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H:
hate these middle lane hogs too, often find durring the day that the vast majority are lady drivers, sorry ladies but it is true, I guess its kind of a comfort lane. Driving at night I find the signal sown in my avatar often shifts them.

H

Spooky:
'Comfort Lane' is one way of putting it ...

Personally, I put it down to downright laziness.  I don't bother with trying to blast along (I drive a Diesel after all), and when I move into the middle lane to overtake a slower vehicle, these middle lane hoggers will quite happily sit behind me, even though though right-hand lane is empty ... Once I've moved out of the way, off they go, back up to their cruising speed.

IMHO it is an easy way of dealing with crowded motorways:

a) Join, expecting traffic already on the motorway to Give Way to you.
b) Select the Middle Lane as soon as possible.
c) Disengage Brain.
d) Only change lanes again once it's time to leave the motorway.

I'm sure that a lot of truckers and coach drivers would back me up on this one.

Plod definitely need to crack down on this ...

prowler:
Plod on mtorway??
when do you see that these days??
Anyway, they are probably the same drivers [ and I use the term driver loosly ] that close the gap when I filter through stationary or very slow moving traffic on my bike [ ALL drivers on M6 may read this and wonder if I am talking about them !! ] I have even had drivers open their doors  : so I can't get through..............And I have been known to loosen a few mirrors on my travels, Chops are a lot lower than normal bikes so my head is level with the drivers they get a fair shock when I get real close......  :twisted:

muddyjames:
I have always understood it as you are not aloud to undertake if you are using it to your advantage ie going from a right hand lane undertake and then move back accross to other lanes.

However if you travel at a constant speed and undertake and stay in your lane i dont see why you cant do this as it does say in the highway code and somebody above said in a traffic jam you can under take.

prowler:
Most people who sit in middle lane dont use their mirrors,If you are approaching these from behind and are forced to undertake you yake the chance of them pulling into the inside lane without checking if any thing is there...........BEWARE !!!!!!
Left hand mirror, whats that for ????

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