Your thoughts please on this, how often do you see it happen, daily or weekly ?If you did, would you ring up his boss and tell him to throw his licence in the paper shredder or arrange tea and biscuits with Beverly or Sara Bell pleading for your licence back ?
Work out the time to react , to a vehicle suddenly stopping in front of a fully laden artic, the time for the brain to tell the body to react, the time for the brakes to stop the lorry, the stopping distance, taking in the speed of the truck, a car full with a family all wiped , out due to a monkey brained knuckle dragger with an IQ of an ant.
They then flash their lights, toot the horn , to intimidate the motorist to make them go over the 40 or 50 mph average speed limit.
toby1234abc:
would you ring up his boss and tell him to throw his licence in the paper shredder or arrange tea and biscuits with Beverly or Sara Bell pleading for your licence back ?
No because I’m not a grass & I have no time for such petty things.
toby1234abc:
They then flash their lights, toot the horn , to intimidate the motorist to make them go over the 40 or 50 mph average speed limit.
If the so called motorist got on with it or kept out of the way ie left (like you’re meant to) then there wouldn’t be any any problems-simples[emoji16]
It makes me cringe, a few minutes ain’t worth killing someone for, one word, tossers.
Pimpdaddy:
toby1234abc:
would you ring up his boss and tell him to throw his licence in the paper shredder or arrange tea and biscuits with Beverly or Sara Bell pleading for your licence back ?No because I’m not a grass & I have no time for such petty things.
toby1234abc:
They then flash their lights, toot the horn , to intimidate the motorist to make them go over the 40 or 50 mph average speed limit.If the so called motorist got on with it or kept out of the way ie left (like you’re meant to) then there wouldn’t be any any problems-simples[emoji16]
Exactly, most of the tailgating in roadworks I’ve seen has been when the car being tailgated is doing about 45 in a 50 limit in the middle lane with the left one empty.
Pimpdaddy:
toby1234abc:
They then flash their lights, toot the horn , to intimidate the motorist to make them go over the 40 or 50 mph average speed limit.If the so called motorist got on with it or kept out of the way ie left (like you’re meant to) then there wouldn’t be any any problems-simples[emoji16]
In an ideal World there wouldn’t be roadworks, Cars would keep ahead of you and wouldn’t hog the middle lane, but that isn’t the reality of the situation. People will drive to slowly in road works, they will hog the middle lane, if you think you’re a good driver then hang back and you’ll find it works wonders with the stress levels, tailgating rarely achieves anything useful just leaves stressed drivers and no where to go if it all goes wrong.
Pimpddaddy, a lorry a few feet behind any vehicle is not petty, how would you feel if someone you loved is killed by a dunce of a lorry driver that could not be fit to drive a shopping trolley, these idiots need to be off the road and flipping burgers in McDonalds.
muckles:
In an ideal World there wouldn’t be roadworks, Cars would keep ahead of you and wouldn’t hog the middle lane, but that isn’t the reality of the situation. People will drive to slowly in road works, they will hog the middle lane, if you think you’re a good driver then hang back and you’ll find it works wonders with the stress levels, tailgating rarely achieves anything useful just leaves stressed drivers and no where to go if it all goes wrong.
Thankfully most vehicles now come fitted with acc, I wonder how well it works in a truck[emoji1]
Between Stafford and Gailey M6 Southbound there has been average speed cameras in place for a very long time. I stay in lane one, bang on 50mph as know they rigidly enforce limits where guys are working on the road. Virtually every day I have had ■■■■■■■■■ in trucks close up the gap and ride inches from my rear bumper. My annoyance with that, is they can choose to move into lane two if they want to get points on their own license, but I’ll be damned if I’m getting them on mine. 
On the motorways where we are banned from the second lane cars should be banned from lane one.
mrginge:
On the motorways where we are banned from the second lane cars should be banned from lane one.
Should make entry and exit onto the motorway interesting, oh third lane is the no no for us 
toby1234abc:
They then flash their lights, toot the horn , to intimidate the motorist to make them go over the 40 or 50 mph average speed limit.
Not to go over but actually do the 40 or 50MPH or better still, move the hell over into the empty space to their left. Came across one last night on the M6. No speed restrictions, nothing, only me and him in sight and he’s sat doing 50MPH in L2 driving along in la-la land. Its even worse when you get to the end of the roadworks and they still sit there for the next 5 miles because they never saw the great massive NSL speed limit sign thats bigger than their car.
Its not just roadworks, I get this on the A9 (single carriageway) and it annoys the hell out of me if I am in a small vehicle. Can be in a seemingly never ending line of traffic all rolling along at 45 - 50 mph, absolutely no point in over taking whatsoever, so I hang back about 50 metres so I can sit with cruise control on. And you will get some brain dead tw4t sitting up me arse in a 44 tonner. - What is he wanting me to do? Am I just his crumple zone? farking ejits
There would be none of this if these retards in cars learnt the very simple rule if you are not overtaking ■■■■ of into the left lane instead of scratching there heads and wondering why this lorry is up my arse wanting to do the allowed speed limit!
The Highway Code states “keep left unless overtaking”, simple really.
the maoster:
The Highway Code states “keep left unless overtaking”, simple really.
and if its a single carriageway or one lane in each direction contraflow, where do you want them to go?
and often in these situations you can’t go any faster as there are vehicles in front. It is pointless dangerous driving that has no benefits whatsoever … why don’t the police use the tailgating laws they were gifted a couple of years back?
Baldy91:
There would be none of this if these retards in cars learnt the very simple rule if you are not overtaking [zb] of into the left lane instead of scratching there heads and wondering why this lorry is up my arse wanting to do the allowed speed limit!
Also see plenty of trucks tailgating when a vehicle is overtaking, trying to push them along.
the maoster:
The Highway Code states “keep left unless overtaking”, simple really.
Highway code also states you should leave enough room between you and the vehicle in front.
Its shocking and I usually pap my horn point at the gap and follow with a coffee bean gesture at the truckdriver in question. I then expect em to try and take my mirrors off and plan accordingly.
Drivers of cars cannot be expected to be professional drivers, so what if there doing 40mph in the middle lane, part of our unwritten remit is to protect other road users and not use the size of our vehicle to intimidate them.
As far as squealing goes, no way. Sort it out roadside or follow em into the services to discuss.
Sure ive mentioned the story of my escapade in my own car with a truck up my arse in birmingham and when traffic stopped I got out pulled his trailer brake and invited him for a chat. Never seen a bloke so scared in me life especially when he saw the wife.
Funny how inviting someone away from the safety blanket coccoon of their vehicle sorts the men from the boys. Course if the blokes bigger than me I will run away like a girl.
Bluey Circles:
and if its a single carriageway or one lane in each direction contraflow, where do you want them to go?
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Absolutely agree, but the op wasn’t talking single lane, he was talking your standard three lane motorway roadworks. For the record, some of the antics and tailgating I see actually make me physically cringe and there is absolutely no excuse for it. I posted that to try to balance things a bit by stating what is obvious (to us at least) that if lane discipline was adhered to then the majority of tailgating would cease to be.
I travelled down the A1 near Stamford today, cruise set at 86kph with nothing in front of me for a good 1000 yards but still there was an endless stream of cars in lane two doing roughly my speed but not overtaking anything whilst at the same time slowing their own journey down with the concertina effect. All it would take to cure that would be a modicum of lane discipline.
Roadworks on the M5 in between Gloucester and the M4 have the right idea. HGV in inside lane only. I’d prefer a lower speed limit for HGVs through roadworks too.
Unfortunately it’s going to take technology to prevent tail gating. IE, the accelerator stops working when the front facing radar detects you’re too close to the vehicle in front. This already happens with adaptive cruise control and wouldn’t take much to make it so that angry monkeys trying to shave a few seconds off their journey time can’t over ride it.
the maoster:
Bluey Circles:
and if its a single carriageway or one lane in each direction contraflow, where do you want them to go?
IAbsolutely agree, but the op wasn’t talking single lane, he was talking your standard three lane motorway roadworks. For the record, some of the antics and tailgating I see actually make me physically cringe and there is absolutely no excuse for it. I posted that to try to balance things a bit by stating what is obvious (to us at least) that if lane discipline was adhered to then the majority of tailgating would cease to be.
Unless there is a major change in driver education and enforcement, lane discipline will not get better, so in the mean time you’ve really got to learn to accept the situation however frustrating it is and for your (I don’t mean you in particular 
)stress levels and the safety of others back off.