Being Tracked and gsensor monitored in our work van!
getting black marks for doing the speed limit i.e cant do 30mph in a 30 mph zone as 30.0mph is considered as speeding we have to do 29mph
Every time i pull away from the traffic lights im apparently harshly accelerating which i am not!
And every round about taken over 20mph im harshly cornering with a nice big bleep from the little box everytime this happens just to annoy you even more

So everybody please be a bit more understanding when you are next behind a company van the guy may be driving like a dick but to stop any disciplines or wage reductions rather than trying to annoy you the poor guy thats stuck behind me and to top it all i have to do 50mph on single carriageway and 60mph on a dual carriage even though i drive a car derived van a Mitsubishi Outlander!
SORRY!

Welcome to my world. We've been monitored for the last three years. They've now installed camera's in our trucks.

Expect most places to be going this way from now on.
Hopefully they'll get Mr bmw, Mr audi and Mr Mercedes company car drivers the same way to even the score somewhat.

It's becoming a sad world.
As consumers, I feel we should be fighting this sort of thing!
The appeal of "older vehicles" can only increase when before long "driving" will be an automated process?
I see London wants to effectively ban any cars over a certain age on pollution grounds....

Agree, cars like the Coupe will soon be recognized as the best ever for keen drivers - manual, no nannying tech driver aids just safe tech (eg. ABS)

That would be this article I was reading last night.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/diesel-drivers-may-face-higher-costs-pollution-battle

If he's that worried about diesel pollutants, Boris should be looking closely at his buses and trains and trucks ...

Haha Love this thread

I'd like to add..

People in front of you at cash machines!! why is it everytime I want to get a little bit of money out there's the one person who has about 5 different bank accounts and wants to check every single last one!! Go to the fccuk ing bank, get Internet banking... Hurry up!!

People who stop at:

1. Roundabouts whem there is nothing coming
2. At roundabouts with lights which are on green !

Drivers who don't indicate or check their blind spot

Also:
Loud swallowers
Tea slurpers
Lip smackers
Eating with mouth open.....


Oh... here is a topical one for me.

People who have a perfectly good double drive, but park their runabout car on the road/pavement becasue they don't want to park next to their shiny new Merc on the drive... Seriously, one person I know parks his car in the centre of the drive so that there is about 6 foot of space all round it. Then parks his cruddy Corsa on the road. That's too anal even for me.

People who park in front of your house because they have 2 cars but only one drive space.... when you have built a double drive to accommodate your cars... and they have enough room to do the same, but choose to park infront of your house instead.

Yes I live on an estate, and parking is an issue.

Can I add people who have a drive for two cars but park one in front of their house. If they need to use that one they will move the other out of the drive to replace it Then they complain when the car left in the road get hit and loses a wing mirror. They are absolutely fanatical about this too, seen them move a car at 4am in pajamas because they hear the car blocking "their" space in front of the house had just moved.

Sounds like Anita - she wants to move cars to defend 'our' space if we go out in one... it's like playing 3-d chess.

Personally, I blame those families of two with four cars, cluttering up the neighbourhood with one in the garage, one on the drive, and two on the road outside, one of which is blocking the drive.

Oh, wait, that would be me... damn. It gets quite interesting if I decide to come to work in the kit, which is the one in the garage...

Things I hate:

"near to" by the BBC newsreaders. It's "close to" or "near". It's even more irritating than "ahead of" when they mean "before".

And people who park in the middle of a two-car-long space, thereby killing both spaces.

One of our neighbours has his car, her car, the grown up sons cars X2 and the daughters car.
Three fit on his drive and two lads park in the only spare parking bays in the cul de sac just to the right of my drive.
Plus he's got a jag Xkr and some kind of sports bike in his double garage.

I think most people have way too many cars there.
I want a double garage it's not fair. I have to rent a unit miles away to play with my toys.

YES!!! This one really gets me too. I make a point of then wacking in the pin, hitting required money and then over-taking them on foot before they get wherever they're going afterwards. Just to a make a point. The fact that they likely have no idea of what I've just done is irrelevant; it just makes me feel all afterwards

I also have a bit of an issue with parking on my road. There's a woman with a number of teenage kids that seem to always be visiting (yeah, I've wondered that too...). Between them there is a Fiesta, a Clio and a red... thing? Instead of parking on her driveway, they park on the kerb outside my house.

Now, they aren't blocking access to my drive (and I'd roll it over if they did and I wanted to get out) but they are blocking the view to a freshly resprayed and waxed Fiat Coupé 20v Turbo (in Sprint Blue no less). Let's face it, I'm doing everyone in the are a favour in providing this view, so why should some spotty little scrote spoil this?

I'm just jealous of the people who have a real drive. You know, the sort you actually drive along. Not the sort I have which is exactly the same size as a car. So it's more of a tarmac car stand than a drive.

I have a friend in Warwickshire who bought a bungalow on a plot with an old market garden. You could fit our entire house, garden and drive in his front garden. Then his rear garden is so big, you could actually get lost in it. You need binoculars to see the end !

He has a double garage, plus countless nissen huts and greenhouses on his plot to house all manner of cars, lawn mowers and dodgy home brew. Naturally he keeps chickens and for a while even had 2 sheep.

Then his drive actually has a turning circle in it and sweeps round to the fount door.

My main gripe is that he has a sit on lawn mower and a justified reason to have one.

Luckily he is a good mate.

Does he let you drive the mower?

No. But he did let me ride in the trailer he was towing with it.

I guess I should be grateful.

I think you should be pushing for a proper go on the mower, I know I would. Obviously don't bin him as a friend if he refuses but put a nudge or 17 in. Does he even realise that ride on lawn mowers are one of the coveted driver experiences, second only to coops!

Anyone see Kimi on the lawn mower on sky f1 channel. Here was a bloody demon.

I have a friend in the usa who has a ride on mower. I mowed the lawn twice when we were there. His American wife was very bemused.

Funny isn't it. The ride on mower is the icon of middle aged success.

Anyone remember the Jackass episode when Bam dug a huge hole in the lawn and covered it with sticks and leaves, then waited for big Phil to drive his sit on mower into it? Was a good one.

Oh don't get me started on ride on lawnmowers. I've not even moved to a petrol mower yet.

I've now got visions of a ride-on hover mower. How cool would THAT be!

Some one must have built one.... Time for some googling !

Given the slightly approximate steering on normal hovercraft, I imagine it might make for a rather dangerous mowing experience. But I'm sure someone has tried it!

Mondays! Need I say anymore

That would be part of the fun I'm sure ! It would also mean you could go over the pond

But I suspect the prize azaleas would takea hammering.

Or, like 4 wheel drive, a necessity for those of us who live in the proper countryside! I have a large ride-on mower and it still takes me 2 -3 hours to cut my grass.

http://www.grounds-mag.com/news/grounds_maintenance_youve_seen_mower/

Used to have a ride on mower when I lived in Connecticut. Best fun ever racing my neighbor to finish the lawn before beers on the balcony. Halcyon days and way before middle age!!