Driver discussion

[cwspellowe]

Both idiots imo.

The roundabout isn't much further up the road, if they'd have moved into the correct lane in advance of the roundabout this would never have happened. I don't understand why people jockey for position trying to overtake as many cars as possible before the manouvre.

I had one the other day in the Transit. Two lanes filtering onto the M80, the right hand lane becomes the M80's inside lane, so no having to pull into the motorway off the slip road. The left lane undercuts the inside lane of the M80 and filters in about 1/4mile further on.

I popped the van in the right hand lane, knowing in advance it would be the lane to end up in as it became a lane in itself. Most people do that, it also means if you want to overtake you can pull out into the other two lanes as soon as it merges with the motorway. The left lane is only ever really used when there's heavy traffic, or knobbers driving.

In the instance, it was a knobber driving. I saw her coming a f*cking mile off in my NS mirror, tearing up the inside of all the traffic at about 75-80mph, inside lane traffic ie vans and lorries doing 50-60mph. There was a gap of about 10 car lengths behind me, she could have pulled into the lane at any point, but instead she planted it right up at the end of the slip road trying to squeeze in between me and the van in front.

I just parked the van where it would be under normal driving, watched her slam on the brakes, and she then continued to follow me for about a mile beeping her horn and shouting at me, she even pulled along side me at the traffic lights at the turn off to hurl abuse at me.

If she'd not tried the "im in a rush and this will make all the difference" undercut, she wouldn't have pissed herself off.

There's some f*cking mental drivers out there, and some really really poor ones.

Ok, another rant. Happens all the time in the van. Approaching a roundabout near the offices, there's two lanes and, in a clockwise direction, three cut offs before you've done a full 180.

Common sense says left lane for 1st and 2nd cut offs, right lane for 3rd cut off (effectively a right turn if there was no roundabout). So why do so many people sit in the left lane and trundle all the way round the roundabout to the 3rd exit, only to be surprised when a 3T Transit announces its position on the road with a loud horn gesture?

You really have to expect the unexpected on the road, especially when you drive all day, as common sense seems to have gone out the window.

Don't get me started on the time a driver in the wrong cut me up, then brought traffic to a standstill to get out his 4x4 and make way towards the van...