Motorways
Posted: Wed 5 July, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts, Travel 8 Comments »Well, everything went OK yesterday with the interview in the end. I don’t yet know whether I got the job, but we’ll see – hopefully by end of the week.
Even the driving between Bracknell and Cambridge went OK, which was a pleasant surprise – two hours door-to-door each way, and I managed to avoid all the really nasty rush-hour crap, which is no bad thing at all.
However, it did make me realise just how much I hate tosspot truck drivers. I should point out, by that I mean “truck drivers who are tosspots”, not necessarily all truck drivers. But the sheer number of tosspot ones that are out there is really quite amazing. I lost count of the number of times the traffic flow slowed down to 55/60mph, because two lanes of traffic were taken up by fuckwit bastard truckers trying to overtake when they can only go maybe 2mph faster than the one they’re overtaking. Watching trucks overtake is like watching tortoises shag – it’s so awesomely slow – and fucking annoying too.
I just don’t see the point of it – in fact, I’d like to see motorways etc. with one lane specifically for trucks, and then to have them barred from overtaking. You get your place, you stick to it – after all, they’re all going at 56mph. And that way it frees up two lanes for normal traffic, rather than limiting all the cars to the outside lane, and thus fucking that up too.
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Sympathise with us poor souls here in Ireland, where the only Motorways have two, and only two lanes. So one truck driver going 53mph in the inside lane fucks up absolutely everything for everyone on the motorway.
Yeah – I experienced that on the M11 yesterday – two lane motorway, regularly utterly fucked up by cuntwit truck-drivers overtaking – still, on only two-lanes – and dropping everything down to 55mph at best.
Cunts.
Lyle, I know what your like but u still surprise me. Why, did you ever stop and watch Tortoises shagging?????? OMG …………… nice analogy tho!
Truck drivers I can cope with, it’s the cunts in cars who, regardless of the number of lanes, are determined to forever be in the wrong one. I know a woman who categorically stated she’d never use the “slow” lane because she “just can’t be dealing with that sort of thing”…it’s enough to make you mount guns where your front fogs are…
Oh yeah, Jann, that was a rant for tomorrow and/or whenever I remembered about it again!
A friend of mine got pulled by the police on the M4 between Windsor and London on suspicion of being drunk. The explanation they gave him – his lane discipline. He pulle dout to overtake and pulled in again when he had done so, and then if the inside lane was empty, he pulled into that. Because so few people do that routinely, the police use it a drunk-driver spotter.
Someone told me that the reason they do it is Cruise Control. So one has it set 2mph than the one that is being overtaken and . . .
I think you’ll find a lot of truck drivers,like myself,will agree with you there.It’s just embarrasing to watch.
If the speed difference is so small then why bother overtaking?
Wait for a hill,the heavier truck will go quicker downhill meaning less time in the second lane or uphill the heavier truck will go a lot slower.