Middle lane hoggers
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Middle lane hoggers
Is it illegal to flash middle lane motorway hoggers i'm getting really fed up with drivers who just sit in the middle lane when the nearside lane is empty particularly at night when th eroads are pretty empty. Why do they do this
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I can't believe that I've just come in from a run out near Leeds and read this post.
I was cursing a bunch of the ******* on the way down there!!! What's the point of dawdling along in the middle lane, at 60mph in your red P-reg Micra??
Kinda forces people into "undertaking" doesn't it?
I can't believe that I've just come in from a run out near Leeds and read this post.
I was cursing a bunch of the ******* on the way down there!!! What's the point of dawdling along in the middle lane, at 60mph in your red P-reg Micra??
Kinda forces people into "undertaking" doesn't it?
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Howy
I can't believe that I've just come in from a run out near Leeds and read this post.
I was cursing a bunch of the ******* on the way down there!!! What's the point of dawdling along in the middle lane, at 60mph in your red P-reg Micra??
Kinda forces people into "undertaking" doesn't it?
I can't believe that I've just come in from a run out near Leeds and read this post.
I was cursing a bunch of the ******* on the way down there!!! What's the point of dawdling along in the middle lane, at 60mph in your red P-reg Micra??
Kinda forces people into "undertaking" doesn't it?
Maybe we need to start a campaign like hoot a hogger or flash a f****r
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here here , i do lots of motorway miles a week and have now been passing the time thinking up names for these to££ers ,
Current favourite is "compressors" making the road into a dual carriage way ,
God damn w***ers
Current favourite is "compressors" making the road into a dual carriage way ,
God damn w***ers
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Say what you like but I always undertake them with my horn pressed on...
This is after following for at least a mile to gauge their intent
This is after following for at least a mile to gauge their intent
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Try driving from say Manchester to M62 / A1 junction and its full of middle lane morons, - no idea why they sit in the middle lane when lanes around them are empty ! Does give you a kind of satifiaction when wake one up and make them go into lane one.
Like the idea of the horn while passing - must try that one !
Almost worth buying one of those electronic signs for the back of the car and display some message about them hogging the middle lane ! Could be a laugh !
Richard
Like the idea of the horn while passing - must try that one !
Almost worth buying one of those electronic signs for the back of the car and display some message about them hogging the middle lane ! Could be a laugh !
Richard
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What's just as bad is lack of any road sense. I drive a big delivery van and a lot of driving is on the motorway. I find it particularly annoying when folk don't have the foresight to keep the inside lane clear when approaching and going past entry slip roads. The big HGVs all move into the centre lane but you will always get the odd dawdler playing chicken and forcing you to come to a complete halt before you can join the motorway.
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if i get stuff behind them for more then 3mins and they show no sign they are going to move i under take them they **** me off then they have the nerv to look at you as if you have done some thing(yes i know under taking is dangerous bla bla bla) if they would move over we wouldnt have to do this !!
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I'm not generally happy undertaking anyone in the middle lane unless my lane is going faster than the middle lane although sometimes I find I am the only one in my lane.
However, I am relatively happy to undertake someone if there is a free lane between us although, one day, I'm sure it will attract unwanted attention.
However, I am relatively happy to undertake someone if there is a free lane between us although, one day, I'm sure it will attract unwanted attention.
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too true i undertake only when i know it is safe, but i do think that these people are either lazy drivers or very bad drivers that need the whole road to drive within there comfort zone.
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Have a look at this web site middle lane morons
Drives me mad too, i did hear that these gibbons take up about 700 miles of road! dunno how true that is though.
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Drives me mad too, i did hear that these gibbons take up about 700 miles of road! dunno how true that is though.
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Have a look at this web site middle lane morons
Drives me mad too, i did hear that these gibbons take up about 700 miles of road! dunno how true that is though.
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Drives me mad too, i did hear that these gibbons take up about 700 miles of road! dunno how true that is though.
Sherlock
Shelock never actually said that though!
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Try driving from say Manchester to M62 / A1 junction and its full of middle lane morons, - no idea why they sit in the middle lane when lanes around them are empty ! Does give you a kind of satifiaction when wake one up and make them go into lane one.
Like the idea of the horn while passing - must try that one !
Almost worth buying one of those electronic signs for the back of the car and display some message about them hogging the middle lane ! Could be a laugh !
Richard
Like the idea of the horn while passing - must try that one !
Almost worth buying one of those electronic signs for the back of the car and display some message about them hogging the middle lane ! Could be a laugh !
Richard
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Even moving from the inside lane to the outside and nearly taking their front end off when moving back to the inside doesn't work all the time
We should have compulsary motorway disipline taught and made part of the test, like when in europe. you never see it happening or very rarely.
We should have compulsary motorway disipline taught and made part of the test, like when in europe. you never see it happening or very rarely.
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I reckon the worst place for it is on the A2/M2, the new 4-lane section, London bound, near the Medway crossing. For some reason, people sit in the THIRD lane there
I just go on my merry way in the inside lane and ignore them. Beats me why they do it.
Was once towing a large trailer down to Dover, followed some old witch for MILES on the M11 as she was in the middle lane at 50mph, the inside lane was full of HGVs, and I wasn't allowed in the third lane. It'd be just my luck to run out of patience just as I overtook PC plod in an unmarked
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I just go on my merry way in the inside lane and ignore them. Beats me why they do it.
Was once towing a large trailer down to Dover, followed some old witch for MILES on the M11 as she was in the middle lane at 50mph, the inside lane was full of HGVs, and I wasn't allowed in the third lane. It'd be just my luck to run out of patience just as I overtook PC plod in an unmarked
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Gives me the s**ts these no brain drivers.
I bought one of these,
EVS - Emergency Vehicle Solutions : Alternating Headlight Flasher Kit [LH910WW] - £21.28
and give them a quick flash of this and you should see the look on thier faces and watch them them move over.
Know it's illegal and will get caught one day but boy does it work.
I bought one of these,
EVS - Emergency Vehicle Solutions : Alternating Headlight Flasher Kit [LH910WW] - £21.28
and give them a quick flash of this and you should see the look on thier faces and watch them them move over.
Know it's illegal and will get caught one day but boy does it work.
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What's just as bad is lack of any road sense. I drive a big delivery van and a lot of driving is on the motorway. I find it particularly annoying when folk don't have the foresight to keep the inside lane clear when approaching and going past entry slip roads. The big HGVs all move into the centre lane but you will always get the odd dawdler playing chicken and forcing you to come to a complete halt before you can join the motorway.
I'm caught between the wto - staying in the inside lane and just driving past them at whatever speed I am doing, wonderinfg if they are thinking 'look at that idiot for undertaking' when I'm laughing at them, or indeed pulling out behind them and cutting them up when I come back in - for which they often flash the lights. Total joke really.
I have once, about 10 years ago, seen a copper driving up behind people in the middle lane and flashing high lights - they then move over and he moved onto the next one. The only time I have EVER seen it.
And well done to the poster who said it turns them into d/carriageways. Too blinkin right it does and that creates more jams than anything on our motorways.