How is my driving?

iolanthe07

In California trucks are obliged to move into passing bays if they have more than five vehicles trailing behind them. Something we could adopt here, perhaps.

Nasqueron

AndyMc..... wrote: »

Is that advice or law?

The highway code even without law, is considered a guide of minimal standards of driving, you can be prosecuted under "catch all" offences for things that are not strictly banned e.g. overtaking on hash/chevron markings because you're impatient even though they aren't specifically banned.

OP - Ken Bruce had someone on once who had called one of the numbers, it went through to the driver of the lorry he was complaining about who was the company owner. Needless to say he wasn't interested in a complaint about his driving.

Car_54

AndyMc..... wrote: »

Is that advice or law?

"A failure on the part of a person to observe a provision of the Highway Code shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind but any such failure may in any proceedings (whether civil or criminal, and including proceedings for an offence under the Traffic Acts, the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 or sections 18 to 23 of the Transport Act 1985) be relied upon by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or negative any liability which is in question in those proceedings."
[Road Traffic Act 1988 section 38(7)]

dacouch

I frequent Truck forums, Tesco lorries are a sore subject with them.

Tesco have purposely limited their vehicles below the speed limits as it saves them a couple of percent on their fuel bills. On a motorway where the other trucks want to do 56mph, the Tesco trucks are limited to 50mph (I think). It causes even more elephant racing than the normal trucks do.

They will have a similar lower limit on the road you were on.

AndyMc.....

Car_54 wrote: »

"A failure on the part of a person to observe a provision of the Highway Code shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind but any such failure may in any proceedings (whether civil or criminal, and including proceedings for an offence under the Traffic Acts, the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 or sections 18 to 23 of the Transport Act 1985) be relied upon by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or negative any liability which is in question in those proceedings."
[Road Traffic Act 1988 section 38(7)]

So it’s just a guide.

AndyMc.....

Nasqueron wrote: »

The highway code even without law, is considered a guide of minimal standards of driving, you can be prosecuted under "catch all" offences for things that are not strictly banned e.g. overtaking on hash/chevron markings because you're impatient even though they aren't specifically banned.

OP - Ken Bruce had someone on once who had called one of the numbers, it went through to the driver of the lorry he was complaining about who was the company owner. Needless to say he wasn't interested in a complaint about his driving.

Go on then name one if the overtake isn’t careless or dangerous.

sevenhills

AndyMc..... wrote: »

A maximum of 50.

When I go past one of those signs showing your speed, if I go past it at 30mph it will say I am doing 26/27

AndyMc.....

sevenhills wrote: »

When I go past one of those signs showing your speed, if I go past it at 30mph it will say I am doing 26/27

What’s that got to do with LGV speed limits?

Car_54

AndyMc..... wrote: »

Go on then name one if the overtake isn’t careless or dangerous.

The offences of careless and dangerous driving are defined by reference to the standards of a "careful and competent" driver.

Competency is - by definition - judged by adherence to the Highway Code.

So, for example, overtaking on the approach to a junction is prima facile careless.

AndyMc.....

Car_54 wrote: »

The offences of careless and dangerous driving are defined by reference to the standards of a "careful and competent" driver.

Competency is - by definition - judged by adherence to the Highway Code.

So, for example, overtaking on the approach to a junction is prima facile careless.

I said not careless overtaking on broken hatchmarkings if necessary is permitted.