Lorry's flashing

mikey72

Strider590 wrote: »

Or they could just move over and stop being complete !!!!'s........... Lane 2 and 3 are for overtaking, not for passive aggressive knob heads to sit there deliberately blocking up the motorway.

If people want to do >70mph (and 95% of people do), then let them. Sitting there deliberately winding them up is highly irresponsible and incredibly stupid...

But ok to jump in between a truck and a car, and deliberately force a car driver in lane 1 to slow down, as you want to be sheriff for the day?

You don't even need to trot out the passive aggressive knob head, just aggressive will do.

How about next time passing the truck, then just carrying on without winding other people up?

mikey72

TrickyWicky wrote: »

What a load of tripe.

1) No I don't block people over taking
2) I do the speed limit and no less / no more

Ill informed? - Erm No, I just drive safely unlike a lot of people who think they can excuse themselves from it around here. I suspect you're the sort who see's nothing wrong with using a phone while driving too. Grow up pal.

I'm with you.

Just because some prat behind thinks it's ok to tear along 10 mph faster than me for a few hundred yards, then slam on for the traffic in front doesn't mean I have to.

I'm sick of all the idiots that see the speed limit as a target, regardless of what is ahead of the short stretch is front of them.
I usually catch them up a few minutes later anyway.

If I don't want to blindly do whatever the sign tells me I can, it's for a reason.

cleggie

On motorways etc, when you go into the right hand lane on the approach to a slip road that you can see a lorry joining, quite often (around here anyway) they flash to say thanks.

I'll quite often do the same (or put the hazards on for a few secs) if i am joining a dual carriageway/motor way from a slip road and a lorry goes into the right hand lane for me.

jase1

TrickyWicky wrote: »

If you're in the left lane in your car (eg doing 50) and a lorry decides to overtake you, they miraculously know when they're clear of you to know when to pull back in again. Always struck me as a bit odd that - you could easily swipe a car off the road with a lorry yet another lorry will offer some resistance so it seems they're willing to chance a family in a car but not each other.

Does it really matter if a few 50mph motorway menaces are subject to the Laws of Darwin?

TrickyWicky

It doesn't matter (for gods sake how many more times?), I was just pointing out an observtion that I had noticed. Why is everyone being so aggressive over this?

Are we now saying that people are no longer allowed to express their observations?

jase1

Strider590 wrote: »

Or they could just move over and stop being complete !!!!'s........... Lane 2 and 3 are for overtaking, not for passive aggressive knob heads to sit there deliberately blocking up the motorway.

There was a post on here a few weeks back where someone referred to lanes 1 and 2 and the "overtaking lane". I was the only person who pulled them up on it, and I received no response -- there's your mentality.

I don't think they necessarily do do it deliberately -- I think they either don't know or don't care. Which is why I pull in to lane 1 myself in an attempt to make them look foolish stuck out in an outer lane. It usually works as well -- 80% get the message and pull in, and most of the other 20% end up being tailed by a more aggressive driver whom I'm waiting for to do the dirty work for me.

If people want to do >70mph (and 95% of people do), then let them. Sitting there deliberately winding them up is highly irresponsible and incredibly stupid...

Putting yourself in the wrong to make a point against someone else in the wrong is the height of stupidity.

AltheHibby

Strider,

I totally agree with what you did (post 13). People who deliberately speed up when you are overtaking are at the very least guilty of driving without due care.

At least you were able to do something about it. Those of us who live way up the A9 don't have that choice as it seems that trams that nobody wants in Edinburgh are more important than dualling the A9.

Notmyrealname

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Mileage and time served on the roads means nothing if yoiu're arrogant enough like you to not give a rats about anyone but yourself on the road.

Good job I wasn't arrogant and have been accident free for two decades despite the mileage done.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Its not really necessary, most experienced drivers know exactly where they are, otherwise they'd be reversing into walls etc.

Its one of the few professional courtesies left between drivers, harking back to the days of the Knights of the Road.

eamon

On a serious note it can be unsettling and a little scary getting involved in involuntary car tig/tag on a longish m-way journey. Duel comes to mind.