Undertaking - what's the penalty?

[DarrenSV650S]

So what about pulling in front of the lane hogger and slamming on the brakes?

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

I do that all the time, but it makes no difference....
You try explaining to a middle aged man;

Why his insistence on staying in lane two for mile after mile is causing problems. It's like headbutting a brick wall. You get a headache and the wall doesn't even notice!

Pete

I'm middle aged, I've been driving for 30 years... I definitely get it. They are being deliberately obtuse.

Stick some points on knobs like that then mate

[G]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

There's no driver training on motorway use.

Pete

It's called the highway code... Paragraphs 137 and 138.

If they don't know it then their licences should be revoked and they should have to re-sit the theory... paragraph 137 is taught in driving lessons, but everyone should know the highway code anyway.

Motorway use is also taught through Pass Plus - who's attendence rates are increasing year on year.

G para 101 is what?

[Mr Speirs]

I don't deliberately undertake but if I am in lane 1 and they are in lane 2 I won't move to lane 3 to over take them. I just stayin my lane...sorta like the American rules.

I like to think that a police officer has enough common sense to realise which one of us needs a talking to.

Tends to only be noticable at night though...i think it's cos during the day there's so many middle lane lovers that it just fills up.

[Bluepete]

Originally Posted by Quedos

Motorway use is also taught through Pass Plus - who's attendence rates are increasing year on year.

G para 101 is what?

But it's not new drivers that tend to be the problem is it? It's more often that middle aged bloke or older driver who has never read the Highway code!

Pete

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Bluepete

But it's not new drivers that tend to be the problem is it? It's more often that middle aged bloke or older driver who has never read the Highway code!

Pete

Hasn't it ALWAYS been the case that people were taught to use the leftmost lane when possible?

Maybe if people like yourself were to start cracking down on it - so that it appeared on the BBC news - probably with one of those "I've been doing it for 30 years" blokes moaning about it, then people would think and not just ignore all those "Keep Left" signs on the sides of motorways.

I must admit I am just waiting for a talking to, because when I am on the motorway I will stick to lane 1 as much as possible, I once was in lane 1 for 5 miles before I caught up with and then passed someone who was sitting in lane 2, never leaving lane 1. The issue would be that once I "cleared" him, I then moved over to lane 3 to pass another lane 2 hogger who had been overtaking the same lorry for about 2 miles...

All the while I was doing legal speeds of course

Lane 2 cruisers might not see you moving all the way from lane 1 to lane 3 in their mirrors, but they tend to see you then going back from lane 3 to lane 1 in front of them and then disappearing into the distance

[Bluepete]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Hasn't it ALWAYS been the case that people were taught to use the leftmost lane when possible?

Maybe if people like yourself were to start cracking down on it -

I passed my test in Herefordshire in 1989. There are no motorways there even now (thank God) and I learned nothing about motorways. yes, it tell you about it in the Highway Code, but who honestly read it if they didn't have to?

As for us cracking down, the job don't want us prosecuting Middle England for stuff like this. At the moment, with the proposals for cuts in Traffic Cops, below the parapet is certainly the place to be.

Pete

Originally Posted by BigBaddad

get one of these

Didn't think you could take these into lane 3?