Post by yobarr on Feb 13, 2024 19:27:05 GMT 10
Regularly, while driving my Roadtrain here in WA I am frustrated by caravanners with no idea what is going on around them, and sometimes I follow these clowns for many kms at 70kmh until I get a 1km piece of straight road to attempt to overtake them.
The look of shock on their faces when they realise that a 120 ton Roadtrain has appeared alongside them is priceless.
However, today I encountered a small convoy of 3 caravans, travelling at 70-75kmh, with no more than 6 metres between them.
Because I am familiar with the road, and knew that we were approaching a 1km long straight, I hung back and then built up speed to overtake the convoy.
Easy stuff you'd think, but these clowns weren't having a bar of it, and the Head Honcho, or Leader of the Pack, immediately accelerated to 100kmh as soon as he realised that I was there, followed by the other two.
Because my truck is speed-limited to 100kmh I was stuck out there in no-man's land, and had to back-off and pull in behind them, but as soon as I did so the Head Honcho's brake lights came on and the convoy dropped speed to again travel at 70kmh.
Why do people do these things?
My dash cam recorded the whole incident, but reporting to the Police would be an exercise in futility as they have better things to than try to educate idiots.
What is the solution?
And don't tell me to be patient as we have schedules that are easily maintained if we can maintain a steady speed. Cheers
The look of shock on their faces when they realise that a 120 ton Roadtrain has appeared alongside them is priceless.
However, today I encountered a small convoy of 3 caravans, travelling at 70-75kmh, with no more than 6 metres between them.
Because I am familiar with the road, and knew that we were approaching a 1km long straight, I hung back and then built up speed to overtake the convoy.
Easy stuff you'd think, but these clowns weren't having a bar of it, and the Head Honcho, or Leader of the Pack, immediately accelerated to 100kmh as soon as he realised that I was there, followed by the other two.
Because my truck is speed-limited to 100kmh I was stuck out there in no-man's land, and had to back-off and pull in behind them, but as soon as I did so the Head Honcho's brake lights came on and the convoy dropped speed to again travel at 70kmh.
Why do people do these things?
My dash cam recorded the whole incident, but reporting to the Police would be an exercise in futility as they have better things to than try to educate idiots.
What is the solution?
And don't tell me to be patient as we have schedules that are easily maintained if we can maintain a steady speed. Cheers
