What kind of peanut do you have to be

[esayaf]

To be driving "a bit too quick" in a fuel tanker carrying 35000 litres of fuel.
Just saw a police officer say that preliminary investigation of the accident in Eastlakes where a fuel tanker has overturned the driver said he was going "a little bit quick"
I am sick to death of the way some truck drivers drive. I constantly experience tailgating by B double trucks between Hamilton and Coleraine. These peanuts don't seem to care that they will just drive over the top of a car. Easily killing the occupants while they will only be traumatised. What a crock. They would walk away while thinking that the car and occupants should have just driven faster.

[esayaf]

I hope you'd make as many excuses if you're family was killed by a truck driver that didn't drive according to the road

[esayaf]

I'll say my goodbyes now because I'm obviously going to be banned for abuse now

[imastawka]

Are you on a mobile?      Cos you're only abusing yourself.

That's who you're answering

[lloydslights · Accepted solution]

I'm presuming that many tankers use the route that this driver took.

Why is it that only that driver's truck overturned?  And not all others who take that course?

Maybe, because he was "going a little bit quicker" than other tanker drivers?

Also, isn't it the driver who is responsible for his vehicle and load?  Not the "whim" of  a forklift driver, who may or may not be correct in the loading procedure of hazardous materials. 

DEB

[lyndal1838]

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@esayaf wrote:
No lyndal I don't. So even though you've never driven a heavy articulated vehicle. I will bow to your obvious superiority in everything on earth like!

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That is an unnecessarily rude remark.

While I have never driven a heavy articulated vehicle I was just discussing the accident with someone who does....and who works at Port Botany so knows the road conditions in the area better than most.  She has over 30 years experience in the Transport Industry and a fork lift licence to load the vehicles.

[bushies.girl]

But she wasnt driving this particular vechicle, so she really has no idea what happened to cause it to tip over, only the driver knows that one

[lionrose.7]

 you know what they call some one that abuses them self 🙂 🙂

[lyndal1838]

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@bushies.girl wrote:

But she wasnt driving this particular vechicle, so she really has no idea what happened to cause it to tip over, only the driver knows that one

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True, but where did I say that she did know what happened?   As I pointed out, she has plenty of experience in driving heavy vehicles and works in the area so knows the conditions.  She has as much right to hypothesise as the OP who does not know the road conditions.

Any accident investigation is done by outsiders who were not involved but have experience...are you suggesting that they have no right to investigate because they were not driving?

[bushies.girl]

Nup    ... she can investigate aything that she likes, no biggie to me     .... 

[bushies.girl]

what do they call them?