• PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    Any bets on how many crazy drivers and people there are gonna be today after the long weekend?

    Hopefully be a bit more tame now that school holidays are on 🤞🏼

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      8 months ago

      Reporting back from this mornings drive to work.

      Passenger vehicle drivers were okay. Though I did see someone getting tailgated, change lanes, then change back to get behind the tailgater to flash their high beams in anger 😯

      Had two different professional truck drivers tailgate me though; one truck and trailer, and another b-double. 👏🏼👏🏼

      • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zone
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        8 months ago

        I will never understand so-called professional drivers acting like total wanks on the road. If you get paid to drive in a professional capacity you need to be better than Joe Average commuter, not worse.

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            8 months ago

            Yet when the inevitably run up the back end of someone, they always claim “omg don’t you know how long it takes for a truck to stop??” as if somehow the vehicle in front of them is responsible for… them following too close?

            I see truck drivers manoeuvring in tiny spaces with a heap of skill and it’s something I can’t do, but I also see truck drivers tailgating hatchbacks on the highway at 110kph (and throwing up justifications like “If I dont follow close someone else will just pull in” which is stupid for car drivers but doubly so for heavy vehicles). On balance I cant wait for self-driving everything.