How do you deal with MLMs?

[Oldandslow]

Shaoxter said:

Most of the time just do nothing, there are more important things in life.

But if I'm feeling peeved off them I under/overtake them and then cut right in front of them. Works especially well when it's wet.

Hmm, I'd stick with the first one. 2nd one makes you worse than them. Stupid AND dangerous.

[ORD]

In the last few weeks, I have had a very high success rate doing the following:-

(1) Flash lights while in L1.
(2) Indicate right.

A couple of people have noticed, indicated left and moved back into L1 at this point.

If not:-

(3) Move into L2.
(4) Cancel indicator. Pause.
(5) Indicate right again.

Most people move over at this point.

If not:-
(6) Overtake in L3.
(7) Indicate left and move into L2.
(8) Cancel indicator. Pause.
(9) Indicate left again
(10) Accelerate as moving into L1 (code for "Look! You can go fast in this lane!").

I think the car has always moved into L1 after these steps (and a few have acknowledged with a brief flash of hazard lights).

If the MLM is in L3 of 4, I always remain in L1 to pass. If he is L2, I take a view as to whether he may move back across without warning. In a faster car, I am more likely to remain in L1, keep a careful eye on the MLM and be prepared to accelerate hard if he shows signs of life.

[mat205125]

Couple of flashes as I come up behind, overtake on the right, make a deliberate and safely indicated transition back to lane one after passing ....... watch in the mirror to see if anything has woken them up from their slumber.

[Conscript]

In an ideal world, I'd just stay in an almost abandoned lane 1.
However, most of the time it's not long before you come up behind someone in lane 1 that you need to overtake (lorries, etc) - which you can't, because the second lane is full of nose to tail MLMs :/

[anonymous-user]

ORD said:

In the last few weeks, I have had a very high success rate doing the following:-

(1) Flash lights while in L1.
(2) Indicate right.

A couple of people have noticed, indicated left and moved back into L1 at this point.

If not:-

(3) Move into L2.
(4) Cancel indicator. Pause.
(5) Indicate right again.

Most people move over at this point.

If not:-
(6) Overtake in L3.
(7) Indicate left and move into L2.
(8) Cancel indicator. Pause.
(9) Indicate left again
(10) Accelerate as moving into L1 (code for "Look! You can go fast in this lane!").

I think the car has always moved into L1 after these steps (and a few have acknowledged with a brief flash of hazard lights).

If the MLM is in L3 of 4, I always remain in L1 to pass. If he is L2, I take a view as to whether he may move back across without warning. In a faster car, I am more likely to remain in L1, keep a careful eye on the MLM and be prepared to accelerate hard if he shows signs of life.

I tend to just drive to my destination and ignore them. Life is too short.

[Conscript]

ORD said:

In the last few weeks, I have had a very high success rate doing the following:-

(1) Flash lights while in L1.
(2) Indicate right.

A couple of people have noticed, indicated left and moved back into L1 at this point.

If not:-

(3) Move into L2.
(4) Cancel indicator. Pause.
(5) Indicate right again.

Most people move over at this point.

If not:-
(6) Overtake in L3.
(7) Indicate left and move into L2.
(8) Cancel indicator. Pause.
(9) Indicate left again
(10) Accelerate as moving into L1 (code for "Look! You can go fast in this lane!").

I think the car has always moved into L1 after these steps (and a few have acknowledged with a brief flash of hazard lights).

If the MLM is in L3 of 4, I always remain in L1 to pass. If he is L2, I take a view as to whether he may move back across without warning. In a faster car, I am more likely to remain in L1, keep a careful eye on the MLM and be prepared to accelerate hard if he shows signs of life.

I'm actually jealous that you've managed to provoke a response!
If I try any sort of signalling, I'm met with either blank looks or aggressive responses.
A tiny proportion of the population are actually aware what they are doing is incorrect

[lostkiwi]

St John Smythe said:

I tend to just drive to my destination and ignore them. Life is too short.

This. 1-3-1 and just carry on.

[Slushbox]

lostkiwi said:

This. 1-3-1 and just carry on.

Yup. No amount of 'education' will divest the Lane Two Owners Group of their free lifetime membership.

[Northernlights]

My tactic varies slightly, depending on circumstances. If they are sat in Lane 2/3 and have been, without overtaking, for some time, if I happen to catch up with them and am keeping up with traffic in my lane, I'll pass them without moving. I may then put my left-hand indicator on as I pass. If they are simply taking ages to return to L1 after a lorry or coach overtake, I'll move into L3, pull round them and back into L2 and put my indicator on as I move from L2-1. I know that this will mean nothing to most of them, but it makes me feel somewhat better. It's cathartic.

[Sheepshanks]

ORD said:

If not:-
(6) Overtake in L3.
(7) Indicate left and move into L2.
(8) Cancel indicator. Pause.
(9) Indicate left again
(10) Accelerate as moving into L1 (code for "Look! You can go fast in this lane!").

I usually find the next thing that happens is the MLM breezes past me again. If I speed up, so do they.

Even the M6 Toll was full of 'em yesterday heading north at tea-time.

[DS197]

1. Undertake said car
2. Proceed to brake test once undertake is complete
3. ??????
4. Profit

[ORD]

Oh well. Works for me, and I don't drive enough miles to get bored of doing it

[iva cosworth]

If I can continue unimpeded in L1 whilst driving my truck then the MLM is really going way too slow.

I don't bat an eyelid whilst doing it.....................I might do ^^^^^^^^ that though.

I passed a Zafira on the A2 recently,he can't have been doing more than 40 in L2.