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The funny thing is that 95% of Pakistani drivers come from an ethnic group that is probably 20% of Pakistan's populations. That group also dominates the transport industry in Pakistan, and is notorious for being short-tempered, though with generally good driving reflexes.....

Similarly, the Sunny doing 60 kph in the fast lane is almost guaranteed to be a South Indian (with a moustache !)

You have 2 extremes; Arab driver jumping red signals, and killing people, and South Indians stomping on the brake the moment they see amber and ending up in the junction.......

BlackburnRovers wrote:You have 2 extremes; Arab driver jumping red signals, and killing people, and South Indians stomping on the brake the moment they see amber and ending up in the junction.......

exactly

quatroporte wrote:according to a friend of mine who works in police he confirmed to me.. that the most fetal accidents are indeed caused by Pakistani drivers...

my dad is a sr. transport manager for a construction company and he is in business for the past 20 years.. and we had discussed this topic and he confirms that Paki drivers are the worst, causing the company he works for last year so many fines, two deported for major accidents, another two already exceeded the 24 black points.. and the list goes on...

Paki's are usually the cheapest and usually got better experience followed by Sardar's and Syrians... but the later two demand more salary than Paki's

paki's get out tempered very fast and over react all the time

Isn't this an offensive term? Prince Harry recently got in trouble for using it. I didn't know until that incident. I hope this doesn't open another can of worms on this forum.

K-Dog wrote:

quatroporte wrote:according to a friend of mine who works in police he confirmed to me.. that the most fetal accidents are indeed caused by Pakistani drivers...

my dad is a sr. transport manager for a construction company and he is in business for the past 20 years.. and we had discussed this topic and he confirms that Paki drivers are the worst, causing the company he works for last year so many fines, two deported for major accidents, another two already exceeded the 24 black points.. and the list goes on...

Paki's are usually the cheapest and usually got better experience followed by Sardar's and Syrians... but the later two demand more salary than Paki's

paki's get out tempered very fast and over react all the time

Isn't this an offensive term? Prince Harry recently got in trouble for using it. I didn't know until that incident. I hope this doesn't open another can of worms on this forum.

It is offensive only in UK seemingly.

it is not offensive. pakis are pakis like we all know who is a pom and we all know who is a nigga. its the street talks or the way the ghetto talks

indians are rubbish drivers. i sent my accountant to do some work in 9am and he got back at 6pm. asked him whether there was traffic, he said no i was just driving "really" slow . i guess that means driving 50 kph in the fast lane of SZR.

i hate drivers who drive slow on the fast lane. if you want to drive slow please just move along to the 2nd, or the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th lane. if some1 comes flashing behind you and there is no car in front of you, just move aside and let the car behind you go through.

Rather then braking and holding the guy up behind, just to show who is the "man" doesnt make sense to me.

rudeboy wrote:it is not offensive. pakis are pakis like we all know who is a pom and we all know who is a nigga. its the street talks or the way the ghetto talks

indians are rubbish drivers. i sent my accountant to do some work in 9am and he got back at 6pm. asked him whether there was traffic, he said no i was just driving "really" slow . i guess that means driving 50 kph in the fast lane of SZR.

i hate drivers who drive slow on the fast lane. if you want to drive slow please just move along to the 2nd, or the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th lane. if some1 comes flashing behind you and there is no car in front of you, just move aside and let the car behind you go through.

Rather then braking and holding the guy up behind, just to show who is the "man" doesnt make sense to me.

well said

BlackburnRovers wrote:The funny thing is that 95% of Pakistani drivers come from an ethnic group that is probably 20% of Pakistan's populations.

They are from Peshavar area and speak Pashto (Afgani language). Many of them didn't even leave primary school and really from very poor families. So I doubt that their reflexes are enough for driving safely... As soon as they are mostly commercial driver here, as a rule they didn't have an experience in their own country as most European did. So their driving experience rather short and theoretcal knolege is negligible.
As for me Sharjah taxi drivers (most Peshavari) are among the worst in the UAE.

Red Chief wrote:

BlackburnRovers wrote:The funny thing is that 95% of Pakistani drivers come from an ethnic group that is probably 20% of Pakistan's populations.

They are from Peshavar area and speak Pashto (Afgani language). Many of them didn't even leave primary school and really from very poor families. So I doubt that their reflexes are enough for driving safely... As soon they are mostly commercial driver here, as a rule they didn't have an experience in their own country as most European did. So their driving experience rather short and theoretcal knolege is negligible.
As for me Sharjah taxi drivers (most Peshavari) are among the worst in the UAE.

red chief good to know that you something about peshawari area and about the pakhtoon ppl.

If you look at their countries i.e Afghanistan and Pakistan they have some of the worlds dangerous roads and areas. I have seen them drive trucks on a single dirt track, through the Himalayas. To drive there you need guts, balls, and you need to have skills. Imagine driving from 5am to 11pm through those roads and especially at night where there are no road signs or lights. make a wrong move and you are dead.

Like someone said before they make a majority of the population and that commercial drivers always get paid according to the number of delivery they make not per the hours they spent on the road.

if i had to be a driver, i would be driving over ppl in a monster truck

have fun watching this video

there are loads more just type in Khyber Pass or Gilgit Highway.

RB, There is no war in the UAE so far and road system is rather modern I must say. You don't need to drive overloaded KAMAZ through the mountain in snowy winter season. So the drivers don't need guts but only experience, knowlege and maturity...

Red Chief wrote:RB, There is no war in the UAE so far and road system is rather modern I must say. You don't need to drive overloaded KAMAZ through the mountain in snowy winter season. So the drivers don't need guts but only experience, knowlege and maturity...

Amen RB

Red Chief wrote:So the drivers don't need guts but only experience, knowlege and maturity...

let's hope arabs will learn to live with these qualities soon.

rudeboy wrote:it is not offensive. pakis are pakis like we all know who is a pom and we all know who is a nigga. its the street talks or the way the ghetto talks

indians are rubbish drivers. i sent my accountant to do some work in 9am and he got back at 6pm. asked him whether there was traffic, he said no i was just driving "really" slow . i guess that means driving 50 kph in the fast lane of SZR.

i hate drivers who drive slow on the fast lane. if you want to drive slow please just move along to the 2nd, or the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th lane. if some1 comes flashing behind you and there is no car in front of you, just move aside and let the car behind you go through.

Rather then braking and holding the guy up behind, just to show who is the "man" doesnt make sense to me.

There is no explanation of the lane system here. The inside (slow lane) is normally accepted as the lane for trucks and buses, however it is common to find the buses in the second (first overtaking lane) or third (second overtaking lane) and going faster than the cars around them with full loads of labourers or staff.

Secondly, the junction system here is really screwed up. If you want to turn off a main highway, you generally have to fight your way through the line of cars trying to join as the access invariably comes in BEFORE the exit. As drivers here don't want to give way...ever...then it just creates an even bigger snarl up.



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rudeboy wrote:it is not offensive. pakis are pakis like we all know who is a pom and we all know who is a nigga. its the street talks or the way the ghetto talks

indians are rubbish drivers. i sent my accountant to do some work in 9am and he got back at 6pm. asked him whether there was traffic, he said no i was just driving "really" slow . i guess that means driving 50 kph in the fast lane of SZR.

i hate drivers who drive slow on the fast lane. if you want to drive slow please just move along to the 2nd, or the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th lane. if some1 comes flashing behind you and there is no car in front of you, just move aside and let the car behind you go through.

Rather then braking and holding the guy up behind, just to show who is the "man" doesnt make sense to me.

so what if you are already doing 140 on a 120 does it justify those lunatics who flashes theirs lights because they like doing 180 just for kicks???

Red Chief wrote:RB, There is no war in the UAE so far and road system is rather modern I must say. You don't need to drive overloaded KAMAZ through the mountain in snowy winter season. So the drivers don't need guts but only experience, knowlege and maturity...

sorry but i rather blame the system then blaming the paki drivers for all the accidents. i blame the transport companies etc.

The lane thing is quite straightforward.....


Dont occupy the fast lane, but often situations arise where one has to keep changing lanes. I like doing 160 on the AUH-Dubai highway, but i cant do the 2nd lane, because cars often cruise at 110-120 there. On the other hand, you have ppl racing at 180+ in the fast lane, which means that anyone doing between 130-170 has to keep changing lanes.......

Jot wrote:

rudeboy wrote:it is not offensive. pakis are pakis like we all know who is a pom and we all know who is a nigga. its the street talks or the way the ghetto talks

indians are rubbish drivers. i sent my accountant to do some work in 9am and he got back at 6pm. asked him whether there was traffic, he said no i was just driving "really" slow . i guess that means driving 50 kph in the fast lane of SZR.

i hate drivers who drive slow on the fast lane. if you want to drive slow please just move along to the 2nd, or the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th lane. if some1 comes flashing behind you and there is no car in front of you, just move aside and let the car behind you go through.

Rather then braking and holding the guy up behind, just to show who is the "man" doesnt make sense to me.

so what if you are already doing 140 on a 120 does it justify those lunatics who flashes theirs lights because they like doing 180 just for kicks???

how do you know they are doing it for kicks? Its very simple. If there is no car in the next lane you move aside and you let the lunatic through. By staying in the same lane, you are just showing your ego and putting yourself and others in a dangerous situation.

i have seen accidents occur when some stupid person didnt let the "lunatic" go through.

there are road cameras and police patrol, so why take the law into your own hands?

not really that type though... just a couple of days ago I saw two cars like that... I was on the next lane and the lunatic when to the 3rd so he can just take the fast lane back again... well having a mustang has its perks for me I just stay off the fast lane.... having a baby on the way I'd think twice before I do some crazy stunt... hehehe

...come to think of it... if I was driving a mustang I would drive like that lunatic as well... specially if the one in front of me is a yaris...

Jot wrote:not really that type though... just a couple of days ago I saw two cars like that... I was on the next lane and the lunatic when to the 3rd so he can just take the fast lane back again... well having a mustang has its perks for me I just stay off the fast lane.... having a baby on the way I'd think twice before I do some crazy stunt... hehehe

yeh i understand there are loads of crazy ppl out there. but imagine if you had a emergency and you need to drive at 180 kph in the fast, what would you do? flash i guess instead of weaving in and out of traffic.

I had my first run in with some Indian dude late last night and it was kinda fun.

My girlfriend was merrily driving along at five over the limit as he came right up to our back bottom in his Camry and started flashing the corners for some reason. No problem there, I thought as she moved into the second lane. But lo and behold what have we here! The guy pulls alongside and starts looking toward my girl through his untinted windows and acts as if he wants to race. WTF is that? Two seconds later, she gunned it and made it a no contest.

I normally don't advise anyone to race like that but some guys really need to understand that a Camry can never beat a Z4.

zzzane wrote:I had my first run in with some Indian dude late last night and it was kinda fun.

My girlfriend was merrily driving along at five over the limit as he came right up to our back bottom in his Camry and started flashing the corners for some reason. No problem there, I thought as she moved into the second lane. But lo and behold what have we here! The guy pulls alongside and starts looking toward my girl through his untinted windows and acts as if he wants to race. WTF is that? Two seconds later, she gunned it and made it a no contest.

I normally don't advise anyone to race like that but some guys really need to understand that a Camry can never beat a Z4.

That makes you and your girlfriend part of the problem

hmmmm... well here in Dubai probably what you see is what you get... but if you go to some countries where you can gear up your car with a little turbo and a little nitro... you can never tell... =)

You're hardly going to put Nitro in a Camry!

well... you can still replace the engine... =)

rudeboy wrote:

Jot wrote:not really that type though... just a couple of days ago I saw two cars like that... I was on the next lane and the lunatic when to the 3rd so he can just take the fast lane back again... well having a mustang has its perks for me I just stay off the fast lane.... having a baby on the way I'd think twice before I do some crazy stunt... hehehe

yeh i understand there are loads of crazy ppl out there. but imagine if you had a emergency and you need to drive at 180 kph in the fast, what would you do? flash i guess instead of weaving in and out of traffic.

You being late for office is not an emergency. If your distant uncle is dying, call an ambulance. If your secretary is getting raped, call the police.

sage & onion wrote:
That makes you and your girlfriend part of the problem

Are you implying that we should've continued driving alongside? That was just an accident waiting to happen.

Jot wrote:well... you can still replace the engine... =)

Yes yes.. a Camry owner can replace the puny eco engine with a 2JZ.

zzzane wrote:The guy pulls alongside and starts looking toward my girl through his untinted windows and acts as if he wants to race. WTF is that? Two seconds later, she gunned it and made it a no contest.

definitely doesnt sound even remotely like an Indian or south asian. Need to get your eyes checked. However, you probably think you and your gf did something great didnt you? and that where the problem lies.

zzzane wrote:Are you implying that we should've continued driving alongside? That was just an accident waiting to happen.

why? because you/your gf dont know how to drive?

I would have just changed lanes again, and moved away from him.