It’s going to be a busy evening for the coat fairy.
Can’t see how that sort of behaviour can be seen as dangerous, since your both traveling in the same direction!
“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.”
You should give up driving and take to the stage with your mind reading skills!
I find this sort of thing happens when there is a bit of a hill involved. Either the one overtaking has run out of puff going up or the one on the inside is letting it run on the way down. Also there is the slip stream effect. You are being pulled along by the wagon you are passing until you break out of the tow effect and hit the head wind.
weeto:
Can’t see how that sort of behaviour can be seen as dangerous, since your both traveling in the same direction!
Dangerous? Arguable.
Muppetry and ■■■■ poor driver professionalism? Definitely.
robroy:
weeto:
Can’t see how that sort of behaviour can be seen as dangerous, since your both traveling in the same direction!Dangerous? Arguable.
Muppetry and ■■■■ poor driver professionalism? Definitely.
Oh yeah, I forgot that there are a few that like to crash into each other on straight motorways and dual carriageways, my bad 
Worse when you get some clown trucker who decides to come up your inside and join onto the bumper of the truck your attempting to overtake !!
In order of importance on the road…
Class one full time
Class one agency
Class two full time
Class two agency
You need to learn and accept this,if you are class two agency you should actually count yourself lucky you’re allowed to share our roads.
Expectations…Why do people have them? 
They only lead to disappointment.
Expect nothing, then everything else is a bonus, my glass is always full, never mind half full 
I get this stuff, but just hang back, get on with it and smile sweetly at folk, they seldom look at you as they go by, I find it a weird trait of the human species.
I will never let anyone I don`t even know change my mood or dictate what it should be, I am happy in my own little world and will wave to anyone who needs help.
daf1691:
… 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.
surely you can see you are in the wrong !!
blowing your horn because you misjudged your speed advantage ■■
expecting driver inside to " slow down " !!
get a grip man . since when has it been the inside trucks duty to slow down because you cocked up ■■
clean your glasses , pipe down and concentrate on the road .
end of .
I’ve helped out lots of rigid drivers. Some floppy ones as well to be fair.
What a very strange thread, if you fail to overtake the fault is your own. Yes there are situations other sisters don’t help us but hey hoo that’s life. The OP could perhaps try better forward planning, learning how to read other road users and driving with a bit in hand I.e. not on the limiter.
Sorry just noticed the OP is a puddle jumper driver, blooming class ■■■’s, as hopeless at reading the road as they are at pulling back in after an overtake, well that’s if they can manage it in the first place… 
Simple solution…run a a couple mph under the limiter, then if you catch another vehicle up, you have that bit of poke to get past easily with no fuss. Everyone’s happy, no one dies and it’s far more relaxing.
I must confess to an occasion of being as ■■■■ poor as the OP.
It was a moment of sheer agency (class 2). Id been following a foreign registered vehicle (or likely coarse fish worrier for the non PC amongst us), anyway I had 5mph in hand so went for it.
The moment I was half way past he floored it and started coming back at me. Well the moment he got level I let rip with the horn dropped the passenger window and called him all the ■■■■■ under the sun.
Now what I had forgotten was he was left hand drive so what I had actually done was given his wife in the passenger seat a tongue lashing (and not the one she would have enjoyed).
To cut a long story short we both ended up at the same truck stop so I apologised to him and his wife who spoke good english. Well tbf it was apologies all round and a sweet spitroast later on.
(I made up the spitroast bit)
daf1691:
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!
Stobard 
Immigrant:
daf1691:
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!
Stobard
Muppet.
boredwivdrivin:
daf1691:
… 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.surely you can see you are in the wrong !!
blowing your horn because you misjudged your speed advantage ■■
expecting driver inside to " slow down " !!
get a grip man . since when has it been the inside trucks duty to slow down.
Equally since when is it professionalism to react to crap driving by more crap driving.
Ok you are maybe right, the o/p either misjudged, didn’t realise, or didn’t give a ■■■■ about judging speed… who knows?
However, again if it was me, ■■■■ all to do with ‘‘duty’’ I would have backed off a couple of clicks, (before it got to the stage of him blasting the horn at me), called him a knob under my breath, and carried on safe in the knowledge that I was the better driver.
What about you, would you have left him hanging in the middle lane?
Slipstream; Draft or watch Formula 1 and how the DRS is used.
Simple, it is about turbulent or dirty air.
eagerbeaver:
" …duel carriageway’s…"A double lane section of roadway, where one challenge’s a fellow scoundrel or cad to a life or death ■■■■ measuring exercise.
The use of a firearm is the most common form, however a wet fish could also be used to slap the bounder’s face.
This is unlikely to result in death.
I always thought it was when you tried to fold their mirrors over as you go past. Then always give me a long congratulary honk when I manage it.
“Undertake Elephant Racing” is dangerous, and represents driving without due care (if you are doing it deliberately) and attention (if you’re not).
Then there’s me who’ll drop back when someone starts to elephant race me - for the benefit of other road users - only to see some skip/container/tipper jump in the idiot space I’ve just opened up. 
Driving along the M11 on the two lane stretch in morning rush hour is a good example of what to expect here. The has lots of two lane bits as well, and I think the whole of the A34 is only two lanes from Andover to Oxford.
All roads notorious for artics running into fields, fatalities, and shunting up people’s arses…
Take your time - stay alive. If you see others rushing to jump into a grave - let 'em get on with it. They’re not going to listen to you about driving safely any more than they’ll listen to you about “who to vote for” and “getting religion”.
It’s not worth getting steamed up about. That’s why I prefer being paid by the hour so I can take my time to any job and knock mentality.
Even though I’m salaried these days - the old habit remains. “Steady but surely” over “rush rush ”. 
That’s odd… I said “ay fourteen” and it got deleted from that post above… Hmm… 
xichrisxi:
In order of importance on the road…Class one full time
Class one agency
Class two full time
Class two agencyYou need to learn and accept this,if you are class two agency you should actually count yourself lucky you’re allowed to share our roads.
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I almost asked how can you tell who’s agency, then I remembered the uniform :L
Where do puddle jumpers come on this list? How about push bikes? How about motorbikes?