Self righteous truckers!

[anonymous-user]

Despite the highway code stating that vehicles should 'merge in turn', and signs on the roadworks saying 'queue using both lanes' for the third time this week I've ended up stuck behind some self righteous trucker straddling the white centreline at the start of the queue and not letting anyone past him.

So we've got lane 1 that's jam packed, a queue that stretches back much further than it should, blocking the preceding junctions and roundabouts and impeding other traffic that's simply trying to cross over the dual carriageway, yet lane 2 on the dual carriageway ahead of the truck is completely empty and unused!

Arghhh, for god sake you selfish pr**ks! Stop trying to play god, stop causing inconvenience to others and let the traffic flow as it was intended.

[anonymous-user]

popeyewhite said:

...and you - the one person who has the solution to this utter madness! Surprising the queue didn't part like the Red Sea just for you... .

No not just me, plenty of others also prevented from using lane 2 as highway code and roadworks signs intended!

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hman said:

Its really quite disappointing that we've come this far in our evolution - for some of us to be stumped by the concept of zip merging.

Pathetic.

Exactly, people really should read the Highway Code.

For what it's worth, I never join the outer lane, I'm never in a big enough rush to bother, but I fully understand why some people do go on the outside and have no issue with it, I merge in turn as per the 'rules'.

You'd expect a professional driver to know this.

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Ransoman said:

From seeing loads of these complaints both here and on facebook, and seeing some shockingly stupid replies, I think the highways agency and/or councils need more signs. "Use both lanes, Merge in turn" is not enough. What we need is:

Use both lanes!
Stay in lane!
Don't merge yet!
Stay in lane!
Ok, now merge in turn!

Haha that sounds like a great idea, maybe it would finally get the message across. The problem at the moment is that you get people merging all over the place depending on how confident they feel, some 500m before they need too, some more at 300m out, another group at 150m, some right at the end etc, etc. It's that which creates the utter chaos. Far better if everyone just merged in one place surely?

Someone else pointed out that maybe the truckers thought they were doing everyone a service by preventing what they though were people 'queue jumping'?

What they were actually doing was stretching the queue in lane 1 to nearly twice the length it would have been had lane 2 not been blocked. This causing chaos at the proceeding junction that the queue ran back to, resulting in queues on the side roads running into the junction. I know because the first time this happened I had to wait for 15mins just to get onto the dual carriageway where everyone (apart from the brave) had formed a single and rigid line of almost stationary traffic in lane 1. Once in lane 1 (and following the queue in both lanes signage), I swapped to a relatively free flowing lane 2 for about 500m, passing crawling traffic in lane 1 until the truck sat blocking the road. Madness!