an’t it true that if you are over taking in a lorry and the lorry down the inside is doing the same speed, does he have to slow down to let you in?
mickyblue:
an’t it true that if you are over taking in a lorry and the lorry down the inside is doing the same speed, does he have to slow down to let you in?
It would be polite but don’t hold your breath or you’ll be even bluer.
The real problem on the motorways are business men with Audi 2.0 TDI cars. They’re the ■■■■■■■ worst. I’m a car driver. I can’t stand the ■■■■■■■■■■ It’s not just the motorways. They think THEY OWN THE ■■■■■■■ ROAD. Everywhere they go. I purposely ■■■■ them off though, if I’m being honest, but only because they ■■■■ me off. I love it when I’m going 30-32mph and they come up tail gating, ease off gas, touching 25mph LMAO 
I can see their heads shaking. How about a little brake 
They soon ■■■■■■■ brake when a speed camera comes. It’s like their escaping a crash. You can see their car turn a different direction because of the hard braking. I think business cars should be limited to 70mph. That’s my opinion. I don’t think they should be given the big 2.0 engines they are given. I think 1.6 TDI engines are big enough. They’re only hauling one person around. Not as if they’ve got a cars full and a full boot.
miketdt:
The reason I say this is this week I have done hundreds of miles on our motorways as a car driver having to do lots of miles between appointments in a limited time and never realised what a pane in the ■■■ slow lorries overtaking in lane 2 are to the vast numbers of car drivers.
Why is your time more important than my time?
Stan
Stanley Knife:
miketdt:
The reason I say this is this week I have done hundreds of miles on our motorways as a car driver having to do lots of miles between appointments in a limited time and never realised what a pane in the ■■■ slow lorries overtaking in lane 2 are to the vast numbers of car drivers.Why is your time more important than my time?
Stan
Because he wears a suit from top man with a novelty tie and can afford the MSA prices because they go on expenses. We are just them strange creatures that inhabit the dirty area around the back.
aranger:
I can just imagine massive queues of lorries all heading down lane one effectively forcing the nervous old dears out into lane 3 to get as far away from the big bad lorry as possible and bringing the whole network to a standstill as they refuse to budge while doing 40 in the fast lane.Then the accidents as the nutters who cant wait behind a lorry for a hundred yards start trying to nip in between them as their turn of approaches.
IMO this is a crazy idea and the mayhem that follows any implementation of this daft idea would mean it wouldn`t last long.
Your imagination is running away with you, it would be nothing like the picture you paint.
My work today included doing 150 miles each way on the A1 autobahn in Germany and for the vast majority of those miles there is no overtaking for trucks over 7.5 tonnes, with one section of over 50 miles with no overtaking. Traffic moved along nicely for the majority of the journey and vehicles entered and exited the motorway with no problem. On the northbound journey it took me 3.5 hours because of a delay caused by a broken down vehicle in a section of roadworks and the return journey took a little under 3 hours. Get a nice distance from the vehicle in front, stick the cruise on and it’s a nice easy, stress free, drive far removed from the doom and gloom being predicted on this thread. Tomorrow will be more of the same down through Holland and Belgium with more miles where overtaking is not allowed than where it is. In fact if it’s raining in Belgium tomorrow there will be no overtaking for my entire journey through the country but I’ll still get to Calais and be home tomorrow with the only bad bit of the trip likely to be the M20 and M25 with tail-backs and chaos as one truck crawls past another for mile after mile.
Where I stay our major motorways are mostly two lanes and the whole network is full of slip roads that cant take the traffic just now.
Heading out to Edinburgh I am passed by about 40 trucks as I am limited to 85kph and about the same on the way back.
On a good night there will be about 3 major Jams due to traffic backed onto the motorway and once you get to either city the roads are gridlocked, its a nightmare at times.
Lets say you get to Edinburgh by-pass at the same time as those 40 lorries behind the other convoys that have built up or the kingston bridge, there goes my imagination again but it wouldn`t be pretty.
Maybe their roads are better.
I don’t think that’s fair Coffee. Are the 2nd and 3rd lane clogged with cars doing the speed limit or under ? Compare like with like please.
Yes we could have no overtaking for HGVs in this country but not the way everybody else drives.
Do the Germans drop to 45 in a 50 temporary limit ? And switch lanes ? Be fair.
One thing the Germans are good at is obeying the rules, one thing the British are not good at is obeying the rules, in fact we actively defy them. The rule would not work over here. (much to my distress). Until the British gain a sense of personal responsibility, we are ■■■■■■. Presently it is always someone elses fault.