i hate tail gating aswell i usually put my left foot on the break just enough to get the break lights on and still drive on they usually back off then lol
Tail gaters are well on the top of my list. They make my blood boil. I had one particularly bad experience of tail gating a few years ago. I was bringing my newborn daughter home for the first time and i was sticking to the speed limit. I just left a roundabout and some w@*#er decided he owned the road. he drew up to the back of my car so fast that i actually braced for impact. He stuck there the whole way up the road and then he nudged the back of my car breaking my foglights. At that point i lost it and stopped, jumped out of my car and sunk the boot into his car and he nearly ran over me to get away. I never slept for two days after that. Thats how wound up i was. If i was in the car myself i would have tramped on the brakes and fixed him good. I don't condone road rage but sometimes it's near impossible to keep cool when there's prats out there who don't deserve to have a license.
them 45 everywhere drivers.......you know the ones that drive at 45mph on main roads and hold you back, then when you go into a 30 they stil sail on at 45mph or if they're behind you they try to driver over you grrrrrrrrrrr and they never seem to get caught in the 30s drivin at that speed and they're usually wee old people - get away with everythin!!!! grrrrrrr
middle lane drivers . you know the ones that do like 55 on the motor way in the center lane and dont let you past grrrr !!!
and you know them bloody a holes that know you are trying to get past them and there are two lanes so they slow down beside the other car on the other side so you can go no where .. i am not the fighting typr at all but i was going to strangle this girl last week for doing it on the prince charles way i just went out round her stupid bI**h !!!
middle lane drivers . you know the ones that do like 55 on the motor way in the center lane and dont let you past grrrr !!!
and you know them bloody a holes that know you are trying to get past them and there are two lanes so they slow down beside the other car on the other side so you can go no where .. i am not the fighting typr at all but i was going to strangle this girl last week for doing it on the prince charles way i just went out round her stupid bI**h !!!
Pot holes for me too, hit a massive pot hole that just appeared over the space of a day, was going bout 70 and next thing...BANG!! A massive hole in the rim and tyre wrecked, really annoying and expensive
tractors, dem f***ers shudnt b aloud on the roads, everytime u drive on a back road 2 avoid sittin in traffic or if ur in a rush u get stuckbehind 1, and theres never anywhere u can overtake. I also have 2 agree with everything else thats been said so far lol
Oldies, ya know, the ones that bought thier license. Yeah, and they brag about it coz they didn't have to do all the tests, OOh Argh Back in my day we just went to the post office for a license.
meeting people on narrow back roads and they expect you to put your freshly washed car up on the mucky verge so their piece of crap 406 can get past you
driving behind someone and there is something up with their brake lights and they are stuck on
people that hit you car while parked and drive off ...no details left
Tractors
vehicles carrying a trailer and going slower than they need to
a big list there maybe i shouldn't be driving at all!! lol
pretty much all of the above! plus i know the salt is needed on the rds this time of year but why do i always seem to get stuck behind a salter lorry just after washing my car....not even needed!!!
pretty much all of the above! plus i know the salt is needed on the rds this time of year but why do i always seem to get stuck behind a salter lorry just after washing my car....not even needed!!!
lol reminds me of a time i got stuck behind a lorry carrying bails on hay after washing my car, the top of the load was touching trees and loads was flying off it, hay was everywhere!
Lorries, bmw drivers, people who were speedin at the same time as me on the same stretch of road as me who got away with it when i didnt lol..
People who do not know how to use a round about e.g when you go round the round about in the inside closest to the roundabout and the exit u are going off at has two lanes and then they cut across the lanes to the inside lane and near take the nose of your car do they not realise that they are supposed to use the outside lane??!?!
I see some of u's r complaining about lorries on roundabouts and they think they own the road, considering they pay a hell of a lot more tax than cars. well i drive a lorry and a lot of people think they only take up as much room as a car and you get muppets who cut us up on roundabouts. try driving 1 for a day to see what we r up against.
I see some of u's r complaining about lorries on roundabouts and they think they own the road, considering they pay a hell of a lot more tax than cars. well i drive a lorry and a lot of people think they only take up as much room as a car and you get muppets who cut us up on roundabouts. try driving 1 for a day to see what we r up against.
-- Edited by flipper at 16:08, 2008-11-06
this is why i hate lorries
for those who didnt go here's my two pence lol... i didnt include names as i posted this on another forum and just copied it for here..
welll we at ni-vaux had our monthly meet yesterday at oxford island so after meeting up with folks at the odyssey we set off. Onto the westlink were the road works start and the speed limits have been changed so we are going 30 mph and 40mph as the speed changes. Bare in mind some people got stopped at the traffic lights so we were going that speed to keep everyone together.
A little bit down the road we look behind us and notice a nice big 40 footer stuck on the bumper of the VXR Zafira( which has 4 children in the back) behind us so we pulled into the other lane to speak to the zafira driver and the lorry driver is behind flashin the lights and beeping his horn and the usual hand gesters. So we get off the westlink and onto the motor way were we are going 70 the lorry driver has now started to pass some of us but while doing so he is swirving the lorry towards us and causing us to go onto the hard shoulder and towards barriers etc at one stage the lorry driver was trying to come up the inside of us up the hard shoulder he even hit some of the road work signs. So a little down the road the zafira driver waves the lorry driver over and he does so. when both drivers got out there was a bit of pushin and shoving etc but the lory driver held the other guy by the shoulders as if he was going to push him onto the motorway traffic so his wive jumps outta the zafira and trys to pull the two apart on which the lorry driver turns round and punch's her on the side of the head. at this point about all 10 cars that were on convoy had stopped along the hard shoulder and everyone had went to brake up wot ever was started. One of us jumped into the cab and took the keys out so the lorry driver wasnt able to drive away and waited for the police to come.
The police came and listened to both sides of the stories and took everyones details etc and they informed us that passing motorists had reported a gang of people attacking a lorry driver on the M1 and another person apparently reported that the zafira driver had the lorry driver in a head lock bare in mind this happened right infront of the lorry and passing drivers are going 70mph maybe more..
But anyway things were sorted with the police and we got on our way to our meet, Only thing is those little kids will always remember the sight of their mother being hit by a lorry driver etc
well for a start i cant speak for all lorry drivers and i do know there are some a***holes out there who can only drive in a straight line.i know the crowd i work to wouldnt tolerate it and we would be given the boot. But my point was it takes a hell of a lot more room to swing a lorry round a roundabout than a car but a lot dont realise this and if anything happens its always us boys that get the blame.every bloody time we try to make a move theres a car pops out of nowhere and they sit and look at us as if we shouldnt be there.
thank you just what i was wanting. i have got you converted now to liking lorry drivers (some of us) lol. if i knew what you drove or knew where you lived id make sure i wouldnt run over you.
that incedent with the lorry driver sounds hectic! god help the kids seein their mum gettin punched, whoever pulled the keys outa the lorry is a smart cookie indeed!! i was headin 2 oxford island one day, nuthin 2 do with the meet funny enuf, i had pilled out in2 the fast lane 2 pass a car and once passed i noticed a lady in a volvo v70 up my arse so i wellied the wee astra, took a while but i eventyally got up 2 around 90 and pulled in to the slow lane, she continued to sit in the fast lane at the same pace so never passed me, at this point i was com ing up 2 another car infront so i indicated and moved out infront of her to pass the other car, as i passed the car i was doing around 100 mph and i looked in my rearview and i swear i couldnt read her reg, she was that close so i tapped the brake with my left foot to get her 2 slow down, this worked once or twice so next i jus let off the throttle and i swear she near hit the back of me at around 90, as the exit approached 4 oxford island i pulled in to the slow lane and slowed down 2 give her a few hand gestures, as u do, and 2 my astonishment she had her daughter in the back of the car!! no way on this earth would i even contimplate doin those sorta speeds up sum1s arse with a child in the car!