Bunched traffic

Guys - this is rural Wales, not that rathole we call London

[G]

Slow moving horse and carts are a bugger.......didnt realise they had 4x4 and 7.5tn ones though

Originally Posted by G

Slow moving horse and carts are a bugger.......didnt realise they had 4x4 and 7.5tn ones though

Since the OP talks about Wales, watch out for those horse & carts carrying speed cameras!!

[BillyC]

Originally Posted by Daimo

Brave?

Or stupid, inconsiderate, and ignorent

Yes, these are all words I'd used to describe motorists that cannot keep up with anything resembling the speed limit. Whatever happened to highway courtesy of pulling over if you were in a slow moving vehicle to allow others to pass.

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

Nah - "Location: Central London" - I suspect that's the real reason

Yup... come and try it some day

Ed - I suggest you raise the question to the nutters that filter on the M25!!!

To me seems like you did the right thing. I would have done the same and I did on the M25 while coming back from a trip down south! People crash while filtering and then argue about laws etc. Yes fair enough they were probably not at fault but at the end of the day I see no reasoning in filtering through traffic doing 40-50mph

Originally Posted by BillyC

Yes, these are all words I'd used to describe motorists that cannot keep up with anything resembling the speed limit. Whatever happened to highway courtesy of pulling over if you were in a slow moving vehicle to allow others to pass.

Billy, you've identified the cause - it's a fundamental lack of courtesy. It isn't acceptable for an artic to trundle along at 40 in a 60 limit without letting faster traffic past.

[STRAMASHER]

Originally Posted by BillyC

Whatever happened to highway courtesy of pulling over if you were in a slow moving vehicle to allow others to pass.

Spot-on.

Originally Posted by BillyC

Yes, these are all words I'd used to describe motorists that cannot keep up with anything resembling the speed limit. Whatever happened to highway courtesy of pulling over if you were in a slow moving vehicle to allow others to pass.


Yup... come and try it some day

I did, I remember riding out of town with Sid, Billy and Cazza, very fun

Originally Posted by Ed

It isn't acceptable for an artic to trundle along at 40 in a 60 limit without letting faster traffic past.

Now see, thats a double edged sword IMO.

I know of a case not long ago, where a farmer driving his tractor was holding up a long line of traffic, merely by driving slowly (not even as fast as his tractor could go) but he refused to pull over & let traffic pass.

He was booked for it, and attended court. In court, he stated that if he has to stop every so far to let other motorists pass, he wouldn't get the work done in the fields as quick as it needed to be done, and therefore stood to loose a substantial amount of money.

The magistrates took the farmers POV, and decided he was not guilty (can't remember the charge).

I see nothing wrong with a truck doing 40 in a 60 personally. I can happily make "healthy progress" down the A5 in heavy traffic - even in the wet when there's a lot of traffic.

However, if the truck was doing 20 in a 60, that's pushing his luck, but at times, there's nothing he could really do about it I suppose (going up a long hill for example).

I'm pretty sure the speed limit for artics on a single carriageway NSL is 40mph anyway. Infuriating as it is, I couldn't really expect trucks who are sticking to the speed limit to pull over every 15 minutes to let a queue of traffic past, especially if they're being paid for their miles rather than for their time.