I was chugging up the M6 and saw a learner driver car coming down the slip to join.
It was a young lass driving with instructor next to her.
More for self preservation than anything else I moved out to lane 2 to let her join.
Very pleased to see that she held back, let me pass and even flashed me back in.
Seems that having lessons on the motorway now is a good thing if they are being taught sense and manners.
Good instructor, hope they are all teaching truck sense to their pupils
It’s ok until they pass their test. Then they get anxiety that all young people have now and will join motorways and match you for speed for a few miles.
As I was trundling past a junction the other day a young lady was joining the motorway and she started to accelerate past me on the slip road to merge in the gap between myself and a Tesco lorry so all good I thought but then for some reason only known to her she bottled it even though it was a big enough gap then proceeds to stay level with me until running out of hard shoulder, fast forward 60 seconds later she pulls along side me her now in the middle lane and gives me the coffee bean wave ffs !!
bald bloke:
As I was trundling past a junction the other day a young lady was joining the motorway and she started to accelerate past me on the slip road to merge in the gap between myself and a Tesco lorry so all good I thought but then for some reason only known to her she bottled it even though it was a big enough gap then proceeds to stay level with me until running out of hard shoulder, fast forward 60 seconds later she pulls along side me her now in the middle lane and gives me the coffee bean wave ffs !!
Well, you only have yourself to blame. You should have slowed down to let her join, you big truck bully…
bald bloke:
she pulls along side me her now in the middle lane and gives me the coffee bean wave ffs !!
Maybe she was making you an offer!?
It makes you laugh that these idiots can’t grasp the concept of forward planning. While we have to plan overtakes, junctions etc well in advance, they just tootle along looking a couple car lengths in front/behind them with no anticipation whatsoever. If they can’t find a suitable gap, stuff em they can pull out behind me. Traffic already on motorway obviously has right of way, too many slip road zombies forget that. If there’s room to move across I will, shame you never get so much as a thank you
I think the motorway lessons are a good idea, even if they still bottle it the first time on their own they’ve had some training which is better than none. Same with reversing on your hgv test, you didn’t get much training but its better than nothing.
The conclusion that i’ve come to is that generally people don’t give a ■■■■ about their driving and as long as they don’t hit anything too hard then they think they’re a good driver. I try not to let other peoples driving ■■■■ me off unless they nearly hit me, i find a more “sit back and laugh” approach is better for my own sanity.
idrive:
bald bloke:
she pulls along side me her now in the middle lane and gives me the coffee bean wave ffs !!Maybe she was making you an offer!?
That explains it.
I made the cardinal sin of moving out to let a tipper join the motorway who then proceeded to leave me hanging out there so to avoid elephant racing I eased off the CC a couple.of clicks, let him go (with no acknowledgement from him) and moved back in.
I did think the van driver who had just sat behind me the whole time instead of getting past in lane three was gesturing rudely to me as he went past but now I see he was just making me an offer!