Dash cam thread 2 (car videos only, no commenting on videos)

hawkeye_bmr wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqdTm1E5uU

Idiot GSLS cash in transit driver overtaking on a blind crest with double solid white lines.

Thankfully fiesta driver was travelling slow enough to see the danger coming.

If I'm not mistaken this is on a notorious stretch of road too.

inforfun wrote: »

https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7504913/5a781740/sukkel_met_haast.html

Dashcam gave too many inches

Trucks that overtake with 3km difference are assholes too.

that's a quite typical attitude of someone who doesn't understand that truckers cannot afford to do dozens or hundreds of km at less than optimum speed. A bit of patience and understanding is required, such a situation would delay a faster vehicle by only a minute or so.

hawkeye_bmr wrote: »

It's the N2 from Ardee to Collon. Quite a few bad accidents on that stretch

I've sent an email to the only contact listed on the GSLS website, but no reply as of yet.

Actual video off the SD card is clearer, so I have the reg.

If you're on LinkedIn, and you have a decent network there, you might be able to find someone senior there. I have a Commercial Director and a Logistics Manager for GSLS as 2nd connections in my network. See who you can connect to - definitely worth making sure this gets serious attention.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

If you're on LinkedIn, and you have a decent network there, you might be able to find someone senior there. I have a Commercial Director and a Logistics Manager for GSLS as 2nd connections in my network. See who you can connect to - definitely worth making sure this gets serious attention.

Needed premium LinkedIn to send message so I have connected with a director and left him a message with link to this thread as a note.

well it depends on the road, if it's a gradient, no truck driver will want to ease off, it makes a huge difference.

josip wrote: »

If half a minute is so vital to a trucker, how come they're all going at slightly different speeds resulting in some having to/wanting to overtake others?
Why aren't they all at the maximum allowable?
And I'm not talking about clapped out Turkish trucks going up a 7% incline.

Because they can't. It depends on the load and the gradient. It's not like driving a massively overpowered car which can do 160km/h+ even though it has no need to do more than 120. There is often no reserve of power and don't forget that speed limiters might vary in their settings too.

In any case, you wouldn't mind the trucker losing half a minute but wouldn't want to lose it yourself?

tcawley29 wrote: »

My own gripe with trucks is when you see one driving behind the other with only inches of space on a one lane road.

Personally I think they should leave possibly two car lengths space and at least you will have a better chance of overtaking them.

I.e due to no space it is usually difficult to overtake two trucks unless its a very good road.

With what I'm saying you could overtake one, and sit in the middle of the convey until the next gap in traffic allows you to overtake the leading truck then.

yeah I thought this was an actual rule... along the lines of "if you are not intending on passing the vehicle in front, then you have to leave enough space between you and it so that someone else can over take you" ...and then overtake that vehicle in front and be off about their business.
I used to hate the old N4 heading west and someone would be behind a truck... then someone else rolls up behind them - you come along now you have a truck plus two cars in front... no gap between them to pop into, so you needed a run long enough to take them all and of course that just doesn't happen on our roads so ye get stuck, and then there's a whole train all caught behind one slower vehicle (not always a truck of course, plenty of 70km/h drivers in 100km/h zones).

Then after being fed up with cars and traffic, on my motorbike I quickly learned that getting stressed about passing the cars/trucks train was a waste of time because 5mins up the road was the same pattern repeated again so all ye ended up doing was passing the first train and then getting caught at the back of the next one.
Motorways FTW!!!

A close call from yesterday, much closer than it looks from the video..

I bet they were going to Tara and missed the turn off, but did that really annoying Irish thing of stopping on the road, instead of finding a place to pull into and turn around.

A while ago i posted that guy who crashed his car i na tree during a so called "Kiki challenge", now i bring you this moment of satisfaction.