Complain about dangerous/aggressive comercial vehicle drivers!

maninthestreet

Strider590 wrote: »

You don't know how competitive drivers are on that stretch of road, if you don't get ahead your screwed. Being out on the right you just get all your exits blocked. There's two lanes and no reason not to use them, but of course there are those idiots who love to queue.
You might want to try driving around this area during rush hour to see how bad it really is!

Drivng a car on the public roads is not some sort of competition, with winners and losers. The stopping distance for a lorry is much longer than that for a car - '2 to 3 car lengths' is probably less than the length of that lorry. The van in front of the lorry also had it's brake lights on - perhaps that's why the lorry was braking, and not because he had accelerated? The video also shows you overtook the lorry for the second time by crossing into a hatched area, and at road junction.

daveyjp

The only person who believes it's a competition is you. Attitude test result - fail.

Kilty_2

Strider590 wrote: »

You don't know how competitive drivers are on that stretch of road, if you don't get ahead your screwed. Being out on the right you just get all your exits blocked. There's two lanes and no reason not to use them, but of course there are those idiots who love to queue.
You might want to try driving around this area during rush hour to see how bad it really is!

I have driven around that area during rush hour - it's nothing like as bad as what's in your head (and I was driving a !!!!!! hire car and had little knowledge of the local area)

Strider590

Only the other day on a DC (local ring road), I witnessed the van behind me closing the gap to less than a few inches in order to prevent a chap in another car pulling in before a merge point.

I slowed down and allowed several cars to pass both of us, much to the van drivers disapproval :rotfl: There was much gear grinding, acclerator pumping and swerving about, but I ignored him and carried on

So me competitive? don't think so.

Lum

Had one today, 800 yards before the merge point, 70 limit, some guy doing 40 with no cars in front of him for about 400 yards and about 20 yards of empty space behind him, however he still took exception to the fact that I was still in the outside lane doing 70.

So at the last second he pulled out in front of me, there was no way I could scrub off 30mph of speed differential in time to avoid hitting him, so I pulled into the left lane and undertook him.

Got a nice middle finger for that one, but I didn't see it for long as the van driver who was 20 yards behind him then put his foot down and undertook the guy too. Naughty but it still amused me.

skiddlydiddly

I just don't get why people do stuff like that Lum, the worst thing is they probably think they are the good guys when in reality they are driving dangrously and will eventually come unstuck and take others with them.There's enough accidents shown on traffic programmes for people to see what happens to cars and accupants at those sort of speeds.

vaio

Strider590 wrote: »

Only the other day on a DC (local ring road), I witnessed the van behind me closing the gap to less than a few inches in order to prevent a chap in another car pulling in before a merge point.

I slowed down and allowed several cars to pass both of us, much to the van drivers disapproval :rotfl: There was much gear grinding, acclerator pumping and swerving about, but I ignored him and carried on

So me competitive? don't think so.

I'd be tempted to stop digging if I were you

patchwork_cat

Strider590 wrote: »

Only the other day on a DC (local ring road), I witnessed the van behind me closing the gap to less than a few inches in order to prevent a chap in another car pulling in before a merge point.

I slowed down and allowed several cars to pass both of us, much to the van drivers disapproval :rotfl: There was much gear grinding, acclerator pumping and swerving about, but I ignored him and carried on


So me competitive? don't think so.

However I would hazard a guess that it was not philanthropic that you let other drivers in, but to annoy the van driver behind you. You really do get aggrieved at some very petty issues! Driving is not a competition and seem to think that a speed limit is an instruction to travel at that speed, it isn't.

Selidie

Strider590 wrote: »

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Being overtaken. If a driver is trying to overtake you, maintain a steady course and speed, slowing down if necessary to let the vehicle pass. Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass. Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous. Drop back to maintain a two-second gap if someone overtakes and pulls into the gap in front of you.

I doubt the lorry accelerated at all, in fact it is unlikely he could have the acceleration to close the gap like that.

The fact of the matter is, you knew the roundabout, knew there was a short stretch of dual as you came off it and you booted it to get past the truck. He didn't accelerate, the van in front is braking due to heavy traffic in front of him (which can be seen quite clearly in the clip), actually, the front van is already braking coming off the roundabout before you even start accelerating, a clear indication that there is traffic ahead.

As this pic shows, the van ahead of the truck and the truck itself are already braking at this point, before you even get level with the back of it!



You were caught out by your own impatience in an attempt to get past the truck, but due to your inability to even comprehend that you could of made a mistake, you just blame everyone else around you.

mikey72

patchwork_cat wrote: »

However I would hazard a guess that it was not philanthropic that you let other drivers in, but to annoy the van driver behind you. You really do get aggrieved at some very petty issues! Driving is not a competition and seem to think that a speed limit is an instruction to travel at that speed, it isn't.

Teaching the van driver a lesson for getting too close.