Not an issue IMO if they are travelling faster then you actually...
Don't let it stress you out. These people are not worthing stressing over. :happy2:
Don't let it stress you out. These people are not worthing stressing over. :happy2:
Exactly, see it daily, and Im often found in the middle or lane 3,but I don't hang around much to sit and watch if I'm honest. Is a problem when they going sub 60 when it then can annoy other motorists.
It's amazing how quickly they remember how to drive when a police car is around.Driving along to BDM this week and everyone seemed to be driving slowly - people in the outside lane couldn't have been doing much over 70mph. As I legally overtook from the middle lane, it became clear - there was a police car in the first lane of the motorway. Everyone was behaving impeccably. This IMO is far more effective than speed cameras.
People who do 40 on a national speed limit road and then do 40 in a 30 limit.... hmm!Yeah I hate this too. When I lived in Bournemouth, there was a route to work off the main DC. It was a single carriageway. Just before it started was a 40mph sign. The carriageway was signposted at NSL and was followed by a 30mph sign. I was frustrated at the people who flashed me when I (legally) overtook them because they were doing only 40mph in a 60mph zone, but would continue at 40mph in the 30mph zone.
I love it when undertaking middle lane numpties, give the horn a massive honking and they crap themselves.... Because they didn't even realise you were there, that's how aware they are.
( I know it's wrong)
I love it when undertaking middle lane numpties, give the horn a massive honking and they crap themselves.... Because they didn't even realise you were there, that's how aware they are.
( I know it's wrong)
i used to do this...but if your seen by a copper guess whos in trouble, you or the person you just undertook! So i now over take and quite quickly move back into the 1st lane.
Something i find funny is if your in the 2nd lane, cruise control on at 70mph, over taking for lets say 5miles, the 3rd lane is free and there is a car behind you doing 70mph.
You move back over to the 1st lane and the guy that has been following you for 5miles at 70 decides to overtake you??? Why not just use the 3rd lane if you want to over take me!!! Look out for it on your next trip, makes me chuckle!
The worst thing you could possibly do to me is flash me. :stupid:
The worst thing you could possibly do to me is flash me. :stupid:
I'm not flashing you.... ;-) GTI drivers seems to do one of 2 things.
Drive at 60mph in the slow lane or drive at 85 in the fast lane. LOL
Come on then guys, what do you do about these morons?!
Just drove back from Manchester and must have passed about 30 people just sitting, gormless in the middle lane :stupid:
It was his own tuning companyI had a similarly silly experience with a small van advertising tuning. Small white van that overtook me and then cut in front of very closely. Mega peed off so went into the outside lane and overtook him. He later caught up and seemed to apologise.
when i come to power middle lane drivers will be executed on site. no exceptions, no excuses.
in all seriousness tho i nearly fell out with someone who did this when i was in the car. he's widely regarded as not only the most clueless, but most dangerous of all our friends when it comes to being behind the wheel of a car but he REFUSES to accept this.
i've tended to find there's a definite geographical spread of how bad driving is. i've lived in leeds, a short while in london, birmingham, and now in stoke. i've driven extensively in the US and in India and i can say without a shadow of a doubt the worst driving i've come across is in the Midlands, closely followed by India.
If anybody is in 1st lane at 60ish ill move to middle but I will be pro active and if there is no point changing as in a minute I'll be back with eight lorries to pass I'll stay where I am.
Well I will be doing 70mph anyway which is the speed limit on motorways so if I wanted to stay out for 5 minutes I would be well within my rights.
Sarcasm over it would depend how busy it was, but, is swerving in and out of the 1st to 2nd lane every 15-30 seconds safe?
What has the marked police car got to do with anything, I don't change my style of driving just because there is a police car there, if there was a line of lorries 100 yards/30 seconds away and I am doing 70mph I am doing nothing wrong.
I generally am in the inside lane at 70mph and if not its 60mph in the middle.................behind everyone else stuck in traffic :signLOL:
if you're pulling back in but momentarily expecting to pull back out again and by pulling back in you're losing your space in a line of traffic then my instructor taught me to stay put.This is what I do. I will return to the left hand lane unless I can see up ahead that I'll need to pull out and won't be able to due to a queue of cars behind me.
if you're pulling back in but momentarily expecting to pull back out again and by pulling back in you're losing your space in a line of traffic then my instructor taught me to stay put.This is what I do. I will return to the left hand lane unless I can see up ahead that I'll need to pull out and won't be able to due to a queue of cars behind me.
If your 30 secs from the lorries at 70mph your over half a mile away so there is no reason to sit in the middle lane.
Maybe you need to go and take a pass plus driving test which incorporates motorway driving. Or even better try doing a ROSPA/IAM test.
If your 30 secs from the lorries at 70mph your over half a mile away so there is no reason to sit in the middle lane.
Maybe you need to go and take a pass plus driving test which incorporates motorway driving. Or even better try doing a ROSPA/IAM test.
Maybe you need maths lessons? A lorry would only be half a mile away if it was stationary. On motorways, though, they're generally doing around 56mph, so a car doing an indicated 70mph would only have a closing speed of around 10mph. 30 seconds at a speed of 10mph is about 150 yards by my reckoning...
if you're pulling back in but momentarily expecting to pull back out again and by pulling back in you're losing your space in a line of traffic then my instructor taught me to stay put.This is what I do. I will return to the left hand lane unless I can see up ahead that I'll need to pull out and won't be able to due to a queue of cars behind me.
What I kind of meant.
And maybe, VRSCarl, I don't need to do a ROSPA/IAM course either, why so patronising?
SUB39H has obviously had a different instructor which told him something different.
Sometimes I give up with this forum :happy2: Taken completely out of context as per usual!
hmm that's not really a valid viewpoint.
85% of ppl probs don't care about the famines in africa, or the AIDS epidemic or anything else. doesn't mean it's right to ignore it.
thankfully i recently saw a copper pull someone over for middle lane driving recently. hopefully there will be more of this and the activity will stop. otherwise, no joking, when i come to power they will be executed on site.
If the road is clear enough its the perfect opportunity for orbiting :smiley: ( passing in fast lane, back to middle lane, back to slow lane. Let the idiot overtake you and repeat the 'orbit' until they get the message)
I think motorway driving in the Uk is going to be very frustrating :fighting: