chrisjh Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 the only HGV test question every drive needs to answer: Q, your doing 60 MPH on a duel carriageway behind another HGV doing 60 MPH do you A, sit behind it save fuel and slipstream wait for your junction and turn off B, try and overtake causing a 5 mile tail back as you drive the next 20 miles side by side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoot and be safe Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 the only HGV test question every drive needs to answer: Q, your doing 60 MPH on a duel carriageway behind another HGV doing 60 MPH do you A, sit behind it save fuel and slipstream wait for your junction and turn off B, try and overtake causing a 5 mile tail back as you drive the next 20 miles side by side A HGV doing 60 must be a paddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chady Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Yep know a lot don't you all uk trucks are limited to 56! So unless your going down hill you won't be doing 60.... I yea sorry how dare hgv need to overtake. And it's shocking that a car driver might have to wait. But it's ok for a hgv to sit behind a car doing 55 on a motorway.... Shocking Sorry forgot cars have right of way and we have to give way to the car drivers all the time. the only HGV test question every drive needs to answer: Q, your doing 60 MPH on a duel carriageway behind another HGV doing 60 MPH do you A, sit behind it save fuel and slipstream wait for your junction and turn off B, try and overtake causing a 5 mile tail back as you drive the next 20 miles side by side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 You'd think they wouldn't want to draw attention to themselves, don't want to get stopped and the police find the dismembered prostitutes in the trailer unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark L Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 It makes no difference if you use tacho or not. If you drive for a living, you need it. Even if you do other work but still drive the companies vehicles. I know of a building contractor who had to do it as he drove back and too, to the builders merchants as part of his working day. The mechanics at work had to do it because they take the vehicles for MOT. If they didn't take them for MOT then they didn't need it but they could take the vehicles out for a test drive. The long and short of it is it's. A waste of time but you need it to stay legal im a HGV mechanic and my service manager has told us that we don't need it for taking trucks for mot or for road testing its another way of taking money of us!!!! It makes no difference if you use tacho or not. If you drive for a living, you need it. Even if you do other work but still drive the companies vehicles. I know of a building contractor who had to do it as he drove back and too, to the builders merchants as part of his working day. The mechanics at work had to do it because they take the vehicles for MOT. If they didn't take them for MOT then they didn't need it but they could take the vehicles out for a test drive. The long and short of it is it's. A waste of time but you need it to stay legal im a HGV mechanic and my service manager has told us that we don't need it for taking trucks for mot or for road testing its another way of taking money of us!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
did i miss Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 thing is its up to you to prove you don't need it not them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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