This morning eastbound on M4 just after Reading/Wokingham junction I came up behind a Tesco artic doing its usual 50mph. Just about to move out and pass when he decides to move into the middle lane to overtake a Bartrums artic. It took this clown all the way almost to Maidenhead to get past so that I and all the other motorists in the huge queue behind could get past them. He must have spent about 15 minutes turning the motorway into a single track road. I was that embarrassed thinking that those behind me might think it was me holding them up that I moved back into the inside lane. Surely one of them should have realised that no-one was winning and eased up and cleared the motorway without it taking the best part of 9 miles. Then phrase “shallow end of the gene pool” springs to mind when two supposedly professional drivers behave like that and give us all a bad name. Rant over.
Shallow end right enough.Unfortunately there are too many clowns on our roads these days and I am sure by the bad attitudes on this forum they are the some of the ones we see everyday.
Ignorant selfish and quite often dangerous.
Ashamed to admit to being a truck driver these days because there are so many bad ones and the problem is they think they are good.
Met plenty like that over the years.All very sad for the transport industry going downhill at a great rate.
Im not defending the Tesco driver , but surely the Bartrums clown must have seen the tailback cause by the Tesco trying to overtake him and backed of 2k’s just for 90 seconds and let the Tesco clear him .
Personally if i was in the Tesco’s position I would have backed off and let the faster traffic past.
Some lorry drivers nowadays are complete tossers .
I would of used the 3rd lane if i knew i could get round fast and not hold anyone up.
I would have used the hard shoulder.
Bring on the RM video…
Saaamon:
I would of used the 3rd lane if i knew i could get round fast and not hold anyone up.
Same here
Agreed batrums was a ■■■■■■ although being a tescos motor was there really any point in overtaking with their two runs a day, cushy 9 to 5 number with zero deadlines and zero stress involved in their job??
But even after all of this I’m failing to see why there would be a long tailback in lane 2… Ohhhhh wait, I know why, because the average British motorist can’t check their mirrors without braking simultaneously and dare not go out in lane 3 (the fast lane to any car drivers reading this) so they just sit there in lane 2 (thats the middle lane… the one you love) and moan that two lorries are overtaking each other. But to be fair they do try their best, what with them resting their fingers on the indicator stork waiting for that precise moment to flick it DURING the manoeuvre and not a second before.
Hi - ho, when two idiots meet… 
Why dose this type of driving keep geting posted its Neely evry dAy just get over it
It’s always some tesco ■■■■■■ isn’t it, ffs… 
“Tesco values your safety…40mph on single carriageways…50mph on duels and mways…” What the sticker doesn’t explain is why at least two of their double deckers were barely doing 45 on the M5 yesterday. I saw a couple of cars and lorries brake hard when they nearly rear ended them.
Tesco drivers may well be a bunch of tossers,I have to agree,I end up repairing the damage these clowns do to the vehicles however:
Watching some of the other"professionals" eg Stobarts,Turners and quite a few others trying to reverse a trailer on to a bay in the yard brings tears to your eyes.
It aint just Tesco drivers who should get slagged off,there are plenty of other dim wits out there behind a truck steering wheel who should really take up some other form of employment.And lets not forget the truck might have Tesco written on the side but it could well be some agency plant pot steering the bloody thing.
Problem is… Limiters… Limiters… Limiters 
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@ OP, did the Tesco driver take it up to 56mph when he pulled out or still maintain 50mph?
JLS Driver SOS:
Problem is… Limiters… Limiters… Limiters
+1 but also I think lane 1 should of backed off 4 a few seconds if I was in the middle lane overtaking another truck and saw a truck behind me there is No way I would back off you have a very good chance of being rear ended and maybe cause a very nasty accident,lots of rear end accidents on motorways are where vehicles have backed off no break lights smash .
Bking:
And lets not forget the truck might have Tesco written on the side but it could well be some agency plant pot steering the bloody thing.
And in this case it may have been a staff or Stobart “plant pot.”
Ken.
alte hase:
Am I the only one thinking that hgv drivers today seem to have lost all sense of proportion, even if the ‘overtaking’ truck does get by, what real world advantage will have been gained by doing so, in a country the size of a small australian farm?, driving along in a speed limited vehicle, limited to 9 hours a day, even if the numbnut doing the ‘overtaking’ can permanently maintain the speed differential all 9 hours, which in britain is impossible, at the end of the day the overtaken ‘slower’ vehicle would have arrived behind the ‘faster’ vehicle before the driver will have filled in his journey sheet, in the meantime all motorways are reduced to hgv rolling roadblocks, as these ‘dumbos’ show off their elephant racing skills to every other road user group, professional drivers?.
Your logic is wrong though in my opinion, as if everyone just sat behind the slower truck then you would just get a long line of HGVs in lane 1 the length of the country causing much more congestion further down the line rather than just 2 trucks overtaking.
All that needs to be done is when being overtaken if quite slowly is just knock it back and let him go, it’s so easy.
Dafman:
Saaamon:
I would of used the 3rd lane if i knew i could get round fast and not hold anyone up.Same here
+3 iv done it a few times 
FarnboroughBoy11:
Agreed batrums was a ■■■■■■ although being a tescos motor was there really any point in overtaking with their two runs a day, cushy 9 to 5 number with zero deadlines and zero stress involved in their job??But even after all of this I’m failing to see why there would be a long tailback in lane 2… Ohhhhh wait, I know why, because the average British motorist can’t check their mirrors without braking simultaneously and dare not go out in lane 3 (the fast lane to any car drivers reading this) so they just sit there in lane 2 (thats the middle lane… the one you love) and moan that two lorries are overtaking each other. But to be fair they do try their best, what with them resting their fingers on the indicator stork waiting for that precise moment to flick it DURING the manoeuvre and not a second before.
Sometimes you just can’t pull out into the THIRD lane cos it’s jam packed with cars and there is no safe gap