Originally Posted by
S1rst
burnzybubbles, sorry mate but you sound like the dangerous one going by what you've said im afraid. Maybe you havnt explained it well, but thats the way it comes across mate. You cant be messing around like that on the motorways. Whether you think you are in the right or not, you have to use common sense on the motorways.
I see things like this day in day out, and if your not comfortable driving around lorries, then keep away from them in lane two or three and keep with the flow of traffic i say. Thats the safest and most sensible way to drive.
Im not saying lorry drivers are saints, far from it in my opinion (in fact, dont even get me started on them
), but they are what they are. I see sooooo many incidents every day down to people driving at lorries' pace when they actually think they are driving safely, its a bloody joke! Lorries are hard enoguh to deal with driving at 56mph without having to deal with even more slow vehicles.
sorry it must be the way i've come across, i wasn't in any bother about the lorry in front it was just the bloke behind being too close, i didn't feel uncomfortable far from it, I'm quite competent on motorway's and travel along them alot, and when i wasn't driving, my dad traveled alot to pick us up and we travelled between surrey and louth, and he's an instructor of many vehicles himself so i've been taught well ever since i can remember, i was having a go at the lorry behind, for having a go at me, because he was too close
, and some people jumped on the band wagon about slipstreaming
, i stayed on the inside lane with the lorry's so wasn't in any ones way, and i never pull out on people and have a good sense of speed, i had to travel at that speed cos my car uses juice from 80 onwards so i had 2 choices travel at 60-65 in the middle lane or follow lorries and save abit more fuel on the inside lane so i chose the latter,
i can tell you already no how bad lorry drivers tail gate, this was my main dispute, they say a braking distance is a 2 second rule 4 for wet roads but any one in the no, knows this isn't true and is completely dependent on different factors, look at the new mclaren with the same stopping distance at 120 as the government say's it should take to stop at 60, I'm not saying i have a mclaren but i have a good idea on a safe distance to keep in my car, and i was within my means of stopping, but the driver behind wasn't and proceeded to moan at me because he was too close when a problem did arise, i was more annoyed than anything because if i had slammed on my brakes on for any reason like a deer ran onto the motorways which isn't un heard of, then he would of piled into the back of me because of incompetent driving, I'm not saying I'm perfect because no one is and i've made my fair share of mistakes but i also learn from them.