How's your driving skills?

I reckon that i rate about a 4. been driving for 18 years and am now driving trucks at the HR level. Prior to gaing my MR licence admit that I wasn't the safest driver around. I soon learned just how much room a truck needs to operate safely. I didn't realise just how many road users were almost bordering on the dangerous side of things. I spent a little while driving trucks in Sydney and counrty NSW and soon learned that truckies were not always at fault. I have since stepped up to HR and I have gained a healthier respect for our roads. I agree there are black spots in many places but its the attitude of the person behind the wheel that plays the major factor in road safety. Time and time again the Ipswich motorway is on the news with another accident blocking traffic. if people would only slow down and give other drivers some space and time then perhaps things such as the road tole may come down.

Jaysus, don't get me started on truck drivers!!

I reckon I've had more near-death experiences with 'professional' drivers than anyone else.

Just the other day, I had a bloke come out in front of me from a T intersection, I was going straight ahead. He saw me, knew where I was going, even laughed at me, but didn't give a ?????. I had to hit the anchors in the middle of the intersection and his rear wheels (B Double) came within a half a metre of my bonnet. He thought it was hilarious. Had the same thing happen several times. It's where the Princes Highway does a dog leg at the south end of Pambula.

And as for the Hume Hwy...

Ride a motorcycle most of the time and am still alive, so not doing too bad considering daily evasive action taken to avoid being run over.

last week;

Wednesday - old codgers changed lane from right lane to left, I am in left lane level with their front wheel looking at them from about a foot away, had no room to go forward due to 4x4 stopping to park, made a quick parking maneuver into a driveway.

Friday - P plater pulled out from parking, braked hard stopped as it drove off.

Today - XR6 going too quick into intersection, saw me & pulled up across the road.

Stuff I only travel 5k to work!

being a bus driver in brisbane for the last 27 years i have seen it all.impatience is the cause of most accidents.hey every one (almost thinks that they are the best driver on the road) i have had cars jamed under my bus(driver on mobile), i had a lady this week just oblivously drove out from a side road, t,boned her she was most indignent,am i blind!!!! she actually thought that if she pulled out i had to stop ,incredible,had 5 passengers in hospital.anyone can be a good safe driver,remember highway code,drive suitable for conditions.i need to find an avatar of me shouting at stupid selfish drivers.

After coming back from a job at tarampa way a couple of weeks ago, we were on the Warrego coming back towards Ipswich. I wasn't driving at the time but we had a car in front of us continously slowing down to 80 and then pulling away and slowing down again. My offsider attempted to overtake the car and put a bit of distance between us and him. This wasn't to be as the car driver would accelerate and not allow us to pass him. So it begins all over again with him playing his stupid and dangerous game. We were loaded up with a trailer, bobcat in the back of the tipper and 13 tonne excavator on the trailer. I don't think he had any idea that if something had gone wrong then we just could have gone over the top of him before we could have pulled up.:banghead:

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Originally Posted by Stringy

Ride a motorcycle most of the time and am still alive, so not doing too bad considering daily evasive action taken to avoid being run over.

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Seems there are two types of motorcycle riders, one of them survive:(. Just last week I was cruising down the busiest road in Toowoomba, 2 lanes each way, traffic lights even where they don't belong and almost at the 60kph, when suddenly in the rear vision mirror I see a young hoon just fair up it, on a large road bike. Not swapping lanes, he was going so fast he was flipping lanes, treating cars and trucks like a slalom course. I reckon he was well over 100kph at 5 in the afternoon, and if you've driven in Toowoomba you know that half of the road users aren't the most predictable!:oo: Surprisingly enough he got through a couple of blocks without an accident (I had this horrible feeling he was going to get nudged by someone changing lanes), before the red lights stopped him. Anyway, I pulled up behind him and was shaking my head at his antics, 'cos I'm getting older and its my right:rolleyes:, and have lost mates on motorbikes doing silly things, when this young bugger started shaking his helmet back at me!!:~ Talk about misplaced concern, but I hope I'm not the one around when he's tangled up in some street furniture.

Regards,
Andy

(Sorry, bit morbid tonight... went to a funeral today, for one of the most talented young cabinet makers I've ever met. No it wasn't a car accident, lets just say it wasn't natural causes. Such a terrible waste of a young life. RIP David C)

been driving a bus here in brisbane for 27 years,i have seen it all.all i would ever ask anyone is to obey the highway code.impatience is the biggest bug on the roads.this is true some years ago i was slowing to pull into a stop a combi van overtakes me he is indicating so no problem. thing is he was turning into his driveway from right hand lane i tboned him overturned his vehicle,had people on bus in hospital. combi driver was just shaken.thing is he couldnt understand why i didnt see him turning.he thought it was quite ok & that i should have braked for him to let him turn.:doh:
:doh: there are no end of idiots out there so BEWARE.just take your time.i dont claim to be a better driver than anyone,just one who takes his time .i could go on 7 on but i wont.:)