Mike Ryan (no, really):
Now I’m no expert on the Aussie highway code, .
You dont look to sharpe on the UK higway code either 
What about if this peice of Melborne super slab is there equivilant to the Nth Circ’, we all know that if for instance you come off the M11 and go west, you get several stretchs were you can be in the outside lane, yet the traffic on the inside is going quicker. You get traffic leaving and joining at regular intervals. This sort of accident is all to easy. You can make the front of your lorry look like a Mods Moped, or lets just all run double manned, after all that wont push tranport costs up, which only the driver will be expected to meet as usual.
Face facts, we’re an easy target, running at 40 mph on a 1 up 1 down, only antagonies the impatient motorist. Doing 56 along a twin track (A14) will upset the timid. We drive to a higher standard than the everyday motorist, but this matters not to a Media and Public looking to shift the blame from themselves.
NEJ:
As for the driver running at 43mph in a “40” limit you asked for the criticism you got as the law says 40 is the limit not 43 or more is it any wonder the true professional drivers get a bad press when things go wrong!
Yeah that was me. Sorry I’m not having that though. 56mph in a 40mph limit is 40% over. My ‘crime’ was 7.5% over the limit at that point.
If a car passed you on the motorway doing 75 you wouldn’t bat an eyelid, if he comes past going 98MPH it would be a different story.
I’m sure you are a true professional driver, who NEVER exceeds the speed limit at ANY point during his working week.
I’ve run the Vatican, your Sainthood is in the post. 
Well done Hammer I concede defeat as I am one of the “professional drivers” as you say but like any “normal” driver I do exceed the limit on ocassions the same as you by one or two miles an hour but the difference is I don,t do it knowingly or purposely that is the difference I was getting at (to err is human) unless you are that bag of hypocrisy who goes by the name of Charles Brunstrom! 
Any person who says they have NEVER exceeded the limit either doesn,t drive or are on a different planet to this one or are blatantly lying!
But as I said I would expect criticism from any quarter if I put out a statement about a driver who slowed him down to the legal limit when he was exceeding the limit in the first place, not being pedantic but was there a possibility that it was a) a speed enforcer or b) an off duty cop in his own car who has a grudge against wagons exceeding the limit■■?
I refer to the speed enforcer as the one who has the attitude “thou shalt stick to the limit” whatever the consequences and incidentally I am not one I just try to comply with the law as much as is humanly possible (try telling that to the speed camera zealots) but as I said earlier the content was that you were aggrieved at the antics of the car driver but he / she only brought you down to the legal limit albeit you were only 3mph above it some people just love to be a speed enforcer and they are I agree a pain in the backside but we have to live with it every day as part of the job.
NEJ:
(to err is human) unless you are that bag of hypocrisy who goes by the name of Charles Brunstrom!
Actually, his name is Richard Brunstrom. His face comes as standard when you buy a dart board in North Wales! 
Reading the thread it was obvious so many of you didn’t know (why should you?), but then “Shade” beat me to it… the drive on the left, overtake only on the right rule does not exist in Australia.
As for whether it was staged or not… i did notice in the video before reading others comments in the thread, that the truck driver seemed to make no attempt to brake at all initially. I thought that was odd, surely natural reaction would be try and stop as soon as possible (smoke the trailer tyres?)
As for exceeding the speed limit. A friend is a JP & sees many people who have taken up the option to bring their speeding summons to court. They then proceed to state that they “were ONLY going x mph over the limit.” What they fail to realize is that by that very statement, they have just admitted they are indeed “Guilty of exceeding the posted limit.”
Neil i’m glad you brought up the thing about about 3 lane d/c ways again. I started a thread on this a long time ago & if i recall correctly never got a definative answer.
