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Old 05-05-2010 | 07:01 PM
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And before we start, lets leave out roadworks and there delays.. we've all been there and wasted are life but it something we have to suffer..

Just returned from a weekend of motorway milage and as the miles rose i found myself getting more and more annoyed at folk and there road manners.. but my new pet peave is folk who chug along at 50mph in the inside lane forcing wagons to into the second lane just as you've lined yaself up to over takeyour slowed to 56 as theres no space to move over into lane 3..
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People who dont get in the right lane to start with.

People who drive 20mph under the speed limit which in my opinion is just as bad as driving 20mph over it.
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well. ive just done a whole shit load of motorway driving. and the most annoying thing i find is twats in BMWs and Mercs speeding up your ass in the 3rd lane and under taking, when im just thinking my old ford could have either one of them
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middle lane hogger's
people on the phone wile driving
erratic undertaking
people with fog lights on when its not foggy
and lorry's overtaking
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Where should I start? How's these for starters:

Inept drivers
Drivers who dawdle along at 50 in lane 2, 3 or 4
Tailbacks out of nowhere
Golf GTi and M3 drivers who are always eager to scrape some paint off your rear bumper
BMW drivers that didn't ask for indicators in the option pack
Drivers and passengers that flick fags and crisp packets out of the window
Mercedes drivers that have entire meetings with a mobile held to their ear without a police traffic car in sight
Roadworks with no bugger working on them
Potholes and tramlines despite exorbitant road tax
Van drivers that can achieve 90mph in lane 2 only
Drivers who give way to muppets pushing in from the hard shoulder
Little Vauxhall Meriva type cars indicating left then moving right, cutting you up
Sitting at the back of a tailback, waiting for some blind 'tard on his phone or lighting a fag to plough into the back of you

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Originally Posted by cozmeister
Where should I start? How's these for starters:

Inept drivers
Drivers who dawdle along at 50 in lane 2, 3 or 4
Tailbacks out of nowhere
Golf GTi and M3 drivers who are always eager to scrape some paint off your rear bumper
BMW drivers that didn't ask for indicators in the option pack
Drivers and passengers that flick fags and crisp packets out of the window
Mercedes drivers that have entire meetings with a mobile held to their ear without a police traffic car in sight
Roadworks with no bugger working on them
Potholes and tramlines despite exorbitant road tax
I once had a wagon driver launch his teabag straight out the window just as he came onto the m1 from the services..
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-People who sit in the middle lane for no reason
-People who sit in the right lane for no reason
-People that don't use the inside lane
-People that travel at stupid slow speeds in the middle and right lane
-People who I end up under taking because they insist on sitting in the wrong lane

See a pattern emerging here...?
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people driving under the speed limit in the middle and outer lanes while the near side land is clear, I will make a point to under take them in this situation

If folk used the over taking lanes as just that' the motorway network would work much much better...
Old 05-05-2010 | 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by pani_k
-People who sit in the middle lane for no reason
-People who sit in the right lane for no reason
-People that don't use the inside lane
-People that travel at stupid slow speeds in the middle and right lane
-People who I end up under taking because they insist on sitting in the wrong lane

See a pattern emerging here...?


Bang On. No fucka now how to use the inside lane.

Women carnt drive. End off.

Im a trucker and i use the moterway everyday at work. if i made a list the site would crash.
Old 05-05-2010 | 07:16 PM
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As said lane discipline, well lack of it gets me going

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Those cocks that will sit in the outside lane bang on 70mph and bitch at you in the mirror as you want to come through. STAY LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING YOU CUNTS!!!!
Old 05-05-2010 | 07:27 PM
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people that think it is fine to change lanes because they indicated
since when did they change the highway code to mirror signal cut up
twats
Old 05-05-2010 | 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by pani_k
-People who sit in the middle lane for no reason
-People who sit in the right lane for no reason
-People that don't use the inside lane
-People that travel at stupid slow speeds in the middle and right lane
-People who I end up under taking because they insist on sitting in the wrong lane

See a pattern emerging here...?
Spot on

Also arseholes who sit right up your arse flashing and indicating like there on the autobahn

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Old 05-05-2010 | 07:32 PM
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the lane discipline is down to people not being taught/not having any common sense about how to drive on a fucking motorway.

its too late now but people should be taught to drive on a motorway!!! its fucking stupid you cant learn to drive on a motorway but as soon as you pass you can....well done fucking stupid government!
Old 05-05-2010 | 07:34 PM
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all of it motorways bore the fuck out of me
Old 05-05-2010 | 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Oranoco
Those cocks that will sit in the outside lane bang on 70mph and bitch at you in the mirror as you want to come through. STAY LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING YOU CUNTS!!!!

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not really motorway thing here but people who treat the dual carrageway beside my house as a motor way, bimmer drivers who didnt specify the indicator pack and the bimmer and audi drivers whe drive up your bumper or if on a bke acutally try to hit you
Old 05-05-2010 | 07:36 PM
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it should be part of ypur driving test i feel ! like once you have pased the first part of your test there is a second test enabling you to use motorways or something along these lines as thats half the problem that these people are uneducated !
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The speed 70 mph
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Originally Posted by pani_k
-People who sit in the middle lane for no reason
-People who sit in the right lane for no reason
-People that don't use the inside lane
-People that travel at stupid slow speeds in the middle and right lane
-People who I end up under taking because they insist on sitting in the wrong lane

See a pattern emerging here...?
that about sums it up for me, 1 hour everyday spent on the M11, does my nut it, but me and other half in our transits soon let them know by passing both sides of them at the same time
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What annoys me most are drivers that take the gap that I leave between me and the car in front. No, it's ok, take my braking zone, it's fine......
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On a two-lane dual carriageway you should stay in the left-hand lane. Use the right-hand lane for overtaking or turning right. After overtaking, move back to the left-hand lane when it is safe to do so.
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On a three-lane dual carriageway, you may use the middle lane or the right-hand lane to overtake but return to the middle and then the left-hand lane when it is safe.


I had a "discussion" with a woman from work who sat in the right hand lane down a three mile stretch of dual carriageway because she was turning right at the end. At 50mph in a 70.

I asked why she didn't move over and let me past and she said "It's up to me what speed I do in what ever lane I like."

I said read the highway code and that by driving like that there was alot of wasted tarmac around the country if people like her were turning all dual carriageways into single carriageways.
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People who dont look at the road in front of them just stare at the end of there bonnet, then results in accelerate, brake, accelerate, brake etc, etc.

Arse's.
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People that can be undertaken.... If they can be undertaken then they shouldn't be in the lane they are in IMHO!

(I don't undertake)

Idiots in Ferraris doing 70mph in the right hand lane.... Just because you have a fast car doesn't entitle you to stay in the right had lane!
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People that brake for the fucking slip road while still on the inside lane of the motorway, how much space do you fucking need!?

Middle lane hoggers
Slow drivers i.e. 50mph!
People that dont indicate until they are nigh on in your lane when youve already had to slame the anchors on.
And finally people like the driver of a silver m3 on the m5 monday who was a foot off my rear bumper while I was very quickly over taking traffic in the other 2 lanes.
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Originally Posted by Elwood
What annoys me most are drivers that take the gap that I leave between me and the car in front. No, it's ok, take my braking zone, it's fine......
Yeah this is my main gripe about driving on the motorway, i leave loads of space for braking and also because i dont want any stone chips etc, but theres always one fucking donkey that has to cut in as if theres a low flying harrier jet coming their way
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Poor lane discipline


And by the way all of you feeling guilty for undertaking morons, there is no law about undertaking so feel free to do it........you'll get done for dangerous driving if you change lanes to do it then change back but if your lane is moving faster than theirs then just blast on past.....
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people that crawl past you in the middle lane at 1mph more than you when you're indicating to get out as you want to overtake. Move the fuck over to the outside lane, speed up, or let me out. I've resorted to dropping a cog, gunning it and cutting infront if they don't seem to have acknowledged me.
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Twats in cars that cost twice my yearly income that are too tight to pay for a hands free kit-its illegal to be on the phone and drive for a reason

More twats that can't maintain a steady spead forcing you to overtake em

Even more twats that ignore the fact you are about to leave the slip road and go onto the motorway and insread of being observant and seeing you so they can allow you on (like the twat driving a minibus last week-the twat)
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middle lane hoggers is my pet hate; i beep them now and some of them get the message
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all of the above
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Originally Posted by paul0461
well. ive just done a whole shit load of motorway driving. and the most annoying thing i find is twats in BMWs and Mercs speeding up your ass in the 3rd lane and under taking, when im just thinking my old ford could have either one of them
if you have been ubder taken your in the wrong lane !!!!!
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Originally Posted by It's Czech Mate
Poor lane discipline


And by the way all of you feeling guilty for undertaking morons, there is no law about undertaking so feel free to do it........you'll get done for dangerous driving if you change lanes to do it then change back but if your lane is moving faster than theirs then just blast on past.....

that's just classed as keeping up with the flow of traffic
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wen ever1 get in da way wen i wanna open it up all da time
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im a van driver i know lol. so i do a few motorway miles, done 659 today, Newcastle>London>Surry>Newcastle.

people pulling in to my braking zone
being behind someone doing 60>65mph, i pull over to overtake and they decide to match my speed. TWAT
people on the phone wile driving
people who just havent got a clue where they are or what they are doing
people who overtake you, cut in then brake WTF
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Middle lane spastics irritate me, and erratic driving like large variation in cruising speeds. Makes me want to ram them off the road!

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Originally Posted by Cragrat

Even more twats that ignore the fact you are about to leave the slip road and go onto the motorway and insread of being observant and seeing you so they can allow you on (like the twat driving a minibus last week-the twat)
Sorry pal but its up to you on the slip road to match your speed and find a gap, not the folk on the motorway.
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people who brake unnecessarily!!

people on their phone

dogs on their laps

when two cars sit at the same speed and block both lanes

and in Vancouver where I live the police!! they like to stop on the side of the motorway with their lights on for no reason at all. happened to me today as I was driving down town, so much traffic then in the distance I see flashing lights, so as I get passed it, there was no traffic!!
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Originally Posted by cozmeister
Where should I start? How's these for starters:

Inept drivers
Drivers who dawdle along at 50 in lane 2, 3 or 4
Tailbacks out of nowhere
Golf GTi and M3 drivers who are always eager to scrape some paint off your rear bumper
BMW drivers that didn't ask for indicators in the option pack
Drivers and passengers that flick fags and crisp packets out of the window
Mercedes drivers that have entire meetings with a mobile held to their ear without a police traffic car in sight
Roadworks with no bugger working on them
Potholes and tramlines despite exorbitant road tax
Van drivers that can achieve 90mph in lane 2 only
Drivers who give way to muppets pushing in from the hard shoulder
Little Vauxhall Meriva type cars indicating left then moving right, cutting you up
Sitting at the back of a tailback, waiting for some blind 'tard on his phone or lighting a fag to plough into the back of you
So basically everyone in superior vehicles then!



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