Why do people queue in one lane?

helpimcrap said:
EU regulations dictate they can lose their licence if over by a few seconds. Car drivers are unaffected and can drive for 24hrs. Those few seconds turn into minutes as every impatient Tom, Dick or Harry follow them through. They don't want to push in front of others who want to get home as well that's all.

Deadlines mean nothing when it's your livelihood at stake.

Ps they are limited and have different weight loads so one truck really is quicker than another - foot flat to floor on limiter is far easier than lifting slightly for miles on end because you don't want to offend the little people.

I'm not a truck driver but I've passed my class 2 so have an appreciation. You would not believe how difficult it is to stop them things on a motorway when cars pull in front of you and slam brakes on because the idiots nearly missed their lane! How more accidents don't happen is purely the lorry drivers.
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I'm aware that truck drivers are restricted by driving time. Any decent employer would allow for this and not expect their drivers to deliver to the minute ideal traffic runs and allow for that to be factored into their schedule for the day.

I'm also aware they are limited and that there are subtle differences between the actual speeds, I get treated to a demonstration of this multiple times every week. My point was why bother when you know that you really aren't going to get any further up the road (less than a mile after over an hour) and cause a massive tailback while you perform the drawn out and ultimately pointless manoeuvre? Equally how can the driver being overtaken not just ease up a couple of mph? The ones that really get me are when you have a short overtaking lane up hill and a truck pulls into it and makes zero progress on the truck it is trying to pass before pulling back in 100 yards before the lane ends.

I'm sure it is much easier to drive with the throttle mashed into the floor but as someone who is expected to do longer stints than truck drivers are allowed to do on occasions up and down the country in a car without cruise my heart hardly bleeds for them.
 
lordrobs said:
I'm aware that truck drivers are restricted by driving time. Any decent employer would allow for this and not expect their drivers to deliver to the minute ideal traffic runs and allow for that to be factored into their schedule for the day.

I'm also aware they are limited and that there are subtle differences between the actual speeds, I get treated to a demonstration of this multiple times every week. My point was why bother when you know that you really aren't going to get any further up the road (less than a mile after over an hour) and cause a massive tailback while you perform the drawn out and ultimately pointless manoeuvre? Equally how can the driver being overtaken not just ease up a couple of mph? The ones that really get me are when you have a short overtaking lane up hill and a truck pulls into it and makes zero progress on the truck it is trying to pass before pulling back in 100 yards before the lane ends.

I'm sure it is much easier to drive with the throttle mashed into the floor but as someone who is expected to do longer stints than truck drivers are allowed to do on occasions up and down the country in a car without cruise my heart hardly bleeds for them.
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I thought in that case, wagons weren't supposed to go in the right lane.
 
Bit of a thread revival. Meant to be an anorak sooner and upload this. Biggest driving pet peeve is queuing in one lane and actively, maybe to my detriment, always choose the second lane.

Here's a bloke who was behind me a couple of cars either take offence at me going in the second lane or just plain negligent. The old bloke nearly caused a couple more accidents further on from this, nearly rear ending someone, pulling out onto someone at a roundabout...danger to the roads really...

I wasn't aggressive. I was slow and actually made no progress.

Forgive the terrible eclectic playlist that is playing.

 
They could fix merge in turn by making both lanes merge into each other, rather than (very nearly) always having the right lane merge into the left.
 
Just had this today, ***** in an HGV sitting in the middle of two lanes, 700 yards away from the merge point. Gave him a long blast of the horn which did nothing, had to mount the kerb (not pedestrian area) to get past him, and got all the way to the cones to merge at the front. Don't see how he's a hero for changing 800 yards of two lane traffic into 1600 yards of single file traffic, it's idiotic.
 
Mucky_Pup said:
Just had this today, ***** in an HGV sitting in the middle of two lanes, 700 yards away from the merge point. Gave him a long blast of the horn which did nothing, had to mount the kerb (not pedestrian area) to get past him, and got all the way to the cones to merge at the front. Don't see how he's a hero for changing 800 yards of two lane traffic into 1600 yards of single file traffic, it's idiotic.
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Had a woman in a Jeep do this last summer, she was blocking off the left hand lane of a dual carriage way which was just over a 1/4 of a mile away from the merge point with several left hand turnings going into a housing estate and a B road which was pretty much on the merge point.

I was behind her and gave her a few beeps, she then held out a blue card out of the window which I assume was some police card as I was to far away to actually see (not on duty either way which is illegal) I then had to get past her at a turn off junction, she then proceeded to 'chase' me all the way up to the B road 1/4 of a mile on at about 20mph, when I turned off, she turned around and must have felt like a right idiot (it freed up the left hand lane). She caused complete chaos behind me from people just trying to get onto the estate and B road.
 
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I had this last night, the M6 was down to one lane and a turnip in an artic was trying to straddle lane 2&3 on the approach but way before the red X markings above the closed lanes, I picked my opportunity and passed the idiot (greeted by horn blast and unfriendly gestures) and merged at the closure 200yds before the red X marking (followed by a few more trucks and cars), I know what merge in turn means!


Most trucks do have cruise control, it's not hard to lift or knock it back a notch to let another truck pass, I do, many don't.
 
[TW]Fox;30333873 said:
It sort of does as it removes the concept that one lane is joining the other.
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It really doesn't, makes no difference people still assume the kerb side lane has priority, and people in the right lane end up slamming on or on the wrong side of the road.
 
[TW]Fox;30333890 said:
Not if both lanes end with appropriate arrows.
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Yes they do, i drive through one every day. The lane markings even end and both lanes then come together, ive even see one person crash into the kerb trying to be a smart arse. Kerb is a raised one so its not one you want to hit.
 
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