Driving on the motorway/ Keeping left

[exelero]

It's been a while since I did a long motorway run, but last weekend I was heading to London on Friday morning. Now I understand there is usually heavy traffic especially on the M25 and on the M1 South and Northbound but I observed loads of drivers who don't give a toss about keeping left, I think we call them Middle lane idiots on here. I also understand that when there is congestion the smart screen tells you to stay in lane, but what I could see from my view is if everyone kept left there would be no congestion at all? Lane 1 and 2 was faster than lane 3-4 in fact lane 3 was empty and the safety car was a Taxi in lane 4 at 60 mph. I know it's not nice to flash people, but can't we just use the outside lane for overtaking? Last year I noticed the same on the M6 that the outside lane from the 2 was stuck with ppl travelling at 55-60 mph but couldn't overtake, yet in the inside lane was me and... well me only. What is going on? Is it that easy to get a driving licence, or just no one is bothered about everyone else?

GET OUT OF THE OUTSIDE LANE!!!

[Monkeylegend]

Morons, middle lane morons.

You need to get out a bit more been going on for years but is getting worse.

[exelero]

I'll try to avoid it as much as possible, never swore as much in a long long time. Where I come from You'd get the st flashed out of you then undertaken and brakechecked, they'd learn....

[Monkeylegend]

I chauffeured for a living for quite a few years up to 2 years ago and you wouldn't believe the number of drivers sitting in lanes 3 or 4 of the M25 doing 60 at 4.00 in the morning with lanes 1 and 2 being virtually empty.

[Shore]

That's where the old undertake and brake test come into play. Ronnie Pickering would do the same.

[exelero]

I didn't do it, although the temptation was high enough. Who is going to teach them?

[ToothbrushMan]

Let them fanny about in the outer lanes........

If the inner lanes are free flowing that allows me to make easy unfettered progress in them, sailing merrily past these lummoxes who can only see as far as the rear bumper thats in front of them.

[Monkeylegend]

I must admit that as it got more common I would more frequently just maintain my speed in lane1 and often ended up in front of them.

[Centurion07]

Monkeylegend said:

I chauffeured for a living for quite a few years up to 2 years ago and you wouldn't believe the number of drivers sitting in lanes 3 or 4 of the M25 doing 60 at 4.00 in the morning with lanes 1 and 2 being virtually empty.

I would.

One guy was particularly unimpressed at 5 in the morning when he joined the motorway and wanted to move straight to lane 2 (where I was having moved over for him). I think what really wound him up was me boxing him into lane 1. For some distance.

[A900ss]

Unfortunately I've now come to accept it. (shamefully) I now do overtake on the inside when safe and just carry on. No brake checking, just as if it's normal.

[croyde]

So many drivers are selfish morons or just completely unaware of their surroundings, or both.

What gets me is the moron sitting in the outside lane of an empty motorway at 5am in the morning, who pulls into the middle lane to get out of my way but then immediately returns to the outside lane despite the road being completely bereft of cars.

I see this alot.

[vournikas]

ToothbrushMan said:

lummoxes

[555 Paul]

I was on the M25 on Saturday afternoon and surprisingly it was quiet, I came across some moron driving a small blue Peugeot in the outside lane at about 65mph though with no traffic in the inside lanes

Even after many other drivers had overtaken him on the nearside he failed to move over.

[Boosted LS1]

Shore said:

That's where the old undertake and brake test come into play. Ronnie Pickering would do the same.

Who's he?

[Tit For Tat]

555 Paul said:

I was on the M25 on Saturday afternoon and surprisingly it was quiet, I came across some moron driving a small blue Peugeot in the outside lane at about 65mph though with no traffic in the inside lanes

Even after many other drivers had overtaken him on the nearside he failed to move over.

This is exactly the type of retarded behaviour that that cops should be pulling people for, not bloody speeding. Lane discipline on M ways has never been perfect, but it really has deteriorated to an alarming degree over the last 10 years or so, these type of bellends are now common

Even when people do move over now, it's done so reluctantly. No matter how fast you approach them, they just sit there, make you sit on their bumper at 60 for a minute, and then move. Like, WTF is that all about ? Flashing is guaranteed to make them dig in and stay put, so I don't bother now. If they don't move, I undertake when safe to do so, and give them the universal wker sign after pulling back in front.

[GC8]

croyde said:

So many drivers are selfish morons or just completely unaware of their surroundings, or both.

The straight to outside lane posse are newer, and far more frustrating. Frequently younger drivers too. If they were all comprehensively menaced/bullied out of the way it would probably stop, but it appears to be here to stay.

[Hainey]

Boosted LS1 said:

Shore said:

That's where the old undertake and brake test come into play. Ronnie Pickering would do the same.

Who's he?

YouTube road rage wker legend!

Fat knob in a Picasso. Top entertainment!

[LanceRS]

Monkeylegend said:

I must admit that as it got more common I would more frequently just maintain my speed in lane1 and often ended up in front of them.

+1

Although not really the correct thing to do, I find it far less stressful.

I fail to understand how we have managed to have so many of these gormless cretins clogged up our motorways? A relatively simple rule to understand is it not?

Still, nice to know that I am not alone in my frustration.

[Prohibiting]

Hainey said:

Boosted LS1 said:

Shore said:

That's where the old undertake and brake test come into play. Ronnie Pickering would do the same.

Who's he?

YouTube road rage wker legend!

Fat knob in a Picasso. Top entertainment!

Who?

[swisstoni]

The M25 made mild-mannered superhero yours truly into a regular under-taker.
Sometimes there's nothing else for it.
And I don't break 70 in the process.