Cautious and dangerous, if somebody coming up behind them sees the gap in front of them, thinks they must have broken down and changes lanes to avoid being delayed by them, thereby triggering an accident with another driver in the lane they're moving into.
i would call it cautious ,and someone coming up behind them and changing lanes just so they are not delayed and cause a accident i would call that impatience and not driving to the conditions
i see it everyday with driving the cane train over level crossings grubstake
i will give a list of the crossings and how many vehicles run the crossings on a trip from bingera to fairymead (aprox 35km of track ) one way with up to 65 full cane bins
(weight depends on month of crush and cane varieties) ,early in the crush bins will average 4 to 6 tonnes of cane per bin plus 1.2 tonne tare weight of the bins
late july to end of crush they can average up to 10 tonne of cane a bin so we can have over 600 to 700 tonne behind a 26 tonne baldwin loco
all cane bins are not braked the only brakes we have are on the loco
brake drive--like a engine brake on a truck
torque brake --runs the oil in the torque convertor in reverse can cause overheating issue with the torque convertor
service brake --westernhouse air brake system controlled buy a hand lever
P-passive crossing- no lights but signage only(passive road crossings have no speed limit but we keep them to 10 to 15 kmh )
A- active crossing -lights and signage all to the same specs and safety as QLD rail (changed the laws about 15 years ago to bring our crossings up to the same standard as state rail) active crossings are speed boarded (signed)
all speeds are maximun allowed at the active crossings
weir road A-1 to 2 vehicles speed 30kmh
gin gin road main road between bundaberg and gin gin A-up to 10 vehicles speed 30kmh
raines road P-2 to 3
cellars road P-0 (back road local traffic only)
ten mile road A-mainly caravans and camper vans 4 (short cut to bruce highway ) at gin gin speed 20kmh
wards road P -0 local traffic only
mercers road P -3 to 6 mainly caravans /campervans (road to connects to ten mile )
careys road P - 1 to 2 a year local traffic
mercers road P-0 local traffic
mercers road P-4 to 6 caravans/camper vans connects to ten mile road (we cross mercers road 3 times in about 4km distance)
roasedale road A - 10 to 15 vehicles speed 15kmh
morelands road A -2 vehicles speed 20kmh
tolls road P-1 a year local traffic
hoods road A- 1 to 2 a year local road 15 kmh
moore park road A -10 to 15 sometimes more ,15 kmh
tantitha road A- 1 to 2 20 kmh
total 46 vehicles just one way on a trip run the crossings
on average there would be 2 close calls reported to traffic per week and the company will remove the sd cards from the cameras to try and get rego numbers
everyone is in a hurry to get no where these days and if they get collected they will be going somewhere
over the years i have become complacent, a near miss 10 years ago would have been 20 yard gap
now i check to see if the vehicle has a wobble as we pass behind it or the tow ball is sitting on the road crossing when we return or i check for strange paint markings on the front ballast at journeys end
if any one of the three reasons or more are confirmed i will report a near miss
just impatient and not driving to the conditions
touch wood i have had only one incident with a car in 35 years of driving the cane trains and that was bad
