What is it with poeple not overtaking Tractors?

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~Rant mode~ Bit puzzled as in to why people with happily sit behind a tractor when it is safe to pass with ease. Had 2 today that were so far up it's chuff they couldn't see the road ahead wad dead straight and clear to overtake. I went past and they still sat there while others leapfrogged their way to the front.

Are they taught this or is it they are not paying attention or lacking confidence in their car or driving ability? I am seeing it more and more often nowadays and because of them not overtaking they causing huge 20+ queues of cars following.
 
Just crap drivers. See it all the time where I am. Usually old folks too afraid to overtake a learner.
 
I'm always very cautious of tractors and can understand why people stay behind them, this happened to a guy i work with when he overtook one a month or so back.

Tractor turned across him into a field with no warning, brake lights or indication while he was overtaking on a straight well sighted bit of road.

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Whilst the road was 'well sighted', presumably for oncoming vehicles, your mate should have realised he was overtaking a tractor, and tractors tend to drive into fields, so in hindsight he probably shouldn't have overtaken where there was an opening to a field.

The same reason you shouldn't overtake where there are road junctions, etc.
 
killsta said:
Overtaking is a dying art nowadays.
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Ain't that the truth. I overtook a car doing 40mph on a very straight piece of road on a 60mph road. The weather was good. Road was clear. No junctions or any traffic. Heck I had my family in the car with me so I wasn't going to take an undue risk - I got hooted and gesticulated at for doing that over take. :confused:

It's as if I had done the worse crime they had ever seen.
 
Freefaller said:
Ain't that the truth. I overtook a car doing 40mph on a very straight piece of road on a 60mph road. The weather was good. Road was clear. No junctions or any traffic. Heck I had my family in the car with me so I wasn't going to take an undue risk - I got hooted and gesticulated at for doing that over take. :confused:

It's as if I had done the worse crime they had ever seen.
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This seems far too common these days also. The amount of times I'll get a good flashing of the headlights, or a retaliation of driving right up my chuff (regardless of the fact that they didn't want to do more than 40MPH a moment ago), it beggars belief.
 
killsta said:
Whilst the road was 'well sighted', presumably for oncoming vehicles, your mate should have realised he was overtaking a tractor, and tractors tend to drive into fields, so in hindsight he probably shouldn't have overtaken where there was an opening to a field.

The same reason you shouldn't overtake where there are road junctions, etc.
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Well as there are openings to fields or small farm tracks every couple of hundred yards around these parts we should all just sit behind the tractor then and not overtake them.
 
Freefaller said:
Ain't that the truth. I overtook a car doing 40mph on a very straight piece of road on a 60mph road. The weather was good. Road was clear. No junctions or any traffic. Heck I had my family in the car with me so I wasn't going to take an undue risk - I got hooted and gesticulated at for doing that over take. :confused:

It's as if I had done the worse crime they had ever seen.
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Pretty much every day.. same roads, people doing 30-40 on a 60 road with nothing in front of them... :/ Which is fine but when I get fleshed at for overtaking it kinda makes me wonder.. do they know the speed limit? The law? Or the fact that what I did was safe?
 
I find it annoying overtaking cars on a decent stretch of country road and say the vehicle in front is doing 40 on a 60 mph limit road. Then as soon as you come into a 30 zone and slow down, bam hes straight up my arse pushing to go over the limit, like he wants to be a passenger in my car.

Also when you dont overtake them and do 40 in a 60 come to a 30 zone and you slow down and they continue at 40 through the area. rant over :mad:
 
Dan103 said:
I find it annoying overtaking cars on a decent stretch of country road and say the vehicle in front is doing 40 on a 60 mph limit road. Then as soon as you come into a 30 zone and slow down, bam hes straight up my arse pushing to go over the limit, like he wants to be a passenger in my car.

Also when you dont overtake them and do 40 in a 60 come to a 30 zone and you slow down and they continue at 40 through the area. rant over :mad:
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Exactly the same here, I think people go into an auto pilot mode or something? It's weird, 0 attention to speed limits or road conditions.
 
Better that they didn't overtake rather than pull out in 5th a pass with a 10mph speed differential that most of them seem to do around here though.

If in attempting an overtake I'm sure as hell making sure I spend as little time as possible in the oncoming lane
 
When I was learning to drive, I asked my instructor if it was OK to overtake a vehicle doing 40 on the 60mph road between Newbury and Andover. My instructor was more than happy for me to overtake on the correct overtaking marked road providing it was safe to do so and that I didnt break the speed limit. I overtook the nuisance sunday driver who proceeded to blare the horn and flash me as a 'Learner'. My instructor, a female, who was a very good instructor said "You'll get ******** drivers like that" :D.

Shawrey
 
The problem is, I would say half of all overtakes I see are dangerous. So many people overtaking and pulling it off out of sheer luck more than anything else.

I won't overtake unless it's straight and I can clearly see the point at which I will be past. No jokes, I nearly saw a lady in a micra killed the other day overtaking a lorry doing 50. Everybody seems to be in a hurry.
 
Frozennova said:
Better that they didn't overtake rather than pull out in 5th a pass with a 10mph speed differential that most of them seem to do around here though.

If in attempting an overtake I'm sure as hell making sure I spend as little time as possible in the oncoming lane
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damn straight, my overtaking procedure is i'll only upshift once i'm past the vehicle and able to pull in, or i've hit the redline and need a new gear.

people seem to be scared to give it the beans when necessary, and most cars are capable enough of safely overtaking a car doing a static speed.

i'll confess to generally overestimating the distance i need to pass something, but i guess that's a damn sight better than underestimating it
 
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