Motorway > Bypass.. Dedicated lorry lane..

[DOUGALMCD]

We are learning everyday it's a pity that some will never learn.

[Canker_Canison]

There's so much I would like to rant about when it comes to motorway driving. But I don't have the time & DK doesn't have the server space.

I'm seeing more & more people creeping down slip roads doing under 40mph. The problem is that the term 'merge in turn' is lost to today's brain dead moron. Slip roads are now seen as a give way junction by those lacking the confidence to drive safely.
If public information films are to be re-introduced. I would like to see one for 'merge in turn', along with 'your little car will stop quicker than it can accelerate...so floor it on slip roads'.

Mobile phone use & the 'I'm in a 4x4 so get out of my way' attitude also needs more policing.
Yesterday I was joining a major 3 lane 'A' road. In front of me was a delivery truck, and in front of them was a 4x4 with a driver on the mobile phone.
Both myself & the truck were going faster than the 4x4. The truck switched at a 2nd slip lane when it became available & passed the 4x4. I went to do the same, only to find the 4x4 crossing a ghost island into the 2nd lane...almost taking off my front end. Once on the 'A' road I went to overtake it again... And he nearly took my front end off again. All the time yacking on his phone.

Lane discipline on roundabouts needs to be covered as well. Is it just in my area, but people refuse to stay in their lane. There are several dangerous roundabouts close to where I live where most drivers will cut into the second lane when going straight over. And it doesn't matter how busy the roads are.
Last week I had a Focus move into the second lane before the roundabout (second lane for turning right), only to have it almost broadside me because they are really going straight over.
I won that battle, made him go all the way around the roundabout.


I hereby call on all UK DK members to help me educate these people. You can spot the one's in the wrong lanes. Get along side them & force them to stay in the lane they are in. Don't give way to bad drivers...punish them...Use that horn & make them swerve back into the lane they were in.

Together we can make a difference.

[xant14]

When I was doing a million miles a week I used try to educate the slow middle lane drivers my own way, passing their rear bumper within milimetres from 1st to 3rd lane and milimetres of their front wing as I go from 3rd to 1st lane.. with a touch brake light.
Unfortunately I haven't been around to see if my education has sunk in.
I don't drive in the UK as much as I did, and drive a Rover now, so I am a bit more take it easy.
I will wait for the barrage from the anti road rage people now.

[Kalipo]

Meanwhile in russia a bus driver rams cars that cut him up..

Russian Bus Driver Punishes Errant Drivers in Zelenograd - YouTube

Bus driver Alexei Volkov. aka "The Punisher," is famous in Russia for exacting revenge on the rude drivers in the city of Zelenograd by simply not slowing down when they cut him off. Volkov claims to have been involved in more than 100 accidents in his career and the clips from his dashcam.

[Meat-Head]

Mudt admit i move iver when tonking down freeway to let slip road on

Hate iphone its panyts

[happy_highlander]

Re: Motorway > Bypass.. Dedicated lorry lane..

@ canker. Lack of Lane discipline on roundabouts is one of my pet hates and I always force them to stay in the Lane they are in. If my long wheelbase transit manages to go round the roundabout without the need to use two lanes why can't a Fiat 500

[blueflash234]

i am assuming most of you guys are up north while i come Scotland originally when i drive home to my mums after Manchester on the m6 the motorway is empty, down south aka m25 is 4 lanes and so busy your lucky to overtake every lane is bumper to bumper everybody hogs what space they can you also never see the matrix signs don't hog the middle lane either but i see them when i head north i guess it just depends where you are in the country if your a middle lane hogger

[Canker_Canison]

m25 is 4 lanes and so busy your lucky to overtake every lane is bumper to bumper everybody hogs what space they can you also never see the matrix signs don't hog the middle lane either but i see them when i head north i guess it just depends where you are in the country if your a middle lane hogger

I don't do much long distance driving. But I've been told that we in the north seem to be blessed with big signs on major roads, rather than have painted road markings.
But most morons have satnav, so don't even look at any signage.

Got an email from confused.com which are always good for a laugh. According to a survey of 2000 drivers, something like 80% of them were confused by road signs. Simple stuff taken directly from the highway code were a complete mystery to them.
I'd have to dig out the survey, but of those who admitted to being confused, 30% had been involved in either near misses or accidents while being confused by a sign.

Road signs have been around since the late 1800's with a standardised format introduced in 1934 & revised in 1964. So for the last 50 years drivers have been looking & following the same type of signs. Yet now it seems that the moron of today doesn't even know what a lane narrowing sign looks like. I can only assume that IQ's have dropped at least 20 points in the last 10 years.

[gc1966]

must say as a heavy goods driver I was given 50 road signs to recognise as part of my driver cpc and got several wrong.



this was one of them,without cheating what do you think it instructs

[nara]

Used to know, but can't remember having seen one for yonks, and I'd forgotten.

Had to look it up.

[Devilfish]

I do 80 motorway miles every day, to and from work, and this annoys me too. I consider myself a middle lane or even 3rd lane driver, but I also know I'm a good enough driver to see a car coming behind me that's travelling faster and move in to let it past before it sits on my hole. Unlike some drivers, I don't believe I'm the only person on the motorway and should have right of way at all times.

And it's nice to be acknowledged when you move from the middle to the 3rd lane, not to overtake someone in the middle lane but to let someone in the 1st lane into the 2nd lane to overtake.

Rant over ...

[Canker_Canison]

must say as a heavy goods driver I was given 50 road signs to recognise as part of my driver cpc and got several wrong.



this was one of them,without cheating what do you think it instructs

It was obviously speed related, but I had to look it up. In 23 years of driving I've never seen one.


This was one of the 'confusing signs'...

Now I see these signs all over the place, yet todays drivers have no idea.

[Canker_Canison]

This isn't the report from the email, but it has a few more details in it...

Road Signs Confusing UK Drivers

By Gemma Roberts
Motorists are being driven around the bend by confusing road signs, a poll has revealed.
The Kia Motors UK survey shows that only 52% understand all the signs across Britain's roads. Despite this the poll of 2,000 motorists revealed that 83% of people rate themselves as good drivers.
Around 56% of the people that took part in the Kia Motors poll had owned a driving licence for more than 15 years.
Hopefully the drivers that took part in the survey will not be so confused when it comes to their car insurance.
The poll revealed that fewer than three in five could correctly identify the sign for "no motor vehicles", with 21% thinking it meant "motor vehicles only"; only 52% recognised the sign for a clearway, with 20% thinking it meant "no entry"; and 31% thought the sign indicating the end of a dual carriageway meant that the road narrowed on both sides.
It also showed that 26% believed a yellow diversion sign showed directions to a campsite, while 30% reckoned it meant there was a hazard ahead and 87% recognised the black-striped national speed limit sign, but 34% did not know this meant a speed of 60mph on a single carriageway and 70mph on a motorway. The survey also showed that only 61% find road signs useful, with 78% reckoning they are being bombarded with too many signs. Only 25% of those polled still keep a road atlas in the car.
Kia Motors UK communications director Steve Kitson said: "The research findings clearly show that a driver's experience behind the wheel doesn't necessarily correlate with their knowledge of the road."

[thered]

It was obviously speed related, but I had to look it up. In 23 years of driving I've never seen one.


This was one of the 'confusing signs'...

Now I see these signs all over the place, yet todays drivers have no idea.

Takes me back that one, i remember me grandad had me into road signs from as soon as i could ride a push bike i was always taught to ride on road

i remember him showing me this when i was a kid and asking what it meant

watch out for flying motorbikes was me answer

i dont think he stopped laughing for a week, they loved it down the club

[Meat-Head]

must say as a heavy goods driver I was given 50 road signs to recognise as part of my driver cpc and got several wrong.



this was one of them,without cheating what do you think it instructs

Dodding ipjone. Mope. What do it mesn. I guess minimum 30 never seen omr in over 15000 posts