Chambers Skip Hire Guildford
Dear Sir/Madam,
I should like report inappropriate behaviour from the driver of one of your blue skip collection vehicles (empty at the time) that had turned right onto Grange Road off Stoughton Road in Guildford this morning at approximately 7:23am.
Your vehicle had stopped behind the parked vehicles that adorn Grange Road on their side of the road, I was travelling at speed on my bike in the opposite direction when your vehicle decided to pull out into my path and as we approached was using far more of the road that was needed and forced me to mount the pavement. As we passed I was subjected to verbal abuse of which I only caught 'I pay bloody tax' being shouted at me.
I should be grateful if you could pass onto your drivers;
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If you're going to verbally abuse other road users then it's best perhaps not to do so from branded vehicles.
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If a hazard is on your side of the road then you give way to oncoming traffic - you simply can't pull out irrespective of it being a bicycle!
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Whilst I am a cyclist and I don't have to pay (road?) tax I am also a driver so pay my share of road tax for a vehicle that remains outside of my house for approximately 350 days of the year! Also, road tax in the UK is actually Vehicle Excise duty which is a tax on the vehicle and has not directly funded roads since 1937! As a resident of Guildford I pay Council tax which covers roads and their repairs.
Kind regards,
John.