a society issue then rather than a driver one?
too many people unable to interact?
I just don’t get it now, I can remember my old man getting a puncture and people pulling up to help him, now they would run you over so they didn’t get a lower score on their pc at the end of a shift.
Really!!! If things like that annoy you maybe driving is not the career for you… 
martinviking:
truckman020:
Digit369:
Driving my truck down the motorway and you get the other trucker coming past you at literally 1-2mph ■■■■■■ me of as sometimes I let them in and slow down .Then the dancing indicaters thing
Or you get the ee drivers who just undertake you on the hard shoulder are there trucks faster I’m in a ridged there in a artic like the hot nos are they breaking the law I think so.
Then some lorries I overtake they go like 50mph I’m living in a world between 50-56mph lol
Should I slow down let them in or not give two shizz
I want to be the courteous driver to my fellow conpardrais my trainer said never let cars out of slip roads jus maintain your speed but nearly 3 times now the come alongside you expecting you to slow down or move my trainer said in a accident it would be my fault so now I’m just going to go forward as I normally do.fu?!ck em if they go into me it’s my right of way right?the right of way thing is correct,if you cannot pull into the middle lane out of courtesy,then run them down the hard shoulder you do not have to give way ,if they hit you they are in the wrong[rule 259 highway code,joining the motorway,page 86]
There’s always Forward Planning, you know that you are coming up to a junction, look for the clues, look up at the roundabout & over to the entry slip road, check o/side mirror & be ready to move out, there’s a 50/50 chance that someone will be coming onto the motorway/Duel Carriageway.
I’d rather be out of the way than spend 4 hours waiting for a wrecker & trying to decide who was to blame for the coming together at the end of the slip road.
Just because it’s your right of way doesn’t mean that it won’t hurt !
agree with that,just saying it as it is in the highway code,so if he did hit a car coming onto the motorway he could use that as a defence,like you I will try to pull out if I can
in all the years I have been driving I have never seen another hgv undertake on the hard shoulder,ref the slow overtake a lot of vehicles do 52mph,like the ones I drive,if I have the edge on another vehicle doing around 50mph I will overtake even if it is slow in doing so,the reason is if I have to sit behind another hgv doing 50mph I then have to slow down and to keep a safe distance I then end up doing about 40/45mph,bad enough doing 52 so I don’t intend to go slower if I can overtake and get past,sticking at the lower speed and staying behind the other vehicle would bore me rigid
seth 70:
Sidevalve:
burnley-si:
its the drivers that over take at 0.00000000002mph faster then the other thats the problem
Only if you make it a problem. Knock your CC back a couple of clicks for half a minute, or ease your right foot off if you’re one of those who thinks that your rig goes faster if you push harder on the accelerator.
Bring back the days when you could whip the fuse out ,there would be none of this cack
pssssssst…it might be a dying art,but its not dead yet… 
Dipper_Dave:
Its down to the individual really with the whole driving lark, elephant racing for example will see some just crack on and watch as the overtaking vehicle inches passed, then theres an arguement for why is the overtaking vehicle even bothering and I dare say this goes through the mind of the overtaking driver at some point.Some will believe that they have to be on the limiter at top speed no matter what, which is up to them.
For me its just my old age that makes me want to glide along at a relaxed pace with a bit in hand if needed, as far as elephant racing goes I ease of a bit, even hit the exhaust brake a little depending on gradient, weight etc, just depends whats around me and especially whats behind.
As far as slip roads go I will either stay put causing cars to either join in front or behind (surprising how many want to drive into the side of me), or lift off and flash a much faster vehicle in knowing they will be off into the distance in seconds, or even if the outer lane is totally clear pull over and then pull back once everyones buggered off. In the end its all about giving yourself options, highway code aside whatever causes the least inconvenience to me and other motorists is usually my best option.
Bit different when its another sister trucker (especially foreign ones) who may need a bit more assistance to merge but if all goes ■■■■ up (which it has) hold station and let the merging traffic sort themselves out.
This driving lark is all about giving yourself options and even creating them when those around you are up each others chuff, forward planning and simple things like leaving a safe gap to the vehicle in front allowing another motorist in can turn a tea spillage moment into a total non event.
Great post particularly the bit in bold.
Right what I’m gonna get is one of those l e d moving sign boards about 6ft by 2ft and put it on the back so when one if my fellow compadrsis flashes me instead of the hazzard blast I’m going to display the message NICE ONE BRUVA (maybe a brew at the next garage what do ye say)
As for the slip road racers they can either run on to hard shoulder or simply just stop I’m not moving my rig for nobody it’s them that should be watching what there doing. All slip roads from services should have some CCTV
I want to invest in the in board cameras
bobdebouwer:
If you slow by 1mph and he gets passed you in 30 secs, how much distance have you lost? 200 yds? 300 maybe? what difference does that make when your driving 400 miles a day?
Less than that. If you reduce from 56mph to 55mph for 30 seconds, you will have “lost” the grand total of 15 yards. In reality of course, that will not be anywhere near enough to let a marginally faster lorry overtake you - you would need to either reduce speed by quite a bit more than 1mph or maintain the reduction for rather more than 30 seconds. Whichever way you do it, you would “lose” the length of your vehicle plus your safety/braking gap. Call it 20 yards for the length of the lorry and another 80 yards for your safety/braking gap. 100 yards in total.
the maoster:
Now I don’t NEED thanks or a flash in but it’s not too much to ask for is it? Incidentally if, further down the road the opportunity to do either one of these a bad turn had arisen I’d have grabbed it with both hands!That’s where your cameraderie has gone I’m afraid.
You sound like a proper old style courteous driver mate. Don’t let those ignorant ■■■■■■ steerers drag you down to their level, raise above it otherwise you become as crap at your job as they are, by retaliating, then it’s one less of us and one more of them.
robroy:
the maoster:
Now I don’t NEED thanks or a flash in but it’s not too much to ask for is it? Incidentally if, further down the road the opportunity to do either one of these a bad turn had arisen I’d have grabbed it with both hands!That’s where your cameraderie has gone I’m afraid.
You sound like a proper old style courteous driver mate. Don’t let those ignorant [zb] steerers drag you down to their level, raise above it otherwise you become as crap at your job as they are, by retaliating, then it’s one less of us and one more of them.
If a driver cant be arsed to flash me in i make a effort to over flash my indicators as a sarcastic thank you
war1974:
what ever happened to camaraderie?all I see is people who think saying thanks is wrong, people who wont slow for a quicker vehicle to pass.
no wonder we don’t speak to each other in truck stops/rdc’s
the cameradrie went ■■■■ up when we got tinterweb laptops,playstations and tvs ,sleeper cabs and microwaves,plus everywhere running 24/7…years ago if you wernt tipped for 5pm then it was park up,and go and get ■■■■■■ with whoever was parked up near you,or head down the docks for a randy vanwarmer in a social club which was always a better alternative to kipping across the engine hump…nowadays everyones wrapped up behind the curtains and timed to the minute.plus with the majority plobbing along at 52mph,then there mostly just bored into a catatonic state and lose the will to live…end of cameradrie,though fortunately its alive and kicking in both sides of ireland at the end of the tang expressway… 
dieseldog999:
seth 70:
Sidevalve:
burnley-si:
its the drivers that over take at 0.00000000002mph faster then the other thats the problemOnly if you make it a problem. Knock your CC back a couple of clicks for half a minute, or ease your right foot off if you’re one of those who thinks that your rig goes faster if you push harder on the accelerator.
Bring back the days when you could whip the fuse out ,there would be none of this cack
pssssssst…it might be a dying art,but its not dead yet…
going to ge tan LED sign for the front saying
GET THE F**K OUT OF MY WAY
then one on the back saying
THANK YOU
burnley-si:
going to ge tan LED sign for the front sayingGET THE F**K OUT OF MY WAY
then one on the back saying
THANK YOU
That’s what all Audi driving Reps should have on the front of their cars, then have a picture of a Middle Finger standing erect on the back.
Ha what about that Scania thing where it slows down as you approach the top of a rise, before you know it you’ve got a line of trucks overtaking and you have to let them all go by only to find that some of them are going slower than you were in the first place. But yes if I catch up another truck I try dropping a few clicks and follow for a mile or two only overtaking if I’m sure I can make a reasonably decisive manouvre.
Going into the 50 mph roadworks on the A14 towards the M6, the motor in front of me decides to drop his speed from 54 down to 37 and as there was no traffic in front of him, I move out to lane 2 and go around. I get 3/4 the way past with my wagon and drag keeping at a constant 50 where he decides to lead foot it and claw past me on the inside?
Bloody yo yo driving 
You try to keep your progress constant but have to contend with planks like that, Its the norm on the M62 for motors to climb the hills at 40 then go down them at 70 but on the flat… theres just no need… rant over
no consideration
martinviking:
burnley-si:
going to ge tan LED sign for the front sayingGET THE F**K OUT OF MY WAY
then one on the back saying
THANK YOU
That’s what all Audi driving Reps should have on the front of their cars, then have a picture of a Middle Finger standing erect on the back.
Had a good laugh this morning, I join the m40 off the slip road and sit in behind an artic who then moves out to overtake a rigid in front of him albeit with a hardly noticeable difference in speed. Well it must have been nearly five mins later and the artic is just starting to get in front and you would think the rigid driver would have given in at this stage and backed of for a couple of seconds but no he sat his ground and waited what felt like ■■■■■■■ forever until the artic was about a car length in front and then proceeded to flash him in!! How ■■■■■■■ considerate of him I thought!! After what must be a new record of the longest overtake ever. Needless to say the artic driver didn’t give him any sort of acknowledgement he was probably ■■■■■■■ and blinding to himself id imagine but it definitely gave me somthing to laugh at on an otherwise boring overnight drive.
Had an interesting experience on the M62 earlier today.
Moved over to let a car on, God that was a mistake.
Cue me being stranded in the middle lane for a mile while the yoyo driver in lane 1 matched my speed every time I sped up or eased off. No matter what I tried I couldn’t get past or drop behind them without getting a bit too slow for a motorway ,(got down to 42mph at one point and she still slowed down with me).
The silver car behind me seemed to think this was all my fault, so he sped up, dived in front of me, brakes and sat us both at 45mph. Cue much horn honking and light flashing. Then as quick as he’d done that he started speeding off while waving at me through the window.
And through all of this, the car in lane 1 still wouldn’t let me in behind or in front haha!
I got it on dash cam, but nobody here like my first video post so you’ll all have to use your imagination