harry:
If you want me to take you a little more seriously you ought to do summat about your avatar ?
Plus 5 spelling mistakes !
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With all due respect Harry, it’s always been the generally accepted norm on TruckNet that it doesn’t matter if someone is not too hot on spelling. It’s the information that counts.
The avatar is because ■■■■■■00 is a transvestite, and again we don’t normally take a fellow driver’s clothing into consideration when deciding what weight to give to his information. Well, I don’t anyway.
Keeping friendly,H. Since when have truckers joined the PC brigade ? This forum started as a tool to inform & help fellow truckers in a good natured way; now its turned into an argy-bargy on any subject at any time no matter what the subject happens to be. More fun in a dentists waiting room these days. If the guys a ■■■■■■ its his affair but in all my experience I have met a few closet homo truckers on the road but never a proud ■■■■■■. He’s probably just a cross dresser not the full on Barna Brazillian article.
■■■■■■00:
you have to feel sorry for the guy he will be frightened at the prospect of loosing everything including perhaps his liberty if the person whom is critticly ill dies. Death by dangerous driving manslaughter.
There is no one imune from taking risks like dropping a trailer…pulling of a bay…doing 40 on a 30 road…jumping a light…working in excess of hours it just takes that extra risk that you push and your luck runs out… he could have passed that crossing a hundred times and nothing ever happened.
Harry monk shows the signs in english good point
he is supposably polish
did he get a real proper induction and not the sought of induction of read this sign here.
He may have taken advice from other drivers that it is customary to cross the track as they may be used to the trains normal times of running. There should be no puns or irrisponsible remarks about what could have been a major tragedy.
If you want me to take you a little more seriously you ought to do summat about your avatar ?
Plus 5 spelling mistakes !
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what does Summat mean? this being the 21st century? Including yours, I make it 7 spelling mistakes and one misuse of Capitals,(english should be English) but who’s counting
Don’t you just love pedants who can’t get it right
The Lithuanian has been let out on bail so thats the last you will see of him ,unless you catch a bus in Vilnius, perhaps?
jimti ; Good point-well spotted !
■■■■■■00 : If it feels right do it - more power to yer elbow…you’re a long time dead!
I think monk should be Monk too, how many would ■■■■■■ have scored if he was simply gay?
Do you think the word mans laughter is a strange use of English?
The 58 year old passenger is still in a London hospital but his injuries are said to be serious but he is now stable.
21 other people suffered injuries in the crash and the train driver is being hailed a hero as he maybe saved more lives. He saw the tanker, locked the brakes and ran back into the train to warn his passengers.
Tanker Driver; Arvydas Bartasius 38 from Littleport
harry:
If you want me to take you a little more seriously you ought to do summat about your avatar ?
Plus 5 spelling mistakes !
I
With all due respect Harry, it’s always been the generally accepted norm on TruckNet that it doesn’t matter if someone is not too hot on spelling. It’s the information that counts.
The avatar is because ■■■■■■00 is a transvestite, and again we don’t normally take a fellow driver’s clothing into consideration when deciding what weight to give to his information. Well, I don’t anyway.
" he could have" Well much respect to him /her. Didn’t use the popular,spell as you speak, “of” instead of “have”,
Wheel Nut:
the train driver is being hailed a hero as he maybe saved more lives. He saw the tanker, locked the brakes and ran back into the train to warn his passengers.
Likely ran back into train to save himself from crush injuries.
Wheel Nut:
the train driver is being hailed a hero as he maybe saved more lives. He saw the tanker, locked the brakes and ran back into the train to warn his passengers.
Likely ran back into train to save himself from crush injuries.
Self preservation you think?
It mentioned that was the way they are trained, but in that same situation, how many drivers would simply freeze like a rabbit in headlights. I reckon he did well to still be thinking reasonably straight.
Wheel Nut:
the train driver is being hailed a hero as he maybe saved more lives. He saw the tanker, locked the brakes and ran back into the train to warn his passengers.
Likely ran back into train to save himself from crush injuries.
Self preservation you think?
It mentioned that was the way they are trained, but in that same situation, how many drivers would simply freeze like a rabbit in headlights. I reckon he did well to still be thinking reasonably straight.
My friend is a train engine. He said it’s not quite the same like with driving a car.
When you drive a car, you still think that you can do something - brake, turn, etc.
With a train is different, and after you killed someone (most of them did, in Poland you kill first person on agveraga after less than 2 years of work) you already know that you can’t do nothing. Therefore there is no point to sit there.
There was a case a while back when the driver jumped out the train to save himself.
Remember the police were thinking of pressing charges, self preservation maybe?
Remember the Pendolino which went off the tracks a couple of years ago, Richard Branson praised the driver for staying with the train, as if he could have done anything else. Going down an embankment at a ton plus Im sure he had time to think of his options
depablo:
There was a case a while back when the driver jumped out the train to save himself.
Remember the police were thinking of pressing charges, self preservation maybe?
Remember the Pendolino which went off the tracks a couple of years ago, Richard Branson praised the driver for staying with the train, as if he could have done anything else. Going down an embankment at a ton plus Im sure he had time to think of his options
Actually there is quite a bit he can do if he hadn’t been knocked unconscious when the train came to a halt. Train drivers are more skilled than road vehicle drivers which and their hourly rate of pay now reflects that.
depablo:
Train drivers are more skilled than road vehicle drivers which and their hourly rate of pay now reflects that.
More like overpaid less skilled considering that they don’t actually drive the thing or have to secure loads etc etc.And of course road drivers have to drive at a speed which allows them to stop the vehicle in the distance which they can see to be clear ahead and running into the side of something which is already across your path,regardless of how it got there,usually brings some contributory blame on the driver who ran into the other vehicle.
depablo:
Train drivers are more skilled than road vehicle drivers which and their hourly rate of pay now reflects that.
More like overpaid less skilled considering that they don’t actually drive the thing or have to secure loads etc etc.And of course road drivers have to drive at a speed which allows them to stop the vehicle in the distance which they can see to be clear ahead and running into the side of something which is already across your path,regardless of how it got there,usually brings some contributory blame on the driver who ran into the other vehicle.
Yeah, driving a train is bloody easy, and you are allways overriden (if you don’t press the button to show that you are not sleeping, or of you run over the red light, the thing will stop itself etc.). I’ve been to railway school and I’ve been driving trains, lot of my friends are doing it for a living, so I know.
I’ve been driving one of these , 105 tons the engine only, great fun
But I think what he meant is that train drivers are highly trained to other things than just driving. Maybe after the accident he’s supposed to take care of everything, secure the place, judge the injuries, give first aid, secure some elements which make go danger if broken etc.
depablo:
Train drivers are more skilled than road vehicle drivers which and their hourly rate of pay now reflects that.
More like overpaid less skilled considering that they don’t actually drive the thing or have to secure loads etc etc.And of course road drivers have to drive at a speed which allows them to stop the vehicle in the distance which they can see to be clear ahead and running into the side of something which is already across your path,regardless of how it got there,usually brings some contributory blame on the driver who ran into the other vehicle.
Which just goes to show how little you know.
I drive diesel locos on a heritage line, the test for these are the same as on any main line, plus a complete knowledge of all the signals, tokens, all the in and outs of both vacumm and air braking, being able to drive the route in fog, falling snow, complete darkness, and this is just for heritage lines where we run at a max of 25mph.
Move over to say a Pendelino, these are rated at 125mph on the mainline, having had a cab ride in one of these, seeing the driver have to deal with radio calls from signalmen, cancell the AWS systems (A line warning system) if he does not do this the train will stop, end of, plus of course keeping one foot on the deadman, and having the responsability of the whole train, keeping it on time, believe me these guys are far more skilled than any lorry driver…
Oh and hurting into a tunnel at 125mph with sod all lights is scary, very.
As for stopping a train, steel on steel is not a good combination, trains have an emergency position, hit that, and there is nothing more you can do apart from putting head between legs and kissing yer arse
depablo:
Train drivers are more skilled than road vehicle drivers which and their hourly rate of pay now reflects that.
More like overpaid less skilled considering that they don’t actually drive the thing or have to secure loads etc etc.And of course road drivers have to drive at a speed which allows them to stop the vehicle in the distance which they can see to be clear ahead and running into the side of something which is already across your path,regardless of how it got there,usually brings some contributory blame on the driver who ran into the other vehicle.
