correct Way to Get a Truck around your Caravan.

yobarr · Guru

correct Way to Get a Truck around your Caravan.

BarneyBDB · Senior Member

www.youtube.com/watch

Unfortunately most of these people only hear the first part about increasing speed approaching the overtaking lane and ignore the bit about dropping back to their preferred speed once they have moved left.

yobarr · Guru

BarneyBDB wrote:
www.youtube.com/watch

Unfortunately most of these people only hear the first part about increasing speed approaching the overtaking lane and ignore the bit about dropping back to their preferred speed once they have moved left.

Sad, but unfortunately, true. Cheers

P.S Thanks for the link. I dont know how to do that stuff!

Bicyclecamper · Guru

Asa former trucky, i have never been so disgusted IN two truckies, that were only 6 feet behind my wife towing our small campertrailer, and each other, doing 100km an hour, and intimidating her to go faster down a hill by beeping their horns, scaring her so much, that she did an unsafe pull off on the side of the road near Tenterfield, and having the gall to abuse her on the 2 way, then not expecting her husband (me), to get on the handheld, and rip them a new one. I told them as new Australians, they must learn courtesy and the road rules of a new country when they want to drive in it. They nearly killed us, by locking up both their brakes, just missing her. They were actually only 12 feet apart from each other and 6 feet from us.

-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Monday 15th of May 2023 12:13:55 PM

Warren-Pat_01 · Guru

Hi Ric,
I think I met one of your dead heads a few years ago when we had our Jayco Eagle & were travelling east of Mildura. We will never forget the mongrel! The tail lights on the Eagle Outback are set high so there is no reason why he couldn't see my intentions except that he was too close to see them!

When I managed to turn off the highway, we were blasted on the CB with every possible swear word imaginable. He was obviously a private owner/driver as there was nothing on his red truck to identify him - except enough clearance lights to light up the road.

I thanked God that we came by him during mid to late afternoon & not at night!

Thankfully these drivers are in the minority.

msg · Guru

Being a truckie on Australian roads is a real skill and only those who are truly experienced and know the rules and etiquette should be driving. People who get into trucks with 10minutes instruction will kill other road users as well as themselves. As to the "you have to learn sometime" excuse, go and live and drive around a property from the time you can reach the controls.

-- Edited by msg on Monday 15th of May 2023 11:47:52 PM