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Mon 16 Jun 2008 13:56
racing lorries - rogue-trooper
Last Friday was driving through London minding my own business when 2 construstion lorries whizz past me at well over the 30mph limit. Got to the Embankment and there they were still speeding and switching lanes etc etc. and generally driving like complete idiots.

Is it worth writing to their employers or just let it rest?
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Mon 16 Jun 2008 15:49
racing lorries - Lud
Why bother r-t? Either you misjudged them, or it was a one-off, or they do it all the time and will soon get pulled or have an accident. Anyway they didn't involve you in one.
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Mon 16 Jun 2008 17:19
racing lorries - fox83
driving through london on a friday? should just be grateful traffic was moving at 30mph!
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Mon 16 Jun 2008 17:56
racing lorries - quizman
This reminds me of a film, starring a fleet of Dodge lorries, driven quite fast and then speeded up.

The film, called "Hell Drivers" also starred Danger Man, James Bond the first, Inspector Clousseau's boss, Mr Hudson, Illya Kuryakin and many more.

Good film, they don't make them like that any more.
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Mon 16 Jun 2008 18:05
racing lorries - Lud
Stanley Baker too... I always loathed speeded-up driving sequences though and they put me off it.
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Mon 16 Jun 2008 18:25
racing lorries - quizman
Lud, didn't he win the VC in the Zulu wars?
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Mon 16 Jun 2008 18:30
racing lorries - Lud
Some time after he was the good Hell Driver I believe. Patrick McGoohan was the bad one before he moved on to 'a government agency' with a surrealist brief operating very oddly from an architect's folly in Wales...

Edited by Lud on 16/06/2008 at 18:31

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Tue 17 Jun 2008 08:15
racing lorries - L'escargot
They were probably just doing a qualifying session for a truck racing meeting.
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