Daft Car Drivers

[DJ123]

[mini rant]
Popped over to Woking today to see a couple of friends. The journey there is basically staying on the one road for 10 miles, with varying speed limits between 30mph to NSL. All very well sign posted, in the 30, 40 and 50 zones there are repeater signs every 100m or so and less frequent in the NSL. Even without the signs, you can read the speed of the road by the surroundings, if you have any sense.
On many occassions i was stuck behind idiots travelling at less than 50% of the allowed speed on the roads. Unfortunately i was always two cars back from idiot and so unable to get past them :mad: I know it is a speed limit, not a target. However in no area is it a problem to drive at the prescribed limit. I don't for one second think that the drivers did not see the signs, i simply believe they were driving without any observation or paying attention to what was going on around them.
Another reason to install an automatic weapon of some sort on the car :lol:
[/Mini rant over]

[Mikey10]

agree with the rant.

What would baffle me would be if a cop pulled a driver or rider for just creeping over a speed limit by a few mph but not a driver doing as you say 50% less that the limit of the road.
ofcourse there not breaking any limits but not keeping with the flow of the traffic is just as dangerous so why should'nt cops be able to have a strong word with the slow driver warning them of the danger there putting others in.

[widepants]

they were probably confused by that yellow thing in the sky

[NTECUK]

Just go past all 3.
:)

[Spank86]

they were probably confused by that yellow thing in the sky

I think it's getting larger, its the end, fiery apocalypse is upon us!

[Amadeus]

We're all doomed (in a Scottish accent)!

[Dicky Ticker]

I agree with the annoyance it can cause and as a lorry driver resticted by HGV Regs in NSL I have had a few fists shaken at me but for an HGV it is the rules. Other people who doddle along are just a pain.

[punyXpress]

. . or are they self-righteous planet savers?
Caging it the other day, and passed one doing 30 in a 40.
All hell let loose with hooting & flashing - almost wondered if I'd done anything wrong!

[NTECUK]

You probably woke them up lol

[pinpoint_uk]

Totally agree, and its the people that do 40 is a 60 limit who then do 40 through a 30 :confused:

I was told in my car test that you should do of safe at least 55 on the NSL roads and if I didn't I would fail. That also applied for the motorbike test on dual carriageways etc and that was to keep up with the flow of traffic. I guess a cop could/would pull them over but when did you last see a police officer with enough time to do anything about it.....

Rich

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[grimey121uk]

The worst of all are people who trickle their car up motorway slip roads at 45mph and once on the carriage way put their foot down???

[Sir Trev]

The worst of all are people who trickle their car up motorway slip roads at 45mph and once on the carriage way put their foot down???

Agreed, especially if they pull out just in front of a truck leaving you slowing even more to pull out behind it.

Was out on the bike today and came across lots of the 40-everywhere brigade. Overtook one coming out of a village and he zoomed up behind me in the next village - he almost pulled out to overtake too, with driveways and busy side roads everywhere. Utter prat.

[DJ123]

I was behind one of those constant 40-ers today. 'Leap frogging' my way through the queue of cars i assumed it was a tractor at the front, no, it was an idiot in his BMW sat at 40mph. His queue of cars was longer than that of the tractor going the other way. The direction we were travelling was away from the coast too! Needless to say as i went past said idiot, i gave the hand gesture of WTF are you doing :safe:

[appollo1]

drivers that go along a NSL (60) road at 40 then hit the brakes coming up to a bend that you can see around really "annoy" me.

idiots that come onto a motorway and think that they have right of way (check the highway code ya pr*ck) forcing me to have to brake as i cannot move over due to cars on the outside lane.

prats that sit in the middle lane of the motorway at 60 or less with nothing in the inside lane.

these are the most annoying daft car drivers.



in a couple of weeks i will be travelling down to the midlands by train to get my wife and kids and drive back up the road with them. guaranteed that there will be numerous daft drivers doing all of these things to annoy me on the journey home.

[chezvegas85]

guaranteed that there will be numerous daft drivers doing all of these things to annoy me on the journey home.

On the bright side, it'll give you something to moan to the mrs about :)

[barwel1992]

just to note its not always car drivers , i was held up today by 2 old farts on touring bikes doing 50 in a NSL on one of the fastest A roads in warwickshire (fosse way from southam to stratford) its also one of the only surviving NSL roads in Warwickshire

pain in the ass

[appollo1]

i agree that it is not always cage drivers.

cyclists are another group that hack me off. i know there are a lot of cyclists on the org but i am on about the ones that ride around the roads here.

they cycle side by side in anything from 2 or 3 of them up to groups of about 15. what annoys me is the road into st andrews has a chuffin cycle path on the pavement right next to the road. :mad::mad:

[yorkie_chris]

idiots that come onto a motorway and think that they have right of way (check the highway code ya pr*ck) forcing me to have to brake as i cannot move over due to cars on the outside lane.

I keep trying to hit one as a want a new van soon but they keep swerving onto the hard shoulder and sh*tting themselves when they see their side window full of rusty Merc metal :confused:
No commitment!

[timwilky]

Worse still are the car drivers who "borrow a van".

I was at my local builder merchants on Saturday. When along limped a luton bodied transit to pick up his yard ticket. The flattened rear tyres and sever downward sloping body clearly on the bump stops told a story. what the feck has he got in there I said to the lad who was checking my van for a measly 5 bags of building sand a bag of cement.

We look as the transit is checked, 5 one ton grab bags of sand/stone and a pallet of brick. The guys in the yard office did him a favour and refused to give him his ticket until he off loaded half of it. but what did my fruit and nut. with that amount he would have got free delivery so why overload in the first place?