I am becomming a middle lane hogger, are you?

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Just back from a round trip from North Yorkshire to Bristol. I found myself spending a lot of the time in the middle lane. Mainly because cars that could go into the first lane didn't. My problem being because there were so many cars in the middle lane, (spaced out well enough that you couldn't argue that the middle lane was going slower than the first lane, and stay in the first lane) the third lane was the only lane "making progress" and there wasn't many safe gabs to move into the 3rd lane. (On 4 lane sections the problem just seemed to move to the 3rd lane) Anybody else finding this or is just me?

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Perhaps I didn't explain myself correctly. I am trying to make progress. I have maybe moved out to the middle lane to overtake something but then find, I can't safely move out to lane 3 as traffic is moving faster and there is more of it because of people in the middle lane (who could easily move to lane 1). I can't go back to lane 1 as I would then be undertaking the slower cars in the middle lane. Hence why I was stuck in the middle lane.

Well aware what the lanes are for and always refer to them as lanes 1,2,3 (4 & 5) just seems I ended up in the middle lane more than I wanted to.