Win-Stone:
As someone who lives and works in that part of the UK which would regard Inverness as ‘South’, I only have one question:-What’s a “Motorway”?
My son was talking to a guy who is a driver he never drives south of Kilmarnock
The problem is even if you anticipate that they will be wanting to join and ease off a bit to let them join they still hesitate as they dont look till the last untill there almost at a point of no return i realise we need to share the roads and no issue with it but some of these people haven’t got a clue
del949:
you need to leave a gap that is a safe braking distance , plus enough room for a car to merge and not impede your braking distance. How many can say with hand on heart that they leave that kind of distance, especialy in heavy traffic, not many I’ll bet.
I do, sorry. I’ll plan ahead as far as possible and if I’m approaching notorious junctions for it I’ll move over anyway. Sometimes I’m wrong but not often. I like to maintain speed and always look in my mirrors and move accordingly.
Saying that!! I do sometime make mistakes - I’m only human but I try my best 
Love it when you move out to let them join the carriageway and they then just sit there matching your speed. Will not slow down and will not accelerate.
Can’t understand why slip ways arnt longer ,have noticed a few recently that have been shortend .
zip929:
:evil: Love it when you move out to let them join the carriageway and they then just sit there matching your speed. Will not slow down and will not accelerate.
Just put on your indicator to pull in ,they soon shoot off then ,or hit the brakes and drop back about a mile 
Punchy Dan:
Can’t understand why slip ways arnt longer ,have noticed a few recently that have been shortend .
I think the ones on the M1 at junction 37 both n/b and s/b are the longest slip roads in the country. I think they’re just over a mile long.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Punchy Dan:
Can’t understand why slip ways arnt longer ,have noticed a few recently that have been shortend .I think the ones on the M1 at junction 37 both n/b and s/b are the longest slip roads in the country. I think they’re just over a mile long.
Sorry just checked on Google they are about 800 metres long. They say that the M27 junction 9 westbound is actually the longest at 1500 metres.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Punchy Dan:
Can’t understand why slip ways arnt longer ,have noticed a few recently that have been shortend .I think the ones on the M1 at junction 37 both n/b and s/b are the longest slip roads in the country. I think they’re just over a mile long.
Sorry just checked on Google they are about 800 metres long. They say that the M27 junction 9 westbound is actually the longest at 1500 metres.
Look what they done at j25 though to go south ,and the cobham services exit to go anti clock .
I’m quite surprised at just how short the slip roads are for what are essentially brand new services at Gloucester both North and South. Why they couldn’t have taken another half mile or so of hard shoulder is beyond me. A fully loaded artic if he/she sticks to the sliproad is entering the M5 at quite a low speed.
This has gone on for as long as I can remember so wtf is exactly the problem ?
Most car drivers are in their cars about 2 hours a day, 1 hour to work, 1 hour back, driving ain’t there profession it’s a means to an end, so they will never on the whole drive as professionals.
I get more wound up about truck drivers, aka professionalls, who drive like these amateurs
. The overtaking cut in crew, (my personal pet hate that creates violent tendencies 
) The keep you out in the middle laners after you have let them out. (complete f/Whits)
The recent new phenomenon of middle lane hogging truckers.
These knobs give drivers like me a bad name, as we are all tarred with the same brush. They should all be analled dry by a bull, and their licences shoved up their wounded orifices as punishment for ■■■■ poor appaling driving of a truck.
As for car drivers I expect nothing else of them, so I never try and block them in, which could more than likely cause an rta, I just let them in and out, swear and shake my head, it’s what seperates us from them. 
threewheelsonmywagon:
fredthered:
Getting on or off any fast road by these numpties is a total disaster. They’re one of the reasons for all the tailbacks and queuing at rush hour because they don’t grasp the concept of filtering and the tossers on the main carriageway are as bad for not leaving room for them to get on.And the racers that cross all the carriageway to dart in for a junction! Well I could rant forever about those pillocks!
I feel the same about the lorries, sorry, “trucks”, that drive for mile after mile in lane 1 when the big orange sign says " congestion, use hard shoulder".
Physician heal thyself…
maybe you are right,but where is it law that says you have to use the hard shoulder
Probably the law that says “keep left unless overtaking”, well maybe that isn’t a law, but it’s certainly in the Highway Code.
I was on the M60 the other night and two lorries parked with hazards on eastbound. All traffic starts stopping but there was enough room for single line traffic in the fast lane to squeeze past the silver corsa badly dented along the drivers side. The lorry driver stood in the road with his hi viz watching the car driver emptying his belongings out of what was once a mode of transport Luckily no one hurt this time.
Further on the M60 two inside lanes are closed with warnings at the usual 800, 600, 400, 200 yards and guess what I am sat in the outside lane BUT one thinking when will these dozy barstewards realise that those two lanes are closed off with cones? We are talking about 11 cars in both closed lanes. Yep they realised when they almost ran into the cones and then brake lights congestion and panic and I had to move to the outer empty lane so I could get out of there. 
In fact I am starting to see more and more frustrated lorry drivers now illegally using the fast lane to get past middle lane numpties! I wish the police would enforced this middle lane rule and fine the gits.
I was on the M1 southbound Friday morning at about 3am and the road was empty. Nothing in front or behind me. Can’t remember exactly which junction but it was in the 4 lane section approaching the M25. A high powered Mercedes attempted to join the motorway. The slip road was really long as most of them are on that stretch and as the broken white lines appeared he was 3 quarters of a car length in front of me with hundreds of yards of slip road left. All he had to do was press that pedal thingy under his right foot and all would’ve been good.
Instead he sat at the side of me for a few hundred yards then when he realised I wasn’t going anywhere he gradually drifted over and tried to force me into lane 2. When that didn’t work and he realised that plan was going to hurt him more than me he finally did what he should’ve done in the first place and he booted it.
If I see a line of vehicles attempting to join a busy motorway I knock my cruise off immediately and get ready to react to anything that might crop up. I’m not one of those drivers whose ■■■■ shrinks when he comes off the limiter and I regularly knock it off when others try to elephant race me but these idiots need to learn how to join a motorway and that ain’t happening if we keep baby sitting them.
People need educating or re-educating that slip roads are there to accelerate or decelerate on,the amount of people that brake ON the motorway before leaving it onto a slip road is also a growing issue…the slip roads are at least 350 yards long do your slowing down on them rather than slowing to 45mph before you join it!
Also the same for cars especially joining the motorway,even a ■■■■■■ 1 litre car will get up to 60mph by the end of a slip road there is no excuse to be joining the motorway at 40mph apart from Mr T Wat who you’ll see daily sitting on his brake whilst driving up or down a slip road looking for that 1,000,000 foot gap because that’s how much space he surely needs to join so in the mean time he will sit parallel with a HGV travelling at 56mph with his indicator on waiting all the way to the end of the the slip road on the off chance said HGV will suddenly levitate to allow Mr T Wat to join the motorway because he can’t possibly accelerate beyond 56mph in his car because North Korea might get wind of this act of aggression and start a nuclear world war.
I agree with you Ckm, but there are exceptional circumstances. M1 J6 is one, you try slowing down to get off there, North or South, just using the slip road, I only run at 32t as I’m only a rigid and I can’t do it. Wouldn’t fancy trying it in a fully freighted artic that’s for sure!
F-reds:
I agree with you Ckm, but there are exceptional circumstances. M1 J6 is one, you try slowing down to get off there, North or South, just using the slip road, I only run at 32t as I’m only a rigid and I can’t do it. Wouldn’t fancy trying it in a fully freighted artic that’s for sure!
I was referring to cars fella.
ckm1981:
F-reds:
I agree with you Ckm, but there are exceptional circumstances. M1 J6 is one, you try slowing down to get off there, North or South, just using the slip road, I only run at 32t as I’m only a rigid and I can’t do it. Wouldn’t fancy trying it in a fully freighted artic that’s for sure!I was referring to cars fella.
Hairy ■■■■. My bad