You would hope they know better
A fair number of them like to use the size of their trucks to bully other drivers into doing what they want.
They're no better than the rest of the ***** out there.
Why do people queue in one lane?
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A fair number of them like to use the size of their trucks to bully other drivers into doing what they want.
They're no better than the rest of the ***** out there.
"I'll block 500 yards of road so I'm not another half a dozen cars back." Must fit in nicely with the truck driver mentality of "ooh, I can go 0.2mph quicker than the truck in front so I'll overtake for the next 5 miles." While the other guy sits there thinking "I could back off by a couple of mph and get this done in seconds but let's drag it out for 5 minutes". They may be against deadlines but aren't we all? Saving a few seconds here and there doesn't make a difference.
I was on the A50 a few weeks ago and 1 lane was closed due to an incident.
A truck:
a) Straddled both lanes at around 5mph as soon as the warning signs went up - wasting about 3 miles of 2 lane road.
b) When we eventually dropped to one lane, he continued at 5-10mph for the duration of the single lane section (a good 3 or 4 miles) again leaving literally miles of clear unused space in front of him.
Why? Why on earth would you back up traffic for absolutely no reason? What a complete douche. This is a professional driver, they should know better.
A truck:
a) Straddled both lanes at around 5mph as soon as the warning signs went up - wasting about 3 miles of 2 lane road.
b) When we eventually dropped to one lane, he continued at 5-10mph for the duration of the single lane section (a good 3 or 4 miles) again leaving literally miles of clear unused space in front of him.
Why? Why on earth would you back up traffic for absolutely no reason? What a complete douche. This is a professional driver, they should know better.
In any other situation "professional" should mean someone who is very good in their area of expertise. When it comes to "professional" drivers it means the absolute opposite.
Van drivers, taxi drivers and some LGV/HGV drivers are scary in just how poor their driving is.
I can only suppose he was doing so to prevent anybody racing up the road ignoring the warning and potentially hitting whatever incident was up ahead.
Bit OTT nonetheless.
Probably didn't want to deal with stop start traffic and didn't want everyone else to flood past him and lose position.
Doesn't explain driving so slow though? Could acheive the same thing doing 30mph.
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This is my pet hate. People don't understand that you're meant to use both lanes, then get annoyed that you've overtaken them, when they could have done the same... I see an empty lane and a packed lane on the way to/from work and it drives me mad. Especially when it backs up and blocks roundabouts!
Add bus drivers to the list of vigilante ill informed policemen.
Add bus drivers to the list of vigilante ill informed policemen.
In some places you do get people who take the **** a bit in fairness, trying to get as many cars ahead as possible, often forcing their way past the point where you're supposed to zip together and force their way in a few cars further down.
The M25 - M23 south merge comes to mind. People quite often do the lane straddling thing there, and I've had people try and stop me merging there loads of times too.
The M25 - M23 south merge comes to mind. People quite often do the lane straddling thing there, and I've had people try and stop me merging there loads of times too.
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Its probably because people stop you from merging your forced to go ahead.
Had it coming off a roundabout in the right hand lane, merging into single, theres a mondeo behind me, a space next to me, and a volvo ahead with another space thats practically pushing the limit of safe to try and go for.
So i indicate to merge in, to find mondeo man, inches behind the volvo, staring at me with a look of "i aint letting you in here"
Had no choice but to take the option i'd already ruled out as unfeasable now becoming unsafe of flooring it to squeeze in in front of the volvo, which nearly put me into the oncoming traffic.
One of those moments i wished i was a copper, not gonna lie mondeo man would be lucky if he kept his licence if i had my way.
As per the other thread - it'll only ever be solved with better signage and public awareness campaigns and in situations where people haven't properly queued from the start the odd person who does go down the empty lane invariably one way or another just causes further delays regardless of what the proper thing is.
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I've had a similar incident before, however I was already very agitated so laid into the horn instead, and received a middle finger out of the window for my trouble.
Some angry little old man in a Berlingo I think.
Which brings us back around to the first post i made in this thread- should be legal to ram em off the road and claim back the damage to your car from their insurance
Bear in mind there are some roads (a few parts of the A303 for instance) where 99% of the time there is no junction that's being blocked by people queuing in the single lane and there is nothing gained by using both lanes when queuing (as quite obviously using both lanes does slow traffic down if the volume of traffic isnt exceptionally high).
Yet you still get the occasional driver tearing down the free lane to cut in...
Are they still right?
Yet you still get the occasional driver tearing down the free lane to cut in...
Are they still right?
You're going to have to explain this a bit more...how can it 'obviously' slow down traffic by using two lanes rather than one?
I assume he means because the right hand lane can continue to move freely for traffic not wanting to take the left turn, whereas if people wanting to use the left turn all piled down both lanes and pushed in front of each other, it would cause issues.
In any case, no thats not the same, that wouldn't be a zip merge, it would be 'being a douche'.
In any case, no thats not the same, that wouldn't be a zip merge, it would be 'being a douche'.
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Just like M40 Junction 14 every morning, people not joining hardshoulder queue but using lane 1 to jump in at the last moment.
