Ian
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Originally posted by pow
Vandrivers are ultimate cocks.
Normally becuase they don't own they van = they don't give a shit
I assume you've never delivered for a living then?
I've been a van driver many years ago and I had on average 12 drops per day. Add 10 minutes to each of those through people slowing you down and you get home two hours late.
Now when I see people working I let them get there.
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Paul_J
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If there was a way to report drivers that mattered, I'd be banged up by now 
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xa0s
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Bung it into a lower gear and use engine braking to slam on (without the brake lights coming on), that shits 'em up too.
[Edited on 19-06-2009 by xa0s]
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CorsAsh
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I can't believe how many people are willing to actively put their car and themselves in harms way "to shit someone up".
Yes if they hit you when you brake it's their fault, but why increase the chances of it happening even further? I couldn't be arsed with the hassle.
And using engine braking to jam on Luke? Is "shitting someone up" worth damaging your drivetrain?
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Ste
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I flash my lights at people. It is in the highway code. It means 'I'm here' and is used to allert other road users of your presence. Driving up someones arse is dangerous. If someone flashes you, in inevitably means you weren't looking in your mirror enough as they approached. If they want to get past, let them. Why be so uptight?
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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Chris F
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Originally posted by mattk
Im normally on the other side of this story, stonechips ftl
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Chris F
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Originally posted by Ste W
I flash my lights at people. It is in the highway code. It means 'I'm here' and is used to allert other road users of your presence. Driving up someones arse is dangerous. If someone flashes you, in inevitably means you weren't looking in your mirror enough as they approached. If they want to get past, let them. Why be so uptight?
Its Fonz
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ed
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Originally posted by DaveyLC
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Originally posted by S7M XE
My mum just slams her brakes on, that makes them f*ck off
I normally do that.. Although I did it on the M25 once because a Jag was up my arse flashing (I was up the arse of the car in front so no where to go) so I slammed on my brakes, he had smoke off his tyres and everything but then he came up the inside wound down his window and he was MASSIVE! I mean he could have picked me up by my head and smashed me into the wall legs first! Fucking MONSTER MAN!
He then gestured that we should go to the hard shoulder for some fisty cuffs.. YEAH RIGHT! Followed me for a few miles and then must have got bored.
You probably shouldn't have been driving in the wrong lane then.
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random dav
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Try ringing crime stoppers, seemed to work when I did it.
WRLFC !
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Welsh Dan
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Like Ste W said. I don't tailgate, but I do flash my lights at people. Middle lane drivers who don't move piss me off the most, making me move across two lanes to pass them legally 
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Gregor
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I am a van driver and I own my van, surprise surprise it's a ford transit.
If you are going snails pace in the fast lane then yeah I would drive close enough for you to get the message. Granted the roads are full of wankers be it van or car, who take it too far but to be honest the tailgater is just as bad as the cockend sitting holding all the traffic up.
Coincidentally, last week I was cut up by a van driver on the motorway. About a second later an object cracked my windscreen.
[Edited on 20-06-2009 by Gregor]
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Gareth F
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I usually slam the breaks on and keep taking them down to the speed limit or if you have friends like mine we do rolling road blocks doing 10mph round roundabouts with cocks like that.
Funniest one was a saab convertable looking pretty clean sat behind me being a knob sitting on my arse giving me the wankers sign even though i was doing 80mph  So steve my mate who is huge threw a mcdonalds milkshake out the window, i have not seen soo much mess it exploded on his bonnet splatted up his window and into his interior. Steve got me to pull over with the saab behind me and he got out and walked towards the saab who immediately sped off 
I know some people need to get places fast but if someone cant move over dont fucking sit on their arse
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ed
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You're soooo cool. What gives you the right to tell someone how fast to drive?
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Gareth F
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What gives them the right to drive behind someone like an idiot?
No point in trying to cause an argument im not biting.
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Colin
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I just twat the rear view mirror out of position & forget that there there
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Jake
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whats worst is when im in the work van that takes about 3 hours to get to 60mph and then some mongoose pulls out of a junction and slows me down to 40mph, then speeds up to 60mph like theyve done the right thing. twatheads
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Graham88
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quote:
Originally posted by jake
whats worst is when im in the work van that takes about 3 hours to get to 60mph and then some mongoose pulls out of a junction and slows me down to 40mph, then speeds up to 60mph like theyve done the right thing. twatheads
Would you rather they stayed at 40 then? In fairness at least they have sped up again, there is nothing more annoying than somebody pulling out and then going slow.
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Terry12
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
quote:
Originally posted by pow
Vandrivers are ultimate cocks.
Normally becuase they don't own they van = they don't give a shit
I assume you've never delivered for a living then?
I've been a van driver many years ago and I had on average 12 drops per day. Add 10 minutes to each of those through people slowing you down and you get home two hours late.
Now when I see people working I let them get there.
Is that it?
Try doing 15-20 drops in a 24 ton Wagon restricted to 56mph
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Jake
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Originally posted by Graham88
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Originally posted by jake
whats worst is when im in the work van that takes about 3 hours to get to 60mph and then some mongoose pulls out of a junction and slows me down to 40mph, then speeds up to 60mph like theyve done the right thing. twatheads
Would you rather they stayed at 40 then? In fairness at least they have sped up again, there is nothing more annoying than somebody pulling out and then going slow.
id rather they improve their speed perception and dont pull out at all.
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ed
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Originally posted by Gareth F
What gives them the right to drive behind someone like an idiot?
No point in trying to cause an argument im not biting.
You mention you were 'already' doing 80mph. This implies you were in a 70? Get the fuck out of the outside lane and let the guy past.
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ed
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Oh, and throwing stuff at cars just isn't cool. Be a fucking man about it.
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the 6ft dream
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Originally posted by daymoon
just fit some powerfull lights from say an aircraft to your rear window. put them on if some one's tailgating you. you wont see them for a while
tool!
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antnee
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I usually keep tapping the brakes or just take my foot off the throttle!
One of the things that annoys me the worst on the roads is lane usage, amount of people who go in the outside lane at junctions who have no intention of doing at least 70 on the next stretch no slow everyone down!
I remember a few months back, coming down the A1M, its 3 lanes at one point and its completly empty, me and a S2000 behind me are having some fun, and come up to a Citroen C1 in the outside lane doing about 65!!! and there was no-one else on the motorway! WTF were they doing in that lane? ( so we both undertook the badger)
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Gareth F
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Originally posted by ed
You mention you were 'already' doing 80mph. This implies you were in a 70? Get the fuck out of the outside lane and let the guy past.
I couldnt move over as i was over taking people who sped up.
I do move over to the inside lane if its free, i dont just sit in the fast lane to hold them up and make sure they do the speed limit
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Originally posted by ed
Oh, and throwing stuff at cars just isn't cool. Be a fucking man about it.
I didnt throw it, my mate did. He just did it so i couldnt say anything as he had already thrown it. I didnt say it was cool either but maybe the guy learnt a lesson 
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Gareth F
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quote:
Originally posted by antnee
I usually keep tapping the brakes or just take my foot off the throttle!
One of the things that annoys me the worst on the roads is lane usage, amount of people who go in the outside lane at junctions who have no intention of doing at least 70 on the next stretch no slow everyone down!
I remember a few months back, coming down the A1M, its 3 lanes at one point and its completly empty, me and a S2000 behind me are having some fun, and come up to a Citroen C1 in the outside lane doing about 65!!! and there was no-one else on the motorway! WTF were they doing in that lane? ( so we both undertook the badger)
The old people doing 52mph trying to over take other old people doing 50mph blocking both lanes
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