Road Rage

[EvilDaifu]

Hi ya guys,

Maybe it's my driving or it's the silly season but I've been on the end of quite a bit of road rage lately.

Like this morning, I merge into the South Eastern Freeway from the Blackburn Rd on-ramp at 100km/h and squeeze in between 2 trucks because there is no where else to go. A new gap opens up in the right lane next to me, so I indicate and go for it and I am off into the horizon as far as this truck that was behind me is concerned. Next thing I know, I'm in the middle lane waiting for an opening in the left lane (penned in left, right and infront) to exit onto Burke Rd travelling at about 90km/h and this far can truck starts tooting his horn 2 inches from my arse. He's tooting is so loud that my friend on my mobile (I use an in-car handsfree kit) askes me what's all the tooting. Turns out I recognise him as the truck I squeezed infront of when I got onto the freeway. Talk about dkbrane. Story finishes up with a gap opening up to my left and I indicate and zip off again onto the Burke Rd exit ramp.

Then this afternoon, I'm driving down Tooronga Rd and coming up to a clear left lane to turn left into Malvern Rd and this dkbrane silver merc convertible queued up in the centre lane with about 6 cars infront of him just jerks himself into the left lane without indicating and takes pole position at the lights. So he and I are sitting at the lights, him in front of me and he gives me the bird as he speeds off straight ahead from the left turn lane. What the farg? The only thing I remember that had anything to do with him, was I came up fast behind him earlier on coming down Tooronga Rd when we were slowing down to cross the train line, that's all.

[R.E.Z.]

and you find this strange from melbourne drivers. (flame suit on ZIP.)

[Schmooth]

Silly season, mate.

And I nearly had a bad case of road rage as a blue-rinsed granny nearly t-boned me as I rounded a t-intersection - she didn't even look!!! I'm glad the horn on the BAs are okay or my wife and I would never have made it to our christmas dinner (first time alone, without kids, in over 3 years!). I'd have been pretty cranky with a missed dinner with the (much) better half and a bent T to boot.

[Goobz]

He just jerks himself into the left lane without indicating and takes pole position at the lights. 

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I thought they taught you that at driving school down there.

We dubbed it "The Mexican Lane Change"...

Chris

[GlennAUII]

I had a 4x4 driving up close behind me the other night, so I slowed down to about 30km/h

[Guest]

Evil D,what you did wrong,and what 99% of fugg heads in cars do,they see a gap infront of a truck,and zip in cause "there was a gap" Well that gap was the trucks braking gap and you just stole it,hence hes up your arse,he got no choice

You try stopping a muddafarkar of a loaded truck!!!He aint got the brakes you got

People arn't taught this,arnt taught any bloody thing if you ask me anyway

vik...those smart little b**ches in their zippy little bombs are worst,they got NFI

[phantomchic]

Evil D,what you did wrong,and what 99% of fugg heads in cars do,they see a gap infront of a truck,and zip in cause "there was a gap" Well that gap was the trucks braking gap     and you just stole it,hence hes up your arse,he got no choice

You try stopping a muddafarkar of a loaded truck!!!He aint got the brakes you got

People arn't taught this,arnt taught any bloody thing if you ask me anyway

vik...those smart little b**ches in their zippy little bombs are worst,they got NFI    

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

and it was full of cans

[phantomchic]

since you brough the subject up

what is with Victorians and roundabouts...

do you not have such things in mexico?

they flock to Noosa in droves in silly season,

and just plain stop at roundabouts or continue round and round and round.

that lever that activates yellow flashing light on car.

USE IT!!!!!

all good now... phew,,,,,

shazzy

[G6ET8U]

Evil D,what you did wrong,and what 99% of fugg heads in cars do,they see a gap infront of a truck,and zip in cause "there was a gap" Well that gap was the trucks braking gap    and you just stole it,hence hes up your arse,he got no choice

I have to agree with what Vik has posted here...

I drive trucks for living... a HR (14 tonne) truck to be exact and there is nothing more frustrating than when a car in another lane see's the gap I leave in front in as room for them to move in to rather than the gap I NEED to stop... I know that people's opinions are of truck drivers is that we are all inbred freaks on speed with 12 hours sleep in the 4 weeks but you have to remember that most of us who drive locally do nearly 75,000k's a year in our trucks and then you ad the 25,000k's we do in our cars as well and you one extremely experienced driver behind the wheel... Interstate truckies do 1000k's a night, 20,000k's a month and over half a million k's a year... some do more... I'm not saying you don't know what you are doing... I am just saying we in nearly all cases certainly do know what we are doing. Remember we can see 200 metre's ahead of the traffic becaue of the height we drive at and you can see that the woman in front is adjusting her bra before she gets to work...

I'm not excusing the actions of the truck driver in question but I am asking you to just respect the space we leave for our trucks... they aren't race cars and don't have 6 pot brakes and handling to die for... we don't sound the horn just to p I s s you off, we do it for your safety and for our own. Invariably in a truck vs car accident the truck always wins... and it's a win none of us wants to have...

Cheers

Jack

[G6ET8U]

what is with Victorians and roundabouts... 

Don't worry about us Phantomchic... we are in holiday mode when we go north

Think of an australian version of Clark Grizwald from National Lampoon's and you will start get an idea as to why we drive like idiots when we are away...

*straps Granny to the roof and heads north*

The two warm days in a row also throws us... we are only used to hot, wet, warm, windy, cold... all in the same day of course

Jack