FRIDAY morning at 10.30am I turned onto the freeway from the Lincoln Causeway to head home to West Wodonga.
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It was raining and the road was slippery.
A prime mover changed to the far lane to let us all merge. There were about eight cars at this stage.
Halfway between the merge lane and the Melrose Drive exit I thought I was going to witness another accident.
The driver of a white Santa Fe' changed lanes, cutting straight in front of the truck that would have been doing his speed limit of between 90 and 100km/h. He had to slam his brakes on so not to hit this idiot.
My husband has been involved in the transport industry most of his life and I am sick and tired of the men and women driving trucks getting the blame every time there is an accident involving a truck.
Watch what happens at a roundabout for example, when a truck is trying to turn. Watch how many cars try to beat them up the inside. Then they cry foul when their car gets wedged under the trailer.
There are signs on trucks saying “do not overtake turning vehicle”, and they are there for a reason.
Spend a day in a truck with a driver and see what they put up with – idiots cutting in front of them, trying to race them, overtaking them on double lines because trucks are speed-limited.
People are all too quick to blame the truckie when there is an accident.
Give them a chance and show them respect on the roads. They are only doing their jobs.
L. NOLAN,
West Wodonga
MEDIA OUT TO HYPNOTISE
AS Julie Bishop does her own version of shirt-fronting Russia at the United Nations this week, and our media joins in the campaign of lies and denigration over the Kremlin’s alleged role in the shooting down of MH17, it seems we are now in a collective state of hypnosis and denial over this attack on innocent people.
Timed to coincide with the anniversary of that attack two weeks ago, a “shocking new video” was ‘released’ by Newscorp, claiming to show violation of Australians’ baggage and personal effects by what it referred to as ‘Russian-backed rebels’.
Demonstrating that hypnotic power over public opinion that our media now hold however, it was soon revealed that Newscorp’s smuggled video showed nothing of the sort, and was not even new.
The Commander of the group searching in the wreckage of MH17 to try to find out what it was, was actually interviewed by the BBC’s Fergal Keane three days later, and rebuffed those accusations.
But even a cursory look at the transcript of the video revealed much more.
Four times in that transcript the ‘separatists’ repeat the same story – “They shot down the passenger plane, and we shot down the Sukhoi”. The ‘Sukhoi’, or SU25 is the Ukrainian fighter jet which perforated the cockpit section of MH17 with bullet holes – glaringly obvious to those of us not hypnotised by the Western media storm.
Notably that includes all of Russia, Malaysia, and most of the ‘non-Western world’.
DAVID MACILWAIN,
Sandy Creek
FUNDING JUST A STUNT
WHAT a deceitfully low political stunt it is for the Liberal sssistant minister for infrastructure and regional development to listen to a member of the general public, Sophie Mirabella, and instantly offer road funding without consulting the sitting member for Indi, Cathy McGowan.
If it is so easy to get funding for projects, then why has Cathy not had positive responses for all of her requests? What I would really like to know is if that funding for roads will still be available after the next election if Cathy is re-elected, or is it dependent upon a Liberal success in Indi?