Anyone seen a copper?
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Anyone seen a copper?
maybe its me :dontknow:
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People need to learn how to use lanes properly and to LOOK AHEAD, seriously the amount of problems caused by people looking two feet past their bumper is ridiculous.
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In the last ten years the traffic has got that busy that people who do pull over to the left are instantly pulling out again to get past a lorry. This means that they are weaving in and out all over the place which I think is dangerous in it self as usually there are no gaps for them to pull back out in to. This leads to 3 lanes of traffic traveling at varying speeds with one lane passing another.
Becasue you arn't suposed to 'undertake' repmobiles are that keen to get into the 'fast' lane that it becomes ram jammed and slows down and middle lanes is traveling faster….
Basically 40+ years ago the wrong decisons where made, public transport was massacared with 99% of town trams junked and most railway branch lines closed. This 'encouraged' everyone to get a car which these days unless you live in London (subsidised tube, trains, bus services and taxis)is now a necessity everywhere else.
And to replace all this lost transport infrastructure they built a few miles of 2 and 3 lane motorways not the 1000s of miles of 4 and 5 lanes that were really required.
Off topic but thats my rant of the day.
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paul_c said
I regularly tow, the max speed while towing is 60mph and the max speed a lorry can now do is 56mph, electronically limited. I can't use the outside lane either. So…..if anyone knows why one lorry driver decides to overtake at 56mph, another lorry going 55.9mph, please let me know. I clearly recall a situation when I was sitting in the middle lane, for 6 miles…..
This is due to all vehicles are manufactured with tolerance on the speedometer to allow for tread depth,tyre size and pressure changes. Generally, your speedometer overestimates your speed. So for different makes of vehicles will have defferent settings.
Hope that makes it clear.
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Bert said
?21,500 they now start on :wink:
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yradave said
I'll stop now before I REALLY get going. ops:
no. i think you should carry on. i was enjoying that.
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Joys of driving a SRI……."Sales Rep Inside"
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Going past someone in the middle lane, pull in.
They think, 'oh no a really old car has passed me, I'll overtake'
Overtake, pull in and then SLOW DOWN.
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HATO's for short, or wannabe cops that cruise at 60 trying to cause traffic jams…
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Re: Anyone seen a copper?
foxymk1 said
golf1 said
I've been driving up and down the country and havn't seen a copper for ages. Seems to me that other motorists are taking the p*ss,overtaking on the inside lane and cutting me up whilst picking their nose. Am I the only decent law abiding motorist?
if youv been overtaken on the inside your HOGGING the middle lane,
thats there way of tellin you to move over
I agree with you there foxy..
get out of the middle lane!!!!
I normally tho, overtake from inside, flash lights, then cut back across into inside lane, some get message, but most dont..
Ihey should make it a crime to sit in middle lane, but then again no police to enforce it :dontknow:
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Re: Anyone seen a copper?
Lawsy said
foxymk1 said
golf1 said
I've been driving up and down the country and havn't seen a copper for ages. Seems to me that other motorists are taking the p*ss,overtaking on the inside lane and cutting me up whilst picking their nose. Am I the only decent law abiding motorist?
Ihey should make it a crime to sit in middle lane, but then again no police to enforce it :dontknow:
It isnt a "crime" a motoring offences arent criminal some peoples driving is mind :wink: its actually careless and inconsiderate driving, its not enforced enough granted, but then everyone becomes a perfect driver the minute a marked police car appears dont they!
and those HATO`s or Wombles as they are known are another expensive waste of time like PCSO`s.. or "CHIMPS" (cant help in most policeing situations) but dont start me on that!
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ha just worked out what you mean "foamed" you mean all washed up like?firestormer said
In my opinion the country is f@@@ D I could go into details but I havnt got that long
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ha just worked out what you mean "foamed" you mean all washed up like?firestormer said
In my opinion the country is f@@@ D I could go into details but I havnt got that long
Yes mate you got me in one, obviously I wouldnt dream of swearing on this family site :roll:
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Re: Anyone seen a copper?
Topoftherange said
Ok, i dint mean crime as such, but thanks for pointing out.. It should be made a 'motoring offence' then…Lawsy said
foxymk1 said
golf1 said
I've been driving up and down the country and havn't seen a copper for ages. Seems to me that other motorists are taking the p*ss,overtaking on the inside lane and cutting me up whilst picking their nose. Am I the only decent law abiding motorist?
Ihey should make it a crime to sit in middle lane, but then again no police to enforce it :dontknow:
It isnt a "crime" a motoring offences arent criminal some peoples driving is mind :wink: its actually careless and inconsiderate driving, its not enforced enough granted, but then everyone becomes a perfect driver the minute a marked police car appears dont they!
and those HATO`s or Wombles as they are known are another expensive waste of time like PCSO`s.. or "CHIMPS" (cant help in most policeing situations) but dont start me on that!
Plus i have a HATO living across the road from me, and he's always so smug about it… AAAAGGGHHHH
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HATO`s are an expensive way of "policing" our motorways, they are nothing more than AA men without the truck! waste of time an effort for a job thats already being done by police.but then this government thinks everything needs privateising or changeing, roll on the summer for a change
What everyone dont realise is as they sneak these jobs in, one day they will turn around and say….oooh if we get rid of all the police now we can pay PCSO`S and HATOS slightly less money and make them work to an extreme contract, judging by most of the PCSO`s and HATO`s i have met they are all pretty dull people and "Wanabees" im afraid, and that can only be a bad thing
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Topoftherange said
IT IS A MOTORING OFFENCE…….to occupy a lane for an exesive time without good reason is an endorsable offence, either fine or points or both if it went to court
HATO`s are an expensive way of "policing" our motorways, they are nothing more than AA men without the truck! waste of time an effort for a job thats already being done by police.but then this government thinks everything needs privateising or changeing, roll on the summer for a change
What everyone dont realise is as they sneak these jobs in, one day they will turn around and say….oooh if we get rid of all the police now we can pay PCSO`S and HATOS slightly less money and make them work to an extreme contract, judging by most of the PCSO`s and HATO`s i have met they are all pretty dull people and "Wanabees" im afraid, and that can only be a bad thing
I was never aware it was officialy an offence, but as Paul C says, why does no-one ever get done for it then??
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