Middle lane, motorway, weekend

Janesy B said:
Selective reading there old chap, I went on to say the inside lane is often empty. If people learnt to use the full capacity of the roads (ie get the hell out of the way if you don't want to do 70 on the motorway) then congestion wouldn't be as bad at times.
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I know and I agree if they are blocking the faster traffic, However, imo there's nothing wrong with cruising in the middle lane ( with an empty ''fast'' lane) at 80 mph so you don't have to change lanes to overtake trucks every 1 minute...
physichull said:
I love these situations, I just stay in the lane I am in and even slow down! It makes me laugh to see their frustration build and build. Then give them the two fingered salute as they pass me when I finally pull into the middle lane and they pass me on the outside.

Its always a VW Golf driver. Always.

There is 'fast' in the fast lane, but there can be too fast that borders on downright dangerous.
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This type of behavior is far worse than middle lane morons...
Luckily most people doing it drive crappy cars and I just overtake them on the right ( slow lane here).

Basically, as MrLol said ( Yes I agree with him once :eek:) :

MrLOL said:
if the outside lane is free why not just overtake them ?

never got this pet peeve with middle lane hoggers.
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What does peeve me off is trucks overtaking in the hours they are not allowed to here ( on most 2 lane motorways they aren't allowed in the ''fast'' lane between 6 and 9am (or so) and 3pm to 7pm. ), I always honk those ****ers when I go past them, they have no clue how annoying it is to brake from nearly double the speed they are doing because they want to save a couple of seconds by going 1mph faster...

Normally in the rural 2 lane motorways here, the left(fast) lane is filled with people doing 85-90ish, then having to brake to 50 because some truck decides he wants to go 2mph faster is highly annoying, causing half a mile of tailback usually.
 
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Janesy B said:
Highway code, read it once, great book.

There's also questions in the Theory test on Motorway Discipline.
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Exactly, theory. In practice, motorways can be rather daunting and scary for those of a nervous disposition.

I'm not suggesting they should go on a motorway during their test, but it should certainly be covered in the lessons.
A four lane motorway with trucks overtaking each other isn't really the same as a dual carriageway.
 
I just sit in the outside lane most of the time, but then I drive a BMW so I can do that and screw everyone else ...in fact I have a BMW with angel eyes ...and when I switch them on I become so incredibly cool people should just leave my lane entirely and allow me to go about my journey totally uninhibited and bother free, while drooling over my Bavarian meisterwerk.
 
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Moeks said:
...in fact I have a BMW with angel eyes ...and when I switch them on I become so incredibly cool people should just leave my lane entirely and allow me to go about my journey totally uninhibited and bother free.
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I find that this also works with xenons.
Or indeed a BMW with both angel eyes and xenons.

But I have found that people notice me sooner in the 5 with xenon headlights.
 
i remember going along the m6 toll, completley empty bar me and this car and he is cruising along in the middle lane. me in the first had to go all the way around him. he didnt even pull over when i passed him and went back into the first lane.
 
I find that at weekends (I work Tuesday to Saturday) a lot of the "Weekenders" tend to drive at 50MPH in the nearside lane on motorways, forcing the trucks that are limited to 52 - 56MPH to overtake, invariably, said weekender then sees big monster HGV passing them and puts his foot down, great! The truck can swing in behind him and carry on happily.
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Perhaps they get intimidated by my Gorilla?:D

1/2 a mile up ther road numb nutts is back to 50MPH and we start all over again......

Happy days...... :rolleyes:
 
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utajoker said:
i remember going along the m6 toll, completley empty bar me and this car and he is cruising along in the middle lane. me in the first had to go all the way around him. he didnt even pull over when i passed him and went back into the first lane.
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You could have just carried on, you weren't changing speed or direction.

I had one on the M5 yesterday - Corsa B in the middle lane doing 70ish - nothing on the inside for a while, countless cars going round a few flashed. Then I'm at the back of this line and I flash and he gives me the fingers with the 'FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU' attitude so I blow him a kiss and he goes ballistic and eggs me to pull over so I presume he could tell me of his anger at my sexual advances. So I just stayed ahead of him for a bit to further wind him up. :p
 
You flash & blow him a kiss? - Were you wearing a long coat? ;)

Hmm, I'm keeping away from you mate. :p :D

The guy in the Corsa was plainly a cretin who probably uses the Highway code as a tray to roll his joint from. :mad:
 
I drive down to Croydon to see my brother from Manchester a few times a year. I've found even worse on the M40 as you're approaching or leaving London. I've seen convoys of cars just following each other in the outside lane even when the middle lane is free.

That stretch of the m40 too which is pretty steep, people moving across to overtake when their car clearly lacks the legs to do so on a steep incline.:rolleyes:

Rage. I dont suffer from road rage, but its bloody annoying.
 
its the same every day of the week...

physichull said:
Indeed, what you often see in the continent from drivers that want to get past a slow car in the fast lane, is indicating towards the central reservation. It's like an unwritten rule to indicate to make the driver in front pull the hell out of the way.
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i do that here quiet a lot too, and it seems to work about 50% of the time. :)
 
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This was the best bit of driving in Germany last week. Middle lane hogging was virtually non-existant. I love the Autobahns.
 
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