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I’m talking about on the motorway. Not a cheeky undercut past an outside lane doom brain but persistent and aggressive swerving across all lanes and accelerating into any gap for as far as you can see the offender.
Thing I’ve noticed with them is more often than not it’s a low value, older car so I’m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
Thing I’ve noticed with them is more often than not it’s a low value, older car so I’m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
Where did all the 60MPH middle lane hoggers on the motorway come from? I am sure they are sitting there convinced they are the safest drivers on the road as the "maniacs" constantly pull out from the inside lane to the outside lane to over take, or just undertake them at 70MPH.
I had one late at night on a deserted A3 flash his lights at me as I sat in the inside lane maintaining 70MPH with cruise control and just undertook him.
Just f
king move over, but they never get the message.
I had one late at night on a deserted A3 flash his lights at me as I sat in the inside lane maintaining 70MPH with cruise control and just undertook him.
Just f
king move over, but they never get the message.ThingsBehindTheSun said:
Where did all the 60MPH middle lane hoggers on the motorway come from? I am sure they are sitting there convinced they are the safest drivers on the road as the "maniacs" constantly pull out from the inside lane to the outside lane to over take, or just undertake them at 70MPH.
I had one late at night on a deserted A3 flash his lights at me as I sat in the inside lane maintaining 70MPH with cruise control and just undertook him.
Just fking move over, but they never get the message.
Yes but this is about the 'get past everyone regardless of what lane they should be in' drivers, like the Chelsea footballer, rather than the amble past at the correct speed in the inside lane, without being aggressive, type of driver like your good patient self. I'm sensing some trolling though.I had one late at night on a deserted A3 flash his lights at me as I sat in the inside lane maintaining 70MPH with cruise control and just undertook him.
Just f
king move over, but they never get the message.Franco5 said:
I m talking about on the motorway. Not a cheeky undercut past an outside lane doom brain but persistent and aggressive swerving across all lanes and accelerating into any gap for as far as you can see the offender.
Thing I ve noticed with them is more often than not it s a low value, older car so I m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
"low value car"? Driver must be a thick peasant who is frustrated with his lot?Thing I ve noticed with them is more often than not it s a low value, older car so I m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
What a way to judge people.
ThingsBehindTheSun said:
Where did all the 60MPH middle lane hoggers on the motorway come from? I am sure they are sitting there convinced they are the safest drivers on the road as the "maniacs" constantly pull out from the inside lane to the outside lane to over take, or just undertake them at 70MPH.
I had one late at night on a deserted A3 flash his lights at me as I sat in the inside lane maintaining 70MPH with cruise control and just undertook him.
Just fking move over, but they never get the message.
They probably are deluding themselves but who cares as long as you can get past them safely and make progress without being inconvenienced.I had one late at night on a deserted A3 flash his lights at me as I sat in the inside lane maintaining 70MPH with cruise control and just undertook him.
Just f
king move over, but they never get the message.For Gods sake take a chill pill, life is stressful enough without getting wound up over something that in reality is a bit pathetic.
And rather than get therapy on here maybe report them which might fix the problem one driver at a time.
Franco5 said:
I m talking about on the motorway. Not a cheeky undercut past an outside lane doom brain but persistent and aggressive swerving across all lanes and accelerating into any gap for as far as you can see the offender.
Thing I ve noticed with them is more often than not it s a low value, older car so I m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
So you're saying you are constantly being undertaken on motorways but its not your fault and everyone else is in the wrong?Thing I ve noticed with them is more often than not it s a low value, older car so I m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
If I get undertaken then I am in the wrong, and I am unlikely to ever complain about others doing it. I would say I undertake at least 3 cars every single time I use triple lane roads.
f
k the idiots who cant drive!Franco5 said:
I m talking about on the motorway. Not a cheeky undercut past an outside lane doom brain but persistent and aggressive swerving across all lanes and accelerating into any gap for as far as you can see the offender.
Thing I ve noticed with them is more often than not it s a low value, older car so I m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
Why should I perform 4 unnecessary lane changes because you sit their in your overpriced sThing I ve noticed with them is more often than not it s a low value, older car so I m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
te not moving over?Franco5 said:
Thing I ve noticed with them is more often than not it s a low value, older car so I m guessing the manner of their driving reflects their thick peasant status and could be due to their general levels of frustration with their lot.
My car cost me less than £3k, however, it costs a bloody fortune to run and is quicker than most things on the road, does it still qualify me for thick peasant status...? 
BunkMoreland said:
I would say I undertake at least 3 cars every single time I use triple lane roads.
fk the idiots who cant drive!
Agree. I used to feel quite uneasy about it as it felt unsafe, but I've come to realise these dimwits will never pull over in to my path as they are totally oblivious. f
k the idiots who cant drive!See also people who speed up as you try to overtake them at a constant speed and /or pass you or be passed only to re-emerge a mile or so later and then slow down again.
To address the OP's odd post about the caliber of car and therefore driver, I often see the opposite. Its usually people in farty Mercs or (a)RS(e) Audi's that are racing each other in a desperate attempt to show how manly they are.
Knobs are not exclusively poor, or rich. They are seemingly at any class or income level.
What about the very common scenario where you are in the outside lane of a busy motorway at 70-80 mph following a train of cars stretching out as far as you can see and then some bellend undertakes you and as many other cars as it can before then swerving back into the outside lane. They are basically going nowhere, but can’t accept the reality that their speed is traffic limited.
Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won’t go away.
Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won’t go away.
Leftfootwonder said:
See also people who speed up as you try to overtake them at a constant speed and /or pass you or be passed only to re-emerge a mile or so later and then slow down again.
Knobs are not exclusively poor, or rich. They are seemingly at any class or income level.
Yes this. Very frustrating and very obvious when you have to drive a company vehicle limited to 67mph.Knobs are not exclusively poor, or rich. They are seemingly at any class or income level.
Everyday I catch up folk, move right and alongside during the overtake, only to find them slowly pull away from me, only to then slow down again. Rinse and repeat for miles.
uktrailmonster said:
What about the very common scenario where you are in the outside lane of a busy motorway at 70-80 mph following a train of cars stretching out as far as you can see and then some bellend undertakes you and as many other cars as it can before then swerving back into the outside lane. They are basically going nowhere, but can t accept the reality that their speed is traffic limited.
Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won t go away.
Get out of the outside lane. In the scenario you describe, there is plenty of room in the lane(s) to your left if a car is undertaking.Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won t go away.
Why are you in the right hand lane if you're not overtaking?
Super Sonic said:
uktrailmonster said:
What about the very common scenario where you are in the outside lane of a busy motorway at 70-80 mph following a train of cars stretching out as far as you can see and then some bellend undertakes you and as many other cars as it can before then swerving back into the outside lane. They are basically going nowhere, but can t accept the reality that their speed is traffic limited.
Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won t go away.
Get out of the outside lane. In the scenario you describe, there is plenty of room in the lane(s) to your left if a car is undertaking.Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won t go away.
Why are you in the right hand lane if you're not overtaking?
What if the person in front of you in the outside lane queue ultimately wants to go faster than your chosen cruising speed once the traffic clears? If he allows you past him, or if you force your way past, you're just becoming part of what's holding him up.
There's also a difference between passing on the inside because someone is lane hogging and cutting through people's safe stopping distances, obliging them to make allowances for your aggressive driving.
Super Sonic said:
uktrailmonster said:
What about the very common scenario where you are in the outside lane of a busy motorway at 70-80 mph following a train of cars stretching out as far as you can see and then some bellend undertakes you and as many other cars as it can before then swerving back into the outside lane. They are basically going nowhere, but can t accept the reality that their speed is traffic limited.
Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won t go away.
Get out of the outside lane. In the scenario you describe, there is plenty of room in the lane(s) to your left if a car is undertaking.Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won t go away.
Why are you in the right hand lane if you're not overtaking?
The sort of nutters the OP describes usually go steaming past in the inside lane until they come up behind another vehicle, then cut someone up to get back out a bit further up the queue. Maybe they aren't British - we like a good queue!
Super Sonic said:
uktrailmonster said:
What about the very common scenario where you are in the outside lane of a busy motorway at 70-80 mph following a train of cars stretching out as far as you can see and then some bellend undertakes you and as many other cars as it can before then swerving back into the outside lane. They are basically going nowhere, but can t accept the reality that their speed is traffic limited.
Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won t go away.
Get out of the outside lane. In the scenario you describe, there is plenty of room in the lane(s) to your left if a car is undertaking.Often they will cut right across into the inside lane because they see an opportunity to undercut a couple more cars and then get boxed in and lose all the places they made up with their previous move. So then they do it all over again. I find those drivers really annoying like a house fly buzzing around you that just won t go away.
Why are you in the right hand lane if you're not overtaking?
ThingsBehindTheSun said:
Where did all the 60MPH middle lane hoggers on the motorway come from? I am sure they are sitting there convinced they are the safest drivers on the road as the "maniacs" constantly pull out from the inside lane to the outside lane to over take, or just undertake them at 70MPH.
I had one late at night on a deserted A3 flash his lights at me as I sat in the inside lane maintaining 70MPH with cruise control and just undertook him.
Just fking move over, but they never get the message.
I passed a mercedes c class coupe on the M27 a couple of weeks ago. I was doing 70mph in lane 1 and they must have been doing no more than 60mph in lane 2. About 5 car lengths after I passed them in lane 1 I got a barrage of flashing lights, followed by them catching up to me and violently swerving into my lane forcing me to take evasive action (there was a filter lane to my left for Jn9).I had one late at night on a deserted A3 flash his lights at me as I sat in the inside lane maintaining 70MPH with cruise control and just undertook him.
Just f
king move over, but they never get the message.They did this to me two more times before I decided it was safer to take the Jn9 exit rather than continue with them to Jn8.
I was in my i3 rather than one of my bigger, more powerful cars so I wonder if they were particularly butt hurt by being silently passed.
Mr Tidy said:
I often experience this, usually when the inside lane is empty and someone in the middle lane wants to do 62 mph so pulls into the outside lane in a gutless car to try to overtake someone doing 60 mph which takes up to half a mile. The rest of us in the outside lane want to do 70ish so why move into the middle lane only to have to move back out?
I was behind someone doing this on the M6, crawling past a couple of cars in the middle lane. I was alongside the first whilst he was formation flying next to the second. The pillock behind in the Transit van flashed his headlights at me, demonstrating he may well fail a roadside eye test as he couldn't see beyond me to what the actual hold up was. I couldn't either move in or speed up, so I don't know quite what he expected the result of his tantrum to be. Safe to say I showed him what was what when the guy in front eventually did move over.Asian weddings and people heading home from Chester races after a few champaigns and lines of coke also deserve special mentions for weaving through traffic before ending up trapped amongst the slow movers and being passed by everyone again.
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