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I mean, it's nice in a way I suppose, to know the first name of the gigantic artic bearing down on you but you know...meh.
You don't get it with plane drivers, or boat drivers, or motorcycle couriers, so why so much of the this is my name written on this numberplate shizzle with lorry drivers?
Some lorries recently, the driver of one is most likely called Nobby or similar.
So you know who is trying to kill you when you are cycling through town.
They should have those plates on taxis too...
Not a lorry driver, or even remotely educated on the subject. But does it not come from the days of CB radio, so that they could identify each other by their handles?
Do they still use CBs, or do they just watch YouTube now?
Over.
Sheffield Steel sound cool like 1960s secret agent TV show.
It's so the hookers in the truck stop know which cab they're looking for.
It's a bit of fun. Like those car sunvisor strips with Dave and Tracey on them.
But does it not come from the days of CB radio, so that they could identify each other by their handles?
That's a negatory good buddy!
So you know who is trying to kill you when you are cycling through town.
They should have those plates on taxis too…
I’d rather like to know whose up my chuff uninvited.. than some anonymous rear-ender. 😜
I like those in cab neon murals they have, I spotted a skull & crossbones one a month or so ago and thought to myself “are you the devils child, or a great pretender” 🤣
You don’t get it with plane drivers
On the contrary, every flight I've been on we have a personal verbal introduction from pilot and / or first officer.
10-4 Rubber Chicken ,we got ourselves a convoy.
It's impossible to see their name when I drive up the M6 unless I had a rear facing periscope.
Haha! I'm glad it bugs someone else, especially things like BIG DAVE. I just googled lorry driver names and the first image is Peter Sutcliffe!
On another note why do Chefs insist on being called chef. I appreciate it's difficult to cook to a high standard but engineers don't insist on being called by their job title.
In the logistics company I used to work for many years ago, it was quite useful as all of the 75 Cabs were pretty much identical.
Drivers were issued with name plate that was mounted centre dash for identification purposes. For office staff dropping items like paper work or notes/keys/belongings etc) much easier to remember 3 names to drop off kit to, rather than 3 reg numbers.
And (less so) for drivers walking along a big line of trucks on the loading dock trying to find their load.
Eyeball eyeball good buddy.
On another note why do Chefs insist on being called chef.
It's a lot less annoying than some people insisting on being called mr, miss, mrs, ms, ze, xe, mx, misc, ind, mre, pr or any of the other self made up ones depending on the day of the week and who or what they are identifying as that particular day.
I'm a sign maker and we see a lot of Truckers. We have been asked for some very strange stuff, not safe for on here or the side of a truck.
Owner drivers are a strange bunch, IME. Some seem to love their truck a little more than is healthy..
On another note why do Chefs insist on being called chef. I appreciate it’s difficult to cook to a high standard but engineers don’t insist on being called by their job title.
It might be a French thing, or possibly even merkan. merkans do love a title, hence those embarrassing occasions when some merkan politician refers to Prime Minister Blair or whoever the current incumbent is. If you drive a boat in the states they don't call you skipper, but "captain". That Gordon Ramsay programme in the states has a lot of cheffing along with the effing and jeffing.
lol at caher!
For the victims isn't it?
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">You'll need to know my name, you'll be screaming it at the cellar door later"</span>
I'd love to see a Stobbart with Enola Gay written on it rather than the usual Maurine Eloise or Sharron Patricia.
Hackney cabs with kids names, cherished plates, names on top tubes. Fannies.
Fannies
What's yours called?
Owner drivers are a strange bunch, IME. Some seem to love their truck a little more than is healthy..
Perhaps because of the amount of time they typically spend in there?
Nealglover has it nailed though, who'd have thought there was a reasonable practical explanation.
However in the interest of fairness I agree with Nobeers list. Can we add stick figure families on the back of "lifestyle" vehicles too?
I'd rather know the name of a lorry driver than the name of the driver of a grotesque blinged up Range Rover Overfinch resembling something from Liberace's car collection via their personalised number plate. Or worse, the all black gangsta Audi Q7 with blacked out windows, plooms of vaping smoke bellowing out of the window from the driver almost fully reclined in their seat and a personal plate along the lines of BO55. I know where i'd be aiming my laser guided mini gun!
"Owner drivers are a strange bunch, IME. Some seem to love their truck a little more than is healthy"
A bit like some T5 owners (coming from a T5 owner)
"but engineers don’t insist on being called by their job title."
No we don't, but we do cringe when people refer to plumbers as 'heating engineers' and car mechanics as 'automotive engineers'. I'm sure real heating engineers and automotive engineers get even more p'd off with it. It's a bit like a first aider calling themselves a Doctor.
Caution! Show Dogs In Transit!
WTF? If that is the case I won't pile into the back if for for fear in injurring your miniature schnauzer.
All of the above are, in my view, entirely acceptable on the grounds that they are, at least, a conscious choice on the part of the driver. After that it's down to personal taste.
The greatest crime of this type is this....
Why anyone would drive about with a free advert in their window for a car dealership utterly baffles me.
They didn't make the car, they only sold it to you for a profit.
It'd be like me selling you a bike in the classifieds and sticking a big yellow PerchyPanther sticker on it.
Caution! Show Dogs In Transit!
This amuses me when the van isn't a Transit. Yes, I need to get out more.
In the early 80's Clarkson did a column in Fast Car(?) magazine.
He did a whole article about 'show dogs in transit' which ended with the promise to get a 'Show Whelks in Transit' sticker made. I doubt he did but it makes about as much sense.
I saw one last week that said autistic child in car. Why do I need to know that? What is it I need to be doing? I have no idea.
Boom!
fire and rescue services will look out for little princes etc signs at a car in a crash to determine who they may need to deal with. likewise, autistic sticker could be useful as they could wander off/be very disoriented after a crash and put themselves at harm.
At least some of these things might be of limited use to the emergency services
If i was a first responder opening a vehicle door I'd like to know in advance if there was an autistic kid or a furious miniature schnauzer inside.
You could even summon a bariatric ambulance as soon as you saw that the truckers name was BIG DAVE.
No-one in this situation has ever said to a casualty " I see that you bought your car from Arnold Clark.....maybe you'll get a good deal on your next one 'coz this 'un's bollocksed"
It’s so the hookers in the truck stop know which cab they’re looking for.
I just saw this on Twitter:
Driver of 17 tonne just said to me. “I’ve just seen a cat crawl into the engine. Could be the reason for the electric issues.” I could only respond with “please just check for cats before driving off”
Maybe it was a ginger tom?
The trouble with "little princess on board" stickers is the same as the problem with L plates. People don't remove them when the learner/princess isn't on board. As a result you give the car in front plenty of space instead of driving within inches of the back bumper in the mistaken belief that they have an excuse for driving under the speed limit. Similarly a "first-responder" could spend a long time searching through the mangled wreckage looking for a little princess when the said minor royalty was at home/school. People don't think these things through before spending their hard-earned at Halfords.
It’s a bit like a first aider calling themselves a Doctor.
But they might be a PhD. It's the physicians that are the frauds*. Surgeons are just plain Mr.
*Psychoanalysts are the Freuds.
fire and rescue services will look out for little princes etc signs at a car in a crash to determine who they may need to deal with
Isn't this one of those "a mate down the pub told me" facts?
'Child/baby on board' Thanks for warning me to keep miles away from your car then!
Bloody hate kids me.
me selling you a bike in the classifieds and sticking a big yellow PerchyPanther sticker on it.
fire and rescue services will look out for little princes etc signs at a car in a crash to determine who they may need to deal with
Isn’t this one of those “a mate down the pub told me” facts?
Its a myth.
Widely touted as “da truffe”
Its just a sticker announcing you are able to produce a sproglet.
So many are called Daf.
I worked for Skandia (Old Mutual) FinServ Co (for a couple of years) and the amount of times people said “isn’t that the Truck maker?”
I ended up saying Yes.
fire and rescue services will look out for little princes etc signs at a car in a crash to determine who they may need to deal with.
Nah not really because the emergency services always check thoroughly anyway. As anyone with an ounce of common sense would.
Years ago we had a delivery driver called Eugene.
He wore a jumper knitted by his gran that said Eugene across it.
True story...
fire and rescue services will look out for little princes etc signs at a car in a crash to determine who they may need to deal with.
Nope! I never have done never will do
Lol @ Perchy! 🤣
10 10 till we do it again 🙂
It’s a lot less annoying than some people insisting on being called mr, miss, mrs, ms, ze, xe, mx, misc, ind, mre, pr or any of the other self made up ones depending on the day of the week and who or what they are identifying as that particular day.
That does sound especially annoying. Even moreso on account of it being changed daily.
Fortunately in my 51 years I have yet to have my shell-likes assaulted by it. The people who complain about it (rene59 respectfully excepted if applicable ) seem to be inversely proportional to the instances of it actually happening. It's become a (hugely successful) career move for many on social media.
Would be interesting to calculate how many youtube videos are from actual transgender/feminist activists insisting on these appellations - VS how many people make videos complaining loudly and insistently about how they are mercillesly exhorted to cater to these annoyingly inconsistent minorities!
Careful with that axe, Eugene.
"If you can't see my mirrors I can't see you and I'm too mean to spend £50 on a rear view camera that might save your life".
Oh, and there's only one chef in any section of a kitchen. The rest are cooks. Chef means boss, or chief.
I did wonder what was in that horse box....
There's a house near me that has a couple of 4x4s.. The proper kind mind, they have proper off road tyres and club stickers and some other mods.
Sticker on the back of one says (in upside down text) "if you can read this please turn me over" with a big arrow next to it saying "this side up"
Thought it was quite amusing.
I’m a wheel attendant myself and don’t really see the point to be honest.. although it is better than being called “driver”, I just write my name in permanent marker on my hi viz, this also stops the thieving swines at my work nicking it.
The one’s I do have a giggle at are (all genuine ones I have seen)
Cryptic crocodile
R.A.F regiment
Why me
Cab rat
Ice Dog
Never Hame
Flat oot
Mad Ron
Outtatime
Road dog
The stinker
Bon Bon
Wee General
That’s just the ones I remember.. I’m called Volvo.
“If you can’t see my mirrors I can’t see you and I’m too mean to spend £50 on a rear view camera that might save your life”.
When did it become the drivers responsibility to wipe the arse of the road users behind them?
It’d be like me selling you a bike in the classifieds and sticking a big yellow PerchyPanther sticker on it.
So where can I buy a PerchyPanther sticker for my car? I am a big fan myself as he regularly has the funniest comment on a topic.
It’d be like me selling you a bike in the classifieds and sticking a big yellow PerchyPanther sticker on it.
Which would be fine as long as you didn't make a profit on it.
It's not really yellow. It used be green but I painted it.