Rant = ON

Swishy, Are they banning ALL trucks from the Westgate, or just those Quad B Doubles??

I guess I could Google It, But couldn't be bothered...LOL

Seed
M80
www.theage.com.au/victoria/biggest-truck...20161020-gs6vi4.html

Eye say
Move shipping down stream from the WGB
Station Pier, Webb Dock, Geelong, Hastings whereevr
Chop down the WGB to a usable height of say 4 m (should B stronger lower down)
Even win sum more land @ Webb ..... Plenty of room for more shippn
Problem iz .................. in general
Melb iz like a huge wheel wen U look down on it
Many need to travel to tuther side of Melb
But like a wheel with spokes all the rds leed to Melb

Butt
WaddaEyeKno

cya

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FFS
More alterations n kept secret

Traffic control @ roadway Construction sites
on approach the traffic twaz stept down with speed signs n then after the construction area speed signs to continue back to area road speed

(100kph ........80kph......60kph.......40kph..Construction zone.....60...80....100)

not now

end of construction zone only sign 'END OF ROADWORKS'
so you guess the speed limit

(100....80.....40..Construction zone.........end of road works

WTF

cya

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What are you complaining about?
Here in the West we don't even get the end of road works signs.
Total guess as to when you have passed the works.
Have been caught before, passed some workers in a reduced to 40 K area and no sign for a few hundred metres of any other workers and went back to the speed limit. A K down the road found more workers, so I had been in a 40 K zone the whole time.
On an 80 K road the could have cost me my vehicle for a month and a heap of money.
Cheers Steve

Mate was heading into Brisbane in an 80 zone ,had trucks traveling beside him in left hand lane
Next thing a copper directs him to pull over ..You were doing 80 in a 60 zone .
???? mate says . This is a roadworks Zone , as of 15 minutes ago says the copper . Could not see the temperary signs as the trucks blocked seeing them .Mate says .
No excuse says the policeman
230 bucks and 3 points .

Government is making a fortune from rego and fuel excise but not putting it back into new roads. Melbourne is quickly grinding to a halt and more restrictions on commercial vehicles without any logical consideration. Cycle lanes cause more accidents than before they were introduced.
Easiest major project to do would be connecting Eastern Freeway with Ring road at Greensborough but that would take profits away from Trans Urban so battle your way up Rosanna road for another 20 years.

atkipete wrote: Government is making a fortune from rego and fuel excise but not putting it back into new roads. Melbourne is quickly grinding to a halt and more restrictions on commercial vehicles without any logical consideration. Cycle lanes cause more accidents than before they were introduced.
Easiest major project to do would be connecting Eastern Freeway with Ring road at Greensborough but that would take profits away from Trans Urban so battle your way up Rosanna road for another 20 years.

That bit of road is called the Greensborough Highway AP, what a joke!

It is a disgrace, especially that dog leg bit half way up. Not wide enough for two trucks there.

More RANT

The Mulrave fwy has a Trucks 90kph signed limit (others 100kph)
But there aint no finish
nut n 2 say U can go back to 100kph
WTF
more Guess work for the truckr

www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/monas...f2f3a1cc2c7f971f88e1

more and more 4 wheelers always wanna jump in front of trucks and be in the trucks safe brake n zone

cya

§wishy

cya

Best drivers I have ever seen are in Spain (think wild Italians or speedy French Latins but not so with the Spanish). Trucks pull over, everybody stops for pedestrians and everyone lets you merge comfortably. Just did 6,000km there and it was a pleasure.

Brocky, I find US drivers very good in general. They let you in and are much better mannered than the average Australian driver. Can you imagine Australians in San Francisco - all squares with hundreds of 4 way stop sign intersections. Everyone stops and starts in the order in which they arrived, even if it was two seconds before the other bloke and can always be trusted. It would be hell in Australia!

Our biggest problem as mentioned by someone above is the dreadful highway design with very short on/off ramps coupled with idiots who do not know how to merge with a speeding line of traffic coupled with the idiots in the line who won't slide back a car length to let he mergers in.

Aggressive little girls seem to be major offenders.

Lang