Biggest culprits - inconsiderate drivers?

Edwood_Woodwood

walesrob wrote: »

I had a row with a taxi driver a while back as I was making a delivery to a house in a very narrow road and had to block the road for 2 minutes.

Delivery drivers. The only people in the world who think they are the only ones working.

Have even seen emergency vehicles being held up so dimwit delivery driver can deliver his parcel of tat.

Edwood_Woodwood

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

Taxi drivers though? grrrr they have their own set of rules

Errrm, yes they do have their own rules, as issued by their local authority.:huh:

Edwood_Woodwood

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

Taxi drivers though? they do u-turns in the middle of the road

If you hailed a cab which was facing west but you needed to go east then what do you expect the driver to do fGs?

Unless forbidden on certain roads a u-turn is a perfectly legal action.

I bet you are one of those drivers who deliberately speeds up to the taxi in order to cause a scene whilst honking your horn in displeasure.

pendragon_arther

Usually it's foreign drivers whose own country's standards are much lower than ours but their licenses allow them to drive in the UK.

Cornucopia

Driving from J5 M2 to the M25 again yesterday. Every (and I mean every) impatient, high-speed, outside lane-hogging vehicle was German: 3 Audis, a couple of BMWs, a Mini and a VW.

brat

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

I think the public have a misunderstanding of taxi drivers.

Apart from the illegal acts you describe above, taxi drivers are allowed to pick up/drop off fares, at times, that may be a nuisance to other road users but they have a licence that permits this.

They have no exemptions to the law on obstruction of the highway. Yes, they can stop, drop off and pick up, but they have no special dispensation to permit them to be a "nuisance".

reeac

aileth wrote: »

I don't expect people to just stop and would always wait for a 'natural' gap in moving traffic. The traffic queue I'm talking about is a queue that isn't moving. It's stopped most of the time. The lights at the end of the road let 3-4 cars out at a time. You don't get a 'natural' gap at that time in the morning. You are purely at the mercy of the main road users!

I agree. I've been impressed, when visiting my daughter in East Finchley , at the grown-up way in which most local drivers let people out from side roads - a great aid to smooth overall traffic flow. I nearly came unstuck once, however, when a driver stopped to let me out and a motor cyclist overtook him and skimmed across my bows .

bubblesbonbon

walesrob wrote: »

As a van driver, it amazes me how some drivers think it's ok to suddenly change lanes in front of me without warning or pull out of a junction so I have to brake sharply. But hey, no worries, I'm only driving a 7 ton Merc.

Another pet hate is drivers inability to use a roundabout correctly, whether failing to indicate at all, or indicating left then turning right, as I have witnessed a few times, why they do that is beyond me. But then again, no worries, I'm only driving a 7 ton Merc, it handles <sarcasm on>just like a go kart <sarcasm off>.

Is this the roundabout?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/UEIn8GJIg0E?rel=0

Edwood_Woodwood

brat wrote: »

They have no exemptions to the law on obstruction of the highway. Yes, they can stop, drop off and pick up, but they have no special dispensation to permit them to be a "nuisance".

Of course a licence doesn't permit a taxi driver being a nuisance.

Rather, what I was conveying was that ordinary members of the public regard taxi drivers as being a nuisance whilst they are quite legally going about their work.

Taxi drivers are public servants, just like a bus driver, an emergency vehicle driver, the bin men etc

Sometimes, the bin men will need to block a highway in order to carry out their duties. Similarly, a taxi driver may temporarily block a highway in order to pick up their fare, especially if the fare happens to be disabled and their house faces onto a busy highway.

Like it or lump it, a taxi driver is permitted to do so.

What you regard as a nuisance isn't actually so.

rudekid48

Bit shocked that Audi drivers are topping the poll, I've always been amazed that they still make taxis, vans and BMW's without working indicators.