had a go at pulling out the handle on the 5th wheel as well, out of eyeshot from the driver as the truck was half around the bend going into the pedestrian crossing at the lights. He didn’t succeed of course, because the dogclip was in, and cyclists don’t seem to be able to negoatiate that in the time it takes the lights to change, the truck to stall (moving off with the trailer brake on now!) and a rather disgruntled trucker getting out to be confronted with a row with said cyclist.


Muggins is stitting a few vehicles back in the ensuing traffic jam. :frowning:

Anyone else out there witnessing events like this elsewhere?

■■■■■■■ idiot would only do it once to me…

I dont believe it.How would an anti truck cycling Nimby know where the red parking button is on a trailer or where the handle is to pull the pin and drop a trailer.

Anybody touches my wagon to put the trailer brake on, or even worse to pull the pin, I’d floor the ■■■■■

I’ve never heard of this and I hope it’s not an epidemic. Stupid lycra wearing ■■■■■.

If go to the Morroco thread the kids there cut the susies while you are driving and chuck stones at the truck.They pull the red button when it is moving.

I decided to call 101 and got through to the Met police to report this as it could end up with a bad incident especially if a handle did get pulled out !!

The person I spoke to knew exactly where this was - perhaps because he said he knew the pub well :laughing:

Hopefully they will have someone check it out

Hopefully if someone does pull the pin it lands on 1 of their relatives car and see how they live with that

Smoggie89:
Hopefully if someone does pull the pin it lands on 1 of their relatives car and see how they live with that

The problem nowdays is "A goods driver was arrested at the scene" eh?

The cyclist will be long gone by the time the police turn up wondering why a trailer has fallen off on someone’s car and killed them, everyone standing around saw bugger all, and those few talkling that were not there when it happened “blame the lorry driver” because they read the daily mail, vote Tory, and put all their rubbish in the right containers… :frowning:

toby1234abc:
I dont believe it.How would an anti truck cycling Nimby know where the red parking button is on a trailer or where the handle is to pull the pin and drop a trailer.

Google is your friend, or in this case enemy.

Jesus wept.

This so called care in the community is getting out of hand, they should be locked up in an asylum out of harms way before they kill some poor buggers.

Is anyone really that stupid to do this?putting people’s lives in danger.i don’t normally swear but ■■■■ me. :unamused: :unamused:

The cyclist may have been a trucker to know what knobs to pull.

having read that i had an argument with a cyclist on park lane in london i wondered why there was a tailback on said rd and when i got further up saw a cyclist riding on park lane when there was a perfectly good cycle lane beside the rd,i put the passenger window down and shouted for him to use the cycle lane,i did not swear and was quite polite,his response was to swear at me and say i suppose you think you are a big man sitting behind the wheel of your lorry,next thing a cycle lock making contact with my blind spot mirror and wrecking it,he then cycled off and there was nothing i could do in a 24 tonne truck in a traffic jam,which is why they should have some kind of registration plate fixed to their bikes and their address registered with DVLA,so if they have no insurance they could at least be done for criminal damage,i even lost my agency job with wincanton because they said i represent the company,i am an ambassador for the company,blah blah blah,usual crap,even my agency disagreed with their decision,but they could do nothing because of their contract with wincanton,

I’ve spoken to some other London-going drivers about this, and there seems to be a similarity in the modus operandi here.

All take place on the approach to the same junction depicted in the picture…

C+E truck is on the right side, swinging out to take the sharp left turn toward loampit vale.
Cyclist A following in the right hand lane, moves to the right rather than the left, even though there’s not a lot of space.
ANother cyclist B,(doesn’t seem to be connected with the first in any way.) comes up the left side and moves into the daft position where the trucker has to stop because he’s going to drag the combination across the top of cyclist B otherwise. Cyclist B moves away, around the corner, no exchange taking place. Trucker might be cussing at having to check-up halfway around the bend.
Cyclist A, out of sight, out of mind at this point, is now pulling the red button (always seems to be on that side with the trailers in question so far) and on this latest occasion, shuffles up the side, and leans under the front of the trailer tugging at the handle as well. It won’t budge, because of the dog clip, which the idiot doesn’t seem to know how to negotiate before the lights go green/driver pulls away only to stall, because the brakes are on.
Cyclist then rides out the front, with some kind of slanging match between them and the driver (still in cab), before the cyclist quickly rides away, leaving the trucker to exit the cab, and push the red button back in before proceeding - on this occasion.
In my view, it could have been a lot bloody worse, with oddly enough, the most likely person to be crushed by any falling-off trailer the damned cyclist A who hasn’t got a lot of room to move until they get to the front of the cab!
Would YOU pull the pin knowing that the next jerk forward by the cab is likely to have the trailer topple on YOUR right hand side position, because the truck is halfway around a left hand corner FFS? :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

I’ve heard of “death by cop” but “death by trailer”? Surely it’s some kind of mis-adventure involving complete idiots, with only a partial understanding of the mechanics of trucks and trailers?

The cyclist A btw looked like to be of student age and of non-Caucasian extraction, but I don’t read too much into that necessarily. The trucker on exiting, looked like any of us - middle aged with a beer belly, but not of foreign extraction judging by the head shaking and “FFS” movements of his lips as he stabs the button back in, jumps back in the cab, and continues, just another day for a minority in the big city alas.

There’s nothing to report to any plod, because (a) the trucker isn’t making any kind of hanging around to make a complaint, (b) I assume there’s no camera on this junction, which is why it’s popular perhaps for this “activity”. and (c) I’ve got no cycle registration to give any plod who happens to ask me what I saw sitting 3 cars back, too far to hear any verbal exchange…

Cyclists should perhaps wear a high vis with a registration mark on it, like London marathon runners perhaps?
Would solve a lot of this type of problem. The great unsaid kind of road rage - from untraceable cyclists. :angry:

Some cyclists are actually fairly pleasant I often get a thanks for sitting behind them and leaving plenty off room when overtaking then you get the ■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■ who need there bikes rammed through there faces. Wednesday driving towards a roundabout single carriage road both ways until you hit the roundabout and splits into 3 lanes I’m sat behind one not enough room to overtake so I crawled behind him For a fair distance not that bothered as I wasn’t in to much off a rush to get back to the yard and I could see the roundabout was jam packed so even if I had off overtaken he would off passed me when I was stopped at the lights. Fast forward 10 seconds and he stops throws his bike in front off me starts calling me every name going saying I’m an impatient ■■■■ shouldn’t be on the road blah blah blah I politely pointed out if I was in that much off a rush I woulda pushed my luck and got passed him ages ago with that he decides to kick my bumper push the mirror in and punch the door what a ■■■■■ nob, got on his bike quick enough when I got out I woulda put the Lycra wearing skinny little c u next tue on his back, I don’t mind getting a bollocking if I’ve ■■■■■ up but no wonder we have a bad name when ■■■■■ like this can’t read a situation, and who do I call when this happens if I had got out my motor and kicked the ■■■■ out his bike I’d have every motorist within a mile ringing my firm and calling the old bill it’s a joke. And before the abuse starts I don’t normally loose my rag and get out my truck I prefer to spend my day relaxed and normally laugh it off but no
One has the right to try and cause damage to my truck even though I don’t own it i look after it and if anyone’s gonna damage it it’ll be me.

I’m not a violent man, I’ve never been in a fight but if someone did that to my motor, I would seriously be tempted to go through the ■■■■■ Particularly the 5th wheel caper.

You sure the truckers weren’t provoking it?

Yet another thing to watch out for.

I’m so disappointed and it will only stop when someone gets killed, a driver gets locked up, but a new bit of kit gets added to equipment anyway to stop it happening again.

What horrible stories!
I suppose we could use a padlock instead of a dog clip. Some trailers have their red button in a metal box which could be lockable.
…as if we didn’t have enough things to think about already.

Euro:
What horrible stories!
I suppose we could use a padlock instead of a dog clip. Some trailers have their red button in a metal box which could be lockable.
…as if we didn’t have enough things to think about already.

Padlocks where used for a while years ago, but got banned because they didn’t have the right British Standard markings…typical.

Winseer:
I’ve spoken to some other London-going drivers about this, and there seems to be a similarity in the modus operandi here.

All take place on the approach to the same junction depicted in the picture…

C+E truck is on the right side, swinging out to take the sharp left turn toward loampit vale.
Cyclist A following in the right hand lane, moves to the right rather than the left, even though there’s not a lot of space.
ANother cyclist B,(doesn’t seem to be connected with the first in any way.) comes up the left side and moves into the daft position where the trucker has to stop because he’s going to drag the combination across the top of cyclist B otherwise. Cyclist B moves away, around the corner, no exchange taking place. Trucker might be cussing at having to check-up halfway around the bend.
Cyclist A, out of sight, out of mind at this point, is now pulling the red button (always seems to be on that side with the trailers in question so far) and on this latest occasion, shuffles up the side, and leans under the front of the trailer tugging at the handle as well. It won’t budge, because of the dog clip, which the idiot doesn’t seem to know how to negotiate before the lights go green/driver pulls away only to stall, because the brakes are on.
Cyclist then rides out the front, with some kind of slanging match between them and the driver (still in cab), before the cyclist quickly rides away, leaving the trucker to exit the cab, and push the red button back in before proceeding - on this occasion.
In my view, it could have been a lot bloody worse, with oddly enough, the most likely person to be crushed by any falling-off trailer the damned cyclist A who hasn’t got a lot of room to move until they get to the front of the cab!
Would YOU pull the pin knowing that the next jerk forward by the cab is likely to have the trailer topple on YOUR right hand side position, because the truck is halfway around a left hand corner FFS? :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

I’ve heard of “death by cop” but “death by trailer”? Surely it’s some kind of mis-adventure involving complete idiots, with only a partial understanding of the mechanics of trucks and trailers?

The cyclist A btw looked like to be of student age and of non-Caucasian extraction, but I don’t read too much into that necessarily. The trucker on exiting, looked like any of us - middle aged with a beer belly, but not of foreign extraction judging by the head shaking and “FFS” movements of his lips as he stabs the button back in, jumps back in the cab, and continues, just another day for a minority in the big city alas.

There’s nothing to report to any plod, because (a) the trucker isn’t making any kind of hanging around to make a complaint, (b) I assume there’s no camera on this junction, which is why it’s popular perhaps for this “activity”. and (c) I’ve got no cycle registration to give any plod who happens to ask me what I saw sitting 3 cars back, too far to hear any verbal exchange…

Cyclists should perhaps wear a high vis with a registration mark on it, like London marathon runners perhaps?
Would solve a lot of this type of problem. The great unsaid kind of road rage - from untraceable cyclists. :angry:

Sorry but I’m calling BS. Pics or it didn’t happen. :bulb: