Take a couple of clicks off and relax. Take in the scenery, occasionally glancing down to your right, you never know you might just get a nice flash of leg from passing yummy mummy 
Conan the Librarian:
Take a couple of clicks off and relax. Take in the scenery, occasionally glancing down to your right, you never know you might just get a nice flash of leg from passing yummy mummy
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Mmmm, perks of the job!
Dipper_Dave:
My simple solution is to not bother overtaking through roadworks, its muppetry of the highest order. I think trucks should be banned from all but the nearside lane of roadworks also. To compensate nearside lane should be HGV only unless leaving or joining the carriag…Oh apart from Fridays when my high horse has a day off and Im just a roadwork tailgating muppet like everyone else
Actually a great idea!
I am chilled today, seen lots of yummy mummies coming through Sheffield in rush hour 
Comment re North Circ: there are some parts of North Circ that are 40mph. And I know for a fact that alot of people think its 40 all the way. give em the benefit of the doubt and take a few clicks off or move into the fast lane and go past em.
As for the actual act of staying in the middle lane on the M1…most drivers will eventually notice a truck behind em and either move out of your way or speed up. * most drivers with common sense who check their mirrors i must hastily add lol* Road rage is a major issue for me. I lose my temper very easily. but in more recent days I try to think twice. And slow drivers infront of me really used to annoy me.
As someone said… Enjoy the scenery
Shandy123:
Actually a great idea!
I am chilled today, seen lots of yummy mummies coming through Sheffield in rush hour
Cant beat it weathers warming up time for some extreme letching. Im very fond of the M1 at the moment and if the radio says heavy traffic through the roadworks im so there.
Shandy123:
Dipper_Dave:
My simple solution is to not bother overtaking through roadworks, its muppetry of the highest order. I think trucks should be banned from all but the nearside lane of roadworks also. To compensate nearside lane should be HGV only unless leaving or joining the carriag…Oh apart from Fridays when my high horse has a day off and Im just a roadwork tailgating muppet like everyone else
Actually a great idea!
I am chilled today, seen lots of yummy mummies coming through Sheffield in rush hour
Sheffield… You sure? 
Dipper_Dave:
Shandy123:
It got to me today. On the 50mph sections. What do you do about it? Grind your teeth, or take a few clicks off and move into the first lane?My simple solution is to not bother overtaking through roadworks, its muppetry of the highest order. I think trucks should be banned from all but the nearside lane of roadworks also. To compensate nearside lane should be HGV only unless leaving or joining the carriageway.
Course this would mean doing crazy things like leaving really big gaps to the truck in front.
Honestly why stress over this, just stay in the nearside and tootle along. You chose your profession accept your fate and relax, most of the time we get in everybody elses way.
+1
I just sit in lane 1 through roadworks now, much more relaxing. Let everyone else stress over the rat race.
peirre:
50mph through the roadworks is a limit, not a target.
+1
I was driving back from France a few years ago after taking the lil un to disney land. Going through Roadworks on the M25 in the slow lane at the limit of 50mph and some d**kwad in a truck came up from behind me and started flashing for me to speed up…was dark so couldnt see his plate nor see the company name on his curtain. I stuck to my guns and carried on at 50. next thing i know…hes going past me and starting to drift into my lane forcing me to brake sharply and almost lose control of my car. He eventually ended up in my lane ofcourse…his intensions were clear! 
I was lucky and so was my family!!
The limit is there for a reason…truck or taxi or whatever one drives!
TheBorg:
If you’re struggling to think of things that you can do, then I suggest you ask a lorry driver.
I like your style. OP seems suitably confused by it.
Try easing back and expending your mental energy doing the mathematics of how much you’re actually losing.
A loss of 5 mph over a 20 mile stretch is probably not going to be worth more than a minute or two on your journey time. Few jobs rely on that kind of precision on deadlines, so it isn’t worth getting worked up.
Also, bear in mind that any vehicles you manage to overtake in the roadworks section are going to go straight past you once they’re allowed up to 70 mph again, so you gain nothing in road position either.
Chilling is the best option really…
ORC:
Try easing back and expending your mental energy doing the mathematics of how much you’re actually losing.A loss of 5 mph over a 20 mile stretch is probably not going to be worth more than a minute or two on your journey time. Few jobs rely on that kind of precision on deadlines, so it isn’t worth getting worked up.
Also, bear in mind that any vehicles you manage to overtake in the roadworks section are going to go straight past you once they’re allowed up to 70 mph again, so you gain nothing in road position either.
Chilling is the best option really…
Yep, I was much more chilled out on those sections today, and I came home a lot happier.
I had a tester for me today.
04.30 M4 roadworks section, the bit with 6’6" limit on the outer lanes.
Anyway im tootling through the pick and shovel limiter set bang on 80kph (50mph ish in old money), not another vehicle for at least half a mile, roadworks all to meself. Slip road coming up and catch a van in me wide angle view on the slip road well behind me accelerating.
Now to the novice one would expect the van to merge safely behind, oh no not this organ sack, instead it was a race to the cones. Now I have 3 instant options, 1 evade a collision by moving over into the restricted lanes, 2 brake / ease off to avoid aforementioned collision, 3 bollock it onto the slip road in front of him cutting his plan dead causing him to brake sharply then give him the horn + coffee beans as he passed and make a gesture to get on the hard shoulder for a fight whilst continuing up his arse through the remaining roadworks flashing lights and papping horn like a demented idiot…
I choose option 2 and even flashed the bugger in to remove all doubt, im such a ■■■■■.
But I did give him a right dirty chunter to meself for the next minute or two…
I enjoy your little rambling anecdotes and playful narratives Dave! 
Reminds me of an ■■■ rated Jackanory! 
Conan the Librarian:
Take a couple of clicks off and relax. Take in the scenery, occasionally glancing down to your right, you never know you might just get a nice flash of leg from passing yummy mummy
I took your advice, and it bore fruit today: 
Had on today who cut sharply into my braking space from lane three, brake checked me and gave me the old coffee shaker. All because I was in lane two. ■■■■■■■ sea squirt (thats a squishy sea creature that eats it’s own brain) obviously didn’t realise that lane one was becoming the slip road for the M180. He then stuck his foot down and made progress by swerving between lane one and two to overtake cars, causing them to brake hard!
Some people are born ■■■■■, some become ■■■■■, theres ■■■■ all you can do ahout it, so why worry?
Shandy123:
Conan the Librarian:
Take a couple of clicks off and relax. Take in the scenery, occasionally glancing down to your right, you never know you might just get a nice flash of leg from passing yummy mummyI took your advice, and it bore fruit today:
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Phone number?
muckles:
Most car speedometers are very inaccurate so at 45mph they might be reading somewhere near 50mph, your tachograph is calibrated, so you’ll get a far more accurate speed reading.
I think thats very true. I was doing 60 in my car and struggling to pass a wagon on the motorway the other day, and no way the wagon was doing 60, or anything near.
ajt:
‘…car drivers … they aren’t that clever…’
+1
Conan the Librarian:
Shandy123:
Conan the Librarian:
Take a couple of clicks off and relax. Take in the scenery, occasionally glancing down to your right, you never know you might just get a nice flash of leg from passing yummy mummyI took your advice, and it bore fruit today:
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Phone number?
… You want my phone number?
Shandy123:
Conan the Librarian:
Shandy123:
Conan the Librarian:
Take a couple of clicks off and relax. Take in the scenery, occasionally glancing down to your right, you never know you might just get a nice flash of leg from passing yummy mummyI took your advice, and it bore fruit today:
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Phone number?
… You want my phone number?
Well it is Sunday… 