eagerbeaver:
I don’t understand why people don’t keep left unless overtaking.It is very basic highway code.
Went anticlockwise sb on the m25 the other night in my car did about 35miles, I stayed in the driving lane and overtook about 20 lorries in lane 2 but never had to overtook a single car, i passed hundreds who were in lane 2,3,4
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bubsy06:
eagerbeaver:
I don’t understand why people don’t keep left unless overtaking.It is very basic highway code.
I stayed in the driving lane and overtook about 20 lorries in lane 2 but never had to overtook a single car, i passed hundreds who were in lane 2,3,4
A couple of questions…Firstly, what is “the driving lane”? Secondly…what? 
Tgtrucker:
The issue of cars travelling through road works at less than the posted limit is 3 fold.
It always used to be the case that a car speedo had to be accurate to 10%. But the cardinal rule was that it was better to be 10% over reading rather than 1% under reading. I would imagine modern digital numerical speedo’s are much closer than 10%, but still never under reading.
Analogue speedo’'s in cars show a much greater range on a smaller dial than in a truck, it’s therefore more difficult to set the speed to an exact speed than it is for the driver of a truck.
3.most importantly IMO, The temporary limit through road works is a limit, not a target. Any driver is perfectly entitled to drive below that limit.
Could it be that when you come up behind a car travelling through the road works at a speed of 40 mph, the driver of the car has decided to travel at just below the limit to ensure he/she obeys the rules and doesn’t get a speeding fine (maybe they have points already and wish no more), the car speedo shows 45 > 50 mph, the allowable accuracy means it’s nearer 40 > 45.
Do not assume every body driving a car knows as much about the roads and camera enforcement as you do. They may well believe the cameras will catch and fine them at 51mph.
It really won’t make that much difference to your day to just sit behind and chill out through the road works and then get on with it when the works section is finished.I really don’t understand the obsession a lot of drivers demonstrate these days with having to have the throttle flat to the floor at every possible available opportunity. You’ll be much less stressed if you allow yourself to back off and just go with the flow.
Well said. We can’t all be first.
Conor:
Where the accidents are there have always been accidents there even without the roadworks.
I doubt this would happen if there wasn’t a concrete barrier on the N/S
SEDriver:
Conor:
Where the accidents are there have always been accidents there even without the roadworks.I doubt this would happen if there wasn’t a concrete barrier on the N/S
No but just think if that happened where cones were and workers in that spot.
Driver totally not paying attention
nick2008:
No but just think if that happened where cones were and workers in that spot.
Driver totally not paying attention
Exactly, also, if that clown was driving a HGV and caused the barrier to move, that could have been much worse.
The concrete barriers are required 100% IMO, the problem with roadworks is the fact they are not patrolled enough and arsewipe ‘Professional HGV Drivers’ tailgating a car with a family in deserves to have his/her licence removed. You see it all the time and wish the copper would appear out of nowhere to do the driver, and possibly the lane hogger.
Born Idle:
bubsy06:
eagerbeaver:
I don’t understand why people don’t keep left unless overtaking.It is very basic highway code.
I stayed in the driving lane and overtook about 20 lorries in lane 2 but never had to overtook a single car, i passed hundreds who were in lane 2,3,4
A couple of questions…Firstly, what is “the driving lane”? Secondly…what?
The ‘driving lane’ would be the left hand lane. Any other lane is an overtaking lane. Basically the post is saying the only vehicles he had to overtake were HGV’s that were using correct lane discipline and lots of cars weren’t.
Tgtrucker:
The issue of cars travelling through road works at less than the posted limit is 3 fold.
It always used to be the case that a car speedo had to be accurate to 10%. But the cardinal rule was that it was better to be 10% over reading rather than 1% under reading. I would imagine modern digital numerical speedo’s are much closer than 10%, but still never under reading.
Analogue speedo’'s in cars show a much greater range on a smaller dial than in a truck, it’s therefore more difficult to set the speed to an exact speed than it is for the driver of a truck.
3.most importantly IMO, The temporary limit through road works is a limit, not a target. Any driver is perfectly entitled to drive below that limit.
Could it be that when you come up behind a car travelling through the road works at a speed of 40 mph, the driver of the car has decided to travel at just below the limit to ensure he/she obeys the rules and doesn’t get a speeding fine (maybe they have points already and wish no more), the car speedo shows 45 > 50 mph, the allowable accuracy means it’s nearer 40 > 45.
Do not assume every body driving a car knows as much about the roads and camera enforcement as you do. They may well believe the cameras will catch and fine them at 51mph.
It really won’t make that much difference to your day to just sit behind and chill out through the road works and then get on with it when the works section is finished.I really don’t understand the obsession a lot of drivers demonstrate these days with having to have the throttle flat to the floor at every possible available opportunity. You’ll be much less stressed if you allow yourself to back off and just go with the flow.
Spot on.
I tend to set the cruise to 75ks through most 50mph roadworks and keep well left, can’t be arsed with all the pushing and shovin and by and large all i need to do is knock the cruise back one or two clicks every now and then before resuming, by the time you’ve done M1 jct 18 to 16 at 75ks you’ll be about 400 yds behind the bulging eyed lorryist jumping in and out of lanes 1 and 2 (and sometimes 3) overtaking undertaking and tailgating.
They must be stressed to buggery if 20 seconds progress over a 12 mile section means that much.
Depending on how busy me day is 82 to 85k’s does me for the all me journeys anyway, easy on the motor easy on me easy on fuel, makes bugger all difference to working hours.
LASHHGV:
The other night M5 north by J5 ish a mcburneys truck went in lane 3 to over take a truck and a car he must of had a couple of inches either side.
It’s a usual occurrence