i gave up doing interstate i am a local driver around town clown and all the rest i do dubbo every second week and thats it i hate going out on the hwy especially on weekends and public holi's so many weekend warriors
when iu was running the hwy i would averidge about 5 6000 k's aweek and at times you do it hard but well i see it this way with out people like me the rest would suffer guys like me get the product through ... the problem is people do there office jobs factorie work and so on and jump in there cars and try to mix it up with us and think they are bullet proof ......
oh and about the cones i always do it at the far end were no one is working i know it crap's you guys to know end but i get a giggle cant help it .... it's like choclate yer told it is bad for you but ya styill eat it
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good onya makka...be carefull tho coz when i get the shits i spike those cones with 3 " nails in their base or sand bag 'em.....hee heee sand bags are so much fun...another trick i use is a bit of chewing gum on the top of cones with the old wilkinson razor blades to cut to pieces those fools who like to tip 'em over with their hands or try to lift 'em into their cars as they go by

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years ago there was a icecream man in my area and he was a bit of a arsehole so we used to put garbage bins across the top of a culdesac any way he would run em over and kickem so we decided to put water in some and the same thing he kicked one that was fulla water and broke his leg
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I was in Campbelltown working about 3 years ago and we passed some roadworks but instead of cones they had those orange poles about 4 foot tall. The guy in the passenger seat said he would open the door and knock a whole bunch over like dominoes. We kept saying don't but he did and that pole had a steel bar down the middle. Lost his job after paying for a new door.


His reaction was funny at the time though

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ha ha ha...bollards...yip used them b4 at my old mob...we also had wot we called candy sticks, we'd get the busted ones, split them open and put steel inside them and bind 'em back up. We do have lotsa nasty tricks we can do to motorists, espech if it's an asphalting job.

The owner of a car in the eastern suburbs, parked on the site and refused to move it, so as well as getting a few drop a emolium on the paintwork, the guys gave it a good spray underneath - rite up into the engine bay.

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What the hell is emolium?

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Hot asphalt. That stuff stinks.....

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A rally friend had two suggestions. In his car he fitted a brake light kill switch. When a competitor got close to him and used his road craft to feel the road ahead he would let then tail for a couple on mins then on a nasty corner turn off his brake lights. Saya he has seen 100% of tailers over shoot the cnr. The other thought was to touch the brakes while accelerating at the same time, this would slow drivers on fast corners.

I have tried this brake and accelerate in trafic and it works. The tailgater sees the brake lights and slows while I pull away, then as they realise their error they accelerate at which point I brake. Man their eyes go all big and round then real squinty.

emolium loverly stuff over 200 or 300 deg friken hot sticky crap it is what sicks to yer car when they are doing resurfacing helps grip for a while though
btw used to work for a company doing roads did not really work actully drove the truck to the site guided the other trucks to the paver tested the heat thats it
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Makka are you trying to justify speeding, tailgating, drug use in sport??? or something with teh excuse of getting somewhere quicker, becasue i don't buy it and i think its a pretty childish thing to say.

Well i always get tailgated no matter how fast/slow i go. When sticking to my 80km speed limit, i frequently attract a long row of traffic and i love making others suffer, while i do what i have to do, drive slow. Rarely it gets too much for me, and i have a moment of madness, where i plant the foot for 20 seconds and get upto 110+ and put 100 metres on the row of traffic behind me, and then i slow down to 80. Its such a fun game.
I don't know if its a national campaign, the 'Just 5 Less' ads, But i am extremely tempted to make a sign up that reads, 'How do you like my "Just 5 Less"', and cruise along at 75. My whole point here is that 80km/h is too slow for people to safely drive at, when there is so much of a speed difference between traffic, You mainlanders have it so good.
When i am driving with people behind me, and the road is clear for overtaking, i pull over to the outside of the lane and leave plently of road for them to get around me. And then when its not clear, I pull back almost into the centre of the road, to 'close the door' on their potential passing manousdvers
The 80km limit is a bad thing for the mini's name too. It makes them out to be slow old pointless cars. I just want everyone who has ever tailgated me, That as hard as it for me to sit on 80, i would as easily be driving at 130, and whatever else the mini can give me.

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I dont think I've ever seen Makka condoning any sort of speeding, tailgating or other form of dangerous behaviour(joking maybe). While hitting the traffic cones is kinda childish, it seems a helluva lot more dangerous to be booby trapping them. I'd almost put it in line with removing stop signs etc, from intersections. I've had a scary situation where someone had pulled a "road closed" sign on steel legs on the road and tipped it over. I spotted it late, and locked the car up but still ended up going over the sign, and having one of the legs spear up into the cabin. If my girlfriend hada been in the car, she woulda been impaled without a doubt. It also screwed the front end of my car up somewhat, which pissed me off even more.

There's a lovely little term now called "Vicarious Liability". If you know something is dangerous, and fail to do something about it and someone is injured due to that, then you are instantly liable. If you cause that situation, then it's shown there was intent to harm. If someone is injured then yer in deep kim chee. If they die it's not manslaughter, it's murder.

Think about yer actions........ I know i've done some stupid things when I was younger, but no one was ever hurt. Some people arent that lucky, and end up with blood on their hands, and a very heavy conscience.

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yip PhildoD, you had a lucky escape with that sign...we have a constant battle with those idiots that drag our gear out into the traffic lanes...i myself had to contend with a black 2 seater lounge sitting in the middle of the road at Granville in the pitch black dead of nite at about 3am that some spastic had put there...

Phil the reason why we booby trap our gear, is that we get sic and tired of having to endanger ourselves to rescue that gear from traffic lanes b4 some poor unfortunate hits it...

So moral of the story is, leave us alone to do our jobs and we'll leave you alone. Accept the fact that your in "our workplace" and abide by the road regs...observe the posted speed limit, open yer eyes, piss off with the mobile phones and don't tailgate vehicles - espech the heavy vehicles...remember tailgating is an offence and does carry fines....u tailgate and u rear end someone it's your at fault, no excuses yer done for neg driving.

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and all ya are in my work place
so get the hell outa my way lol
and nabian wake up people like you are the sort of dill that cause accidents smart thing for you to do is when there are a few cars piled up behind you try moveing over when safe and alow the other cars to pass like us nasty truckys do when we are in hilly area's
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Tailgating really really pisses me off..
i won't tolerate it.. its putting my life and the lives of my passengers at danger.

and i used to be a delivery driver, so i'm bloody fast on suburban roads, in traffic without breaking the law.

i let them do it for about 10-20 seconds to make sure they're actually tailgating me..
then i perform what i call a "brake tap"where i litterally tap the brakes, but not enough so that they crash up my rear end. I might try this again if it looks like its gonna work.

then if they dont back off i slow down until it looks as if they're gonna pass me
(or as they're passing me but only on multi lane roads)
then i gun the throttle and speed away, then slow back to 3kms over the speed limit.
if they come back again i repeat the procedure again.

but mostly i try to get out of their way, because i am a courteous driver and i'm mindful of other road users. But i won't tolerate shithouse driving, especially if its putting me and my passengers at risk.

You just contradicted your own comments .....multiple times

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