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Why do car drivers.........
bezzabsa:
--- Quote from: "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:
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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:
--- Quote from: "Evilgoat" ---
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.
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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.
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