So we know more of us chase white lines for a living than most others suspected, but

What is the STUBIDEST way some f-wit has tried to ruin you life at work on the road.

Mine envolves the 3 laner north of Kuttabull (coastal central Qld). Normal shit, dickhead goes hard to get past only to make me brake 200m before the end of the lane (cause you can't hold up a heavy vehical if your behind it) and at the bottom of the small but steeper than it looks hill dickhead stands on the picks first, signals second, that he is turning into the rest area in about 30 meters time while I've got 21 tonne, 48 lives plus me doing 95kph down hill, both feet on the brake peddle and a B-double coming the other way across the increasingly narrow looking bridge. Now this last milli-second move by dickhead may have saved 50 odd lives because at least I was already braking when the school bus pulled out of the other end of the rest area and stalled across both lanes. Really it's a good thing it was 7am, fog and 10 hours into my 14 hour day or it could have really gone to shit. Missed everything, just.

That the most recent one that lingers, whats yours

North bound on the Hume hwy in a fully loaded B-double, dropped in to urangalla creek, late at night, a car had hit a roo at the bottom and decided to park in the left lane to inspect damage, I had 1 car beside me another behind him and and 1 ready to pass me, by the time I realized the car was stopped at bottom in my lane if I hit the breaks I would have been doing 80k's plus on impact, remember these wankers are standing in front of the car. It was lucky the first car passing me saw what was happening and hit the brakes so I could move into that lane with only 20 metres to spare..........

sorry boys , can't give you any specifics [too many of them ], it just seems every day you take to the road on two wheels there's always some non thinking person that doing there best to take you out !!!  thank christ so far it's nill all .

deadly i have run seaseme street and the coast road ........

i have had my fare share of fuckwit's in cars and on bikes play chickin with the truckie .......

were should i start .... the two dickheads in the holden ss and his mate in the ford fpv ute yes this is a good one ....

they baged me up south of tarcutta on one of the double lanes as they end both passed me doing i recon a dollar80 ...... but this is were it gets good 100 meters later the right lane ends and back to single carridgeway ....... well the old 600 (thankfuck it was a mechanical and not computor jobbie) 15 speed with a cummins out fron had a bit of stick .....

anyways they get to the single lanes and both of these fuckwits jump on the anchors and back to i recon 80 kmh .......no worries drop a gear as i know i can get around them after the bend cos there is a decent straight if i time it just right ..... ok got em

and off i go and the listen to a few other drivers complain about these fuck heads .....so i'm onto next dual carridgeway here come the two hoons ...... ..

at the end of this one is were ya go into the cutta .........and here are our two fuckwits at the halfway cafe .......

now i ring pete and put me order in for dinner about 20 min's down the road ......

so i walk in pete brings me plate out i ask him which to are the hot roddrs in the ute and ss he sez yeah thats them there buety ......

walked over and riped it up them for being wankers yada yada yada couple other drivers come in and also gave them a mouthful

lota opther stupid shit guy who went up the inside of me while i was turning left and went into me drive and tell's me it's my fault ...... and is all smug when the cop's turn up ...

recon's i'm gunna get reamed till the cop gives him the ticket ......

or the p plater who tried to go round me and ended up on a traffic island with the tri resting on his bonnet .......fuck me i got a million of them .....

now i drive a little tonka truck and cut trees down for a living money is not there ..... but niether are the stress levels

oh and dont get me started on the express drivers

Got a few as well...going home from work one day in the truck, doing a drop on the way home, sitting on a 100 on the hwy when a bus pulls out from a non bus stop in front of me, all i could think about was people on the bus and i had no time to stop. Threw the truck into the other lane( duel hwy) without even time to look if there was a car beside me, as i went past the bus doing 90 and the bus 10kph i looked to my right, and there was my boss in his car going home...3 abreast on a 2 lane hwy... Have many others, i dont miss driving trucks.

Try 1800 ton, 700m long only at 60kph thank fug, car races to try and beat you across a level crossing. Gets caught between the barriers. Lucky the dickhead was in a ute and backed the tray uder the gate, otherwise we would be reading about him in the paper.

Don't play with Trains.....they are hard to stop and deceptively quick.

Mid 80's, was carting for the local contracting company. We were sealing the Kakadu highway. Truck I was operating was a UD Nissan, (ex prime mover) Allison auto with turn table removed and body fitted. Now these trucks went like the powers of piss when you up't them but didn't stop too well with 18 - 20t  of road base in the back. Great turning circle (good for circle work in the gravel pit when the boss (the ol' man) wasn't around)

This particular day it was lunch time. We used to head to the local resort at Yellow waters for a quick bite to eat and a froffy. Cruised into the car park (still had a load on the back) with the obligatory tourist in front of me, in their rented Suzuki 4wd (you know, back then real small and made ringa ding noises)

All going well until he decided to stop dead, real quick, to decide which way they wanted to go!!

I jumped on the anchors with both feet, near pulled the steering wheel from its shaft and swung the whole rig to the left as quick as I could.

All I could hear was a lot of cracking noises from the chasis contorting under the weight and stress of the manouver, watched half my load spill from the tray and land on the Suzuki 4wd and having a feeling that we're going over.

I looked over to my mate who was in the passenger side and he was laying across the seat. That how far over we were

We came to a stop, still in the half pike leaning position which lasted for a few second and then down we came with a thud. My mate smashed his head through the passenger side window and near cut his ear off with the jolt of the landing. We got out and went over to the tourist who was driving away with my dirt!!!

When they pulled up I asked what the f*ck they were thinking, which was a waste of time cause they couldn't speak english!! Next thing I know I'm grabbed by the throat, lifted onto my tip toes and abused by the biggest, meanest bar manageress I ever seen. She up't me for nearly killing he customers. Now she was big and ugly so I didn't argue and even told her that her customers can keep the dirt.

I was very careful going for lunch after that.

 

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