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Rikki Chequer, community manager for TruckNet UK. reports on the
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past week's hot topics of discussion among members of the UK's leading internet forum for professional drivers.
This week's round-up of discussions on TruckNet UK starts with a spot of praise for the AA. The new edition of the AA's drivers' map seems to be much improved and is welcomed by those drivers not using sat-nay.
Delivering to fruit markets is discussed by some drivers this week. Not many seem to think a good job; most describe it as work they do only if absolutely nothing else is available.
Rubberneckers people who slow down to stare at road traffic accidents get another highlighting on the forums. Most drivers feel that many accidents are created by those road users keen to see a bit of blood and gore. However, encouraging them to get moving by a parp on the horn as suggested by one driver is not generally thought to be the answer the consensus being that better law enforcement is needed.
W ads for LGVs on prime-time TV? Well, the Iveco Stralis advert during the recent Grand Prix certainly got drivers talking. All those writing in the Professional Drivers forum topic expressed surprise at seeing it, and most thought it was a well-shot, "classy" advert.
A topic about getting a truck from new has digressed slightly to remembering first trips out in Mercedes fitted with the now obsolete EPS gearbox. Older drivers recall that while it may not have been up to today's 'semi-auto' standards, in its day the EPS gearbox was seen as a groundbreaker. One driver tells that his first trip with a real licence was in a 2435 to Spain, and as he hadn't driven anything else the EPS wasn't much of a novelty.
That's this week'sselection of discussions from TruckNet UK. Drop by and join in it's free to register and use.