Truck driver overtakes dangerously

[1jacjo9ti]

Good song.

[hereisthankappan]

What a niggardly way to drive !!!

[nwfklan]

0:20 "what a tool!!!" ? hah spallzing faiLLll

[bigguychappers]

that caravan should have moved left onto the shoulder out of the way instead of holding up all the traffic.

[rockandroll626]

cleared easy

[godzillasdad]

The most dangerouse thing about this video is the music !

[magic685]

It's normal in europe. Nothing special.

[2wheelsteve]

@magic685 Not UK normal, it might be were you are but its certainly illegal here in the UK

[elmski1987]

Having watched it again, I stand corrected - they are in fact off the "road" completely, didn't look as closely the first time! Sorry! :D

One thing I'll add though, the HGV driver shouldn't be doing over 40mph on a single-carriageway anyway!

[Highwaycrazy]

Whats 40 mph? We're in the metric system (km/h).

[elmski1987]

40mph would be about 65kmph...ish.....

[Highwaycrazy]

Its probably best if you use km/h because nobody will know what you're talking about with MPH. We went metric a good few years ago, don't you remember?

[elmski1987]

Well, what with all our speed limits being in MPH, the MPH ring of the speedo being the highlighted one and distances, etc on road signs all being in MPH I kind of think that the British people watching this video (which was filmed in Britain) will know what I'm talking about. What YOU mean is no AMERICAN will know what I'm talking about......which I couldn't really care less about.

[Highwaycrazy]

This is Ireland, our speedometers don't have MPH, only km/h. You'll find its the same anywhere else in Europe. I'm not an American either.

[elmski1987]

Well, whenever you see MPH, multiply by 1.6! Simple enough. Fair enough, you come across like one though.

[Highwaycrazy]

But why should we need to do that? The rest of Europe (and the world) uses the Metric system. Its an internationally recognized system of standard measurements. Only 2 countries in the world use MPH speed limits.

[Taubile]

Will Britain ever go metric?

[elmski1987]

supposedly we are, we get taught metric at school. but most people just use inches, feet, yards and miles because theyre easier to picture.

[elmski1987]

Not defending the HGV driver (I am one myself and it's hard to try and cultivate a positive image of our industry with these kind of morons about), but just one little thing - those 3 cars on the opposite side of the road, they're not on a hard-shoulder because it's not an unbroken line, they're just in the nearside lane.

Shame to see some truck drivers making us all look bad, but please don't tar us all with the same brush!

[desgarrett]

great video,

[rossyxan]

take them up the mountains and decapitate them - only solution :P

[EgisMore]

but the idiot caravan driver doesn't move anyvhere and continues at 40 km/h ... and i'm nearlly sure he has been doing so for at least 10 km when hard shoulder is as wide as two cars :)

[deckerxyz]

That was a really  dangerous thing to do!!!

Scary!!!

[Irishdrivingbloopers]

I know!!

I was less than an hour on the way to Wexford when this happened and I was certain that there was going to be a big crash there and then.

The camera cant see as well as I can so I can tell you that the oncoming cars were well visible to me before he tried that on so he was nuts to take on that manoeuvre.

I would not try that with a car let alone a rigid truck with traffic coming the other way.

Mental!!!

[elcomcf]

not only dangerous but illegal!!, forcing oncoming traffic to take evasive aaction is an offence!!

[batlin]

Yeah what a bully, unbelievable that people like that have licenses, when decent drivers are failing their tests repeatedly because they didn't do a three point turn perfectly...

[TirNaNog1979]

What a dangerous fecker!!