Can anyone tell me why a static cherry picker has to BEEP all day, when a lorry can do 70mph without any BEEPING?

[Ragingbull1]

Neighbours are having their 3 storey house painted. The painters are using a cherry picker to reach high walls. Even though it is static, it is emitting a BEEP BEEP BEEP all fucking day, from about 745am, and it is LOUD. I can't figure out why the BEEP is needed, when cars, trucks, lorries etc, are all quietly zooming along without the need for any beeping. Can anyone enlighten me? We are on Day 4 of this now.

My instinct is that the warning noise is there because it's static and surrounded by human beings working around it in close quarters. You don't need the beeping on motorways, because they're specifically pedestrian-free zones.

Even if the cherry picker is static, it's a hazard, because when a cherry picker is in use, there is a risk of something falling from that height. If you're walking underneath, or working on something on the ground beneath, that's a big risk for injury.

UK Lorries are limited to 52mph and do beep when reversing. You also shouldn't be crossing the motorway...

However, cherry pickers have different controls, are smaller and generally people aren't paying attention.

You are being unreasonable.

You don’t know which way the cherry picker is going- up down, round, forward backwards…

Lorries beep when they go backward so you don’t assume they are going forward.

And Lorrie’s do 55-65 in straight lines on roads, not randomly around a building site.

Sorry, still makes no sense to me. It's a cherry picker, you can see it. Those painters must get splitting headaches.

56mph - 90 kph.

Correct, sorry.

Nobody seems to realise the impact of noise pollution. YANBU.

Because people work in close proximity to them. When a lorry is going full whack there aren't people standing around it.

Where lorries are moving at low speeds and around people they are beeping and audible warnings galore

YANBU to be annoyed by the fucking pointless beeping but you are wrong about lorry speeds.
I used to live near a farm and a lorry park - any time I fancied a quiet relaxing afternoon in the garden it was punctuated by the incessant beeping.

We had this with our generally noise generating neighbour a while back. Drove us mad. I don't remember beeping, but every time it moved the huge diesel engine fired up. It was like living next door to an airport runway.

To a PP things can be dropped off scaffolding too, but that doesn't beep.