Before I proceed,the drivers who do this are wrong & giving us a bad name!
I am talking about the old trick of undertaking other trucks on 2 lane Motorways & dual carriageways.
I now drive a rigid but in my time as a hgv driver I have driven all sorts of combinations. This has happened to me a few times within the last couple of weeks mainly on duel carriageways. I pull out to overtake a artic which is going slower than me. I get two thirds past & the driver doesn’t like been overtaken by a rigid. The driver starts to accelerate on the inside, we are now doing the same speed with a queue of traffic behind me. It takes a long blast on the horn from me before the driver on the inside decides to slow down & let me in. But best of all they don’t even attempt to overtake me now they can legally. Who gives a **** what we are driving we have goods on the back & we are going to deliver those items. When I passed my test there were more rigids than artics now it is the opposite, but back then we all had respect for any driver of a HGV. This happened on the A1 it also happened on the A14 & the A650 near Keighley. It’s a dangerous & illegal manoeruvre! End of!
Hmmmm, does this seem to mostly happen when you start overtaking just before a downhill stretch by any chance? Or at the top of an uphill section maybe?
Something along those lines happens to me quite frequently, here we are in convoy, we approach a slight incline and I am at 44t so lose a few clicks, this impatient prat behind me now feels he can overtake me with a 2 kph speed difference without seeing that we are cresting so of course as soon as he is halfway my trailer, I get back to 56 and this prat just hangs there in my mirror.
I am in an FH, so the CC happily overspeed by 5kph once we crest.
They usually are rigid drivers, can’t read the road ahead of them.
Les Shoes:
Hmmmm, does this seem to mostly happen when you start overtaking just before a downhill stretch by any chance? Or at the top of an uphill section maybe?
wheelnutt:
Something along those lines happens to me quite frequently, here we are in convoy, we approach a slight incline and I am at 44t so lose a few clicks, this impatient prat behind me now feels he can overtake me with a 2 kph speed difference without seeing that we are cresting so of course as soon as he is halfway my trailer, I get back to 56 and this prat just hangs there in my mirror.
I am in an FH, so happily overspeed by 5kph once we crest.
They usually are rigid drivers, can’t read the road ahead of them.
You are correct in what you have said, I see horrendous driving by artic drivers that should not be allowed a license for a wheelbarrow.
Elephant racing is two drivers refusing to slow to let the other get past.
Imbecile nutters that tailgate cars in front if them in average speed road works and use bully boy tactics such as tooting horns and flashing head lights .
If you see bad driving, ring their boss, it may save a life one day .
They know police spending cuts and not many patrols .
Do you lot think I’m thick, I’ve been driving trucks for 27 years. I know about the momentum aspect, I bet all those replies come from Class 1 I own the road brigade, the three instances I quoted were all on flat sections It’s a game you lot like to play & of course you’re never wrong!
daf1691:
Do you lot think I’m thick, I’ve been driving trucks for 27 years. I know about the momentum aspect, I bet all those replies come from Class 1 I own the road brigade, the three instances I quoted were all on flat sections It’s a game you lot like to play & of course you’re never wrong!
I call it baby games!!!
Get off your high horse and get a grip.Yes i think your think moanong about the most minor issue in life.
I am on the side of daf1691, there must be a new sport going on as I see it happen all the time.
You are lane two on a motorway and overtaking a slower truck in lane one .
Another truck who is behind the slower truck decides to not indicate or one or two flicks then pulls out in lane two resulting in me anchoring up or to avoid a collision move over to lane three .
Highway Code says you can’t force another motorist to alter their course or change their speed .
Muppetry at it’s higher level .
Surprisingly rude and unprofessional reaction from so many drivers - in replies of this post…
Author is right and it is common worldwide practise or if you wish etiquette not to speed up when other driver is overtaking you… even to slow down to let them in… in the same way as it is not to slow down straight after he let you in…
I guess this thread shows how many drivers are nasty creatures…
All general public already treat us as filthy dumb animals, the least we could do is not treat each other that way and follow road etiquette…
daf1691:
Do you lot think I’m thick, I’ve been driving trucks for 27 years. I know about the momentum aspect, I bet all those replies come from Class 1 I own the road brigade, the three instances I quoted were all on flat sections It’s a game you lot like to play & of course you’re never wrong!
I call it baby games!!!
Jeez!.. chill out man, you are being wound up about the rigid thing ffs
Speaking as a ‘Class 1 I own the road brigade’ type I agree with you, it happens not just with rigids but with us ‘C1Iotrb’ types also.
Me, if somebody rigid, or artic, pulls out to pass, and it gets to an on the limiter situation, I aint a ■■■■ so I’ll back off a couple of clicks, because wtf if you lose all of 5 seconds, (and if that’s the reason you ARE doing it, well you aint doing the job properly, the world will not ■■■■■■ end if your load of bog rolls is 5mins late at Tescos )
When you are past me, and as long as you aint a bigger ■■■■ and pull in too early .(…now that does stew my ■■■■ big style) I will give you a quick flash (headlights btw ) and everybody’s happier. Life is too ■■■■ short for unnecessary confrontation between drivers and ‘‘drivers’’
daf1691:
Do you lot think I’m thick, I’ve been driving trucks for 27 years. I know about the momentum aspect, I bet all those replies come from Class 1 I own the road brigade, the three instances I quoted were all on flat sections It’s a game you lot like to play & of course you’re never wrong!
I call it baby games!!!
Reading between the lines, I think your fury is actually at the fact your doing class 2 work but want to be among the big boys…
A few minor incidents and before we know it, we all start feeling like the world’s against us.
How many trucks did you pass that didn’t hang you out to dry?
The problem is that as humans we all focus and dwell on the negative, often making more out of it than it really is.
Just chill, knock off a couple of clicks and turn up the Bob Marley!
Jeez!.. chill out man, you are being wound up about the rigid thing ffs 
I agree with you, it happens not just with rigids but with us ‘C1Iotrb’ types also.
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.(…now that does stew my ■■■■ big style) I will give you a quick flash (headlights btw 