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Lorry drivers, how rude and selfish can you be? When another very slightly faster lorry is overtaking you, why do you have to stay side by side at your cruising speed instead of just throttling back a bit and allowing your "competitor" to pass quickly?
You see this happening all the time on the motorway. You are driving to your destination minding your own business, then suddenly you hit a load of traffic, you look just ahead of this to see what the problem is and nine times out of ten there are two lorries side by side in some kind of snails race to the finish line.
The result is that the cars coming up on this obstacle have to filter by in single file on the outside late. If youre really unlucky and its only a two lane dual carriage way you can be stuck behind these two duelling HGVs for quite a few miles.
Two lorries create a rolling roadblock
Why are they so selfish? Im not sure who is to blame, be it the overtaking lorry that cant go fast enough, or the one on the inside that is just being a selfish pig by not letting the other one pass quickly. Yes I know we all need the goods that lorries transport every day, but Id rather not follow them up the motorway to their final destination!
This slow overtaking needs to stop as it causes bottle necks on our already choked road system. Two lorries attempting to overtake when neither of them has enough speed effectively creates a rolling roadblock. This seems like a very dangerous practice to me and should be made an offence, just like undertaking!
By: Technohippy
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They seem to think the rules of parking don't apply to them.
Yes its very very annoying to be stuck behind an overtaking lorry-wagon all day long, but its the driver's fault, not the lorry-wagon. Why dont you report him to the motorway police or something? Why did you feel it was necessary to moan on here?
Maybe you were at your wits end, but still do you really feel that was a justifiable action? What if the lorry-wagon had been carrying vital ingredients, and it had had a long miserable journey already? At the end of the journey it doesn't matter, what it was carrying... I hope the big lorry-wagon driver man with his 2 trailers keeps his job.....now don't say that lorry-wagons transport vital loads for Collar - Collar needs for nothing, nothing at all - coo - there goes my head again!
no words are required - I rest my case
I see this all the time
its got to stop - just wish everyone would take care - after all aren't we all just trying to get somewhere ?
Bobby
The problem is the big head syndrome, what do you mean I hear you ask?
Well emotional, stubborn, I, ve got to beat you no matter what attitude is what I mean, the lack of self control.
Too many do this now, I get it everyone's got to get some where, but here's the thing, you for the most part don, t even know the other driver, there strangers, but that being said modern day drivers do silly things, as joining a motorway from a slip road.
Now you should only go onto the motorway if its safe to do so, and the traffic on the motorway has priority over you, not the other way round, its never been that way.
WHY do you people get so close to each other, why do you need to be so close, answer is you don, t. At that point your bad nerves are doing the driving. And in my opinion lorry drivers drive far far far too close. It's the look at me, and how good I am BS, that is totally meaningless.
But I do agree lorry drivers have become too selfish and angry, like for instance on a dual carriageway, cars all travelling at 74 ish the norm, the line of lorries in the distance se and know your coming up behind them, they know there travelling at between 56 to max 60 which is there legal limit, so the cars continue in the right lane, tour on the approach to by the lorries in the slow lane, you can see them look g in the mirrors, nope still no indication or movement, just as the high speed line cars are just about to go by them what happens, they go and do the dumb move of pulling out on the cars at the last second, it's a stupid move, there already at nearly max spped, miles miles and miles go by, and now the driver refuses to pull back in, holding up high spped cars, vans.
A lot lorry drivers seem to have a nervous twitch and they seem to want to hold up others or there head strong, totally stressed because of there driving style, anyway if there already at nearly max speed, what's the point, why not just cruise, the reason being is there too close to each other, so there concentration and focus is working over time like mad, that is excactly the main cause od driver stress your too close to each other, far too close.
Your stress levels will go through the roof, in the end your health will suffer, and chest pains, god forbid heart attack.
Slow down people, back away, create a bigger gap, stop trying to be a bloody hero, stop being, selfish, arrogant, and angry at the steering wheel.
Practice it every day, be smart not stupid, if not one day it might cost you your life, it's no joke because if that happens, that's it game over.
I favour my Wife, children and home over stupid drivers any day.