Why do car drivers.........

[bezzabsa]

insist on batting down the slip roads at 60+, then try and squeeze into a gap that means they have the brake to <50.. causing the Scania behind to brake hard!!!



Can you tell who the Scania driver was????????
     

[paul_humphreys]

Just dont brake next time!!!

Paul

[V8MoneyPit]

The opposite is also annoying though!! When you follow someone down a slip road and they don't accelerate to match the flow of traffic. Instead they brake at the last moment and sometimes even come to a complete stop  

[freeagent]

why do Scania drivers pull out ot overtake another Scania, then realise they've not got enough power to get past, then sit there for ages creeping past, inch by inch, whist everyone else has to sit and wait...... :roll:

[gtomo2]

why do Scania drivers pull out ot overtake another Scania, then realise they've not got enough power to get past, then sit there for ages creeping past, inch by inch, whist everyone else has to sit and wait...... :roll:

that ones easy COS WE CAN
Plus we are all limited to around 56 mph

[bezzabsa]

why do Scania drivers pull out ot overtake another Scania, then realise they've not got enough power to get past, then sit there for ages creeping past, inch by inch, whist everyone else has to sit and wait...... :roll:

because we are limited to 55... and so is every other wagon on the road (well supposed to be)but 55 can be 53 to 57
and car drivers can use the 3rd lane you know!!
by the same thing why do car drivers sit in the middle lane doing 52 mph when theres nothing in the inside lane?????

Too many wagon drivers on here to argue about HGV's!!!

[Grant]

what annoys me more is when theres load of space in the middle lane and people dont bother moving over near a slip road... dont be so lazy!

[Minotaur]

Don't get me started!!!

It is a symptom of the appalling lack of driving skills here in the UK - I think that part of learning for your licence should be out on the motorway 'learning' how to drive and cope with the speed floww and artics etc.
Go to Germany, now thats a country where they know how to drive - pass slower moving vehicles and then move back to the slow lane, leaving the fast/overtaking lanes for the fast moving traffic.

Any one who cannot drive 'safely' - without holding up other traffic, does not pull over after passing slower traffic, etc, etc, etc - should be forced to take lessons with a Motorway qualified instructor or the IAM.

Just MHO

Chris

[Evilgoat]

Waitg till you've seen what damage an incompetant, scared learner or provisional driver can do on a Motorway.

The prime culprits are them that should know better, not the newbies. mid thirties mum in her Espace cruising down the middle lane, or the REP in his vectra that doesnt know what indicators or lane discipline are.

[freeagent]

The prime culprits are them that should know better, not the newbies. mid thirties mum in her Espace cruising down the middle lane, or the REP in his vectra that doesnt know what indicators or lane discipline are.

usually whist on the phone...

i didn't want to start a war with truck drivers, far from it... i'm sure you'll agree though that there are a few absolute w***ers driving trucks, just as there are a few driving BMW's whist talking on the phone, or driving 'repmobiles' and never using their mirrors.

the 'middle lane hogs' get flashed by me, as it annoys me so much...

i think the problem is complicated, there is too much traffic on our roads, and driving standards are sometimes appaling... i'm sure a few more cops on the roads, who were activly looking for dangerous/ bad driving, rather than just looking for the easy nick would help.
the driving standards in younger people bothers me, i know i drove like a tw*t when i was a kid (i'm only 33 now) but i'm sure i had more idea than most of the 'scally corsa brigade'

my mums car got rear-ended, realy hard in town a couple of years ago, by a wrotten fiesta full of proper chavs (this is southend we are talking about) who had tried to jump into the line of traffic and got it so wrong... the driver was more interested in photograhing the wreckage and phoning his mates to get them all down for a look than actually seeing if my folks were ok...
by the time i got there, three cars full of coppers were trying to contain about 30 of these little scallys....
it went to court and he was offered a driver improvement course but turned it down because his mum wrote to the judge and said he was being victimised by the police.... he got 6 points and a fine, but as far as he was concerned it just made him look cool in front of his scum mates.

i couldn't be a traffic cop, as i'd end up battering someone....

i reckon we should all have to do a 'refresher' test or course at some point in our driving careers, or certainly after being involved in an accident that was later found to be your fault, as a result of dangerous/ bad driving.

[blackbob]

think they should put signs on the carrage way about keeping in the left lane bit like the keep two cheverons distance signs seems to work till the signs stop and they all bunch up again
i hate middle lane huggers i think they cause the jams on motorways

[dreadnought110]

What realley winds me up is when you move accross to let someone onto the motorway/dualcarrageway they either floor it and leave you floundering in the outside lane or they match your speed and you don't have enough umph to get past them and theres no room behind them and everyone behind you is getting p***ed off!!!  Ok rant over i shall now go and chill out!! :lol:  :lol:

[landyman37]

insist on batting down the slip roads at 60+, then try and squeeze into a gap that means they have the brake to <50.. causing the Scania behind to brake hard!!!



Can you tell who the Scania driver was????????
     

was that the same 1 in keltrucks a few weeks back having a clutch fitted?

[TDi90]

to be honest, i respect truck drivers so much higher over any car on the road. they are the ones that have to drive day in and day out, while us people driving the cars just have to go a short distance compared to them. personally, i am as friendly to every single one i meet/see on the road, because i always remember, they have the hardest time on the roads. think how fustrating it must be to have to drive at 56 mph day in day out, sitting in jams because some idiot in a car has caused an accident.

[bezzabsa]

insist on batting down the slip roads at 60+, then try and squeeze into a gap that means they have the brake to <50.. causing the Scania behind to brake hard!!!



Can you tell who the Scania driver was????????
     

was that the same 1 in keltrucks a few weeks back having a clutch fitted?

nope - probably one of our curtain siders.. think it had a gearbox.. not sure tho!

[EvilEd]

You missed the drivers that have to accelerate just because they are being overtaken by a "Slower" vehicle, even in the Lexus they try it. Cruise set at 70, you catch them up easily, pull out, get next to them and Low and behold, they can suddenly do the same speed as you.

Worse still was the other week with the Jeep on a trailer with a speed limit of 60 (Just faster than the HGVs) and the old gits are the worst for it.

One thing I did notice with the trailer on the back, there are only a few HGV drivers that flash you to let you know you are past them now. Wish they still did that as not being a regular trailer dragger, I have to leave a lot of extra room before I pulled back in.

EE

[TDi90]

yeh this is really useful i find. when im in the landy i dont go over 50, whitch means i get over taken by truckers quite a lot. i ALWAYS as a matter of principal flash them in. also when i overtake someone with a trailer, i expect to be flashed in too.

[90DV]

I flash people in when in traffic jams and try and keep out of truckers way when on motorway. My brother is a trucker and so was my dad (spent many years with him). Also i drive along alot of country roads (live in the country) and when on busy main roads and can see a motor bike coming up i will always try and keep over so they can pass.