00:00Rob Mitchell's office is hard to miss.
00:05I'm driving a self-propelled boom spray, it's 3.2 metres wide, 4 metres high off the ground.
00:10The spraying contractor travels along main roads from farm to farm.
00:15I'm maximum doing 50 kilometres an hour, yeah, people just don't seem to have enough patience.
00:22It's this lack of tolerance from road users that could have ended in tragedy.
00:27Down a road, a school bus full of kids decided that me turning my indicator on to turn right
00:31was the signal to overtake me.
00:33A mate of mine's young fella was on the bus and blew the wind up me a bit.
00:36The most recent near miss prompted Rob to speak up about the dangers of drivers using
00:41their right flicker as an indicator to overtake their trucks or caravans.
00:47The headline won't read school bus hits sprayer, it'll be sprayer hits school bus and that's
00:54not good for anyone.
00:56The trucking industry is also raising the alarm.
01:00We don't know your ability is the main thing, that's the problem.
01:03What's causing confusion is when heavy vehicles are turning, motorists take their flicker
01:09as an indication to overtake.
01:11As a nation and as a society we actually like to help people and we think we're helping
01:15and it's not.
01:16It's a really, really, really bad habit.
01:18Police are also on the lookout and are pleading for caution.
01:22In good faith, if they do indicate right to tell the person behind, that can create
01:28an unsafe overtaking manoeuvre.
01:30The person behind should only overtake when they actually assess what's in front of them
01:35and they deem it safe that they can go through.
01:37With harvest beginning for some, more and more oversized vehicles like this one behind
01:42me are going to be out on our roads.
01:44That's why operators like Rob and Glenn are asking for people to slow down and be more
01:50patient.
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