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[stevesey]

Couldn't tell you the last time I went in the centre lane, I usually only cross over it!

Came back from London yesterday spent a lot of time in lanes 1 and 3

Dispite the fact it was a holiday weekend there were some quite quiet streches - until you hit the next bunch of CLOG'ers of course then everything slowed down as all the traffic that was making progress in lanes 1, 2 and 3 was forced out into lane 3.

 

[G.O'Rilla]

As my father said - inside lane for truckers, the middle lane for overtaking them and those that want to do 70 stick to the outside lane..........

sadly, many people of a certain age believe that, having forgotten all about the highway code and courtesy to other drivers. I dread coming up behind a silver Honda Civic, Rover 214, Daewoo anything or old Hyundai on any road.

 

[Shude]

I have watched them and if they come up against a slower car in the middle lane then they slow down - they dont overtake.

I see this all the time! I set my cruise to something like 70, end up in lane 3 passing a bunch of cars doing around 55 because they're stuck behind a truck (overtaking another truck) and then the truck pulls in. Suddenly I'm public enemy number one because they all want to go faster than me and I'm on their outside.

In my defense I was going quite a lot faster than them when I started overtaking them! It's not my fault that they'd rather stack up behind a slower vehicle and wait for it to pass another than pull out and overtake it themselves. It's not like I'm unpredictable either as I'm cruising at a set speed so they could judge my progress and distance easily. These people are fools.

 

[LimitedSlip]

I don't know how many of you have heard this maxim, told to me by a driving instructor in the late 'seventies:

"First rule of the road: Keep to the left in normal driving". A platitude maybe, but...

I believe this problem on the motorways, and its often more annoying off-motorway relative, getting in the right hand lane (and slowing down) one mile before your turning, is a manifestation of more & more people now having no concept of this at all.

A few days back, I was travelling east along the A55 in North Wales in the early hours. Almost nothing on the road, doing 80 indicated. I closed on a Citroen Picasso doing about 50 in the right hand lane of the totally empty dual carriageway. I moved out right and flashed for about 15 seconds, had to slow of course until the message finally got home.

He moved over and unusually, no "look" or gob going, no flash of the lights at me. After I passed... he moved back out to the right hand lane. WTF? Not the first time I've seen it though. Until recent years, I had never seen anything like this even once. People are driving around with no idea of what the hell they are doing, or why. Still, as long as they go slow eh?

 

[st13phil]

Some weeks ago I recorded the program "The Secret Life of the Motorway", and finally got around to watching it the night before last. As part of the program they screened a number of the public information films that were first aired in the early sixties instructing people how to drive safely on these new-fangled motorways. Strikes me that they should start running these sort of films again...

 

[flango]

That's a pet hate of mine. I do a lot of miles on the M74 and M6 and while sitting at 70ish, in lane 2, passing slow moving lorries in lane 1, time after time, Mrs 90 MPH roars up behind me in lane 2, then slows down to the same speed as me, only once I can safely move back to lane 1 do they speed back up and go on their way. Never a thought to pass me in lane 3!!!

I do a similar route as I travel from Yorkshire to Ayr & kilmarnock regularly, at least twice per month and see exactly the same as you describe, these people are just muppets and why they wont use lane 3 is beyond ne

 

[mirras]

Some weeks ago I recorded the program "The Secret Life of the Motorway", and finally got around to watching it the night before last. As part of the program they screened a number of the public information films that were first aired in the early sixties instructing people how to drive safely on these new-fangled motorways. Strikes me that they should start running these sort of films again...

Hillarious watching folk picnic in the central reservation while others use it for U-turns.

 

[G.O'Rilla]

Hillarious watching folk picnic in the central reservation while others use it for U-turns.

Go to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia - they still do!!!

 

[neilrr]

Seems to works ok in the States?

In my experience the only people who make this claim have either never driven in the US & are basing their opinion on TV shows or have driven there only on a holiday for a couple of weeks.

It just is not true.

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/548578-post30.html

 

[G.O'Rilla]

I think you're right. I visit USA about 5 times a year and always hire a car. From my own experience, it is totally undisciplined and you never know what some clown is going to do next.

The only reason that people don't flash their lights or hoot is because you never know how "cracked up" the other driver is, or if he is packing a weapon - or both! As per the other thread, you just drive around the problem.