Letting in cars joining the motorway

scanny77:
option 3 with a very close eye on her wheels. i was ready to take action but as long as her wheels were not moving i figured my best option was use L1 since she was clearly waiting for the other car to pass her anyway. i dont know what action the truck driver took though. he would have been facing the same thing although he would obviously have seen her before i did due to the height advantage. no doubt he would have been as bewildered as i was to see a stationary car at the end of the slip road as if it was a give way junction. there wasnt anything in front of me when i joined the motorway and she wasnt in front of the truck so i have no idea how long she had been there or why she stopped. then again i dont know why the woman at haydock decided to walk out in front of me at haydock yesterday when i was turning into the RDC :confused:

Thats excatly what it is? Who has priority the main road or the side road? If its not safe to join then you stop not just white knuckle ride it and see what happens?

you merge with the flow of traffic, not stop and wait for a gap. broadly speaking, both are give way lines but the methods on approach and execution of the manoeuvre are completely different since you are travelling along the give way line rather than approaching from 90 degrees. you get up to speed and merge with the flow of traffic, you dont stop and wait for a gap then join from a standing start