A9 - is it always this bad?

[Shaoxter]

Drove all the way back from Inverness to Perth, Glasgow and beyond yesterday and the queues behind lorries were quite something. Is it like this all the time or was it just because it was a bank holiday?

Also a lot of people seem to be content sitting behind the lorries at 40-45mph for a long time... had I been in a slower car I would have smashed something in frustration.

[Shaoxter]

coppice said:

I have just done an 1100 mile tour of Scotland in my Seven (Glencoe,Sutherland , Wester Ross, Cairngorms- usual suspects) and found the standard of driving very good. Nobody minded being overtaken , no flashing lights or aggression , often doing all they could to make it easier and the only unpleasantness was a couple of idiots who wouldn't let me by on single track roads when caught. It is in line with what I have found in the decades I have been visiting - none of the passive aggression I find at home but , increasingly, the disinclination to risk any overtaking and the inclination as a result to form long sheep like queues .

Yep, agree with all you said! I didn't get flashed once even though I kept "pushing in" while in the long queues. Had that been around London/home counties my retinas would have been burnt.

However people were very slow overtaking in the sections where one lane became 2 lanes, to the extent that only about 5-6 people got past a lorry.