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Eveyone is fast to point out bad but I would like to say I heard today how impressed someone was with the drivers of Steven's Lorries going up and down the road from Scrabster.They flag car drivers who get caught behind them to pass when clear. Well Done Stevens Drivers
Eveyone is fast to point out bad but I would like to say I heard today how impressed someone was with the drivers of Steven's Lorries going up and down the road from Scrabster.They flag car drivers who get caught behind them to pass when clear. Well Done Stevens Drivers
Pity they do NOT do the same as they go up and down the A9 i have been held behind them a few times.
It depends on the Drivers attitude if they signal you to Pass.
Douglas Cowie
19-Jun-10, 23:28
I've always found them to be very good at helping me get past on the A9: the secret is to not to get too close as they can't see you in their mirrors.
I'vs seen them in the depths of the uk,an allways wave an hoot at them, an as ever get a cheery reply--
I've also found them to be very helpfull when your behind them! altho it's normally me letting them passed as running early leads to me getting hell lol
I have also only good things to say about them. i always find them very helpful and cooperative when it comes to signalling when safe to let you pass them.
I have to agree and did mean to post about this a couple of weeks ago, they are brilliant at letting you pass, keep up the good work Stevens Drivers. Your thoughtfulness is very much appreciated :D
2little2late
20-Jun-10, 21:39
Pity they do NOT do the same as they go up and down the A9 i have been held behind them a few times.
It depends on the Drivers attitude if they signal you to Pass.
I have to disagree with you here. Many times I have been driving along the A9. Every time I have been behind a Steven's lorry they have always let me pass at the best opportunity. Have never come across more courteous drivers.
I wish more people would be as courteous as the Stevens drivers, we always let people pass where possible and it always amazes me how few give any thanks, they race up behind you, sit on your tail and can't even give a flash of their indicators in thanks when you slow off or tell them to go.
teenybash
20-Jun-10, 22:33
Pity they do NOT do the same as they go up and down the A9 i have been held behind them a few times.
It depends on the Drivers attitude if they signal you to Pass.
Think the Stevens drivers do a great job both in manners and delivery....providing a much needed service to Caithness.:)
I wish more people would be as courteous as the Stevens drivers, we always let people pass where possible and it always amazes me how few give any thanks, they race up behind you, sit on your tail and can't even give a flash of their indicators in thanks when you slow off or tell them to go.
I always thank the drivers with a couple of flashes of me indicators. It's only good manners if someone has let you past, but I have been on the other end of some ignorant drivers who don't gesture any kind of thanks. How much energy does it take to just lift ya hand to a driver that has pulled in to let ya past.
Whitewater
20-Jun-10, 23:30
Have just got to add my thanks to all the Stevens drivers. Been going up and down the A9 for nearly 50 years now and have yet to come across a more helpful of curteous lot, they are all true gentlemen of the road. Even flashed me and stopped me many years ago when one of them noticed I had a loose wheel on a carivan which I was towing
Stevens drivers are all very courteous and have let us past on numerous occasions all over the country.
"If you can`t see my mirrors, then I can`t see you"............. is a good indicator of their perception of traffic behind them. They also have better visibility from the height of their cab to see further in the distance and it helps them to let faster moving traffic pass rather than have to pull in to let a huge queue go past them.
Bannermans of Tain and Cowpers of Fearn are also regularly on the A9 and are similarly courteous drivers.
Keep up the good work, and keep on trucking.
Good posts ye guys aye an lassies as well. Keep it up.-Good for Caithness.
Have added praise for these guys on "Truckersworld" forum today. Hope the message gets through to them, our true Knights of the road.
great guys friendly ,and yes they do wave you on cant fault them
Gordon Bonnet
23-Jun-10, 18:56
Splendid vehicles, for the most part expertly driven.
The far flung nature of their job, and their base at the top of Britain means they perhaps do more miles than your average lorry driver.
nice thread and totally agree they are great x
Aaldtimer
24-Jun-10, 03:04
The far flung nature of their job, and their base at the top of Britain means they perhaps do more miles than your average lorry driver.
Well, no actually, they are only allowed to spend so many hours driving in one day.
So it doesn't really matter where they are driving.:)
Splendid vehicles, for the most part expertly driven.
Do I detect the first chink? ;)
Gordon Bonnet
25-Jun-10, 19:10
Well, no actually, they are only allowed to spend so many hours driving in one day.
So it doesn't really matter where they are driving.:)
Of course it matters.
In the context of my point.
They may have to drive half a day longer to get where they are going - which would , of necessity involve greater mileages. That it takes more, legal driving days to cover those miles is implicit in my point.
Think about it. Or don't. I have no more to add on the subject. Which was worthy of an initial reaction but is far too dull to prolong any semblance of debate.
Of course it matters.
In the context of my point.
They may have to drive half a day longer to get where they are going - which would , of necessity involve greater mileages. That it takes more, legal driving days to cover those miles is implicit in my point.
Please tell me it's not just me that can't make head nor tail of this... Anyway I think (if I understand you correctly) what you're saying is wrong. As far as I'm aware a lorry driver can only drive it for a certain amount of time each day, not a certain amount of miles. So a lorry driver driving in the Highlands could take considerably longer to cover the same number of miles as a lorry driver on the M1 for example. Therefore they could travel longer but not cover a greater distance.
Think about it. Or don't. I have no more to add on the subject. Which was worthy of an initial reaction but is far too dull to prolong any semblance of debate.
And wow what an superfluous sign off. :D
Gordon Bonnet
25-Jun-10, 19:33
Please tell me it's not just me that can't make head nor tail of this... Anyway I think (if I understand you correctly) what you're saying is wrong. As far as I'm aware a lorry driver can only drive it for a certain amount of time each day, not a certain amount of miles. So a lorry driver driving in the Highlands could take considerably longer to cover the same number of miles as a lorry driver on the M1 for example. Therefore they could travel longer but not cover a greater distance.
And wow what an superfluous sign off. :D
Sorry to appear 'superfluous' - I thought it rather more superscillious me'sen .
Tally up the miles at the end of an average working week and I'd guaranteed a Wick based driver on national distribution routes would clock up more miles than an average counterpart based in say, Carlisle.
It's just the way it is. If it isn't then I apologise and withdraw from the topic, duly reduced to the status of twerp.
For goodness sake, does anyone really care, that much?
This was a casual observation. I'd hate to get embroiled in anything important with you lot. Life's too short....unlike most runs out from Wick in a wagon.
ClachanHope
25-Jun-10, 20:16
:lol: Is this all Steven's drivers and/or their wives making these comments....ha ha ha ha. (sorry I can say that, I'm a Steven Driver wife)
They are in fact a decent bunch of guys. So lets not turn this thread into an argument about drivers hours/miles etc, just keep it peaceful and appreciate the good drivers on the roads.
Rubber Duck, Pig Pen and all that....Mmmmm have I just given my age away...lol
Gordon Bonnet
25-Jun-10, 20:21
:lol: Is this all Steven's drivers and/or their wives making these comments....ha ha ha ha. (sorry I can say that, I'm a Steven Driver wife)
They are in fact a decent bunch of guys. So lets not turn this thread into an argument about drivers hours/miles etc, just keep it peaceful and appreciate the good drivers on the roads.
Rubber Duck, Pig Pen and all that....Mmmmm have I just given my age away...lol
Here, here.
One nine for a rig-check.
ten - ten, til we do it again!
Sorry to appear 'superfluous' - I thought it rather more superscillious me'sen .
Tally up the miles at the end of an average working week and I'd guaranteed a Wick based driver on national distribution routes would clock up more miles than an average counterpart based in say, Carlisle.
It's just the way it is. If it isn't then I apologise and withdraw from the topic, duly reduced to the status of twerp.
For goodness sake, does anyone really care, that much?
This was a casual observation. I'd hate to get embroiled in anything important with you lot. Life's too short....unlike most runs out from Wick in a wagon.
How many miles do you drive in your lorry each week these days percy?
Aaldtimer
26-Jun-10, 03:15
..."I have no more to add on the subject", oh yeh?..."superscillious"...yep, go along with that..."duly reduced to the status of twerp"...that too.
Quite admired your use of the English language until..."Here, here."...a schoolboy's howler!
Lorry drivers are restricted by the hours they are allowed to drive, it doesn't matter where they are driving...end of!;)
Sorry to appear 'superfluous' - I thought it rather more superscillious me'sen .
Well yeah, I might consider it that as well. Although that would rely on that word actually existing. :D
Tally up the miles at the end of an average working week and I'd guaranteed a Wick based driver on national distribution routes would clock up more miles than an average counterpart based in say, Carlisle.
That's where I'd disagree. A driver travelling from Wick to Perth covers what, roughly 200 miles? I don't believe that a driver covering the same distance on any motorway in the country would take the same time. I think it would take them less time, because you can't do the roughly 100 miles between Wick and Inverness in the same time you can do 100 miles on the motorway.
It's just the way it is. If it isn't then I apologise and withdraw from the topic, duly reduced to the status of twerp.
Indecisive much? :)
For goodness sake, does anyone really care, that much?
I doubt it, but pointless debates are just as fun as well... non-pointless ones!
This was a casual observation. I'd hate to get embroiled in anything important with you lot. Life's too short....unlike most runs out from Wick in a wagon.
"you lot"? Why thank you! And life is too short, but we're going to waste a lot of it anyway so what does it matter where? :D
Gordon Bonnet
26-Jun-10, 13:43
I apologise for the mis-spelling of 'supercilious'
Furthermore I'm sorry for deflecting this thread from it's natural course...
but (Percy?)
I recall a film of that name about a transplanted organ. Perhaps the poster mistakes me for a transplanted orger?
I apologise for the mis-spelling of 'supercilious'
It is fine, I have managed to get over it. :D
Furthermore I'm sorry for deflecting this thread from it's natural course...
I think if everyone apologised when they did this, "sorry" is the only word we'd see on the org...
but (Percy?)
I recall a film of that name about a transplanted organ. Perhaps the poster mistakes me for a transplanted orger?
Oh my, it's like in one of those films where I just think "he knows too much"... Hmmm...
Gordon Bonnet
26-Jun-10, 16:39
..."I have no more to add on the subject", oh yeh?..."superscillious"...yep, go along with that..."duly reduced to the status of twerp"...that too.
Quite admired your use of the English language until..."Here, here."...a schoolboy's howler!........
Of course - my parliamentary English has always been dodgy....and I've stumbled over this one before.
Hear, hear indeed !! ........Howl I should......
love
Rt.On
Gordon Bonnet M.P.
but (Percy?)
I recall a film of that name about a transplanted organ. Perhaps the poster mistakes me for a transplanted orger?
Perhaps percy could be pointed to a house made of recycled cardboard.
You should apply for a job with Stevens.
Pity they do NOT do the same as they go up and down the A9 i have been held behind them a few times.
It depends on the Drivers attitude if they signal you to Pass.
Not my experience of them. Regularly on the A9 and they are so very curtious. When I catch up on a Stevens Lorry I know they will let me past at the first opportunity.
Miss Mack
28-Jun-10, 19:44
I know they have a timetable to stick to but its the local bus drivers that I find very inconsiderate[evil]
Leave yer handbags aside chaps.
What about a spotter club??
Steady Eddie's got one:
http://www.clubstobart.co.uk/
There is some wagon porn pics here:
http://www.wagonpics.com/il9list.htm
But I think you need to get a proper spotters club going......
scottydog
28-Jun-10, 22:44
the steven lads are a Great bunch of drivers, they allways give me flash down hear in cumbria when passing ;)
buddyrich
29-Jun-10, 01:20
A driver can be on duty 15 hours a day in total but must take at the very least nine hours rest from every twenty four.
The maximum amount of time actually driving is nine hours. The remaining 6 hours would be spent for example waiting to be loaded or "other work" as VOSA put it. There's no mileage limit.
The driving hours laws are a real headache to follow as they're constantly being changed from Europe, sometimes for good, sometimes not.
To those who complain about being stuck behind wagons, surely the poor roads are as much to blame as the drivers. Although if you know the A9 well then there are ample places to overtake without being stupid or irresponsible.
Other regular courteous truckers on the A9 seen more frequently now are from the stable of Andrew Black at Drem, near Edinburgh.
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