Possibly, but why do you feel you need to force your superior knowledge of motorway driving on everybody who doesn't fit your plan. It's not your job. Just relax and act like a reasonable human being.

What gives you that idea, have you ever driven over there !!

Oh for goodness sake......

It was a joke, I know they now travel at 65mph but it used to be much lower.

Ignore the Blues Brothers, it really isn't like that.

Sometimes 75!

Very many states in the US have a 75 MPH limit and in two states it is 80. As I have said before on this forum they liked you to ride the Big 50 for safety and economy. The 50 campaign took place years ago.

I just expect people to know that they should use the left hand lane where possible. There's really no reason for it and no excuse to not.. my issue is normally they are the kind to just stare ahead, tunnel vision..

If you really want to get your message across as part of your crusade, then get one of those illuminated boxes on your rear screen that pops up a suitable message that will make naughty drivers understand the error of their ways.

If there were more drivers around, like you, who are prepared to educate us in the error of our ways, I'm sure the roads and motorways would be a safer place.

Me, I have learned the errors of my way and will never move from the left hand lane and will allow you to drive by in your souped up, large braked vauxhall at ninety miles an hour, secure in the knowledge that with your considerate driving we will all be safer even though you feel that modifying your brakes is the same as having a bulb out.

Thank you and goodnight. Work tomorrow, see you on the M4 perhaps.

Quite. Anyone who argues otherwise is unfit to drive.

Just to clarify what was happening on Friday, the tailgating occurred when cars and lorries were overtaking quite long lines of lorries. Often the cars overtaking were travelling at 70mph plus but were then aggressively tailgated by others which arrived in the overtaking queue at 80/90 mph. Those at the head of the tailgating queues had nowhere to go and yet were having headlights flashed at them.

I don't usually drive particularly slowly but the behaviour of a small number of incredibly stupid drivers on Friday stood out and I stuck at 50mph behind the slower traffic in the inside lane allowing plenty of space in case one of the morons triggered a crash. Having narrowly avoided a huge multiple vehicle pile up on the M6 many years ago (I was able to slip through on the inside lane) I try not to take chances. Walking back to that pile of mangled vehicles and people, the M6 suddenly silent apart from screams and sobs, is something I'll never forget.

It used to be "Not over 55" when the oil crisis was on. (Crisis, what crisis?)

Who's shouting?
It's an acronym - usually typified by CAPITAL LETTERS!

Absolutely, the key to good driving in my book, is making sure you allow others the room to make their own mistakes.

We all know that the states have different rules from state to state and these can be a bit confusing at times, turning right on red lights being one of them. In general I find the driving in small town America is quite good and drivers much more polite to each other. City driving is city driving wherever you go, dog eat dog, bayonets fixed and charge.

No because that would truly make me a bit of a ****.



To be honest if everyone used the correct lane and had better lane disclipline the motorways probably would be a safer place - the irony.



Excellent. Although that is not what I'm saying. I'm just saying don't hog the middle lane because there is a lorry 1500 yards ahead, you're doing 65 and he's doing 56 that's a good 2 minutes before you catch and pass him. So move over!!
Again with the brakes.. lol........... In terms of legality it's exactly the same. I don't drive a Vauxhall.

Hope you had a pleasant evening. My journey to work is about 1.2 miles so... no.

I have done that and I know it is the correct thing to do, but must admit most of the time I undertake the middle lane hogger.

It appears to me that no matter how much you try to describe your own experience on here, it is never truly picked up on. There are even times when a reply completely distorts the original description.

No wonder there is chaos on the roads.

One of the most dangerous manoeuvres that anyone can make on a motorway. I would hope that an unmarked up behind you will let you know the error of your ways one day hopefully before you cause a major.

Depends how slow they are going, sometimes its not really undertaking as in you just drivr past them because they are donig 55 in the middle lane.

So I am doing 70 in the inside line. You are doing 60 in the middle [u]overtaking[u] lane - and you think I am in the wrong!

Most countries allow it, so I don't think it is. I would say one of the most dangerous things you can do is change lanes without checking your mirrors.

Quite why 'an unmarked' would do anything is interesting. It is not illegal to overtake on the left if traffic in a lane to your right is moving more slowly.

What would cause comment from the Police is deliberately moving lanes to overtake on the nearside.

And I (of course) disagree that it is one of the most dangerous manoeuvres that anyone can make on a motorway - I take it that you have never driven on the M25