Jack
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- Joined
- Nov 11, 2007
To be fair I’ve been one when I’ve been abroad. I’m a very experienced driver and it sometimes scares the shit out of me – a few drinks calms the nerves though; close your eyes, foot down and hope for the best.
Truck drivers.
The number of foreign truck drivers I see, even in Edinburgh, that have what looks like poorly maintained vehicles is scary, more so that they have gone undetected for some 400 miles in the UK.
The fact they can’t see you as you overtake them on the motorway is neither here nor there – AS FAR AS THEY'RE CONCERNED – they’ll just crush you into the barrier anyway. It’s the new black [ice] on the motorway these days.
My wee joke about a wee drink to calm the nerves isn’t so much a joke for them it’s a way of life – and it could be your life that’s the cost.
Speeding, fixed penalties – this goes for all foreign drivers – needn’t be paid so why bother with speed limits. Speeding camera takes the holiday photos for them, they fuck off home without the need to pay – you could be paying for it with your life.
Car drivers
There's three types of car drivers, none of them need bother with the fixed penalties.
The hire car. The likelihood is these drivers are driving on the right side of the car and road for first time. Fucking dangerous. Because their cars are disguised to look like our own we think they drive like our own. Hire cars with foreign drivers should at least have a green ‘F’ the same way as we have a red ‘L’ when we’re learning. At least it would be some warning!
Their own car – Part 1
They come over here on holiday, the least offensive of all the foreign drivers but the fixed penalty thing still does ma nut in.
Their own car – Part 2
These bastards come to live here bring their own, wrong sided, car and keep it as foreign to avoid paying all the fixed penalties; MOTs, insurance, Taxes etc.. Plead ignorance when stopped, often in an accident, well they’ve got away with it up till now. Bastards, if you are going to live in another country the onus is on you to find out the laws of that country before you start off from the home country – ignorance is no excuse.
Foreign tour buses
What's all this just pulling up at the side of the road? Surely it would be safer if they found a quieter road and parked on the ‘wrong’ side so that the passengers can get off onto the pavement. They pile off the bus into the middle of the road with no idea which way the traffic is coming from. I’m amazed we don't hear of multiple deaths!
Foreign cyclists
Well I don't like cyclists, I can only think these cyclists disguised as our own are all the dizzy bastards who cycle on the pavements; through pedestrian and traffic lights and all the other anti-social things cyclists get up to on our streets. Surely folk who were used to these streets would have more respect.
Truck drivers.
The number of foreign truck drivers I see, even in Edinburgh, that have what looks like poorly maintained vehicles is scary, more so that they have gone undetected for some 400 miles in the UK.
The fact they can’t see you as you overtake them on the motorway is neither here nor there – AS FAR AS THEY'RE CONCERNED – they’ll just crush you into the barrier anyway. It’s the new black [ice] on the motorway these days.
My wee joke about a wee drink to calm the nerves isn’t so much a joke for them it’s a way of life – and it could be your life that’s the cost.
Speeding, fixed penalties – this goes for all foreign drivers – needn’t be paid so why bother with speed limits. Speeding camera takes the holiday photos for them, they fuck off home without the need to pay – you could be paying for it with your life.
Car drivers
There's three types of car drivers, none of them need bother with the fixed penalties.
The hire car. The likelihood is these drivers are driving on the right side of the car and road for first time. Fucking dangerous. Because their cars are disguised to look like our own we think they drive like our own. Hire cars with foreign drivers should at least have a green ‘F’ the same way as we have a red ‘L’ when we’re learning. At least it would be some warning!
Their own car – Part 1
They come over here on holiday, the least offensive of all the foreign drivers but the fixed penalty thing still does ma nut in.
Their own car – Part 2
These bastards come to live here bring their own, wrong sided, car and keep it as foreign to avoid paying all the fixed penalties; MOTs, insurance, Taxes etc.. Plead ignorance when stopped, often in an accident, well they’ve got away with it up till now. Bastards, if you are going to live in another country the onus is on you to find out the laws of that country before you start off from the home country – ignorance is no excuse.
Foreign tour buses
What's all this just pulling up at the side of the road? Surely it would be safer if they found a quieter road and parked on the ‘wrong’ side so that the passengers can get off onto the pavement. They pile off the bus into the middle of the road with no idea which way the traffic is coming from. I’m amazed we don't hear of multiple deaths!
Foreign cyclists
Well I don't like cyclists, I can only think these cyclists disguised as our own are all the dizzy bastards who cycle on the pavements; through pedestrian and traffic lights and all the other anti-social things cyclists get up to on our streets. Surely folk who were used to these streets would have more respect.
the best driver in the UK of course it includes all of you. 
The points raised are as valid for us over there as it is for them over here. My overwhelming experience though is of over here so thats the examples given.