Truckers being road police

[MoelyCrio]

Actually thankful for a change!
M6 northbound at Preston. Matrix signs saying move over were being ignored and we'd been stationary as people cut in ahead.. Flowing ok now..

[jimbob82]

I do this when in my truck. Always get the v and toots to get out of the way...ignorance is bliss...

[littleredrooster]

Aye - there's nowt like 'merge-in-turn', is there? And that's nowt like merge-in-turn...

And since when were HGVs allowed in lane 3?

Edit to add: The stupid eejits sometimes do this at the Catthorpe interchange (M6/A14) and force the stationary traffic to queue on the live lanes of the motorway rather than the slip-road down to the lights. Utter fekkwits.

Edited by littleredrooster on Saturday 2nd March 12:33

[jimbob82]

littleredrooster said:

Aye - there's nowt like 'merge-in-turn', is there? And that's nowt like merge-in-turn...

And since when were HGVs allowed in lane 3?

HGV's are allowed in lane 3 if theres a blockage...

[simon1987]

stupid idiots

[davepoth]

The real reason for "merge in turn" not working is the idiots in lane one not allowing people in lanes two and three to move over. Everyone should use as much of the road as possible - merging into one lane a mile before it's needed just makes it worse.

[jimbob82]

simon1987 said:

stupid idiots

The trucks or the muppets who want to cut in front?

[Baz Tench]

simon1987 said:

stupid idiots

I agree. People who don't get what 'merge in turn' means deserve a slap.

Bravo truckers!

[bobmcgod]

I was once stuck behind something like this. TBH because merging happened whilst rolling I think everything went more smoothly and quickly as it seems to dampen what's known as a "shockwave".

[busta]

Baz Tench said:

simon1987 said:

stupid idiots

I agree. People who don't get what 'merge in turn' means deserve a slap.

Bravo truckers!

Wether people get 'merge in turn' or not, all the truckers are doing is moving the point at which they do so a few hundred yards up the road. How is that helpful?

[Motorrad]

jimbob82 said:

The trucks or the muppets who want to cut in front?

The trucks. People aren't cutting in front. You merge in turn when the lane restrictions begin.

[littleredrooster]

jimbob82 said:

HGV's are allowed in lane 3 if theres a blockage...

Can you see a blockage? I can't see a blockage, just a truck trundling along in splendid isolation in L3. Three lanes still open makes it illegal IMO.

[simon1987]

Baz Tench said:

I agree. People who don't get what 'merge in turn' means deserve a slap.

Bravo truckers!

cute

[MoelyCrio]

The matrix signs to merge were well back before the trucks decided to enforce it..

Tgere was ample oppurtunity for lanes 3/4 to merge and plenty of people wife included allowing them to do so.

Theres only so much politeness you can give with a screaming 10 monthbold in the car..

[simoid]

MoelyCrio said:

Actually thankful for a change!
M6 northbound at Preston. Matrix signs saying move over were being ignored and we'd been stationary as people cut in ahead.. Flowing ok now..

I'm confused.

The truckers are preventing people from using all the available road?

The lanes were open, but matrix signs were advising to merge ahead (presumable there were red Xs on the signs ahead where they didn't want traffic...)

How much longer was this queue because of a couple of trucking tankers?

[jjr1]

The truckers are fking tosspots.

If everyone just drove up to the cones and then merged in turn everything would be fine but these self appointed tts just create rage.

[Centurion07]

jimbob82 said:

littleredrooster said:

Aye - there's nowt like 'merge-in-turn', is there? And that's nowt like merge-in-turn...

And since when were HGVs allowed in lane 3?

HGV's are allowed in lane 3 if theres a blockage...

No blockage visible in that picture. Get the fk out of the way.

[clockworks]

Don't have a problem with this myself, unless it ends up blocking a "through" lane at a junction.

Some people are a little over-cautious, and they end up stuck in lane one, while the last-minute-mergers effectively overtake them.
Same happens to trucks that sit in lane one (or lane two if there are three lanes). They must get fed up with being overtaken, so they pull out. This lets the people sitting in the inside lanes make progress smoothly past the blockage.

If everybody on the road had equal driving skills/confidence, we could all merge in turn a few metres before the blockage, and this kind of "policing" wouldn't be necessary.

[Matt UK]

busta said:

Baz Tench said:

simon1987 said:

stupid idiots

I agree. People who don't get what 'merge in turn' means deserve a slap.

Bravo truckers!

Wether people get 'merge in turn' or not, all the truckers are doing is moving the point at which they do so a few hundred yards up the road. How is that helpful?

Busta is right - it is the people in L1 not allowing those in L2 nd L3 to merge in turn who create the problem.

All the truckers are doing is pushing the queue further back than it need be and leaving plenty of much needed road capacity in front of them.

[Dr Jekyll]

Matt UK said:

All the truckers are doing is pushing the queue further back than it need be and leaving plenty of much needed road capacity in front of them.

But if the road is narrowed to one lane at any point between 2 junctions, then the capacity between those junctions is the capacity of one lane. So what difference does it make where the queue starts?