New way to police truck and lorry drivers
25-06-2010, 21:19
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New way to police truck and lorry drivers
New way to police truck and lorry drivers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10411359.stm
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25-06-2010, 21:29
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
Makes sense to me.
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25-06-2010, 21:30
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
The police should go back to using CB radios, lots of truckers use them to tell each other about the naughty stuff they get up to.
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25-06-2010, 21:33
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
Gus is one of the coppers out of BBC's traffic/motorway cops..
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25-06-2010, 21:36
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
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Originally Posted by Russ
The police should go back to using CB radios, lots of truckers use them to tell each other about the naughty stuff they get up to.
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wot! CB been dead long ago
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25-06-2010, 21:36
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
that's a proper sad jobs-worth occupation if ever there was one .
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25-06-2010, 21:38
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
Thats never gonna catch a Scooby 
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25-06-2010, 21:42
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
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Gus is one of the coppers out of BBC's traffic/motorway cops..
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once a trucker always a trucker
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25-06-2010, 21:44
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
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that's a proper sad jobs-worth occupation if ever there was one .
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Aye cause drivers on mobile phones never harm anyone and an HGV ramming into a queue of stationary traffic will just result in a bit of a bump and scratched paint. 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...led-years.html
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25-06-2010, 21:46
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
The Metropolitan Police and Caparo have teamed up to produce a new Rapid Response Vehicle in the shape of a Caparo T1 supercar.
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25-06-2010, 21:47
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
Didn't the Italian police have a supercar police car, that they wrote off?
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25-06-2010, 21:49
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
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Didn't the Italian police have a supercar police car, that they wrote off?
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Yep.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...with-Seat.html
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A Lamborghini Gallardo, the flagship car of the Italian traffic police, has been written off in a collision with a Seat.
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25-06-2010, 21:52
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
here is one they made earlier out of sticky back paper
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25-06-2010, 22:03
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
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wot! CB been dead long ago
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Not it hasn't, the vast majority of truckers still use them.
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25-06-2010, 22:07
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Re: New way to police truck and lorry drivers
i work with truckers all day 5 days a week not seen one for long time
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