The grumpy thread

[bangernomics]

^^ year 2000 75 v6

climate?

[jakebullet]

Been in sainsburys tonight.... They have valentines cards...... Wtf......

 

They've got creme eggs too. Jesus has only been born 5 days ago n they're already planning on sticking him in a hole.

[Tamworthbay]

One of my current pet hates.

It's yours. You're selling it. You tell me what you want for it. That's how it works.

just go in at a quid, then when they get arsey point out that they wanted offers.

[Dave_Q]

Warning: this post contains a generic "everyone except me is a shit driver" grump.

 

 

Dear World, 

 

Please stay in the left lane unless overtaking. 

 

It's that simple. 

I know you like lane 2, some of you even like lane 3, but just stop it.

 

 

I actually wish they'd figure out a way to use the endless speed cameras on the M62 to enforce some lane discipline with automatic fines.

[FakeConcern]

Warning: this post contains a generic "everyone except me is a shit driver" grump.

 

 

Dear World, 

 

Please stay in the left lane unless overtaking. 

 

It's that simple. 

I know you like lane 2, some of you even like lane 3, but just stop it.

 

 

I actually wish they'd figure out a way to use the endless speed cameras on the M62 to enforce some lane discipline with automatic fines.

The problem with this is I'm waiting to overtake too. If I go back into lane one every one behind moves up and pushes me back in the que. Really it's that cunt in the Jazz at the front doing 0.0001MPH faster than cars in lane one.

 

(Is this Pissed on heads?)

[Pillock]

Yeah, actually it's more complex than that.

If I'm in Lane 2, following cars at 70mph overtaking trucks, then I should pull back in to lane 1 when I've passed them. Except the car in front probably won't. And neither will the car behind, he'll speed up to 72mph to close the gap I was in. As will the half dozen cars behind him. So because I pulled over, correctly using lanes, I now catch up another truck but have nowhere to go so I'm doing 56mph in lane 1 until a gap opens up in lane 2.

 

It's a great theory, but it needs everyone to do it otherwise there's no point me doing the right thing.

[Dave_Q]

The problem with this is I'm waiting to overtake too. If I go back into lane one every one behind moves up and pushes me back in the que. Really it's that cunt in the Jazz at the front doing 0.0001MPH faster than cars in lane one.

 

(Is this Pissed on heads?)

 

 

I know, it's not an original or constructive grump but hey, that's what the threads for.

 

I would say that if you are in a queue in lane 2 or 3 and the lane to your left is clear for more than a few car lengths, just move to the left.

 

I do this and normally find that I make the same or better progress than the queue in lane 3, particularly as 1 act of panic braking can almost bring lane 3 to a halt.

 

Generally people will let you out when you reach the vehicle in front and need to overtake, obviously the odd arsehole won't but the next person probably will and the impact to your journey time is a second or two at most.

[bangernomics]

I do the M62 every day and lane 1 is by far the fastest these days. Even the trucks hog lane 2 and lane 3 is occupied by the bum sniffers.

[MrDuke]

What would really help, is if trucks were only allowed in Lane 2 for a maximum of 20 secs at a time.

 

Pulling over to let another HGV in = Good.

Overtaking Doris & Fred in their Buccaneer-hauling Fabia = Good.

Overtaking another HGV which is travelling 0.01mph slower than them = Bad, Very Very Bad, here's a £eleventymillion fine to remind you just how bad it is.

 

If GPS is accurate enough to help dock cranes position containers, I'm fairly sure it could be used to police lane use for certain vehicles. If a truck driver reckons they've been unfairly fined, they can use their dashcam footage to prove otherwise.

[FakeConcern]

I know, it's not an original or constructive grump but hey, that's what the threads for.

 

I would say that if you are in a queue in lane 2 or 3 and the lane to your left is clear for more than a few car lengths, just move to the left.

 

I do this and normally find that I make the same or better progress than the queue in lane 3, particularly as 1 act of panic braking can almost bring lane 3 to a halt.

 

Generally people will let you out when you reach the vehicle in front and need to overtake, obviously the odd arsehole won't but the next person probably will and the impact to your journey time is a second or two at most.

Not having a go at you in any way, in fact I agree with you & try to pull in when I won't get pushed right to the back!

The funny thing is that in the last few years whenever I've driven in France on dual carriageways, the lane discipline is great with every one moving over as soon as possible and also anticipating when you might need to come out around a slower vehicle. Why doesn't it happen here?

Also in France if it is raining, the speed limit is automatically 10KPH slower. What a good idea.

[beko1987]

I'm sometimes guilty of this... If I'm doing 67 in l2, keeping with the flow of traffic I'm not gonna pull into LA for 5 seconds then have to pull out again... Some evenings I'm a l2 wanker, but since the traffic in l2 is at 67mph then there's no harm...

 

When the wanker doing 61 in l2 doesn't pull in for a 2 mile gap in l1 though, then it's bad. I've been known to undertake then, l3 usually doing about 80...

[AMC Rebel]

I hate to come away from these things completely empty handed.  I went to Donnington Market a few weeks ago and bought a set of jump leads, £30 but they are a superb set, 5m long and you could jump the starship enterprise.  Not the usual Argos affair which are far too short and start smoking whenever you attempt to start anything more heavy duty than a moped

 

Of course I went home and immediately found them £3 cheaper on Amazon, but it didn't matter, I felt like I'd got a deal at the time.

 

I very nearly bought some similar sounding jump leads at the old Lorry Show at Donno.  Then realised it was ages since I'd needed to jump start anything and I already have 2 sets (one crap, one good).

 

Full marks for testing the Argos ones on a moped though - that's hardcore.

[Negative Creep]

What would really help, is if trucks were only allowed in Lane 2 for a maximum of 20 secs at a time.

 

Pulling over to let another HGV in = Good.

Overtaking Doris & Fred in their Buccaneer-hauling Fabia = Good.

Overtaking another HGV which is travelling 0.01mph slower than them = Bad, Very Very Bad, here's a £eleventymillion fine to remind you just how bad it is.

 

If GPS is accurate enough to help dock cranes position containers, I'm fairly sure it could be used to police lane use for certain vehicles. If a truck driver reckons they've been unfairly fined, they can use their dashcam footage to prove otherwise.

 

don't  even get me started one the ones who do it on dual carriageways

[AMC Rebel]

 

The funny thing is that in the last few years whenever I've driven in France on dual carriageways, the lane discipline is great with every one moving over as soon as possible and also anticipating when you might need to come out around a slower vehicle. Why doesn't it happen here?

 

Generally heavier traffic and the number of wankers who MUST get one car ahead at all times at all costs.

[dollywobbler]

I suggest everyone complaining about trucks on motorways tries driving a truck on a motorway. They're not all limited to the same speed, and are affected by gradients and wind. Driving vehicles with limited speed (be it trucks or 2CVs) on the motorway should be a compulsory experience.

 

Also, I judge whether to move back into lane one on the traffic behind me. If someone is clearly going to pass me before the next truck, I'll move in. If we're all doing that 'same sort of speed' or there's nowt behind me, I'll stay where I am (if I can see another slow vehicle in lane one). People don't use their sodding mirrors. That is the problem.

[Mr A Lawrence]

The haulage company I used to work for had a set of worn out recut drive tyres on rims to be fitted when any truck went for the limiter calibrating.

 

When they got back I'd refit their normal wheels thus improving the +56mph limit.

[bub2006]

I've found in a slower vehicle as dolly says, forward planning can help. The c15 has the aerodynamics of a bungalow and not much power so I plan ahead. Most folk don't and would just go steaming down the a38 to get past me doing 60 and a truck doing 50 then pull-off the slip road causing me to slam on. Took me a few miles to get up to speed and if there is a gradient I'm kippered.

[STUNO]

Because the weather is hot at present I went out and opened the windows of the Mazda this morning, they opened well and at their usual pace. Went out a couple of hours later to go out and there was not enough electricity to start the car. The battery has been slowly dying for the last 6 months but I was hoping it would last the summer. So went and bought another battery. Hold on........why is the terminal sparking a bit while fitting the new battery? Some idiot must have switched on the running/sidelights when I put the windows down earlier. Next time I will do what I was going to do and use the shiny new jump cables in the boot and see what happens BEFORE I buy a new battery.

And I call some other people morons !

[chaseracer]

You now have a spare battery... #bright_side

 

[Guest Hooli]

Doesn't Germany have a law that if you could move to L1 for more than 10secs before passing the next vehicle then you must do so? About time we had the same.

[M'coli]

Why don't we just follow the laws that we have at the moment? Oh, I forgot, they don't apply to most people because they think they're special.

[Guest Hooli]

 they don't apply to most people because they think

 

I believe we can all point out the obvious error there.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

 

The funny thing is that in the last few years whenever I've driven in France on dual carriageways, the lane discipline is great with every one moving over as soon as possible and also anticipating when you might need to come out around a slower vehicle. Why doesn't it happen here?

It does happen in Scotland, lane discipline is good here because we don't have many dual carriageways and there are no motorways at all in the north.

[mercrocker]

Also because it involves a certain amount of looking ahead - something that seems like an alien concept to many drivers. 

[MrDuke]

I suggest everyone complaining about trucks on motorways tries driving a truck on a motorway. They're not all limited to the same speed, and are affected by gradients and wind. Driving vehicles with limited speed (be it trucks or 2CVs) on the motorway should be a compulsory experience.

 

I'm not complaining about trucks per se, just the ones that fail to use any kind of forward planning or consideration. Of course they should be able to overtake other HGVs if they're going measurably faster, and I appreciate that they can't just pull out and suddenly accelerate to get past as quickly as a car. I have driven 'limited' vehicles on a motorway before, and after a few embarrassing manouvres I quickly learnt to look ahead and think about whether there was any point in attempting an overtake, rather than just assuming I could get past. The vast majority of HGV drivers do this admirably, but there's a sizeable minority who don't, and they're not all Eastern European either.

I guess there's always the possibility of the slower truck deliberately speeding up for some inane reason (in fact I'm positive that I've witnessed this several times) - in that case, the overtaking truck driver should be reporting them pronto, and they should get a figurative shoeing for it.

[andy18s]

We found on many roads on our trip over to BG there are restrictions for hgvs overtaking within daylight hours (0700-1900) or even total bans on some hilly roads

To balance it there are crawler lanes everywhere to help the traffic keep pace

Of course it all depends on the driver actually following the laws,and Romanian registered trucks seem to be a law unto themselves

[Eddie Honda]

As a lorryist, going "measurably faster" is pie-in-the-sky unless limiters are ditched.

 

The inside lorry "speeding up" is because terrain/load/cruise control. Therefore the overtaker is relying on the inside driver not napping/being courteous enough to knock off the c/c to allow the manoeuvre to be completed quickly.

 

Not all lorries are limited to 90km/h either. Fuel mingebag companies may have their limiters set lower.

[Guest Hooli]

Away from driving for a bit. I've broke a tooth the other day, it was annoying enough having it wobbling in my gum when I eat, now the corner has come off completely & is flapping around hanging on the nerve. I can't eat anything starving & pissed off at the dickhead dentist who filled a tooth that had nothing wrong with it years ago.

[cobblers]

Not all lorries are limited to 90km/h either. Fuel mingebag companies may have their limiters set lower.

 

Yeah, this is half the problem, loads of companies limit at 50mph instead.

 

 

Got a stinking headache today after drinking a load of whiskey last night that I got for xmas, and Waynetta Slob from next door has decided that today is a good day to get her Shania Twain album out and play it at full blast. Who the fuck even listens to Shania Twain nowadays? 

[tooSavvy]

A19 down from Tyneside to Thirsk..... Lots of artics. but not a bad haul....

 

A fair smattering of [seasonal] farm tractor/trailers.

 

You (should) scan the horizon for slow in N/S & adopt strategy to get into O/S neatly

 

BUT..... the number of cars you see trundling along (71+ some!!) and then shit themselves when a tractor (plain as a barn door - in the distance) blocks their progress. They just indicate/swerve out and rely on everyone else - like me, who has seen the whole thing developing as inevitable - have to pre plan OUR avoiding of them!.

 

.... it happens often enough to be just dim tossers, no excuses.....

 

 

TS