Bad Driving Habits

ItsJoe:
Clearly not the brightest spark in the room are you

Stop being a bully.

Wheel Nut:
I overtake police cars when they are doing 67 mph on the motorway.

You wanna watch out with that, a few years back I did that on the M25 in my old Volvo estate loaded with booze from Calais for my silver wedding do. Next thing I knew, they came up the inside, waved me onto the shoulder and asked me to follow them to the weighbridge as they suspected I was overloaded as it was sat well down. They weighed me, it wasn’t over, they looked disappointed, probably hoping I’d have to leave some behind! :wink:
Bernard

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Adonis.:

harrawaffa:
Getting fed up being stuck behind parcel plobbers battling it out for miles on end and taking to lane 3 to dust them.
Could be considered a bad habit.

Also guilty of blowing mirrors off in lane 3 as the Battle of The Beano Bellends takes place at 54 in lanes 1 and 2.

A.

Stuck at 54 you just wouldnt bother trying would you. At that speed better to keep to lane one, get your feet up and put a film on…

James the cat:

Wheel Nut:
I undertake vehicles if they are in the wrong lane or hogging. I overtake police cars when they are doing 67 mph on the motorway. I drive to the shop without a seat belt and my dog sits on the back seat without a harness

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Plus If you harness them up they can’t stick their head out a window. Why do dogs like sticking their chops in the wind? Cracks me up every time.

+1
especially when they dont like it when you blow in their face.

dieseldog999:
+1
especially when they dont like it when you blow in their face.

Good to know. I was thinking of doing that sometime soon.

James the cat:
Plus If you harness them up they can’t stick their head out a window.

Our daft dawg can as the lead to the harness is adjustable

I break wind a lot when driving …Does that count.

You lot want to be in the car with my missus…i have nightmares, my feet are wanting to push through the floor… i have to in dicate for her as she leaves it to the last minute, and shes oblivious to it…bloody hell, she brakes hard if theres a poxy pigeon in the road…and shouts at the top of her voice when i`m driving and theres a pigeon… STOP…which i never do…had one go POP once…she never liked that…ha ha.
Must admit i am Mr perfect, strap my loads…( got £100 fine once…never again )…never undertake though…would sooner wait and flash him/her…
I check my unit and trailer for everything, lights, brake lights ( carry a piece of wood to wedge the pedal ) and m.o.t. always have spare tacho rolls, do a walk round check every morning…didnt stop my trailer wheel falling off though, and careering across the carriageway just missing a car…but felled a newly planted sapling…lol…i try and do everything to the book…but i wont use a hard shoulder unless i have a problem…live lane or no live lane…should never have happened just to save money on building another lane in the first place.
I also carry a few tools, tape, bulbs, jump leads…everything for a full load…straps, anti slip rubbers…even ropes…a bungee, and if something breaks, i want it fixed…as i always say…if its there…it should work.

Adonis.:

harrawaffa:
Getting fed up being stuck behind parcel plobbers battling it out for miles on end and taking to lane 3 to dust them.
Could be considered a bad habit.

Also guilty of blowing mirrors off in lane 3 as the Battle of The Beano Bellends takes place at 54 in lanes 1 and 2.

A.

Or lane 4 I had 2 morrisons battling it out and next to them was a Sainsburys 2 miles and they not made progress so boot got so strange looks

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I always yield. Like if I’m overtaking another truck and I can see he’s catching something I’ll ease off let him out then overtake after.

Likewise if something is coming down a sliproad and lane two is clear I’ll move out so they can join.

But I’ve developed a bad habit of pinning ignorant ■■■■■ in. Like a Morrison’s driver yesterday who I moved into lane two for so he could join onky for him to then match my speed as I was 3/4 of the way past him so I was stuck. I could’ve eased off but so could he. So I pinned him in as he caught something in lane one. Jnob8

Professional drivers are hard to find these days. Clearly outnumbered by clowns that seem to think they own the road. Standards have slipped drastically. Most drivers with bad driving habits do not even realise they have them. They become complacent and don’t seem to realise the dangers they put themselves and others at.
E.G. Do the undertakers (on here) realise how it can all go wrong? Probably not, because they do it once or twice a week and get away with it so they think it is not a problem.
Same with the ones that travel far too close to the vehicle in front. Same with the ones that think they are ok to break the speed limit. Same with the ones that do not have proper rest periods.
I could go on but nothing is going to change. Or is it? :smiley:

Not really undertaking but using the smart motorway as it was intended and gaining a massive advantage on slow traffic in other lanes.
To ensure I keep the moral high ground I never leave the hard shoulder unless it changes to use for a specific junction.

Bad habits of my youth include car theft, joy riding, police chases- pretty much every bad habit there is I’ve done, apart from brake testing I’ll never do that.
Oh and I touch myself inappropriately on the motorways.

Well done Dipper Dave for giving an opinion on the subject. You are quite correct there are certain times when you can quite safely undertake but I get the feeling some on here were not talking about these times.

It is strange how some react when you pull them up about something and in this case it just proves one thing. Guilty of bad driving as we see day in day out by the supposedly professional drivers. :unamused:

Of course they are not willing to discuss why ‘professional’ drivers disobey the law and disregard others safety. Bad habits, bad drivers that do not even realise it.

Thankfully things are changing. :smiley:

The four stages of learning. Unfortunately the knuckle-draggers get stuck on stage 1 and never move on.

  1. Unconscious incompetence - You’re doing it wrong, but don’t realize it.

  2. Conscious incompetence - You’re still doing it wrong, but realize it.

  3. Conscious competence - You’re doing it right, but have to think about it all the time to do it right.

  4. Unconscious competence - You can do it right without constantly thinking about it."

Dipper_Dave:
Oh and I touch myself inappropriately on the motorways.

You’ve never had a ■■■■ until you’ve had a ■■■■ at 56 mph