There is no traffic,the driver that is in front is doing flat out on his limiter on a NATIONAL road,not the toll road,he sees me approaching,and i have noticed he will then slow down to the speed limit,where i can not overtake for ages,but when the road opens up to a dual carriegeway,and an option for me to pass him,he floors hit,goes fast,to prevent me passing,then when back to the single lane,again the whole shanninigans starts all over again,it is mainly in France,i noticed this.Anyone else get peed off with this,can happen in the middle of the night too.
Toby’s posts look so much like limeyphil’s.
I can’t say I have ever come across that in all the years I have been driving through France, the only time I have known them to slow down is when they are either lost or someone has let them know there is a control ahead!
jimti:
I can’t say I have ever come across that in all the years I have been driving through France, the only time I have known them to slow down is when they are either lost or someone has let them know there is a control ahead!
This^
toby1234abc:
There is no traffic,the driver that is in front is doing flat out on his limiter on a NATIONAL road,not the toll road,he sees me approaching,and i have noticed he will then slow down to the speed limit,where i can not overtake for ages,but when the road opens up to a dual carriegeway,and an option for me to pass him,he floors hit,goes fast,to prevent me passing,then when back to the single lane,again the whole shanninigans starts all over again,it is mainly in France,i noticed this.Anyone else get peed off with this,can happen in the middle of the night too.
yes toby i encounter these blokes quite a bit on the N10 mainly east europeans though who do 90 on the dual bit but when it gets to single or no overtaking slow down to 80, well if you’re going to do 90 which is over the limit in one stretch why not do it all the time or stick to 80 where the rest of us can overtake
toby1234abc:
…he will then slow down to the speed limit,where i can not overtake for ages,but when the road opens up to a dual carriegeway,and an option for me to pass him,he floors hit…
That’s called “adjusting the speed to … state and character of the road… and other circumstances that can be anticipated”; is this not mentioned in the UK Road Traffic Act?
HomoFaber:
is this not mentioned in the UK Road Traffic Act?
which has absolutely no bearing on the matter considering that the incident is supposed to have happened in france 
Vascoingles:
HomoFaber:
is this not mentioned in the UK Road Traffic Act?which has absolutely no bearing on the matter considering that the incident is supposed to have happened in france
The moaning driver is British and supposedly learned at least the most basic from UK Road Traffic Act to get his driving licence; then it’s reasonable to assume that he would stick to what he learned in the UK even when driving abroad (with some adjustments such as driving on the right and obeying different speed limits), even if he never heard anything about French Code de la Route (or whatever they call it) or any other local traffic law; very sensible thing to do given traffic laws across Europe were harmonized some 40 years ago.
Coffeeholic:
jimti:
I can’t say I have ever come across that in all the years I have been driving through France, the only time I have known them to slow down is when they are either lost or someone has let them know there is a control ahead!This^
This again^^
Harry Monk:
Toby’s posts look so much like limeyphil’s.
Wheel Nut:
daleyboy:
You did very well getting from an encounter Thursday night in Turin to chatting with customs on Saturday morning, you must have a really fast truck.It is quite simple. Limey Phil is Toby 123 and has just woken up, the 58 immigrants in the Dutch fridge happened over 10 years ago
Well you never see them together in a truckstop do you?
what i have found is on the n10 forest road south of Bordeaux that is duel carriageway with long stretches of no overtaking a lot of the trucks carrying hazardous do 80 in the no overtaking stretch speed up when reaching the overtaking bit so that you are still behind them when get to the next no bit and drop back to 80 grrrrr…
Germany.
No overtaking.
Dozens of trucks all following the one at the front doing 80k/ph.
End of no overtaking.
The truck that was at the front has now roared off in to the distance.
Until the next no overtaking stretch.
Now back to 80k/ph.
…Yup,it’s a German!
They just love to see the big line of trucks behind them.
HomoFaber:
The moaning driver is British and supposedly learned at least the most basic from UK Road Traffic Act to get his driving licence; then it’s reasonable to assume that he would stick to what he learned in the UK even when driving abroad (with some adjustments such as driving on the right and obeying different speed limits), even if he never heard anything about French Code de la Route (or whatever they call it) or any other local traffic law;
not all have been harmonised in fact far from it
surprising to see you say that actually because were foreigners in the UK to drive according to the laws or customs of their own countries the Brits would tend to scream for them to be hung drawn and quartered
maybe I’ve worked out why they do it then, as homofaber is czech or slovak i think so he thinks that you follow your rules from your home nation so thats why the trucks that slow down in the no overtaking zones are always CZ or SK or similar and i believe in their countries the law is 80k
France? Never. But I see it several times a day in GB. A lot of 40 mph drivers love nothing more than accelerating to 56 mph on the duals to deliberately stop anyone from overtaking. The look of disappointment on their smug face is priceless when your truck is slightly faster than theirs.
Homofaber,you did not name which driver is moaning,and if you were pointing out it was me that was moaning,which verb,adjective or noun describes me moaning in the post about wad heads that wont let you pass,just to wind you,no other legal reason,and i did say EMPTY road,this happens in the middle of the night too.
All drivers moan,i have not met one that has not,and now YOU are moaning about me,so grow up man. 
Could be that French and Brits naturally hate each other.
nearly took somebody out who couldnt wait to get past me when coming up to roadworks…so drove straight into the cones to get passed me…only to get slowed down by the nobby dangles truck in front…then decides to pull off onto the services in the middle of the roadworks lol
Happened to me on the RN in France 20yrs or more ago near Baccarat. I had a wagon +drag & this guy in a small yellow Renault car deliberately jammed 'em on on the no-overtaking part & shot away on the double bit. It was the middle of the day & coming up to Baccarat he passed a few & got ahead. Baccarat traffic lights I’m in a Q of cars & I look ahead & who is in front of the red light -my mate with the Renault. I jump out of the truck run to the front of the Q & grab his door handle; I’m going to drag the fat bald ■■■■■■■ out & force his keys down his throat but he locks the door. So all I can do is smash big dents in the roof above his head with my fists. The dope sat there screaming but all he had to do was to drive & forget the red light. Light turns to green,Dopey drives off, I return to my truck feeling good & can guarantee that he never effed with truckers again. (You won’t find that in the highway Code -its something you learn with experience)
harry:
Happened to me on the RN in France 20yrs or more ago near Baccarat. I had a wagon +drag & this guy in a small yellow Renault car deliberately jammed 'em on on the no-overtaking part & shot away on the double bit. It was the middle of the day & coming up to Baccarat he passed a few & got ahead. Baccarat traffic lights I’m in a Q of cars & I look ahead & who is in front of the red light -my mate with the Renault. I jump out of the truck run to the front of the Q & grab his door handle; I’m going to drag the fat bald [zb] out & force his keys down his throat but he locks the door. So all I can do is smash big dents in the roof above his head with my fists. The dope sat there screaming but all he had to do was to drive & forget the red light. Light turns to green,Dopey drives off, I return to my truck feeling good & can guarantee that he never effed with truckers again. (You won’t find that in the highway Code -its something you learn with experience)
A road rage attack 
