Who was the idiot......?

Fendt516profi

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Well a pretty good test is if you were driving the car 5 vehicles back, with little opportunity to overtake, how many miles would you happily sit there before you were getting impatient?
Not that many when your doing 40 behind and dropping to 35 sometimes and the roads clear as far as you can see in front of the first car
 
There was a time when slower vehicles held well over to the roadside, and the approaching vehicles saw there was a slower vehicle coming, and held well over to their side and that would let vehicles through from behind the slower one.
Its about time a bit more consideration returned and better road manners were observed.
It‘s the same when wanting to pass a stationary vehicle in a village, I move over to give room, but most nowadays hog to the centre line. It’s like “this is my side of the road, and you can’t have it”
 

icanshootwell

Member
Location
Ross-on-wye
35 miles between 2 major towns on a trunk road at 25-30 miles/hour tests the patience. Especially when there's a clear road in front of the tractor but you can't overtake.
A tractor with a 30' trailer takes some commitment to over take. Throw into the mix of people behind, couple of lorries, a caravan, me with a trailer, and before you know ot there's a tail back as far as the eye can see, except of course the feckin' eye of the tractor driver :banghead: :confused::mad:
The problem is, there are not many places on main roads that you can you pull over with a 30ft tractor and trailer?
 

Lofty1984

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South wales
There was a time when slower vehicles held well over to the roadside, and the approaching vehicles saw there was a slower vehicle coming, and held well over to their side and that would let vehicles through from behind the slower one.
Its about time a bit more consideration returned and better road manners were observed.
It‘s the same when wanting to pass a stationary vehicle in a village, I move over to give room, but most nowadays hog to the centre line. It’s like “this is my side of the road, and you can’t have it”
This is spot on the amount of people you see hogging the white line oblivious on what’s approaching them be it push bikes or tractors, I dislike driving the roads or should I say I dislike other drivers 😂
 

Ali_Maxxum

Member
Location
Chepstow, Wales
In 30 miles, THIRTY whole miles, there wasn't a single place to over take?! Absolutely not defending the driver of the tractor either as I could never believe there would be absolutely nowhere to pull over at any point either, but it staggers me the amount of people that don't seem to possess the ability to be able to put their foot down to over take something for a few seconds.

God forbid anyone has to plant their foot in the floor and rev their vehicle past 1500rpm and disrupt their 47.8mpg on their drive to wherever. Honestly half the time nowadays its a waste of time pulling over as by the time they've eventually got past me, got stuck behind a cyclist, a caravan and a horse box and the same person making their 10th trip to town in a week cos they need to pop out for some 'bits and pieces', one or two people in the 'queue' have pulled off the road or stopped or something, I've bloody caught them up again!

If I see a car that I know has probably got 150hp+ under the bonnet and give it some 'space' and ease off a little to let it go by me (obviously where it is safe to do so) and it doesn't, well I'm sorry, they're probably safer staying behind me! I used to be able to over take anything in my little old 75bhp Polo.

How often does a cyclist or a horse box/lorry pull over?

No grumpy replies please, not looking for an argument or debate, here for a discussion and a chuckle! :D(y)
 

Poorbuthappy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
In 30 miles, THIRTY whole miles, there wasn't a single place to over take?! Absolutely not defending the driver of the tractor either as I could never believe there would be absolutely nowhere to pull over at any point either, but it staggers me the amount of people that don't seem to possess the ability to be able to put their foot down to over take something for a few seconds.

God forbid anyone has to plant their foot in the floor and rev their vehicle past 1500rpm and disrupt their 47.8mpg on their drive to wherever. Honestly half the time nowadays its a waste of time pulling over as by the time they've eventually got past me, got stuck behind a cyclist, a caravan and a horse box and the same person making their 10th trip to town in a week cos they need to pop out for some 'bits and pieces', one or two people in the 'queue' have pulled off the road or stopped or something, I've bloody caught them up again!

If I see a car that I know has probably got 150hp+ under the bonnet and give it some 'space' and ease off a little to let it go by me (obviously where it is safe to do so) and it doesn't, well I'm sorry, they're probably safer staying behind me! I used to be able to over take anything in my little old 75bhp Polo.

How often does a cyclist or a horse box/lorry pull over?

No grumpy replies please, not looking for an argument or debate, here for a discussion and a chuckle! :D(y)
Surely 30 miles on a busy A road people must have been overtaking all the time, otherwise it would have been a 10mile tailback?
 

Fendt516profi

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
In 30 miles, THIRTY whole miles, there wasn't a single place to over take?! Absolutely not defending the driver of the tractor either as I could never believe there would be absolutely nowhere to pull over at any point either, but it staggers me the amount of people that don't seem to possess the ability to be able to put their foot down to over take something for a few seconds.

God forbid anyone has to plant their foot in the floor and rev their vehicle past 1500rpm and disrupt their 47.8mpg on their drive to wherever. Honestly half the time nowadays its a waste of time pulling over as by the time they've eventually got past me, got stuck behind a cyclist, a caravan and a horse box and the same person making their 10th trip to town in a week cos they need to pop out for some 'bits and pieces', one or two people in the 'queue' have pulled off the road or stopped or something, I've bloody caught them up again!

If I see a car that I know has probably got 150hp+ under the bonnet and give it some 'space' and ease off a little to let it go by me (obviously where it is safe to do so) and it doesn't, well I'm sorry, they're probably safer staying behind me! I used to be able to over take anything in my little old 75bhp Polo.

How often does a cyclist or a horse box/lorry pull over?

No grumpy replies please, not looking for an argument or debate, here for a discussion and a chuckle! :D(y)
Think a odd wagon caravan and him with a trailer was mentioned that's soon considerably more than 40 of foot to pass
 

Ivorbiggun

Member
Location
Norfolk
It used to be 40 years ago, from memory it changed somewhere around 2015, along with increasing the limit from 50-60 for HGVs on dual carriageways
It’s now 50 for an hgv on single carriageway roads unless a lower limit is in force ie 30/ 40 which applies to everyone.
All hgvs are limited to 90kph which is 56 mph.
 

MRT

Member
Livestock Farmer
Agree with the OP, on the other side of the coin though pull out on the A487 and have had people flashing lights and pointing for me to pull over within 30 seconds, usually have a fair queue within a minute during peak holiday time and no where good to pull over until the bus stop in the next village. Only do 5-10 mins on the road thankfully, very stressful, pulling out again safely can be a nightmare
 

flowerpot

Member
I travelled from Worcester to Hereford with a trailer, at the bottom of Fromes Hill I wanted to pull over at least far enough off to allow traffic past and there was no-where until I was nearly in Hereford, and that meant braking quite sharply as I realised there was enough space and acting on it. I meant to write to the County Couty about it.
 

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