You know its going to happen.

[geoff]

This is a personal irritation of mine too.

 

I think in the highway code it is recommended to reverse into off highway accesses. Its bleeding common sense. Everyone sees what you are doing and most often they wait for you to get out the way. Having come home after a journey vehicle is excellent in internal visibility not misted not frosted over. Not to mention others are more likely to have poor visibility in a morning.

 

In answer to your question its laziness and living in the present gormlessness. Think, plan ahead. Quick back in now. Quick pull out next time you need to use the motor.

 

My thoughts exactly, it's just laziness & lack of forward thinking.

[openspaceman]

Lucky you weren't a cyclist or a mother pushing a pram!!

 

Why don't people reverse onto their drives, instead of off them??????????

 

 

Because they're not working for Scottish and Southern Electricity??

[skyhuck]

Because they're not working for Scottish and Southern Electricity??

 

[Goaty]

:confused1:Meter readers????

[teepeeat]

This is a personal irritation of mine too.

 

I think in the highway code it is recommended to reverse into off highway accesses. Its bleeding common sense. Everyone sees what you are doing and most often they wait for you to get out the way. Having come home after a journey vehicle is excellent in internal visibility not misted not frosted over. Not to mention others are more likely to have poor visibility in a morning.

 

In answer to your question its laziness and living in the present gormlessness. Think, plan ahead. Quick back in now. Quick pull out next time you need to use the motor.

 

yup - even got the missus doing it now - result

The down side is that every time she reverses my van is at additional risk

[Countryside Services]

Had some numpty cave my drivers door in a few years ago, reversing out of their drive. Luckily I clocked him, and I wasn't half way out the door!

[eggsarascal]

I was speaking to Pat Ferret on the phone last week. Some one backed off a driveway in to his motor. The lady that did it said something like.....I can't see out of the driveway, so I just back out and hope nothing is coming.

[openspaceman]

Because they're not working for Scottish and Southern Electricity??

 

 

It's one of their many rules which include always parking with steering turned into the kerb and holding onto both handrails when ascending stairs. I suspect a result of meter readers jumping out of vans which then roll away but enforced across the board, which includes UA on an audit.

[teepeeat]

It's one of their many rules which include always parking with steering turned into the kerb and holding onto both handrails when ascending stairs. I suspect a result of meter readers jumping out of vans which then roll away but enforced across the board, which includes UA on an audit.

 

sounds a bit like the BT man we had in a while back - had to phone 1 hr before arrival to request all smoking materials be extinguished and the house ventilated.

Great idea for the non-smoker, but he was a twenty a day man himself

Oh, and also he could not run the phone line along the eves over the flat roof extension cos he didnt have a flat roof ticket?? He was ticketed to climb up to 15m high ladders without a second person in attendance

Its a funny old world :lol: