Driving Pet Peeves

[lapsedhibee]

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I thought he meant the person following down the slip road rather than the person already on the motorway

[patch1875]

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I thought he meant the person following down the slip road rather than the person already on the motorway

Yes that’s what I meant maybe didn’t explain it well.😀

You pull onto motorway maybe behind a lorry you go to overtake but the car that followed you on has come straight across and stopped you pulling out.

[Keith_M]

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Yes that’s what I meant maybe didn’t explain it well.😀

You pull onto motorway maybe behind a lorry you go to overtake but the car that followed you on has come straight across and stopped you pulling out.

That makes sense

[RyeSloan]

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Yes that’s what I meant maybe didn’t explain it well.

You pull onto motorway maybe behind a lorry you go to overtake but the car that followed you on has come straight across and stopped you pulling out.

Ahh well if yer not fast yer last

[overdrive]

Maybe not a peeve but I’ve seen it all now. There seems to be a pedestrian lane on the roundabout at the bottom of Broughton Street

[CropleyWasGod]

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Maybe not a peeve but I’ve seen it all now. There seems to be a pedestrian lane on the roundabout at the bottom of Broughton Street

About bloody time.

It takes an age to get from one side to the other if you do it legally.

[calumhibee1]

Seen a woman overtake every car in the queue of traffic on the wrong side of the road on Comely Bank today.

Pulled out in front of Waitrose, through one set of lights, to the opening at the Royal Mail sorting office, sat on the wrong side of the road at the red light that had come on, started reversing then went through the red light anyway and then just about crashed into a taxi who was turning right into the bank.

Unreal.

[LaMotta]

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What are you insinuating? I'm not angry at all. It is however frustrating when you come up someone sitting at 45mph and you can't overtake them because other people are lane hogging. If the person infront perhaps upped their speed then it wouldn't even be an issue.

Agree completely with you. Few people giving you stick and saying that everyone should overtake are missing the point that this can then slow down the overtaking lane as well if you have lorries deciding to overtake someone going at 45.

Whilst there is no mimimum speed limit on motorways if the police deem you are driving too slowly then they can pull you over for dangerous driving.

Lorries deciding to overtake someone so they dont have to slow down, but making a string of cars in the overtaking lane slowdown in the process, is one of my pet hates by the way

[Moulin Yarns]

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Agree completely with you. Few people giving you stick and saying that everyone should overtake are missing the point that this can then slow down the overtaking lane as well if you have lorries deciding to overtake someone going at 45.

Whilst there is no mimimum speed limit on motorways if the police deem you are driving too slowly then they can pull you over for dangerous driving.

Lorries deciding to overtake someone so they dont have to slow down, but making a string of cars in the overtaking lane slowdown in the process, is one of my pet hates by the way

So, it's the slow traffic in the outside lane that is the problem not the car in the inside lane that you think is at fault.

Glad that's cleared up. 😉

[AltheHibby]

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Lorries deciding to overtake someone so they dont have to slow down, but making a string of cars in the overtaking lane slowdown in the process, is one of my pet hates by the way

It can be fun to let them out when some Audiot behind you is trying to climb into your boot. And when they pull im a nice gentle acceleration past them seals the win. And if said Audiot gestures at you on the way past the day has just become wonderful. 🤣

[LaMotta]

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So, it's the slow traffic in the outside lane that is the problem not the car in the inside lane that you think is at fault.

Glad that's cleared up. 😉

No, its quite clearly a combination of the two.

[LaMotta]

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It can be fun to let them out when some Audiot behind you is trying to climb into your boot. And when they pull im a nice gentle acceleration past them seals the win. And if said Audiot gestures at you on the way past the day has just become wonderful. 🤣

Your bizaare behaviour is worse than the "Audiot".

[Moulin Yarns]

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No, its quite clearly a combination of the two.

As a regular driver of the notorious A9, if the driver is driving at 45mph on the dual carriage sections then they are allowing the rest of the traffic to pass, which is the courteous thing to do. 😉

[Bangkok Hibby]

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As a regular driver of the notorious A9, if the driver is driving at 45mph on the dual carriage sections then they are allowing the rest of the traffic to pass, which is the courteous thing to do. 😉

I used to drive the A9 regularly and used the dual carriageway sections to pass as many of the slower drivers as I could.

[Moulin Yarns]

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I used to drive the A9 regularly and used the dual carriageway sections to pass as many of the slower drivers as I could.

There are currently roadworks to dual the section between Luncarty and Birnam, 40mph through the roadworks, Silverstone on the dual carriageway after the roadworks just now. 😁

[AltheHibby]

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Your bizaare behaviour is worse than the "Audiot".

Just teaching them patience and the downside of tailgating even although it holds me up too

[LaMotta]

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As a regular driver of the notorious A9, if the driver is driving at 45mph on the dual carriage sections then they are allowing the rest of the traffic to pass, which is the courteous thing to do. ��

Well no its not courteous its actually quite inconsiderate, because a lorry that is limited to 55mph may well feel inclined to overtake the 45mph driver, and therefore a host of cars travelling in the outside lane at 70mph are then held up in the process.

[Bangkok Hibby]

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There are currently roadworks to dual the section between Luncarty and Birnam, 40mph through the roadworks, Silverstone on the dual carriageway after the roadworks just now. 😁

The whole road should have been dualled years ago. Long overdue.

[AltheHibby]

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The whole road should have been dualled years ago. Long overdue.

It was supposed to be dualled in the 70's I believe.

[LaMotta]

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Just teaching them patience and the downside of tailgating even although it holds me up too

Two wrongs don't make a left

[Jack]

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The Cramond to Queensferry Crossing road, dual carriageway but inexplicably carries a 40mph limit on for a large part before going to 50.

I’m generally pretty good as adhering to speed limits, but i reckon easily 90% of traffic on that road ignore the speed limit.

I'm on that road a couple of times a week. I've probably seen more unmarked police cars there, having pulled drivers in, than any of the 250 miles I drive a week for my wee part time job around the central belt.

It's maybe a Fifers thing. Apart from Miller and Carter on that road catching Fifers coming in the only other regular camera vans I see are in Fife.

[Hibrandenburg]

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Well no its not courteous its actually quite inconsiderate, because a lorry that is limited to 55mph may well feel inclined to overtake the 45mph driver, and therefore a host of cars travelling in the outside lane at 70mph are then held up in the process.

Truck drivers are not only limited in how fast they are allowed to drive but also how long they can drive and how much rest they have to take. A 10mph difference can make the difference between him making his delivery on time or not or even him/her getting home that day. Everybody moans about trucks on the roads but everyone wants food on the supermarket shelves.

[AltheHibby]

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Two wrongs don't make a left

True. But I was taught that if someone is tailgating you it's best to slow down. This is my creative interpretation of that.

[McD]

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It can be fun to let them out when some Audiot behind you is trying to climb into your boot. And when they pull im a nice gentle acceleration past them seals the win. And if said Audiot gestures at you on the way past the day has just become wonderful. 🤣

if they gesture, I find a smile and a cheery wave is always a good way to defuse things...



at least, that’s my intention...

[Moulin Yarns]

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Well no its not courteous its actually quite inconsiderate, because a lorry that is limited to 55mph may well feel inclined to overtake the 45mph driver, and therefore a host of cars travelling in the outside lane at 70mph are then held up in the process.

Ha, ha. Lorries that don't drive above 55.🤣 What is the speed limit for 15ton trucks on a single carriageway road?

[LaMotta]

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Ha, ha. Lorries that don't drive above 55.🤣 What is the speed limit for 15ton trucks on a single carriageway road?

Haha. What are you on about single carriageway roads for? They are of no relevance to anythlng here.

[LaMotta]

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Truck drivers are not only limited in how fast they are allowed to drive but also how long they can drive and how much rest they have to take. A 10mph difference can make the difference between him making his delivery on time or not or even him/her getting home that day. Everybody moans about trucks on the roads but everyone wants food on the supermarket shelves.

So you'll agree that if the car driving at 45mph in the inside lane speeds up to a sensible speed then things will improve for everyone.

[Moulin Yarns]

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So you'll agree that if the car driving at 45mph in the inside lane speeds up to a sensible speed then things will improve for everyone.

Or make it even harder for everyone else to get past?

[Moulin Yarns]

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Haha. What are you on about single carriageway roads for? They are of no relevance to anythlng here.

I asked a simple question, because you would be hard pushed to find any lorries driving within the speed limit for 15ton trucks.

[Moulin Yarns]

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Well no its not courteous its actually quite inconsiderate, because a lorry that is limited to 55mph may well feel inclined to overtake the 45mph driver, and therefore a host of cars travelling in the outside lane at 70mph are then held up in the process.

And then it's the lorry driver who is being inconsiderate 🙄