Someone please explain why Truckers do this!!
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Someone please explain why Truckers do this!!
Coming home today, 600+ yards from a normal dual lane convergance, some prat in a truck thinks it's cool to straddle the lanes and hold up the cars behind.
WHY?
I see this all the time on the motorways. WHY? What's the point? We're going to converge anyway, but now with slow moving and bunched up traffic..
What's with it with the idiots? I flashed, I shook my head I ranted an raved, but this prat just sat there thinking he was cool and doing everyone a service.. But now we've got convergence 600 yards back across some lights where traffic are going to be stationary and slow over a major crossing..
Truckers.. stop doing it... OK? It's pointless and adds more danger and inconvenience...
Numpties.
Rant over.
WHY?
I see this all the time on the motorways. WHY? What's the point? We're going to converge anyway, but now with slow moving and bunched up traffic..
What's with it with the idiots? I flashed, I shook my head I ranted an raved, but this prat just sat there thinking he was cool and doing everyone a service.. But now we've got convergence 600 yards back across some lights where traffic are going to be stationary and slow over a major crossing..
Truckers.. stop doing it... OK? It's pointless and adds more danger and inconvenience...
Numpties.
Rant over.
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Obviously haven't read the part in the Highway Code about merging in turn...
Reminds me of the super-twonk this evening who refused to move from the outside lane when I was clearly going faster and wanting past. It was even safe for him to move over in plenty of time. Spent his time speeding up in the gaps and slowing down to try and match the traffic He then yanks his brakes on hard 200 yards from the roadworks on the M11 and thinks it was funny to match the speed of the innocent car on the inside lane all through the contra-flow.
Where does he get his little mind from? Same place as that trucker I guess
Leastways out of the roadworks and I somehow find myself past him and his eyeballs are popping...
Idiot
Reminds me of the super-twonk this evening who refused to move from the outside lane when I was clearly going faster and wanting past. It was even safe for him to move over in plenty of time. Spent his time speeding up in the gaps and slowing down to try and match the traffic He then yanks his brakes on hard 200 yards from the roadworks on the M11 and thinks it was funny to match the speed of the innocent car on the inside lane all through the contra-flow.
Where does he get his little mind from? Same place as that trucker I guess
Leastways out of the roadworks and I somehow find myself past him and his eyeballs are popping...
Idiot
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I would suggest he does it to stop the waxnkers who even when everyone else has moved into one lane has to pass everyone, often in the central reservation, on the grass or by what ever means to get to the front of the queue before he cuts infront of every last car possible almost taking out the cones ........
Gary ------- coming to an outside lane at 5mph near you soon
Gary ------- coming to an outside lane at 5mph near you soon
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They are the kings of the road, didnt you know?
Not fair to tar them all with the same brush, but there are a fair few that are complete ******, as per the original post.
Unlike minicab drivers, they are ALL complete ******
Not fair to tar them all with the same brush, but there are a fair few that are complete ******, as per the original post.
Unlike minicab drivers, they are ALL complete ******
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Originally Posted by Gutmann pug
I would suggest he does it to stop the waxnkers who even when everyone else has moved into one lane has to pass everyone, often in the central reservation, on the grass or by what ever means to get to the front of the queue before he cuts infront of every last car possible almost taking out the cones ........
Gary ------- coming to an outside lane at 5mph near you soon
Gary ------- coming to an outside lane at 5mph near you soon
I had a long thread on here about a year ago on this very subject, and I expect the normal accusations of queue jumping etc., but surely this has got to be the msot efficient way of dealung with this situation rather than the ridiculous situation of a single lane of traffic extending back a mile or more from the convergence, and yes I have seen this
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It is simply to stop the selfish *******s who drive to the very point of convergence and push in, when everyone else has filtered before hand ... and WELL DONE TRUCKERS!!!
However, if everyone filtered at the end of the lane in turn it would begin to be seen as acceptable ......... if I pull in with say 100 yards to go and some **** races down the outside to push in I will drive out to block - the car on the left sees what I have done and maintains my gap
Its usually BMWs and they are universally hated for some reason, so every one claps when they get caught .........
Pete
However, if everyone filtered at the end of the lane in turn it would begin to be seen as acceptable ......... if I pull in with say 100 yards to go and some **** races down the outside to push in I will drive out to block - the car on the left sees what I have done and maintains my gap
Its usually BMWs and they are universally hated for some reason, so every one claps when they get caught .........
Pete
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Originally Posted by pslewis
It is simply to stop the selfish *******s who drive to the very point of convergence and push in, when everyone else has filtered before hand ... and WELL DONE TRUCKERS!!!
However, if everyone filtered at the end of the lane in turn it would begin to be seen as acceptable ......... if I pull in with say 100 yards to go and some **** races down the outside to push in I will drive out to block - the car on the left sees what I have done and maintains my gap
Its usually BMWs and they are universally hated for some reason, so every one claps when they get caught .........
Pete
However, if everyone filtered at the end of the lane in turn it would begin to be seen as acceptable ......... if I pull in with say 100 yards to go and some **** races down the outside to push in I will drive out to block - the car on the left sees what I have done and maintains my gap
Its usually BMWs and they are universally hated for some reason, so every one claps when they get caught .........
Pete
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Originally Posted by pslewis
However, if everyone filtered at the end of the lane in turn it would begin to be seen as acceptable
Why can't we all just be reasnoble and behave sensibly, fortunately I think that we are heading that way slowly.
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Originally Posted by RJMS
Why can't we all just be reasnoble and behave sensibly, fortunately I think that we are heading that way slowly.
It's about time we used both lanes for as long as possible and took turns in the filter ... thats why there are two lanes ...
But, you run the risk of severe road rage if you push in and face a smacking given the wrong type of person you try to push in front of!!
Pete
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if I pull in with say 100 yards to go and some **** races down the outside to push in I will drive out to block - the car on the left sees what I have done and maintains my gap
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If the law was merge in turn, how would all the people who race down the outside feel if there were 40 artics on the inside, they would soon want to get back in their lane as that queue would be moving MUCH faster
Truckers are restricted to 55mph and it takes long enough to get from A-B as it is without all these selfish ******* flying past and diving in the front making the trucks queueing time even longer
Keep it up truckers and I will always maintain your gap
Truckers are restricted to 55mph and it takes long enough to get from A-B as it is without all these selfish ******* flying past and diving in the front making the trucks queueing time even longer
Keep it up truckers and I will always maintain your gap
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Sorry Al, I beg to differ on this one. One of my pet hates, is to**ers that go down the o/s lane when they were warned a mile back of the lane closure. It irritates me no end, that some tw!t in his 5 series, thinks he has priority over me. Go on the truckers, I say. I do it, in my scoob as well. Cover two lanes so noone can pass on either side. If the rest of us can wait, so can you IMO. Traffic would flow more freely if everyone had some manners
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I see this nearly everyday!
Lane closed in 1 mile, people immediatly move over???
Then there is an empty lane three (or whatever lane it is) for 500 yards
I continue to near the end of the lane and merge at the front
Lane closed in 1 mile, people immediatly move over???
Then there is an empty lane three (or whatever lane it is) for 500 yards
I continue to near the end of the lane and merge at the front
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Originally Posted by steffiraf
Cover two lanes so noone can pass on either side. If the rest of us can wait, so can you IMO. Traffic would flow more freely if everyone had some manners
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The drivers who queue way too early are the problem. On roads other than motorways were you might join from a roundabout, you find you have no choice other than to be in the outside lane wanting to filter in. You can still get treated as though you are trying to queue jump, although occassionally you do come across a driver using his/her brain who lets you in.
The British love to queue and fail to see it can be unnecessary if filtering is done properly.
The British love to queue and fail to see it can be unnecessary if filtering is done properly.
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Originally Posted by Scooby Soon!
Thats not nice calling spoon a ****,
Language like that shouldnt be used on these boards
Language like that shouldnt be used on these boards
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Originally Posted by steffiraf
Sorry Al, I beg to differ on this one. One of my pet hates, is to**ers that go down the o/s lane when they were warned a mile back of the lane closure. It irritates me no end, that some tw!t in his 5 series, thinks he has priority over me. Go on the truckers, I say. I do it, in my scoob as well. Cover two lanes so noone can pass on either side. If the rest of us can wait, so can you IMO. Traffic would flow more freely if everyone had some manners
I think you're wrong. It's your choice to get in lane far too early, and I'm sure it derives from a very English sense of good manners. However, I'm sure the people that plan these merge points dont expect drivers to travel as single-lane traffic for half a mile previously.
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Originally Posted by steffiraf
Bring it on!
I'm sure I will have plenty of witnesses that will back me up
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My original post was aimed at scooby soon , and his **** driving style ,it just so happened that someone else posted as i was typing!!!
No Offence meant to Spoon!!
Offence meant to scooby soon
No Offence meant to Spoon!!
Offence meant to scooby soon
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To put the problem to bed the road markings should give a more consise description of where and when they want you to merge.
At the moment all you get is "50 in 3/4mile"
then the "50 Limit"
then the 600yds marker starts...
Would it not be better to have "start merging now" at the 600 yds marker.
Then you CANT have people blocking you because the sign's "telling me to get in, so feckin let me in"
Admittedly it's a bit of a "sheep herding principle" but I really think it's needed for some people.
Everyone knows where they stand then, "Merge Here"..not before, not after.
Andy
At the moment all you get is "50 in 3/4mile"
then the "50 Limit"
then the 600yds marker starts...
Would it not be better to have "start merging now" at the 600 yds marker.
Then you CANT have people blocking you because the sign's "telling me to get in, so feckin let me in"
Admittedly it's a bit of a "sheep herding principle" but I really think it's needed for some people.
Everyone knows where they stand then, "Merge Here"..not before, not after.
Andy
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Originally Posted by pslewis
Its usually BMWs and they are universally hated for some reason, so every one claps when they get caught
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Originally Posted by Trucker Ted
My original post was aimed at scooby soon , and his **** driving style ,it just so happened that someone else posted as i was typing!!!
No Offence meant to Spoon!!
Offence meant to scooby soon
No Offence meant to Spoon!!
Offence meant to scooby soon
Getting wound up on a bbs is for the youngsters or the insecure.
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
I think you're wrong. It's your choice to get in lane far too early, and I'm sure it derives from a very English sense of good manners. However, I'm sure the people that plan these merge points dont expect drivers to travel as single-lane traffic for half a mile previously.