What is the best way of dealing with middle-lane hoggers?

What is the best way of dealing with middle-lane hoggers?

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Debaser

5,906 posts

261 months

Wednesday 25th July 2018
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Cliftonite said:
MrGTI6 said:
That's a new one on me! If I ever encounter alfabadass trundling along in the middle lane for no reason, I reckon I could beat your record of nine orbits!
laugh
At least one PHer has admitted to having done this with clockwise orbits!
Until this thread I assumed all 'orbits' were clockwise.



jfire

5,893 posts

72 months

Wednesday 25th July 2018
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crosseyedlion said:
Absolutely this. MLM's don't bother me so much these days (4-5 hours a day on the Motorway commuting).

Its the morons who que to overtake or sit in the outside lane that drive me mad. With a MLM you usually have 2 lanes to safely pass. (inside or outside, undertaking is rarely dangerous done slowly).

With someone queuing to overtake or loitering in the outside lane, there is usually traffic in the middle lane too (albeit significantly less) - leaving just 1 lane to pass.

Total waste of road, they turn a DC into a single carriageway if there's a HGV anywhere on the left.
I always move back to L2 if there's someone behind me and the traffic in L3 is not moving fast enough to allow me to overtake, but that person always ends up in front of me.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

116 months

Wednesday 25th July 2018
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jfire said:
crosseyedlion said:
Absolutely this. MLM's don't bother me so much these days (4-5 hours a day on the Motorway commuting).

Its the morons who que to overtake or sit in the outside lane that drive me mad. With a MLM you usually have 2 lanes to safely pass. (inside or outside, undertaking is rarely dangerous done slowly).

With someone queuing to overtake or loitering in the outside lane, there is usually traffic in the middle lane too (albeit significantly less) - leaving just 1 lane to pass.

Total waste of road, they turn a DC into a single carriageway if there's a HGV anywhere on the left.
I always move back to L2 if there's someone behind me and the traffic in L3 is not moving fast enough to allow me to overtake, but that person always ends up in front of me.
Yes. I find that in very slow moving traffic in all three lanes, lane two seems to be the one that keeps moving.

crosseyedlion

2,175 posts

198 months

Wednesday 25th July 2018
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jfire said:
crosseyedlion said:
Absolutely this. MLM's don't bother me so much these days (4-5 hours a day on the Motorway commuting).

Its the morons who que to overtake or sit in the outside lane that drive me mad. With a MLM you usually have 2 lanes to safely pass. (inside or outside, undertaking is rarely dangerous done slowly).

With someone queuing to overtake or loitering in the outside lane, there is usually traffic in the middle lane too (albeit significantly less) - leaving just 1 lane to pass.

Total waste of road, they turn a DC into a single carriageway if there's a HGV anywhere on the left.
I always move back to L2 if there's someone behind me and the traffic in L3 is not moving fast enough to allow me to overtake, but that person always ends up in front of me.
That's because they're doing exactly the same as you. Everyone queing needs to change.