Driveroneuk:
1/4mile = 440 yards. That’s just a bit more than the distance of the 300 yard countdown markers to an exit.Pretty close to an incident i’d say.
From the original description they’d virtually stopped so had created a pointless gap. You stated above ‘racing up and standing on the brakes’ but that’s an exaggeration, there’s no reason why they couldn’t just join the queue normally.
tachograph:
hammer:
Grayham:
Im all for a minimum speed limit for cars, 60mph is reasonable enough for the slow brigade who dont want to do 100mph (i assume thats the national speed limit now judging by the most motorway drivers) and it keeps em out the way of trucks.
I think what the most annoying thing about these situations where a car is trundling along at 45/50mph is the fact that a car can easily accelerate above and beyond that of a truck at will, but choose to hold up traffic as and when they feel like it, whereas a lorry cannot due to being limited and hence get moaned at by car drivers for being slow
Is the crux of the point I was making in the first place.
I’m sorry mate but you can’t have it both ways, what’s the difference between you plodding along at 50 mph even though you could go faster and a car plodding along at just bellow 50 even though it could go faster
I am only 10% off my maximum possible speed. The car can go 30% quicker without ‘breaking sweat’. When I pull out, I increase my speed (all the way to 56) to pass these muppets. I therefore join a long line of trucks in the middle lane inching past these morons as they crawl along.hammer:
I’m a committed Motorway plodder (50mph usually)Lets just suppose a 60 mph minimum speed limit was brought in for cars on a motorway, who would decide when it was or wasn’t safe to do 60 mph ?
In bad weather vehicles often have to drive slower than 60 for safety, some people will happily do 60 mph in atrocious conditions whilst others will only feel safe at slower speeds even in relatively poor weather.Who decides what’s a safe speed and when, or do we say it’s 60 regardless of road conditions ?
You’re right in this and it is where my proposal falls down. However, I’m referring to bone dry conditions with good visibility & my frustration is clearly shared by others.
When I’m in the wagon (52 limiter) I do 50 in the inside lane and if I have to overtake a slow vehicle I speed up to the limited speed to get past them a little quicker. When I’m in the car I’m normally doing 80. What I find ironic is the 60mph brigade get on their high horses about trucks overtaking each other with only a slight difference in speed and then move out into lane three to overtake the truck but don’t speed up to match the speed in lane three thus becoming just as bad.
hammer:
tachograph:
Who decides what’s a safe speed and when, or do we say it’s 60 regardless of road conditions ?You’re right in this and it is where my proposal falls down. However, I’m referring to bone dry conditions with good visibility & my frustration is clearly shared by others.
I understand your frustration hammer, I imagine we’ve all been there on more than one occasion but I believe that within reason people should have the right to drive at whatever speed they wish as long as there speed isn’t detrimental to road safety.
You should remember that we are probably responsible for more frustration on the roads than any other group of road users, OK it’s not usually our fault that we can’t get out of peoples way but how can we expect other road users to understand and be tolerant of our situation if we refuse point blank to accept that we have to interact with other road users who will on occasions not drive at a speed that we would want them to.
At the end of the day, like many situations in life it’s all about give and take 
