People not knowing how to use motorways properly.

arcon5

millwall34 wrote: »

I wait behind a lane 2 hog until someone in lane 3 is going to overtake us, I slide into lane 1 and overtake him at the same time as the car in lane 3.

Once we are both passed, lane 2 hog moves into lane 1.

Seems like a very silly way to drive. Maybe you shouldn't be allowed to drive a potentially lethal machine at high speeds if that's how you treat it.

Utterly irresponsible!

Just take over in the third lane and continue with your journey without the idiocy of double teaming the lane 2 hogger!

millwall34

If lane 2 hog is behind another car then lane 3 it is.

Mutt08

kittie wrote: »

yes it is bullying. Lol, I just tap my brakes if I get a tailgater

Foot off the accelarator for a few seconds usually does the trick, the look of horror on their face always raises a chuckle

vax2002

"The most dangerous driver on any road is one who spends his time criticising other peoples driving"

adouglasmhor

I admit I often drive in the middle lane when the left lane is empty. Often the left lane is more heavily used by HGVs and is in rag order and shït state from potholes and other damage, even ruts.

spadoosh

Not read all the way through but a fun 'game' to play with lane hoggers is 'orbiting'.

Find myself doing this alot on the M61 near bolton. You overtake (not undertake) as normal then go back to the 1st lane, reduce your speed by not applying accelerator, get retaken by lane hogger, then repeat overtake. I find this is the most polite way to teach people how to use motorways normally the lesson sinks in about the 3/4th orbit. Only problem is average MPG might drop.

davidlizard

spadoosh wrote: »

Not read all the way through but a fun 'game' to play with lane hoggers is 'orbiting'.

Find myself doing this alot on the M61 near bolton. You overtake (not undertake) as normal then go back to the 1st lane, reduce your speed by not applying accelerator, get retaken by lane hogger, then repeat overtake. I find this is the most polite way to teach people how to use motorways normally the lesson sinks in about the 3/4th orbit. Only problem is average MPG might drop.

It becomes more entertaining if a couple of others join in, so you have several of you orbiting round and round the CLOG.

Not that I would suggest such silly antics.

gwapenut

Here's another one, people who treat every two-lane roundabout as a straight-over junctions, and just totally disregard the lane markings. It's only the vigilence of drivers in the lane they cut into that saves them from a bump. Lazy lazy lazy, can't be bothered to go "round" a roundabout.

stephen77

Honeydog wrote: »

Nope. It is bullying.

It doesn't happen to me often but when it does I NEVER move over. if I do then I am encouraging that person to bully the next person and the next and the next.

You are obviously a bully as well. Another one.

explain how that is bullying if he is being assertive?
Saying I am bully does not mean I am with out explaining it. If you do not explain it to me. I will not learn and the OP will not learn. Thus we keep doing it! If you explain it, it will discourage me and the OP from doing it.

When police cars etc use lights to get people to move out of the way. Are they bullying? No they are being assertive.
When people are in the way, I do not want to cause them any pain.
If they were not hogging the middle lane it would not happen.

When I have been flashed for being in the middle lane to long, I move over as I realise I am in the wrong. I do not feel bullied at all.

What I will say their are people who will flash aggressively as they aggresive people and their driving style in a whole reflects this.
This in itself does not make it flashing aggresive act.

WhiteHorse

The people who amaze me are the ones joining the motorway and who don't look or adjust their speed. They simply sail onto the carriageway, just missing other vehicles or causing them to take evasive action.

When this results in an accident, the culprit is usually elderly (ie on another planet), or young. In this last case, the most common excuse is 'traffic joining the motorway has priority so everyone else has to get out of my way'.

Eh? That is the case in at least some European countries, but it isn't here.

With all these complicated theory tests, how come they don't know this? How do they get licences when they are so woefully, and dangerously, ignorant?