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Originally Posted by AndyN01
Sorry to hear about this and glad to know that you & the van driver are OK.
Sadly, IMHO, the standards of most things is falling at a dramatic rate and driving is somewhere near the top.
It's no excuse but I wonder what pressures the driver is under to meet targets/delivery times etc. etc.
A phrase I've heard and used is:
"If you want someone to make mistakes, put them under a tight time deadline"
Alternatively the driver could just be thinking "I'm big and you're little so you WILL give way and if there's a collision I'm high up in something very heavy so I'm unlikely to get badly hurt."
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Or alternatively could be thinking 'as I am on the main road it is my right of way therefor the van pulling out from the side road ought to stay where he is' While there will always be the proverbial 'bad egg' in any industry, I feel that the roads would be a lot safer if upon passing a car test every driver was made to take a lesson in a loaded truck to see the issues we HGV drivers have and hopefully in the majority of cases it would open car drivers eyes to the issues we face daily on the roads.
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Last edited by GJ53 DGO; 18th November 2020 at 09:45..
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