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    Truckies who use caffeine less likely to crash:

    This thread and it's topic is very close to my heart...

    You see on Sept 1, 1967 my father John William Nicholls paid the ultimate price to get a full Front Page Photo on Melbourne's "The Sun" newspaper.
    The Headline was "Horror Smash: Driver Burnt Alive" And the photo was the charred, burnt and tortured wreckage that was barely recognisable as a vehicle of any description.
    My father's name is one of many engraved on the Australian Truck Drivers Memorial at Tarcutta, and can be searched on the Memorial Website.

    Please let me share with you my earliest childhood memory...
    I am awoken in the middle of the night by unfamiliar deep rumbling voices and the footsteps of heavy boots walking down the hall. Awake, but unsure, I creep out of my bedroom and tip- toe down the hall to the kitchen where I can hear my mothers voice and other deep rumbling men's voices, I do not recognise.
    As quietly as a mouse I peer through the shard of light cutting between the door and the door jamb. I catch a glimpse of two large burly blue police officers...

    In that instant I am knocked to the floor by the most grotesque and inhuman screams I have ever heard in my life. I have no idea of what's happening but I am more scared than I've ever been in my life and I scurry back to the safety of my bed and bury myself under the covers- in my "safe cave"...

    To this day, there are some nights where this sound awakens me from a deep sleep and I sit bolt upright in a cold sweat....

    So, yes I believe I am uniquely qualified to comment on this thread.

    Firstly, whether it's a pushbike, motorbike, car, truck or bus- all road users have the same equal right to use and share that roadway. A little more tolerance by all road users would go a long way.

    Secondly, to those who criticise trucks on the road- let me ask you, "Have you ever driven a heavy truck on the road?" I have. In my twenties I worked for a mining company and amongst other duties I was responsible for floating (moving) around the heavy earthmoving equipment from site to site all across Victoria. I drove a purpose built Canadian Oskosh 6wd Heavy Haulage Truck and float/dolly combination. Often loaded, I was up to 80 tonnes which short of Road Trains is just about the biggest thing on the road.

    Driving a big rig gives you a completely different perspective on what road manners really means. It won't happen, but if every car driver could just drive a big rig, for just one day, well I believe the road would be a much happier more considerate place to be....

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Ol_Grumpy View Post
      This thread and it's topic is very close to my heart...

      You see on Sept 1, 1967 my father John William Nicholls paid the ultimate price to get a full Front Page Photo on Melbourne's "The Sun" newspaper.
      The Headline was "Horror Smash: Driver Burnt Alive" And the photo was the charred, burnt and tortured wreckage that was barely recognisable as a vehicle of any description.
      My father's name is one of many engraved on the Australian Truck Drivers Memorial at Tarcutta, and can be searched on the Memorial Website.

      Please let me share with you my earliest childhood memory...
      I am awoken in the middle of the night by unfamiliar deep rumbling voices and the footsteps of heavy boots walking down the hall. Awake, but unsure, I creep out of my bedroom and tip- toe down the hall to the kitchen where I can hear my mothers voice and other deep rumbling men's voices, I do not recognise.
      As quietly as a mouse I peer through the shard of light cutting between the door and the door jamb. I catch a glimpse of two large burly blue police officers...

      In that instant I am knocked to the floor by the most grotesque and inhuman screams I have ever heard in my life. I have no idea of what's happening but I am more scared than I've ever been in my life and I scurry back to the safety of my bed and bury myself under the covers- in my "safe cave"...

      To this day, there are some nights where this sound awakens me from a deep sleep and I sit bolt upright in a cold sweat....

      So, yes I believe I am uniquely qualified to comment on this thread.

      Firstly, whether it's a pushbike, motorbike, car, truck or bus- all road users have the same equal right to use and share that roadway. A little more tolerance by all road users would go a long way.

      Secondly, to those who criticise trucks on the road- let me ask you, "Have you ever driven a heavy truck on the road?" I have. In my twenties I worked for a mining company and amongst other duties I was responsible for floating (moving) around the heavy earthmoving equipment from site to site all across Victoria. I drove a purpose built Canadian Oskosh 6wd Heavy Haulage Truck and float/dolly combination. Often loaded, I was up to 80 tonnes which short of Road Trains is just about the biggest thing on the road.

      Driving a big rig gives you a completely different perspective on what road manners really means. It won't happen, but if every car driver could just drive a big rig, for just one day, well I believe the road would be a much happier more considerate place to be....
      Sobering story Grumpy, what to say! a terrible thing to have to go through at such a tender age.
      A thoughtful post on what seems to be a controversial subject.

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