Persistent overtaking lane hogger
Discussion
1) Move to the left hand lane
2) accelerate gently until you have about 12" of overlap with the back of their car
3) Move right until the front offside of your nose is lightly contacting their rear nearside 3/4
4) turn hard right and accelerate hard
5) once you have nudged them to at about 45 deg to the direction of travel, brake hard
6) watch them tank-slap themselves off into the barrier
7) drive off into the sunset smiling at a job well done........
i WISH we were allowed to do that^^^ ;-)
2) accelerate gently until you have about 12" of overlap with the back of their car
3) Move right until the front offside of your nose is lightly contacting their rear nearside 3/4
4) turn hard right and accelerate hard
5) once you have nudged them to at about 45 deg to the direction of travel, brake hard
6) watch them tank-slap themselves off into the barrier
7) drive off into the sunset smiling at a job well done........
i WISH we were allowed to do that^^^ ;-)
Whoozit said:
As experienced for a good ten minutes on the A1 today. Speed around 65mph up hill and down, ignoring all opportunities to move into the left hand lane. Two lanes only.
I don't get why it's a problem at all. 10 minutes at 65mph or 10 minutes at 70mph - the difference is about three-quarters of a mile, or about 45 seconds on your journey. Are you really in that much of a rush? Relax.M4cruiser said:
I don't get why it's a problem at all. 10 minutes at 65mph or 10 minutes at 70mph - the difference is about three-quarters of a mile, or about 45 seconds on your journey. Are you really in that much of a rush? Relax.
65mph indicated, not actual. And I may have wished to explore ACPO's guideline of 10 % plus change, where safe to do so of course. Which adding up, would have made a difference. M4cruiser said:
I don't get why it's a problem at all. 10 minutes at 65mph or 10 minutes at 70mph - the difference is about three-quarters of a mile, or about 45 seconds on your journey. Are you really in that much of a rush? Relax.
It can't be that much fun needlessly holding people up, unless you are bone-headedly selfish, or a sociopath. Just pull in to L1, let them by and relax.
Johnnytheboy said:
M4cruiser said:
I don't get why it's a problem at all. 10 minutes at 65mph or 10 minutes at 70mph - the difference is about three-quarters of a mile, or about 45 seconds on your journey. Are you really in that much of a rush? Relax.
It can't be that much fun needlessly holding people up, unless you are bone-headedly selfish, or a sociopath. Just pull in to L1, let them by and relax.
A quick tap of the brakes to disengage cruise might make the person behind brake a little harder, and so on; quarter of a mile back the whole road will grind to a halt for no discernible reason.
Driving at 65mph in lane 2 for no good reason is anti-social.
DocSteve said:
Undertaking is not illegal per se as discussed many times on these fora.However, you could be done for a driving offence such as DWDCA.
Do the recent laws on 'middle lane hogging' apply to this kind of event too? If so, if you calmly moved to the left lane, and gradually passed the guy doing the speed limit in the left hand lane, and then made enough of a gap to then move to the fast lane, and if a police officer saw this, surely the lane hogger is the easy target and one 'most' braking the rules?routari said:
Do the recent laws on 'middle lane hogging' apply to this kind of event too? If so, if you calmly moved to the left lane, and gradually passed the guy doing the speed limit in the left hand lane, and then made enough of a gap to then move to the fast lane, and if a police officer saw this, surely the lane hogger is the easy target and one 'most' braking the rules?
Braking! See what you did there 
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