How many middle lane hoggers are doing it because.........

Scooby_Doo.

Eveyone knows lane 1 is for lorries. 2 is for cars and 3 is for BMW's.

Kilty_2

Scooby_Doo. wrote: »

Eveyone knows lane 1 is for lorries. 2 is for cars and 3 is for BMW's/hire cars.

Fixed that for you

jase1 wrote: »

Circle game kilty. Remember the circle game.

(For the uninitiated: on a clear road, move out to lane 3, overtake, pull back to lane 1, slow down a little, let them overtake you again, rinse and repeat until their head explodes ).

Too much like hard work in a Picanto - momentum conservation!

jase1

I've actually had someone on another forum state in public that if I were to try the circle game (remember, a perfectly safe, legal and non-aggressive manouvre) on him he would ram me off the road.

That's what we are dealing with. They are psychos.

Kilty_2

jase1 wrote: »

I've actually had someone on another forum state in public that if I were to try the circle game (remember, a perfectly safe, legal and non-aggressive manouvre) on him he would ram me off the road.

Think of the PI claim for that, and the nice shiny hire car you'll be driving for a bit, putting his insurance premium up nicely for when his ban is over

harveybobbles

Scooby_Doo. wrote: »

Eveyone knows lane 1 is for lorries. 2 is for cars and 3 is for BMW's.

Lane 3 is for Strider, you mean...

Scooby_Doo.

harveybobbles wrote: »

Lane 3 is for Strider, you mean...

No a lane between him and the lorries is too much of a safey margin.

Outpost

Kilty wrote: »

Too much like hard work in a Picanto - momentum conservation!

I drive a Picanto from time to time. Lovely little car.

vikingaero

Scooby_Doo. wrote: »

Eveyone knows lane 1 is for lorries. 2 is for cars and 3 is for BMW's.

Actually Lane 3 is now for Audi's.

People do it because they are lazy, ignorant, arrogant, selfish or lack the spatial awareness to be a competent driver.

The Police won't do anything about it - choosing to target under-takers rather than the root cause of the problem. It's partly an education problem - people don't realise that if you're not going to overtake the next car in front within 15-30 seconds then you should move back in.

Kite2010

Some do it because they are too lazy to pull over to the left lane to pull back into the middle lane a couple minutes later to overtake another lorry/slow vehicle.

Or they worry that because all those "heavy lorries use lane 1, it will be full of pot-holes so I better be safe and stay in lane 2" even though I've found that lane 1 is often the best lane for road-surface.

Remember lane 3 is the only lane white van men are allowed to use (or so it seems)

Strider590

They do it because they think of motorways in terms of:

Slow/lorry lane | Normal lane | Fast lane

Instead of:

1 | 2 | 3


Shocking really, but then it's been said that 60%+ of drivers don't know what the national speed limit sign is or what it means.