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General => General discussion => Topic started by: CCGTI on 21 August 2011, 21:02
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I was coming onto the M1 and in the left hand lane, had one car in front of me in the same lane which was a BMW 3 series, he was going at a good speed so i didnt take over i just stayed behind him
We got to the bottom of the slip road, both looking in are mirrors to see if it was clear to merge on and trying to gauge are speed with the motorway traffic then some silly COW in a bright orange ford KA trys taking over the 2 of us at the very end of the slip road, wife was sat in the back with my 2 year old screaming as i nearly took her out merging on, total hair head, thing is if my S60 had hit her i think i would have killed her, i had to proper swerve onto the the hard shoulder
Lets put it this way i gave her more than the middle finger, BMW driver was fuming as well as he was giving her every hand gesture known to man.
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKING hate dozey women thinking they are invicible with there music on full blast and stupid stickers saying powered by fairydust
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lots of emotion mate
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Sounds bad mate but sadly your not alone, I would think most of us have experainces like that far too often these days. I'm really close to getting a camera in the car and reading of things like this just confirm how useful they could end up being if it ever went wrong in a situation like this !
Glad you and yours are O.K which is all that really matters.
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Sounds like she was a bit stupid doing what she did and it could have all been very bad so glad you're all ok. It's not good when you see your child actually scared.
For the record, and I'm not excusing this lady, but as someone who pootles round in a Ford KA (yup, me) I can tell you now, people hate me over taking them, refuse to move over on the motorway and they generally bully me on the road which I find quite amusing and it does make me chuckle.
P.S. I don't have a powered by fairydust sticker.
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At least you didn't get the silly old duffer I did a few years ago. Was coming off the M3 onto the North M25 round the nice long 2-lane sliproad and as I rounded the corner there was an old boy in his Cavalier straddling both lanes. STOPPED!!! :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
Don't need that at 55mph on a blind corner!! :rolleyes:
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Sounds like she was a bit stupid doing what she did and it could have all been very bad so glad you're all ok. It's not good when you see your child actually scared.
For the record, and I'm not excusing this lady, but as someone who pootles round in a Ford KA (yup, me) I can tell you now, people hate me over taking them, refuse to move over on the motorway and they generally bully me on the road which I find quite amusing and it does make me chuckle.
P.S. I don't have a powered by fairydust sticker.
no problem with KA drivers over taking me mate lol, I was more worried what damage i could have caused with the weight of my car, thing is she was behind me and the slip road had merged into one lane at the end, proper thought i was going to spin, good job my volvo has an air bag built into every panel possible :laugh:
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lots of emotion mate
I love the emotion
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no problem with KA drivers over taking me mate lol, I was more worried what damage i could have caused with the weight of my car, thing is she was behind me and the slip road had merged into one lane at the end, proper thought i was going to spin, good job my volvo has an air bag built into every panel possible :laugh:
lol I'm not saying you have I was just making a statement about a lot of drivers attitudes to sh1tty girls cars. :grin: I wouldn't want to be hit by a paper aeroplane In a KA, never mind a Volvo ! :shocked: I don't know if all M1 slip roads are like they are round our way, but I've had a couple of close calls very similar to what you've described.
I read an article once that said the worse combination for a crash is a young lad in a car with a load of mates driving towards a women in a car on her own. Recipe for disaster.
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Glad you're ok and nothing serious happened. Yes the driver of the KA was extremely stupid or impatient. I think these days we all need to drive defensively as there are some right muppets out there who don't indicate when changing lanes/direction and have not the slightest inkling of how to navigate a roundabout.
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Completely off point here but in your first post you say the BMW in front of you and your Volvo were doing "good speed". If so how the hell did a Ka overtake the pair of you ?? Ka's need a good junction of the M'way to build up to a decent speed.
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trust me once i got on the motor way she was no way near me, i think her KA nearly blew over when i shot pass her
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your luky you aint driving round in my ends otherwise youd get an old banger and wouldnt care what pops up. no disrespect to the good drivers out there who know what they doing, but fook me! the women around here aint gota farking clue what the fark to do next. they block up the roads and then there havoc, even the ars3hole around here, parked on zigzags deekheads talking like their dads built the farking road!!! everyday i give the finger salute. and then i get so mad i even start lituraly bashing my head on the wheel :angry: :angry: :angry:
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Sounds bad mate but sadly your not alone, I would think most of us have experainces like that far too often these days. I'm really close to getting a camera in the car and reading of things like this just confirm how useful they could end up being if it ever went wrong in a situation like this !
Glad you and yours are O.K which is all that really matters.
saw a device not so long ago, had a port for usb's ect, and basicaly you put the camera either on your dash or mount it in your bumper ect then if anything was to happen you press a button which you can wire up to the spare dash buttons or put were ever and it keeps the last ten minuits of recording so you have a video of whats happend, only problem is you need two, one for the front one for the back.
seem like a good idea though.
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I always get those wayne kerrs too. We're all spaced to enter the motorway and there's always some thingy who thinks its a good idea to zoom up the left to go past us all and get onto the motorway. Then he'll look at me later on as if I'm in the wrong. No. He put himself in that position, when he could have stayed behind like the rest of us and waited our turn.
Another classic I had was where a dual carriage way merges into one lane. Some thingy in a Merc decides to over take me, but there isn't the road to. So he's sat next to me, thinking that I'll back down and let him infront. Let me tell you, I do not have to back down as, I'm where I should be, at the speed I should be, he was behind me, he put himself in the bad position. He has no right to get infront of me and I did not change my speed or position to prevent him from doing so, he just ran out of room as there wasn't the space to do so. So he goes mad with lots of hand gestures. Why? He put himself in the bad position from not giving thought to what it is he's doing.
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http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/products/products/271198/incar_cameras_tested.html
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Sounds bad mate but sadly your not alone, I would think most of us have experainces like that far too often these days. I'm really close to getting a camera in the car and reading of things like this just confirm how useful they could end up being if it ever went wrong in a situation like this !
Glad you and yours are O.K which is all that really matters.
saw a device not so long ago, had a port for usb's ect, and basicaly you put the camera either on your dash or mount it in your bumper ect then if anything was to happen you press a button which you can wire up to the spare dash buttons or put were ever and it keeps the last ten minuits of recording so you have a video of whats happend, only problem is you need two, one for the front one for the back.
seem like a good idea though.
I know some yanks have the camera in the rear view mirror (facing forward) which is constantly recording but saves the last 10 seconds in the event of an impact, seems like a good idea to me.
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There's some scary ones on YouTube taken by lorry drivers.
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I'm a lorry driver and i see some very unfunny things on the roads and to be honest it's both sexes, a lot of buses are fitted with cameras now and they are starting to appear on hgv's too, won't be long before they are on the options list for cars.
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I see scary stuff by both sexes, car drivers and lorry drivers. Some of it can be just simply annoying if it's not immediatley dangerous.
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Camera's are definately a good idea, I looked at the Contour HD before it seems very good quality
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i have no problem with the other sex driving, its more the fact that people with cars powered by there hamster in a wheel think they have about 500bhp to rip the tarmac up
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Here are a few of the cameras that I have looked at.
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=110355&PHPSESSID=a43gc666vr1375biva92m41pr0
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_1&products_id=111548
http://www.roadhawk.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=3
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Undertakers annoy the hell out of me. :angry:
Just about to pull back into the middle lane where I had just overtaken and along comes some twit in an Audi on the left hand side.
Tw*t.
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surely if you pulled in as soon as safe to do so then they wouldnt have time to undertake, :undecided:
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Here are a few of the cameras that I have looked at.
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=110355&PHPSESSID=a43gc666vr1375biva92m41pr0
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_1&products_id=111548
http://www.roadhawk.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=3
14.99 one looks a bargain, shame about the 2 second gap in between clips though, would be near perfect otherwise.
29.99 one not sure on, better spec but quite large and takes up a lot of windscreen with its mount.
Roadhawk looks good but comes at a price.
Cheers for posting the links, I'm definately tempted with the 14.99 one as it is a bargain, maybe the 2 sec clip delay can be overcome with a firmware update?
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surely if you pulled in as soon as safe to do so then they wouldnt have time to undertake, :undecided:
Lorries on the inside lane, always just get passed them as well just incase they suddenly swing out and someone else ends up in the middle lane.
Was literally 3 seconds after going past, just saw the car in my rear view (thats when they teach you is safe to pull in) and then just as I indicate the Audi is there. :angry:
I was NOT hanging about either.
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Undertakers annoy the hell out of me. :angry:
tell him that
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Undertakers annoy the hell out of me. :angry:
tell him that
(http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy358/Mwep201081/images.jpg)
I'd have him.
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Undertakers annoy the hell out of me. :angry:
Just about to pull back into the middle lane where I had just overtaken and along comes some twit in an Audi on the left hand side.
Tw*t.
TBH I've done it quite a few times. Only however, when its a fecking woman driver (9 times out of 10), whos sat in the outside lane with nothing in the middle, Doing about 65 and I've sat behind her for a good 30 seconds or more! Proves women have absolutely no road awareness what-so-ever as they cant even check their rear view mirrors!
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surely if you pulled in as soon as safe to do so then they wouldnt have time to undertake, :undecided:
Lorries on the inside lane, always just get passed them as well just incase they suddenly swing out and someone else ends up in the middle lane.
Was literally 3 seconds after going past, just saw the car in my rear view (thats when they teach you is safe to pull in) and then just as I indicate the Audi is there. :angry:
I was NOT hanging about either.
I am with Chuff on this one.. I have got to the point now where I look at the traffic ahead and you can slate me for it but if the inside lane is clear and there are people queued up on the middle/outside lane I carry on going down the inside lane..
I am sick to death of people who sit in the middle lane, motorway is the simplest of things, yet so many people are too stupid/arrogant/selfish to bother driving properly. I used to come down the mway at 11 at night, see a car on its own in the middle lane, come from the inside lane all the way out, giving them a flash and coming all the way back in to the inside lane in front of them, but they don't move.. so now i don't bother.. I just carry on cruising down the inside..
My biggest bug bare with motorway driving, is say i am doing 70 in the inside lane, approaching a vehicle in front, i look in my mirrors and someone is doing 72 alongside me.. and they force you to brake to to lorries speed i.e 56. If i am in the middle lane, i make a point of trying to judge others speed so if they want to overtake i can give them a little flash and move to the outside..
As well as this the other thing that really pisses me off is when coming up to traffic crawling along, i try to leave a decent gap, cruise up to it, leave a safe braking area and then 3-4 cars dive in the gap and cause you to slam on.. yet they go nowhere.. just sit in the traffic in front..
And don't get me started on tailgaters, ok I get it, you want to get somewhere, so do i.. I would be happy to move over and leave you go, but THERES NOWHERE TO GO. WE ARE IN TRAFFIC.. FCUK OFF MY BUMPER!!!
Rant Over.
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I drove from Torquay to Manchester on Sunday and lost count the number of times I had cars just pull in front of me in the fast lane without even signalling or looking.
There was one idiot in a small white van, came on the slip road at around 90mph and then went across the slow and middle lane, straight to the fast lane, all within 10 seconds of coming on, coming within inches of hitting a car as he did.
Some right idiots out there and to make my journey more fun, there was about a million f**king caravans on the M5 on the way down to Torquay!
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surely if you pulled in as soon as safe to do so then they wouldnt have time to undertake, :undecided:
Lorries on the inside lane, always just get passed them as well just incase they suddenly swing out and someone else ends up in the middle lane.
Was literally 3 seconds after going past, just saw the car in my rear view (thats when they teach you is safe to pull in) and then just as I indicate the Audi is there. :angry:
I was NOT hanging about either.
I am with Chuff on this one.. I have got to the point now where I look at the traffic ahead and you can slate me for it but if the inside lane is clear and there are people queued up on the middle/outside lane I carry on going down the inside lane..
I am sick to death of people who sit in the middle lane, motorway is the simplest of things, yet so many people are too stupid/arrogant/selfish to bother driving properly. I used to come down the mway at 11 at night, see a car on its own in the middle lane, come from the inside lane all the way out, giving them a flash and coming all the way back in to the inside lane in front of them, but they don't move.. so now i don't bother.. I just carry on cruising down the inside..
My biggest bug bare with motorway driving, is say i am doing 70 in the inside lane, approaching a vehicle in front, i look in my mirrors and someone is doing 72 alongside me.. and they force you to brake to to lorries speed i.e 56. If i am in the middle lane, i make a point of trying to judge others speed so if they want to overtake i can give them a little flash and move to the outside..
As well as this the other thing that really pisses me off is when coming up to traffic crawling along, i try to leave a decent gap, cruise up to it, leave a safe braking area and then 3-4 cars dive in the gap and cause you to slam on.. yet they go nowhere.. just sit in the traffic in front..
And don't get me started on tailgaters, ok I get it, you want to get somewhere, so do i.. I would be happy to move over and leave you go, but THERES NOWHERE TO GO. WE ARE IN TRAFFIC.. FCUK OFF MY BUMPER!!!
Rant Over.
I actually do all of the above except undertake cause undertaking someone scares me. :grin:
But this Audi moved into the fast lane behind me both overtake the middle lane then I went to pull in and there he is. :angry:
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I drove from Torquay to Manchester on Sunday and lost count the number of times I had cars just pull in front of me in the fast lane without even signalling or looking.
There was one idiot in a small white van, came on the slip road at around 90mph and then went across the slow and middle lane, straight to the fast lane, all within 10 seconds of coming on, coming within inches of hitting a car as he did.
Some right idiots out there and to make my journey more fun, there was about a million f**king caravans on the M5 on the way down to Torquay!
ive had a honda legend do that to me, only saw me at the last minute as i was already nearly putting my car into the centre resivation. didnt even appologise. sh!t my misses up proper
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I once pulled off a dual carriageway onto the slip road which shortly split into two lanes for the roundabout, so peeled off, kept right along the dotted lines only to have a polish looking 18 year old in a battered out old grey saxo overtake me on the mane carriageway then come in to the side of me over the chevrons and expecting me to give. On this occasion I took the champs elysee style of driving, give way to the f**k*r with the cheapest car and less to lose, but really, she new she was coming off as she was indicating before I even was.
But it's not all women, guys can be shocking too. I think they once proved that guys ARE better drivers with our normal head on, it's only when we get our cocky head on we completely skew the stats!
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I am with Chuff on this one.. I have got to the point now where I look at the traffic ahead and you can slate me for it but if the inside lane is clear and there are people queued up on the middle/outside lane I carry on going down the inside lane..
Completely agree with you. But I'd go further and split them into two categories.
The first category is women who sit in the outside lane at what would otherwise be a sensible and safe speed, except in the fast lane it could be considered dangerous. A prime example is the dual carriageway near my house. It's a 70mph (and signposted accordingly) yet there is always someone doing about 50-60mph in the outside lane, even with nothing in the inside lane. And ironically, most of the time when they get to the end of the dual carriageway, they pull into the left lane and take left at the roundabout. It's a bit frustrating to say the least. My adopted response now is to sit safely behind (I'm not a tailgater) and if they don't pull in after about 30 seconds (when it would be safe to do so) then I just blast up the inside.
The second category is the public police. These drivers can only be found on the motorway and could once have been found exclusively in rep mobiles. Now however they have started disguising themselves with family vehicles such as crossover hatchbacks (Quashqui) and people carriers. Anyway, the way these drivers drive is as if they are the law on the roads. They pick what they consider to be a suitable speed limit (usually 10-15mph above the limit) and then refuse to ever let anyone past. If anyone holds them up then they tailgate and flash the lights but should someone come up behind them then it's tough luck.
My biggest bug bare with motorway driving, is say i am doing 70 in the inside lane, approaching a vehicle in front, i look in my mirrors and someone is doing 72 alongside me.. and they force you to brake to to lorries speed i.e 56. If i am in the middle lane, i make a point of trying to judge others speed so if they want to overtake i can give them a little flash and move to the outside..
I also agree with you on this. Whenever I am in the middle lane I try to anticipate other motorists needing out but very few people seem to do it back.
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surely if you pulled in as soon as safe to do so then they wouldnt have time to undertake, :undecided:
Lorries on the inside lane, always just get passed them as well just incase they suddenly swing out and someone else ends up in the middle lane.
Was literally 3 seconds after going past, just saw the car in my rear view (thats when they teach you is safe to pull in) and then just as I indicate the Audi is there. :angry:
I was NOT hanging about either.
I am with Chuff on this one.. I have got to the point now where I look at the traffic ahead and you can slate me for it but if the inside lane is clear and there are people queued up on the middle/outside lane I carry on going down the inside lane..
I do that too and it's actually NOT illegal according to the highways agency, as you're committed to one lane, you're not filtering.
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If I'm in the left land and there are people hogging the centre lane I just undertake them. They have no reason being there and I'm not going ALL the way over to the right just to move back to the left again afterwards.
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And don't get me started on tailgaters, ok I get it, you want to get somewhere, so do i.. I would be happy to move over and leave you go, but THERES NOWHERE TO GO. WE ARE IN TRAFFIC.. FCUK OFF MY BUMPER!!!
+1 on that one too.
I'm sick of the twits who think they must gain on the car that's in the distance. They seem to think that they must speed up and sit a nats cock length away from your rear. Can they not monitor speed? Can they not see that we're going to go nowhere quicker? This is around town and on the motorways.
The biggest causes of crashes are tailgaters and people who don't look and/or indicate when changing lane. Motorways are simple, there should be no accidents, there are clearly marked out lanes.
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I always remember one thing my driving instructor told me.. Driving is about movement, its not about start and stop.. Why rush up to a queue of traffic at the lights, when you can coast up slowly and if timed right can just drive on without stopping.. Why slam on and accelerate hard in traffic on the motorway or dual carriageway when you can judge others speed and slip in and out of the gaps you have gauged..Yet with the way people are starting to drive more and more now.. this is becoming harder and harder...
Shame really.. Yesterday I was coming from Cheltenham to Peterborough, normally M5,M42, M6, A14, A43,A47... But massive delays on the M6 meant finding an alternative route.. Pulled out the map and carried on up the M42, then across on the A5, around Leicester ring road and down the A47.. Absolute Bliss.. cruising at 60, not too much traffic, noone driving like a tool, even when i came up behind trucks, they would wave you through.. Lost 20 mins on my journey which I thought was fab considering what I would have lost sitting in traffic on the M6, getting wound up by idiots.
Maybe I should use the A roads more...
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I'm a lorry driver and i would seriously advise against undertaking, i do a lot of miles on the motorways of this country and i know how frustrating it is when you come across MLOD but don't forget that on a motorway everyone is instinctively looking in their drivers mirror not the passenger one so it only takes one person to pull back in while your undercutting them and its a multiple pile up, i've seen it happen and its very distressing to witness and please don't undertake lorries unless you have a death wish or a clinically insane, we can only do 56mph on the flat and less uphill but there is NOTHING we can do about it.
I get wound up by bad/inconsiderate/selfish driving, we all do but don't ruin your life or someone elses to save a few minutes.
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I always remember one thing my driving instructor told me.. Driving is about movement, its not about start and stop.. Why rush up to a queue of traffic at the lights, when you can coast up slowly and if timed right can just drive on without stopping.. Why slam on and accelerate hard in traffic on the motorway or dual carriageway when you can judge others speed and slip in and out of the gaps you have gauged..Yet with the way people are starting to drive more and more now.. this is becoming harder and harder...
Shame really.. Yesterday I was coming from Cheltenham to Peterborough, normally M5,M42, M6, A14, A43,A47... But massive delays on the M6 meant finding an alternative route.. Pulled out the map and carried on up the M42, then across on the A5, around Leicester ring road and down the A47.. Absolute Bliss.. cruising at 60, not too much traffic, noone driving like a tool, even when i came up behind trucks, they would wave you through.. Lost 20 mins on my journey which I thought was fab considering what I would have lost sitting in traffic on the M6, getting wound up by idiots.
Maybe I should use the A roads more...
+1 dude
I'm exactly the same. Panicing to rush and que behind traffic at a roundabout or at a red light is just not the way.
I had another impatient driver behind me today. Surprise surprise, it was a BMW.
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I'm a lorry driver and i would seriously advise against undertaking, i do a lot of miles on the motorways of this country and i know how frustrating it is when you come across MLOD but don't forget that on a motorway everyone is instinctively looking in their drivers mirror not the passenger one so it only takes one person to pull back in while your undercutting them and its a multiple pile up, i've seen it happen and its very distressing to witness and please don't undertake lorries unless you have a death wish or a clinically insane, we can only do 56mph on the flat and less uphill but there is NOTHING we can do about it.
I get wound up by bad/inconsiderate/selfish driving, we all do but don't ruin your life or someone elses to save a few minutes.
Why would you be sat in the middle lane at 56 then if there's space on the left?
If the left hand lane is empty, I'm using it. I'm not joining the sheep in the middle or right unnecessarily just because people have no lane discipline or truckers can't use their left mirror.
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Trucks move out at junctions to let people out then get undertaken by impatient drivers.
It's your life, just don't ruin someone elses because you need to drive like a tw*t.
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Trucks move out at junctions to let people out then get undertaken by impatient drivers.
It's your life, just don't ruin someone elses because you need to drive like a tw*t.
Good point actually, yesterday I decided to move out into the middle lane as a busy slip road up ahead, modified Saxo driver decides to try and undertake me. :huh:
Fast lane and middle lane had been clear for some time should he have decided to overtake before.
I just put my foot down a bit and forced him to slow down then come into the middle lane. :rolleyes:
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Trucks move out at junctions to let people out then get undertaken by impatient drivers.
It's your life, just don't ruin someone elses because you need to drive like a tw*t.
Good point actually, yesterday I decided to move out into the middle lane as a busy slip road up ahead, modified Saxo driver decides to try and undertake me. :huh:
Fast lane and middle lane had been clear for some time should he have decided to overtake before.
I just put my foot down a bit and forced him to slow down then come into the middle lane. :rolleyes:
WHY!!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS!!!!
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Trucks move out at junctions to let people out then get undertaken by impatient drivers.
It's your life, just don't ruin someone elses because you need to drive like a tw*t.
Good point actually, yesterday I decided to move out into the middle lane as a busy slip road up ahead, modified Saxo driver decides to try and undertake me. :huh:
Fast lane and middle lane had been clear for some time should he have decided to overtake before.
I just put my foot down a bit and forced him to slow down then come into the middle lane. :rolleyes:
An experienced/intelligent driver can influence the cars around him/her without resorting to dangerous/illegal driving which is how the police are trained and also HGV drivers to a much lesser extent, you create a space around you and defend it.
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Trucks move out at junctions to let people out then get undertaken by impatient drivers.
It's your life, just don't ruin someone elses because you need to drive like a tw*t.
Good point actually, yesterday I decided to move out into the middle lane as a busy slip road up ahead, modified Saxo driver decides to try and undertake me. :huh:
Fast lane and middle lane had been clear for some time should he have decided to overtake before.
I just put my foot down a bit and forced him to slow down then come into the middle lane. :rolleyes:
WHY!!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS!!!!
Cos he can't use the correct lane, then gets het up about someone who can.
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Trucks move out at junctions to let people out then get undertaken by impatient drivers.
It's your life, just don't ruin someone elses because you need to drive like a tw*t.
Good point actually, yesterday I decided to move out into the middle lane as a busy slip road up ahead, modified Saxo driver decides to try and undertake me. :huh:
Fast lane and middle lane had been clear for some time should he have decided to overtake before.
I just put my foot down a bit and forced him to slow down then come into the middle lane. :rolleyes:
WHY!!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS!!!!
Cos he can't use the correct lane, then gets het up about someone who can.
Which is exactly what you do isn't it?
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BLOODY HELL WHAT HAVE I STARTED IN THIS TOPIC :grin:
we have gone from dozy women KA drivers
Cameras which record bad driving
undertaking
and how to approach traffic lights lol
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BLOODY HELL WHAT HAVE I STARTED IN THIS TOPIC :grin:
we have gone from dozy women KA drivers
Cameras which record bad driving
undertaking
and how to approach traffic lights lol
Public service posting and show's how crap we all are at driving. :grin:
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Trucks move out at junctions to let people out then get undertaken by impatient drivers.
It's your life, just don't ruin someone elses because you need to drive like a tw*t.
Good point actually, yesterday I decided to move out into the middle lane as a busy slip road up ahead, modified Saxo driver decides to try and undertake me. :huh:
Fast lane and middle lane had been clear for some time should he have decided to overtake before.
I just put my foot down a bit and forced him to slow down then come into the middle lane. :rolleyes:
WHY!!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS!!!!
Because I'm a prick. :smiley:
I was in the correct lane FYI.
Oh and when I say "forced to slow down" it wasn't like an emergancy stop, once he'd seen the oncoming slip road he simply slowed down and came in behind.
I could also ask why you'd undertake, I find it dangerous. :wink:
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I agree that lane discipline has gone out the window in this country and people drive as though they are in a bubble but unlike the u.s.a we don't have a freeway system so your brain is always looking for people overtaking on the offside, of course you should always be checking the nearside too but 99% of people are not expecting someone to untake them on the nearside and at the speeds we drive in this country it's just dangerous.
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I like to stock up on McDonalds BBQ sauce pots, and if someone pisses me off while driving I open the pots a bit and throw them at the other cars windscreen. :evil:
I might not actually do this, and would not recommend it one bit.
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Trucks move out at junctions to let people out then get undertaken by impatient drivers.
It's your life, just don't ruin someone elses because you need to drive like a tw*t.
I'm not one of the ones who do it near junctions.
Also I'm not one of the tossers who change from the middle lane to the inside lane at a junction, making it hard for people (who think) to plan their entrance onto the motorway.
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I agree that lane discipline has gone out the window in this country and people drive as though they are in a bubble but unlike the u.s.a we don't have a freeway system so your brain is always looking for people overtaking on the offside, of course you should always be checking the nearside too but 99% of people are not expecting someone to untake them on the nearside and at the speeds we drive in this country it's just dangerous.
I'm not trying to say I undertake every single person who is sitting in the middle lane, you can see those who have sat out there far too long and they aint going to move in..
My biggest fear would be something like my father on his deathbed or missus seriously injured and needing to get home in a hurry.. 10 years ago if you were in a rush you could easily fly down the outside lane to get somewhere.. Now people are so arrogant that even if you flash them, they will not move to prove a point!Scary times.. Yesterday I saw a cop car stuck on the A1 behind a car for about 800m and in the end he undertook her...
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I agree that lane discipline has gone out the window in this country and people drive as though they are in a bubble but unlike the u.s.a we don't have a freeway system so your brain is always looking for people overtaking on the offside, of course you should always be checking the nearside too but 99% of people are not expecting someone to untake them on the nearside and at the speeds we drive in this country it's just dangerous.
I'm not trying to say I undertake every single person who is sitting in the middle lane, you can see those who have sat out there far too long and they aint going to move in..
My biggest fear would be something like my father on his deathbed or missus seriously injured and needing to get home in a hurry.. 10 years ago if you were in a rush you could easily fly down the outside lane to get somewhere.. Now people are so arrogant that even if you flash them, they will not move to prove a point!Scary times.. Yesterday I saw a cop car stuck on the A1 behind a car for about 800m and in the end he undertook her...
Have seen this so many times its unreal.
Gavv8, how tight is the checking of road-worthniness of lorries? A lot of the incidents on the road I commute on (A14) have lorry failures in common. Last one was a lorry fire, and the otherday I was overtaken by a solitary lorry wheel. Plus the number of blowouts I've seen is insane.
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The way it is now it's not how you drive, it's how the other people drive. Since i got my golf i'm constantly watching for people to make sure they don't crash into me. Had someone do it just today on the way home. The car was in the inside lane, then all of a sudden he's an inch from my bonnet.
I like to stock up on McDonalds BBQ sauce pots, and if someone pisses me off while driving I open the pots a bit and throw them at the other cars windscreen. :evil:
I might not actually do this, and would not recommend it one bit.
I might start having to do this to prove a point lol :rolleyes:
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The way it is now it's not how you drive, it's how the other people drive. Since i got my golf i'm constantly watching for people to make sure they don't crash into me. Had someone do it just today on the way home. The car was in the inside lane, then all of a sudden he's an inch from my bonnet.
Then you're not paying attention?
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Now people are so arrogant that even if you flash them, they will not move to prove a point!Scary times.. Yesterday I saw a cop car stuck on the A1 behind a car for about 800m and in the end he undertook her...
And it's not arrogant to flash them?
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The way it is now it's not how you drive, it's how the other people drive. Since i got my golf i'm constantly watching for people to make sure they don't crash into me. Had someone do it just today on the way home. The car was in the inside lane, then all of a sudden he's an inch from my bonnet.
Then you're not paying attention?
I was paying attention. He was looking bolt forwards and just switched lanes without checking his mirror or indicating :angry:
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The way it is now it's not how you drive, it's how the other people drive. Since i got my golf i'm constantly watching for people to make sure they don't crash into me. Had someone do it just today on the way home. The car was in the inside lane, then all of a sudden he's an inch from my bonnet.
Then you're not paying attention?
I was paying attention. He was looking bolt forwards and just switched lanes without checking his mirror or indicating :angry:
Ah, you didn't say that he changed lane.
Yes, I see those idiots who do that too.
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The way it is now it's not how you drive, it's how the other people drive. Since i got my golf i'm constantly watching for people to make sure they don't crash into me. Had someone do it just today on the way home. The car was in the inside lane, then all of a sudden he's an inch from my bonnet.
Then you're not paying attention?
I was paying attention. He was looking bolt forwards and just switched lanes without checking his mirror or indicating :angry:
Ah, you didn't say that he changed lane.
Yes, I see those idiots who do that too.
yeah i didn't, my bad lol. When they do that it scares the crap out of me
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I agree that lane discipline has gone out the window in this country and people drive as though they are in a bubble but unlike the u.s.a we don't have a freeway system so your brain is always looking for people overtaking on the offside, of course you should always be checking the nearside too but 99% of people are not expecting someone to untake them on the nearside and at the speeds we drive in this country it's just dangerous.
I'm not trying to say I undertake every single person who is sitting in the middle lane, you can see those who have sat out there far too long and they aint going to move in..
My biggest fear would be something like my father on his deathbed or missus seriously injured and needing to get home in a hurry.. 10 years ago if you were in a rush you could easily fly down the outside lane to get somewhere.. Now people are so arrogant that even if you flash them, they will not move to prove a point!Scary times.. Yesterday I saw a cop car stuck on the A1 behind a car for about 800m and in the end he undertook her...
Have seen this so many times its unreal.
Gavv8, how tight is the checking of road-worthniness of lorries? A lot of the incidents on the road I commute on (A14) have lorry failures in common. Last one was a lorry fire, and the otherday I was overtaken by a solitary lorry wheel. Plus the number of blowouts I've seen is insane.
I'd like to say that british vehicles are very tightly regulated , the company i work for has a VOSA testing station onsite so we have no excuse but the foreign/irish boys have rules of their own and as many haulage company's are squeezed more and more by diesel prices and competition it would seem that maintenance may be suffering, but i can assure you the penalties are huge for both the driver and the operator.
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I agree that lane discipline has gone out the window in this country and people drive as though they are in a bubble but unlike the u.s.a we don't have a freeway system so your brain is always looking for people overtaking on the offside, of course you should always be checking the nearside too but 99% of people are not expecting someone to untake them on the nearside and at the speeds we drive in this country it's just dangerous.
I'm not trying to say I undertake every single person who is sitting in the middle lane, you can see those who have sat out there far too long and they aint going to move in..
My biggest fear would be something like my father on his deathbed or missus seriously injured and needing to get home in a hurry.. 10 years ago if you were in a rush you could easily fly down the outside lane to get somewhere.. Now people are so arrogant that even if you flash them, they will not move to prove a point!Scary times.. Yesterday I saw a cop car stuck on the A1 behind a car for about 800m and in the end he undertook her...
Have seen this so many times its unreal.
Gavv8, how tight is the checking of road-worthniness of lorries? A lot of the incidents on the road I commute on (A14) have lorry failures in common. Last one was a lorry fire, and the otherday I was overtaken by a solitary lorry wheel. Plus the number of blowouts I've seen is insane.
I'd like to say that british vehicles are very tightly regulated , the company i work for has a VOSA testing station onsite so we have no excuse but the foreign/irish boys have rules of their own and as many haulage company's are squeezed more and more by diesel prices and competition it would seem that maintenance may be suffering, but i can assure you the penalties are huge for both the driver and the operator.
VOSA pull over a lot of trucks and carry out checks too..
Ref. the flashing.. I was referring to in an Emergency
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I agree that lane discipline has gone out the window in this country and people drive as though they are in a bubble but unlike the u.s.a we don't have a freeway system so your brain is always looking for people overtaking on the offside, of course you should always be checking the nearside too but 99% of people are not expecting someone to untake them on the nearside and at the speeds we drive in this country it's just dangerous.
I'm not trying to say I undertake every single person who is sitting in the middle lane, you can see those who have sat out there far too long and they aint going to move in..
My biggest fear would be something like my father on his deathbed or missus seriously injured and needing to get home in a hurry.. 10 years ago if you were in a rush you could easily fly down the outside lane to get somewhere.. Now people are so arrogant that even if you flash them, they will not move to prove a point!Scary times.. Yesterday I saw a cop car stuck on the A1 behind a car for about 800m and in the end he undertook her...
Have seen this so many times its unreal.
Gavv8, how tight is the checking of road-worthniness of lorries? A lot of the incidents on the road I commute on (A14) have lorry failures in common. Last one was a lorry fire, and the otherday I was overtaken by a solitary lorry wheel. Plus the number of blowouts I've seen is insane.
I'd like to say that british vehicles are very tightly regulated , the company i work for has a VOSA testing station onsite so we have no excuse but the foreign/irish boys have rules of their own and as many haulage company's are squeezed more and more by diesel prices and competition it would seem that maintenance may be suffering, but i can assure you the penalties are huge for both the driver and the operator.
VOSA pull over a lot of trucks and carry out checks too..
Ref. the flashing.. I was referring to in an Emergency
You flash them to move them over in an emergency? Are you a police man?
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I agree that lane discipline has gone out the window in this country and people drive as though they are in a bubble but unlike the u.s.a we don't have a freeway system so your brain is always looking for people overtaking on the offside, of course you should always be checking the nearside too but 99% of people are not expecting someone to untake them on the nearside and at the speeds we drive in this country it's just dangerous.
I'm not trying to say I undertake every single person who is sitting in the middle lane, you can see those who have sat out there far too long and they aint going to move in..
My biggest fear would be something like my father on his deathbed or missus seriously injured and needing to get home in a hurry.. 10 years ago if you were in a rush you could easily fly down the outside lane to get somewhere.. Now people are so arrogant that even if you flash them, they will not move to prove a point!Scary times.. Yesterday I saw a cop car stuck on the A1 behind a car for about 800m and in the end he undertook her...
Have seen this so many times its unreal.
Gavv8, how tight is the checking of road-worthniness of lorries? A lot of the incidents on the road I commute on (A14) have lorry failures in common. Last one was a lorry fire, and the otherday I was overtaken by a solitary lorry wheel. Plus the number of blowouts I've seen is insane.
I'd like to say that british vehicles are very tightly regulated , the company i work for has a VOSA testing station onsite so we have no excuse but the foreign/irish boys have rules of their own and as many haulage company's are squeezed more and more by diesel prices and competition it would seem that maintenance may be suffering, but i can assure you the penalties are huge for both the driver and the operator.
VOSA pull over a lot of trucks and carry out checks too..
Ref. the flashing.. I was referring to in an Emergency
VOSA only pull over trucks and commercials for checks and there are an awful lot more commercials on the road than VOSA can cope with.
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My biggest fear would be something like my father on his deathbed or missus seriously injured and needing to get home in a hurry.. 10 years ago if you were in a rush you could easily fly down the outside lane to get somewhere.. Now people are so arrogant that even if you flash them, they will not move to prove a point!Scary times.. Yesterday I saw a cop car stuck on the A1 behind a car for about 800m and in the end he undertook her...
This is what I was referring to regarding the emergency...
Flashing I mentioned earlier in the thread regarding people in the middle lane..