A question.....

[Kall1400]

Got to admit Kall, you deserved it about time people were pulled over for hogging the middle lane, long may it continue.Drives me up the wall when they do that, no consideration for other road users. Truck drivers are no angels either, pulling out on vehicles at a seconds notice, taking an age to overtake, thankfully not all are the same. 

I assume you didn't read my last post before posting this......

And.... As you have mentioned it.... Trucks that pull out at a seconds notice, is only a seconds notice if you are not paying attention to what's going on in front of you or are speeding.

On the point of over taking.... I don't think there is a law on how fast you have to over take. But if it isn't fast enough for you and us truck drivers are getting in your way and slowing you down. Try leaving 10 mins earlier, then you wouldn't be in a rush.......

[Debs]

I assume you didn't read my last post before posting this......

And.... As you have mentioned it.... Trucks that pull out at a seconds notice, is only a seconds notice if you are not paying attention to what's going on in front of you or are speeding.

On the point of over taking.... I don't think there is a law on how fast you have to over take. But if it isn't fast enough for you and us truck drivers are getting in your way and slowing you down. Try leaving 10 mins earlier, then you wouldn't be in a rush.......

 

[Lonewolf]

Kall, I can see both sides to this. Potentially your actions have protected the slow moving vehicle from being shunted, that's a good thing obviously. I personally don't have an issue with HGV drivers, they are a hazard on the road, but then so is every other vehicle and you just deal with it in your planning and I cant honestly recall any situation when a HGV has caused me any major grief.

I've met some great HGV drivers whilst working with our mutual friends, (VOSA) and whilst doing HGV checks at weigh bridges and the vast majority of them or top notch drivers. Don't get me going on the Polish drivers who seem to think they are immune to drivers hours, they are a ticking time bomb in my opinion.

Sometimes you try to do right and you end up being the bad guy! 

[zedmeister]

Kall - read the last few words of my post carefully 'thankfully not all are the same'. I have excellent forward observation but i do choose not to argue with 44ton,  If i left 10 minutes earlier i would probably meet the driver who is 10 minutes late 

[STX1300man]

Kall, perhaps I've misread something somewhere, but you said you returned to lane 1, yet lanes 1 and 3 were free. So how come you were in lane 2 catching up the slow car and not in lane 1?

Personally if I was in lane 1 I would have crept past being as the three lane switch is not really practical (legal) in a lorry. Even in a car or on a bike, as long as you don't blast past on the inside you'd be very unlucky to get tugged. Keep dancing from lane to lane and you will.

[Boomer]

I don't drive a lorry but if I did there would be wreckage everywhere. 
All the white van/BMW/Audi driving, phone using, lane hogging, dithering, inattentive, half blind, inconsiderate, lazy  would be no more. 
I would be in jail for life but once cleaned up the roads would be a safer place to be due to all of the above not being on them any more,.... and due to me not being on them any more either. 

Seriously, I would have pulled into lane 1 and undertaken if safe to do so.
In fact I do this many times every day due to number of the above  on the M25.
I watch them pull onto the M25 and head straight for the right lane, and then slow down to 60.
Then when you either flash them or undertake they get all huffy and start waving hands and fingers about.
is too good for them.

The minimum speed limit on Motorways is 30Mph unless otherwise signposted.
I believe that this is lower if not cancelled in roadworks.
IMHO 30Mph is bloody dangerous on a motorway and personally I would set it to 50Mph.

By the way, would someone from our Law Enforcement community know why the Govt decided to introduce the fines/points for lane hogging and phone using yet didn't see fit to fund the extra Police to enforce the new laws? Don't the Traffic Wombles have the right to nick people for these offences?

[Andy]

Some drivers are not aware of different speed limits and lane restrictions that apply to trucks. Standard SPECS average speed cameras photograph FRONT number plates...

Vehicles travelling at 49.5 MPH filling all lanes is usually the final scenario.

Why don't lorry drivers slow down to let there "comrades" overtake quicker ?. No tachograph excuses allowed...:-)

[Barry7]

No sorry Boomer Highways Agency Traffic Officers or HATO don't have the powers to nick people, but they can report it....... Same as you ;-)

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