anton wrote:
The program did generally send the message that it was the forign drivers that you have to worry about. (There for the british ones must be fairly ok?)
i agree that the foreigners are the majority of bad truck drivers in the uk however, how will joe public know the difference when the mentality is generally...DUH...truck! they will have no idea of either the nationality of the truck or its driver. with the flood of immigrants over here, WE barely know who is british and who isnt and that is driving british registered trucks
i have witnessed or been involved in far too many close calls to simply sit back and allow them to be here. the worst was a few months ago when one almost took me out as i was overtaking a petrol tanker. polish truck, outside lane, half way past he cuts in forcing me to slow down and pull into L1 behind the tanker who ended up on the hard shoulder because the polish truck continued to come over into L1. he is lucky i didnt catch him! to hell with teh consequences, you do not play with tankers or their drivers. 30 odd thousand litres of petrol going up will not be pleasant and anyone who does risk a tanker drivers life deserves some unofficial 'education'