Professional' Truck Drivers 5196The article said the driver had already flagged down another bus or coach and had moved as many kids as they could take, but some remained. In the absence...
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I have never in 10 years of driving an HGV (but mostly part time to be fair) ever hit another vehicle in a normal RTI type situation.
I have had my fair share of minor 'coming togethers', but given that high street retail work tends to involve very limited access its comes with the territory. My full list of incidents is as follows.
A parked transit van in Dorest while trying to do a jacknife reverse.(I didn't think I could get in with it there !)
An almost stationary car in Yate that tried to sneak up the left hand side of me while I was turning left.(note to self : Look in mirror AGAIN)
A Superdrug truck in the superdrug yard in Southampton. (note to self: don't forget trailer overhang!)
The door on a BOC tractor unit, in a BOC yard while waiting for a drop.(note to other driver : Don't rest your open door on my trailer side when I've got the trailer doors locked open!)
Parked car in a service road in North London, (I suspected it was getting tight, shame I did not stop and go and check 2 inches earlier !)
I've not driven lately (18 months), but as you can see, all the things I've done have been down purely to lack of visability, size of vehicle, and lack of space to swing a cat.
I did not say that it was excusable to drive into the back of a coach on a road, the point I was trying to make it that it might not have been as entirely clear cut as people were trying to say. But as a tipper driver, he was probably too close to the truck in front and gave himself no time or space to escape. What the excuse of the car drivers involved in rearend shunts the same day ?
