Truckers be warned...

Now, I may not represent the many disgusted normal motorist out there, but I think I could fairly count on a handful of my mates who would agree with me on this, that trucks aka pickups are an inconvenience to other road users, the normal motorist. Hahaha..

Now, trucks / pickup / 4wd are naturally a tall vehicle. It obscure our front view and we hate it when they hog the road especially when at the lights. We almost always not able to judge whether to speed up, follow through or stop at the lights because the back-end of these vehicles is as big as the Chinese aircraft carrier.

So that made us a bit annoyed and frustrated.

Next on the list of grouses is, such trucks is always almost never fast. They come lights blaring through your rear windscreen, but almost never able to move on rapidly when you let them pass. This annoys us normal motorist who by then have ran out of free space upon catching up with slow cars and it spoilt our smooth drive home after a hard day's work.

When caught in the jam, and where everyone jostled for space, more than often such trucks will take space the size of a Metro bus, willingly or not. As other motorist preferred to distance themselves from the huge bulgy rubbers. And this angers us because its taking more space than necessary and we can't hardly move out from our junctions to join the main road.

It is especially annoying to have follow such trucks on a newly tarred road or on any road spilled with gravels because you will get a plentiful of loose projectiles hitting your bonnet and windscreen. You could also imagine the smirk on the driver's face by now.

When comes to parking, normal motorist would circle and rather wait for another parking space rather than parking it next to the trucks. For the simple reason of not trusting the driver or occupants of the trucks to respect the well being of private properties.

Absolutely a pain to drive around the neighborhood when such metal on wheels are parked at road corners and junctions. You can't blardy look out for strolling aunties with their veges walking along. You can't really judge if there's a P labeled car is hurling towards you just as you exit the junction. That's bcos you have this huge awkwardly shaped metal with rubbers blocking your view of the entire world !

Especially disgusted is when such trucks are installed with aircraft search lights as their driving lights. Somehow owners of these vehicles forgot that their vehicle is slightly taller than the normal car, and fixing any obscene HID lights will actually burn a hold through the skull of the driver in front. 

More than often, the trucks are driven recklessly. Perhaps being most of the time not their own trucks, drivers tends to sped along with huge plume of black soot with tools and stuffs hanging on precariously on the flat bed behind. Oh yeah, not too close. You never know when one of this will turned into Malaysia's very own rocket projectile when it launches from a badly tarred road.

Oh yea, since you have joined the gang of mini truckers, do tell fellow truckers that you don't need anymore to warm that thing up. Start up, and drive on, man !

Well, that's about sum it up on trucks or anything larger than cars. Take this as something we should be aware of when we drive such vehicles. There's no pun directed, and I do really hope to have a SUV when Malaysian's roads starts to have periodical floods.

Peace all..