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The lunatics have been running the asylum from time immemorial.
Road Safety must be improved, the devastating results of lorry and coach/bus accidents must be minimised. But is this the answer?.
Is it 8888. (that means hell if you like).
This industry which limits drivers hours, still has it's staff working some of the longest hours of any industry in the country, from signing on, to signing off.
The Law Makers, Enforcers and Judiciary, like all aspects of society, are overwhelmingly comprised of 'Motorists' and are, anti 'Juggernauts', (their term when they want to get them off their roads).
Yet in common with the vast majority of other 'Motorists and 'Evil Knievels, make no allowance for the limited visibility of such vehicles or the areas where they require greater space to manouvre or stop.
When, other than the middle of the night, did you last approach a roundabout, road junction, slip road etc. without the idiot motorists, often with their children aboard, racing one after another to get between the traffic in front of you, (which is already braking), and your front bumper.
If these are such fearful machines and drivers, why the hell do they think it safe to pull in right in front of you in a stream of brakelights.
Why on a foggy motorway, do they 'have to get in front of the lorry', then panic, because they cannot see clearly, and pull in front of you and reduce their speed. Is that where you would want your family to be, in bad conditions?.
Driver fatigue is still a problem as it always has been, the inconsiderate and idiotic behaviour of motorists is another and the chip on the shoulder of motorists who have to show their families that they are not afraid of the big bad lorries, also contributes.
If a lorry driver farts in public, he is in court and everyone knows a lorry driver did it. Whatever any lorry driver does wrong , whether it has anything to do with his job or not, will be attributed in the press, to the 'Lorry driver'. Not the Father, Lay preacher local man, darts player, or any other role he may fulfil.
The driver that never did anything wrong, never left the kerb. But you do not encourage responsible or respectful behaviour, by having no respect for the safety, skill and contribution that the lorry and bus drivers make to the country.
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