Ray Peace wrote:
> Greetings, Try living in Melbourne, it's just as bad. I get morons like
> that every other week. It could be worse, they could in a truck, I have
> had a number of cases of that. Regards, Ray.
Most truckies are professionals. They realise that if they lose their
license, they are out of a job. They can't afford the paperwork hassle
of even one copper sniffing around. It looks bad in front of their
mates, and the boss.
They drive their trucks all day, and are mostly proud of what they do.
They know the limits of its manoueverability, and only occasionally get
the passing thing wrong, as anyone would do if you were piloting
something 20 metres long.
Agression seems to be confined to those that have a deadline to meet, or
who haven't done many miles. Even so, it's rare to see a big rig
blatantly run a red, or ignore a left turn give way, as long as on the
bike, you're visible. Most give you enough leeway on the right, but on a
highway at 100km/h, this can seem to us to be a bit scary. One old
truckie said to me that once you've been involved in an accident, mainly
with a car, where someone has been badly injured or killed, and you have
little chance of being hurt, you keep that with you for the rest of your
life, and it makes you careful, he said. Because it's the only thing
most know how to do for money, and not very much of it at that.
17 - 25 y.o. 's, girls and boys in cars are much more of a menace, 'coz
they haven't had the sobering, real life experience of being involved in
a life-threatening driving situation, no matter how many times they've
watched "Fast and Furious" and all the rest of the Hollywood **** that
glamorises car chase violence where heroes walk away with, at most, a
smudged face and mussed-up hair.
M "Violent Car **** Abolitionist" H
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