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Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by yuzedo: 11:58am On Jul 03, 2013
HotNaijaBabe: This issue can not be OVER-EMPHASIZED.

Guys, stay away from Heavy Vehicles and also warn your drivers to do the same.

I was driving down with my boyfriend last year when suddenly a Truck swerved off his lane and faced us...We quickly swerved into the bush and the truck ended up killing a young School girl on her way back from school. This happened in Edo state. My boyfriend got down and tried to stop the gals bleeding..She died! And yes the truck moved on like nothing happened. We couldn't chase him cos we tried reviving the gal.

#The other thing is that most Truck drivers fall asleep on the wheel..They drink heavily and have no regard for other road users. Pls, be careful. They overtake knowing that other car drivers would leave the road for them.

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Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Sweetlemon(f): 12:05pm On Jul 03, 2013
Are you guys just hearing stories like this?? :O
E don tey nau!
I have been hearing of countless ones and have seen @ least 2 incidences.
The first time, a lady who was trying to cross the road slipped and fell. A container trailer which was on the road kept on coming with full speed although other cars had slowed down. Everyone screamed in fear at the driver to slow down but he kept on going as if nothing was happening. The woman's long attire was preventing her from getting up on time but luckily for her summersalted and thus escaped being smashed by the truck. As in she was just a second away from disaster!!!!!!
The 2nd one I saw was anoda container trailer which severely bashed a car but zoomed off like nothing happened although the occupants sustained injuries.
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by iamdsam: 12:07pm On Jul 03, 2013
FRSC needs to adopt new measures in dealing with these truck drivers. Not just measures but strict measures that would make them to know that they can kill one of their own with their reckless driving
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 12:11pm On Jul 03, 2013
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Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by InvaluableGem: 12:27pm On Jul 03, 2013
icebeatz: FRONT PAGE!
FRONT PAGE!!!!
OMG!!!!!

lord have mercy on us all.
So you don't think a message warning us to be careful with reckless trailer drivers is worth the front page? What then worths it?
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 12:40pm On Jul 03, 2013
Pls if u see trailer on ur way pls hide ur self ok. No matter the type of car u r using pls run untill the trailer pass bye. Life have no dublicate o
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 12:43pm On Jul 03, 2013
Thank God Dangote is now recruiting MSc holders as Drivers grin
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 1:05pm On Jul 03, 2013
lukaino: Haven't you noticed that majority of the truck drivers today are teenagers and adults in their early twenties? Truck driving should be open only to Adults from age 35 upwards. I know of a company who hire only 40yrs and above. this is to ensure that only people with some level of maturity and a sense of responsibility drive trailers. What we see daily is a display of youthful exuberance. May God save us all.
it is not youthful exurberance,stop giving excuses for them.stewpeedity knows ni age,as far as i am concerned,it is animalistic behavious propelled by indian hemp and other narcotics
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 1:08pm On Jul 03, 2013
Decryptor: When ever they do that again, apply the "Fast and Furious" technique...
PLS FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY AND THE SAFETY OF OTHER PEOPLE ON THE ROAD DON'T EVER ATTEMPT SUCH RISKY ACT. MOST TRUCKS AND TRAILERS DON'T HAVE GROUND CLEARANCE HIGHER THAN A SMALL CAR. INFACT, EVEN IF THE RIDE HEIGHTS OF THE TRUCK IS AS HIGH AS AN SUV PLS DON'T ATTEMPT DRIVING UNDER THEM SO AS TO AVOID RUNNING OVER YOUR CAR AND SQUASHING YOUR CAR INTO A PAN CAKE AND GRINDING YOU INTO MINCED MEAT.
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 1:15pm On Jul 03, 2013
nwekesimon68: Pls if u see trailer on ur way pls hide ur self ok. No matter the type of car u r using pls run untill the trailer pass bye. Life have no dublicate o
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 1:17pm On Jul 03, 2013
nwekesimon68: Pls if u see trailer on ur way pls hide ur self ok. No matter the type of car u r using pls run untill the trailer pass bye. Life have no dublicate o
whether he employs phd holders,readers,associate professors,professors or emeritus professor an 1,d1ot will always be one,he will not cease to be one.gone are the days when i used to think education refines a persons behaviour apparently its not so an example is the way some house of assembly members that i dont want to mention their state fight,exchange blows,fling shoes at each other and curse ay each other like riff raffs in the garage
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 1:29pm On Jul 03, 2013
lomomike: PLS FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY AND THE SAFETY OF OTHER PEOPLE ON THE ROAD DON'T EVER ATTEMPT SUCH RISKY ACT. MOST TRUCKS AND TRAILERS DON'T HAVE GROUND CLEARANCE HIGHER THAN A SMALL CAR. INFACT, EVEN IF THE RIDE HEIGHTS OF THE TRUCK IS AS HIGH AS AN SUV PLS DON'T ATTEMPT DRIVING UNDER THEM SO AS TO AVOID RUNNING OVER YOUR CAR AND SQUASHING YOUR CAR INTO A PAN CAKE AND GRINDING YOU INTO MINCED MEAT.
i remember when i was a corper back in the days when they just introduced okada,i sneaked out of office during official working hours to china town in ojota to go and buy some new necklaces and earings that just came out and so i was so much in a hurry that i didnt want oga to know i sneaked out of office and so i took okada to hasten my spees.if you see how the okada man entered under one of those tanker drivers in a bid to over take him,hypertension almost killed my enemy not me that day.i started hitting him at the back shouting at him.

Before i could say jack robinson,the tanker drivers bus hooked those poles and was already landing to the ground and we were so close to him.that day i thought my enemy will die.i just closed my eyes that day and when i got to my destination i was like thank you jesus
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 1:33pm On Jul 03, 2013
Trailer accidents crush small vehicles almost on daily basis between Abuja and Lokoja. Some of these truck drivers are so wicked that when they try crushing you and fail, they throw purewater at you. They hate being overtaken. God is stronger than them!

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Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by chitexy: 1:33pm On Jul 03, 2013
Good thought. My own story was when I drove my family for 2012 xmas. I was overtaking a trailer and suddenly the guy just swerved to my direction, I was courageous to drive out of the road that is 1 meter high, moved ahead of the trailer and parked after driving few miles. Vehicles behind me were astonished,they all gave me thumbs up for thinking a way out. My God, I would not had been alive to testify if not by his grace. It happened at ijebu ode ore expressway, about 15km to ore
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 1:45pm On Jul 03, 2013
3. Another reason I can think of is the same male ego of not backing down. The same way most male drivers react when someone is trying to overtake them by stepping on the pedal, some truck drivers will swerve towards you to discourage you or show disapproval of your overtaking them.
this one is particularly true.I've been in a vehicle where the driver who was being careful was accused by some of the passengers as driving like a woman.what the heck is that?
Anyway I've always learned to avoid this big vehicles ever since five of my sec sch mates lost their lives and plenty others sustained injuries when one these crazy drivers swerved into them at a sch bus stop.how heartless is that?
These ppl are murderers behind wheels.
And funny thing is that road crashes is the leading cause of deaths in nigeria now followed by malaria.statistics show that road crashes have managed to push every other source of danger to second place and emerged in the first position.
Sadly,this is something that can be controled but aLas when will we pay heed
ehie: Most Nigerians are crappy drivers,The trailers are just a microcosm of that percentage except they have the brawn (Big cars)are impatient like most Nigerian Drivers,and always want to drive fast,its just that when accidents happen with them the fatality is through the roof,death,amputations,spinal cord injuries and fire involving not one but more..so trailer drivers are just your typical Nigerian Drivers except that they are armed with a lethal weapon that brings maximum damages
exactly!
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And driving is just another minute exhibition of our lifestyles.impatient in everything.selfish to the core.it's all about me me me.every driver wants others to disappear from the road so he can move.no thoughs for the second party.no considerations whatsoever.like 'I am the only important person in the world and others can go jump in the lake'.SMH

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Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by omode2(m): 1:48pm On Jul 03, 2013

#The other thing is that most Truck drivers fall asleep on the wheel..They drink heavily and have no regard for other road users. Pls, be careful. They overtake knowing that other car drivers would leave the road for them.
yes ds happened to me last yr along ore/ sagamu exp d truck driver fell asleep and vered of his lane and wanted to crush us bt our driver escaped by d whiskers bt d truck lost balance and d truck driver died while d motor boy sustained severe injuries. They hardly have enough rest and believe they are d king of d road
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by penzino(m): 2:28pm On Jul 03, 2013
Expecially all those dangote cement trucks with some kind of conical tank behind it, fear them, they dnt care about lives in smaller cars.
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Nobody: 2:42pm On Jul 03, 2013
Mine happened in lagos in NOV last yr jst immediately after d popular 3rd maninland bridge was wit my bf. Nd he was driving.d devil dat calls him self d driver dnt stop nt minding he hit us. I was left bleeding from d nose wit a lot of brusies from broken glasses.tank God I was on seat bealt. D fear of truck drivers is d beginging of wisdom for road users!!!!
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Mystery11(m): 2:51pm On Jul 03, 2013
Suprised the truck drivers pretend that they are not aware of the accident.We are all telling the same story.

This one happened in my presence before Okada on my way to Lagos.

The driver crushed a bike man(instantly dead) cry cry cry cry and was speeding going as if nothing happened.

But he was chased and intercepted , when he was asked if was not aware that he killed somebody down the road , he was just mopping.

Human life is nothing to them. cry cry embarassed
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by Ribaman(m): 3:06pm On Jul 03, 2013
To help us, the FRSC must find a way to dismantle the Indian hemp, paraga and shekpe dens that pass for motor parks or whatever in 9ja.
The sheer amount of these items that get sold in the trailer parks and motor parks is also contributing to the high fatality rate on the roads.
My twopence
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by DICKtator: 3:39pm On Jul 03, 2013
Thank God for Dangote, issues like this would no longer arise.
Graduate Truck drivers with the right frame of mind would soon phase out these [i]paraga[/i]drinking, a.s.sholes' bleeding,scums-of-the-earth truck drivers!!!!!!!!!
and good roads with wider lanes too
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Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by cnwamo(m): 8:00pm On Jul 03, 2013
Do what I always do, don't overtake them if you don't see a clear chance.
I remember a guy that came to my site clinic when I was at a lekki bridge project, a julius berger trailer driver aka AGAMA that's the very long trailer they use to convey sand, don't know what we were talking about but I remember him boasting about popping an Okada riders head with His trailer tires because okada riders are always, I was shocked and all that was running through my mind then was what if the Okada guy was my relative or someone I know, the guy was always high on weed, he eventually lost his job when he was brought back to the clinic for an alcohol test when he ran his vehicle into a poultry farm along lekki expressway late 2011.
Fear them!!!!!!
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by bfmconcepts: 2:34pm On Jul 04, 2013
those 'aboki' guys not send anybody oooooo.
I don't stay in their front, or at their back or even beside them.
the fear of trailers of the highway is actually the beginning of road safety
Re: Beware Of Trailer Drivers On Long Distance Journeys by longevity1(m): 11:52pm On Jul 07, 2013
playah P: After I saw the story of the trailer driver that bashed a car and tried to escape (its on the front page) I decided to also share my own story.

First of all, I have to advise you all to be very careful with these trailers or trucks especially on a lonely road.

This happened sometime in january.
My friend, Dr. Tee as we fondly call him was driving from abuja to lagos when exactly the same thing happened to him!

A trailer bashed his car (totoya hilux) and it ended up somersaulting several times.
He sustained some injuries and if not for God and good nigerians, he would have bled to death in d wreckage.

The thing is that the trailer guy didn't even stop or act as if it hit anything!
Yeah I had an experience with one trailer driver last year.I was coming back from Anambra state with my wife and my 4kids and this trailer driver misbehaved on the road and I yealed at him.I deliberately ran as fast as Io can so he does not catch up with me a clear us off the road.At a point in time I just stoped and allowed him go far ahead.guys just avoid them and blast ur horns when ever they are close so that u can announce ur presence.

I thought it was maybe an isolated case till I read about another similar case on the front page.

I have to warn all nairalanders to be wary of those trailers when they are travelling on a major high way.


My own personal experience.
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In 2009, I was on my way to enugu using peace mass transit when a truck (trailer) we were trying to overtake suddenly swerved and ran us (and one other private car) into the bush .
This happened on lagos-ibadan expressway around 8am!

The trailer also didn't stop. Infact I was too dazed to notice it zoom off... Nobody died but the impact left some people unconcious.

This is my own 10 kobo.

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