What's the worst thing about driving a van...

[daddy cool]

I love my van but some things nark me.
Like when we go to a race meeting loaded up and with a full 210 litre water barrel and we're hacking up the motorway and see a hill coming up and someone pulls across in front of me. As I've only got the 85ps I need all the momentum I can get . I'm then re-taken by all the people I've just spent the last 15 mins getting past and they're looking at me wondering why I'm now going at 60 Get to the top of the hill and start passing them all again
The other thing is people who are waiting at junctions and see you coming and because you are a van they assume you must be going slow and so pull out in front of you (slowly)
Been trying to educate these people using sign language and abusive language, but they still do it

[FredTransit]

When you are in a luton and you come up behind somebody in a little car going EVEN SLOWER than you are, you can't get round them and everybody behind you can't see them so they think it's you going that slow volutarily!

[daddy cool]

Not lutons and low bridges then Fred?

[FredTransit]

Not lutons and low bridges then Fred?

No, that would be the thigs that p*ss me off about drivers catagory!

[daddy cool]

Sorry Fred couldn't resist it.

Also hate drivers who are desperate to overtake you because your a van and nearly kill everyone on the road trying and shoot off into the distance only for you to catch them up 5 mins later in the traffic jam that you knew is there everyday.

[rover]

Having the Coppers pull me up every 5 mins cos they see the 'mobile mechanic' sign and think 'lets see what we can find wrong with that'!!

Invariably they find nothing wrong, but its taken hours and hours of my life that wouold have been better spent actually getting where I was going


Rover.

[100ps_drw_hicube]

this is going to take a while

1. people who pull out in front of you cos your a van and they think you will be slow

2. the people you overtake on a and b roads (single carriageway) that realise when your alongside them, they then nail it to stop you coming past them 99% of all rover drivers are guilty of this!

3. people who wont flash you to let you out of a junction cos your a van and they think you will hold them up

4. people who sit right on your arse when im shifting down the mway at 90 overtaking then blast the horn when i do a emergancy stop ( just testing the brakes)

5. people who do 20 in a 30 and 30 in a 40 and so on

6. people who think they can push there way past me when a dual c/way goes into 1 lane

7.people who live in cul - de -sacs and park opposite each other to slow vans and lorry's down

8.people who slow down in front of me just before a big hill then it takes me light years to get to the top of it

9. people in town who cant drive so when they see a parking spot near me use me as the marker when they smashed into my bumper they know its time to stop (they think cos i have got a manky van it dont matter) same with carparks when they open there doors onto your van


10. the prats who mark out car parking spaces there just a tad to narrow for my van i can understand this at tesco's but at b+q or wickes

well thats it for tonite im sure i will think uploads more

[Luke]

some good point there hicube
like no.10

[100ps_drw_hicube]

Been trying to educate these people using sign language and abusive language, but they still do it

i have educated 3 people so far i shunted them off the road its had the desired effect no accidents for 7 months everyone see's all the dents in my van and turn's the other way

the 2nd one was hilarious she kept shouting im a mad man
the old bill didnt seem to think so

[chrisuk]

You wanna see how its done in Spain, here they dont want to hang about, tese guys are speed merchants of note and wont let you through..... they do when you just move over, indicators here have no meaning at all, I had one BMW driver flash to let me through but I think its very likely the driver was a brit..in fact Im more than sure of it..

[100ps_drw_hicube]

You wanna see how its done in Spain, here they dont want to hang about, tese guys are speed merchants of note and wont let you through..... they do when you just move over, indicators here have no meaning at all, I had one BMW driver flash to let me through but I think its very likely the driver was a brit..in fact Im more than sure of it..

yep i have heard that as my aunty lives out there and has had numerous accidents

when i went to denmark it was excellent driving over there as you go along a road and about 1/2 amile up the road theres a car at a junction and they just sit there and wait for you

[100ps_drw_hicube]

bloody computers for some reason it posted twice

[Valsheda]

Highcube , i think you have raised most of the issues that i can think of But you you put it alot more politely than i would spot on mate

[stevew]

1. Costs a fortune to go places when there's only me in a nine seater vehicle.

2. People taking the piss with asking me to move a wardrobe for them for the third time in as many months!

3. People who think that because it's a van that makes it OK to get into it covered in mud or worse.

Steve

[100ps_drw_hicube]

2. People taking the piss with asking me to move a wardrobe for them for the third time in as many months!

3. People who think that because it's a van that makes it OK to get into it covered in mud or worse.

Steve

oh ye got to agree with point 2

and point 3 i start with a nice clean cab by the end of the week its plastered in mud