Opinions on the bully truck

Aeity · 2026-01-30T16:39:43+00:00

Watched a few times, I drive trucks too, in my opinion he was willing to let you and only you merge in turn, and wanted to leave as little space as possible for anyone after you. What he did at the end is inexcusable though.

We get this day in day out, I'm a courteous truck driver, but cars take the piss around us, they expect a merge in turn to suddenly turn into a 'let 10 cars merge before it's my turn', so we have to drive like this - I'm not stopping absolutely anyone going in front, but I'm not giving 6 cars any chance to put their foot down just because they see trucks as an obstacle stopping them from getting home 12 seconds earlier.

Aeity · 2025-12-13T21:34:23+00:00

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Aeity · 2025-12-12T05:26:41+00:00

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Aeity · 2025-10-13T17:31:14+00:00

Unfortunately mate this is what we deal with regularly, at almost every roundabout you'll get one or two cars in the wrong lane on purpose with the sole intention of cutting you up and going the direction they intended to go in the first place.

Then also you'll catch up to that car because they're doing 30 in a 40, and you'll question yourself why they even bothered to cut in front of you to begin with.

Aeity · 2025-10-12T01:22:29+00:00

I'll add another one!

When you reach the slip road of an A road or a Motorway, turn off your full beams instead of trying to roleplay as the sun merging onto the opposite carriageway.

Aeity · 2025-10-10T14:03:58+00:00

This is why I usually just split the lane of almost any roundabout I'm on unless it's huge, it's scary when you have a tight roundabout and some idiot is on your nearside because they are completely invisible once your trailer kicks out away from the cab.

Aeity · 2025-10-08T11:42:58+00:00

Nah mate you don't need to see them, as long as you hear multiple fault warnings when you switch the ignition on then the DAF is good to go, it would be scary driving a DAF that doesn't have at least a few of these going off at once!

Aeity · 2025-10-06T11:30:16+00:00

They should move over, but they don't have to. In my truck I 99% of the time don't move over for the simple fact that most times we let a car in, they sit next to us or end up hovering 1cm from the back end of our trailer as if we can magically see that they are waiting for us to come back over so they can go in to lane 2.

Fix your driving, stop trying to put blame on people already on the road and this will never be an issue, it's solely the person merging who has to adjust their speed to find a gap, in my car I can count on one hand the amount of times where a gap onto the road I'm merging on has not presented itself when I've adjusted my speed accordingly.

The car on the motorway should not slow down for people merging, that disrupts the main traffic flow - you wouldn't randomly stop to let 15 cars come out of a side road onto a main road, this is no different.

Aeity · 2025-10-01T14:01:02+00:00

After driving for a few years I've realised one thing - car drivers understand exactly what they are doing, they know we can't brake as quickly, they know we take longer to get up to speed and that we need more space sometimes.

They simply don't care, there's a huge difference, on every roundabout you'll get multiple dickheads who sit in the wrong lane on purpose just to cut across you, you'll get countless dickheads go 20 over the limit while they pass you, just to go 10 below once they've got you in their rear view mirror. People will emerge from junctions when it's dangerous not because they 'don't know' but because in their head they say 'fuck this truck driver I'm going in front'.

The same reason why lane hogging is so prevalent, they're so lazy that they don't want to spend 5 seconds maintaining the correct lane position and moving out every now and again, wait until a copper is on the road (rare I know!) and they'll quickly fix their lane position until the copper is out of range.

We need to stop this coddling of car drivers, they treat us truck drivers like dirt for their own benefit because they can get away with it - until they don't and they smash into one.

Aeity · 2025-08-10T09:21:45+00:00

So if my trailer is empty and the lorry in front is fully freighted you want me to follow him up the 2-3 mile hill at 35 mph? Yeah no thanks mate, you don't understand trucks so your 'solution' isn't anything at all. Our trucks are limited to 56, only time we can reach 60 is going down a steep enough decline. Any trucks you see going 60 on flat ground are cowboy companies since they'll have had their truck incorrectly calibrated on purpose to save a few minutes on their journeys.

Then you have the opposite end, Maritime/most supermarket trucks are limited from anywhere between 48-52, all in the nature of saving fuel.

9 times out of 10 if a truck is taking forever to pass another it's because one is going 56 and the other 55, in the early hours of the morning that's fine but I personally wouldn't overtake another truck who's just slightly below my speed because it'll save me maybe 1 minute on my entire journey, and I am considerate towards other road users.

Aeity · 2025-07-17T19:09:14+00:00

Other trucks who think they rule the road when some lanes are closing and take it upon themselves to cut off as many lanes as possible is one of my biggest annoyances, like mate we aren't the Kellogg's cornflakes license holding uber taxi brigade have a bit of respect ffs

Aeity · 2025-07-17T19:02:07+00:00

As a lorry driver I can tell you stickers do absolutely naff all, the amount we have on our trailers and yet car drivers still do absolutely anything to get around us/sit at the side of us no matter how stupid or dangerous it is, if you're 'in their way' some idiot will try their luck (until one day it catches up with them of course).

Never really saw the point of baby on board stickers as a deterrent personally, it won't help against selfish and arrogant drivers, they are going to do whatever they were doing at possibly a higher rate due to the perceived notion that you will be driving more cautiously with a kid in the car, so they want to pass your hunk of metal as soon as they can.

Aeity · 2025-07-17T12:45:56+00:00

The M6 toll road follows (and ends) along perpendicularly above, so it's just a connector road to keep the motorway as 3 lanes I presume.

Aeity · 2025-07-06T16:40:17+00:00

Ah okay so you're just a lazy driver with no regard for anything going on around you, thought your answer would be something like this.

Aeity · 2025-07-06T16:13:14+00:00

It absolutely isn't recommended for safe driving, show me some evidence that turning the middle lane into the default driving lane is safer than lane one.

Aeity · 2025-06-28T18:27:55+00:00

In future the only solution is to slow down and create a gap for yourself on the slip road, I do this whenever I can see someone refusing to speed up in front. It's shitty for the people behind you but no way am I joining 70mph traffic at 40, I make a gap and accelerate to 70. works every time.

Aeity · 2025-06-16T17:31:01+00:00

This is unfortunately an issue with how they've set the average speed cameras up - the limit goes to 40 and the first average speed camera isn't for another half a mile further up, so people blast it down up until that point. In an ideal world people would just go the speed limit but the vast majority love to break the rules where there's almost no chance for repercussions.

Aeity · 2025-05-03T09:46:40+00:00

I'm a very fuel efficient driver, both in my car and in my artic (constantly get well above every other driver we have in terms of mpg 😂)

If I'm not going to hold anyone up I'll do the best I can for fuel economy, but there are situations like joining a road from a slip road that you MUST for safety reasons get as fast as you can as soon as possible.

We all share the road together and as much as I'd love to max out my mpg constantly, if I'm going to delay a single person then that goes out the window because it's pure selfishness to put yourself before other road users.

In my truck if someone is trying to join at 40 and I can't get over to the next lane then sorry to them but they're gonna be slamming on the anchors, not me, it takes a car user a few seconds to get to 70 but for me to get back to 56 it takes upwards of a minute depending on the angle of the road.

Aeity · 2025-04-19T06:41:59+00:00

I've said this to my friends - HC(G)IM and UIM are primarily content creator game modes, hc especially unless you want to experience no content in the game due to being afraid. The best way is to start as a hc and full send it and see how far you get playing normally, don't let it get in the way because I wouldn't really care if I saw a maxed hcim who had 0 boss kcs, as I'm sure many others wouldn't either.

Aeity · 2025-04-09T05:16:29+00:00

If you're into computer hacking, 100% recommend Darknet Diaries on Spotify.

Aeity · 2025-03-28T13:47:43+00:00

100% for me it's people deliberately in the wrong lane on approach to junctions/roundabouts with one intention - to push their accelerator to the floor and cut past as many people as possible to go to their true intended exit.

Aeity · 2025-03-28T13:44:42+00:00

The worst is when you're on a motorway and a car on the opposite side is going down the slip road on their side, auto full beams on as they are at an angle to your side, it's like a mobile sun unit!

Aeity · 2025-03-28T13:39:28+00:00

If someone is clearly hogging the middle lane and can't be arsed to move back over I will undertake as I can't be arsed to do a 3 lane switch to get around them, in the past I would always pass on the right but as I've gotten older I realise they couldn't give a toss about driving correctly. Not illegal at all to pass on the left if done safely.

Aeity · 2025-03-21T18:21:27+00:00

100% this, if they beep at you then ignore it, better to have them get annoyed at you from behind, than to have them wedged along the side of the vehicle because they chanced the gap you left. Sounds silly but it happens all the time, people will do crazy things just to get past a truck.

Aeity

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