44 tonne lorries and towns don't mix (part 1 of 2)

Why lorries can be exceptionally dangerous for cyclists

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• cyclist
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• lorries
• town
• city
• mix
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• road
• safety

[TheSlapdown]

If you don't like trucks, or drivers, don't shop anywhere. Don't dress, don't wash. Live in a cave and grow your own food, drink water that fell from the sky.

Enough said!

[jessgudgeon]

so your telling me that drives who spend years gaining experiance in all kinds of situation and are the most trained and tested drivers on the road are at fault ? sure its not the person on a 2 wheeled tin can with no road training at all and who has no idear about rules of the road ? go fuck ya selfs ps when you pay road tax and insurence on your bike then you can have a say about what happens on the road muvvvvvvva fuuuucker *middle finger up*



[MrButters1983]

it drives me mad the slagging lorries and there drivers get , i d a cyclist hanging onto back of my trailer and if i d not seen him and he got hurt i d have being in the shit while nothing said to fella on the bike

[spinaway]

@TheSlapdown sorry i thought you were against Trucks, ive been driving an artic for 32 years without a single accident, people would soon change there minds about trucks with 3400 transit vans for every 1000 trucks, average truck driver earns £24000 per year, x 1000 = £2.4000000, transit van driver not sure say £13000 x3400 = £4.4200000 theres a bit of a difference.

[TheSlapdown]

@spinaway And that was my point! I think you maybe confused, i am dead set against moving cargo into smaller veichles. It's illogical!

[spinaway]

@TheSlapdown How could you pay 34 drivers to do the work of one, we wouldnt be able to afford to go shopping.

[TheSlapdown]

@spinaway We do when we go shopping. Unless we all go back to living in caves. let's not forget, some loads will NEVER fit in a van.....But some people love to complain before they go shopping.

[spinaway]

@TheSlapdown approx 34 transit vans to replace one articulated truck who pays for the drivers?

[smithys365]

@PopulationcontrolNow slow moving? if youve got a complent about the 40mph speed limit for hgvs, go to the goverment and please get the speed limit changed!! the only inneficient lorrys on the road are the likes of stobarts who never carry more than 15 ton instead of 30 ton/44 ton gvw

[PopulationcontrolNow]

@TheSlapdown

Or cut the number of road destroying massively inneficient noisy slow moving trucks by urging the gov't to invest in the rail infrastructure.

Dont worry,there will still be trucks on the roads doing their thing just not as many long journeys on our little island.

[ProHGV]

@19tig60 You idiot. You know what he meant, he made a valid comment. You made a fool out of yourself.