Stand Off Someone Refusing to Back Up

Strange one…shame there’s no sound.

Could always pretend to be polish no understand.

Hiya not a stand off. i was near Watton in east Anglia. one time i’d delivered to a farm down a very narrow lane
(grass in the middle of the lane)as i left the farm i come across this older lady caring shopping. there was just
nowhere to go, the lorry was as wide as the bushes. this poor lady had to walk back from where she had come
from for about Half a mile then stand in a gateway so i could pass then walk on her way again. even today 40 years
on i still feel guilty for her walking all that way for nothing. the lane was just to narrow to reverse. i hope she
forgave me there was nothing i could do.
John

lancs123:
I was behind this stand off a few weeks ago, notice the camera phone comes out at 4.22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTX74lF-xpI

Very strange, just wish there was a professional driver around who realised the woman in the expensive car was nervous and unsure what to do and just needed a little guidance rather than sitting there videoing the incident and holding everyone up.

Dipper_Dave:
Very strange, just wish there was a professional driver around who realised the woman in the expensive car was nervous and unsure what to do and just needed a little guidance rather than sitting there videoing the incident and holding everyone up.

lancs123:
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The jag looks kinda familiar…

think he was my last drop today and whined I blocked him in as I delivered his new boiler.
Whining prat!

I do whatever i think is quickest. If that’s me backing up, then I will back it up as far as it has to go. But I’ve decided you(the other vehicle) is backing up because it’s easier for you to do so, then I make it quite clear that you are going backwards :wink:

I like to think that I’m gracious enough saying thank you that most people don’t mind in the end. If they do give me any abuse I just ignore it. Life’s too short to battle with bellends.

i stopped once in a country lane when i met oncoming traffic , wishing to show my true dexterity and driving skills to the full , i flashed the cars in front , simultainiously slapping my lorry into reverse all in the space of a second…and reversed straight into a car that was right behind me :blush:

I had it on my way home from work, my right of way parked cars on the other side of the road so on I go when a tuffnels puddle jumper came up the road and decided he was to big/hard/macho to stop and give way he just came on through. We were head to head with about 20 Metres of parked cars behind both of us he then starts flashing and telling me to get on the pavement and go round him. I just laughed switched of the engine and pulled my truck and driver out my bag and started reading it I ignored his beeping and flashing and only showed some interest when he got out and started hurling abuse and offering me out of my car to which I obliged. I just told him I drive bigger than what he was in and laughed If was meant to be intimidated by a 7.5t daf lf. First time I’ve ever been snobby about driving anything bigger than a 7.5 toner he got back in and backed up on the Kerb and I went on my merry way he gave me the v as I drove past I was tempted to turn back but found it hilarious in the end that he couldn’t give me the v’s to my face and had just wasted near on a 15 when he could of just waited 10 seconds in the first place.

Wish I was 6-5 and 20 stone I would say you don’t get many road rage people having a dig or arsey word at you! I’m just joe average. I’m a lover not a fighter as they say so with the man with the jack handle think I would have done the same. So Many nutters and round tree’s randoms about these days I’d rather not suffer a fractured head and brain damage for the sake of pride over a car on the road. I’ve got the rest of my life to live.

Actrosman:
He rushed round the back of his car and pulled out a jack handle, and said “You or the car mate - I don’t give a ■■■■.”

It’s a nice feeling knowing that my Scania still has the cab tilt bar under the front grill… “I take your diddy handle and raise it with this 3’ bad-boy…still up for it?” :laughing:

This is the kind of Jack handle I was referring to… I think it makes three foot worth already… :unamused: A veritable staff +3 capable of doing double damage to nightwalkers to be sure. :open_mouth:

Jack Handle.jpg

It’s me that only has a diddy wheel brace like this, which are not exactly easy to flail around like nunchuks.

Wheel Brace.jpg

I’m crap with confrontation. I get all out of sorts and red faced with anger which escalates things, then kick myself that I didn’t say something else at the time that was relevant. Maybe a tyre tool like that would help things. I’d probably end up going down an avenue I wish I hadn’t pursued and end up in over my head :smiley:

bigvern1:
^THIS^ Done it many times in Devon & Cornwall.

As have many. I used to have a delightful run from Totnes to deliver to pubs in the unheard of depths of the South Hams.
Often there would be on accession where I would just wait as I couldn’t reverse or get out as the mirrors were against the verge. Bit of entertainment was often had with the ideas that people had, like reversing one wheel up the verge and flashing you on, lol.

Me too Freight Dog, exactly the same. I come up with sooo many lines after the event. It’s annoying!

Best thing to do with largers is just film them in these road rage situations. There was a cracking vid on here a while back of some one larging it at a truckers door & he just blanked them & filmed the F ing & Jeffing & then he just ran out of steam & drove off.

You either need to leather them straight away (no cameras or witnesses) take the reg number & send Vassilly from Vladivostok round to his house to plait his intestines or just blank em & record em or for ultimate Zen, just throw them a look of contempt & beneathly munificence & back up yourself.