From the cab - a HGV drivers view

Oh and I also think that for major innercity projects like the Shard, where large numbers of haulage trucks are operating, they should have to stick to a certain route from their dump site, with the roads marked and signposted as HGV haulage road, kind of like a cycle path for trucks, where they have priority right of way, cyclists are discouraged from riding on unless necessary or their is a separated cyclepath etc. If you can limit the number of roads large numbers of trucks can use then its going to be easier for cyclists to avoid these roads and hence avoid a large part of the problem.

I think this was worth being repeated. The number of times I find myself riding down small (south-east London) roads and finding myself in amongst massive tipper trucks. Hello? Your truck is not a nippy little commuter car.

Would also like to underline points made about bike lanes actively working against the safety of cyclists, and how this bad design continues in the "cycle superhighway" (sic) plans.

Finally, I have learned to avoid tipper trucks and skip lorries, my theory is that half the time these trucks are full, and so are slow and boring to drive, and the other half the time they are empty, so are fast and fun to drive, meaning the temptation is to drive them really quick. Moreover, all (red) post office vans are driven by lunatics.