Lorry racing

[Hawkeye1250FA]

I don't normally care about Lorrys overtaking each other, they need to be on the road etc etc. blah blah.

Coming up the M6 at Stafford yesterday (on the new bit where its 4 lanes now)

3 of the feckers!! It took "us" (the cars caught in the cross fire) 7-10 minutes to get through because of the daft 65mph crew that were now forced into lane 4.

Is it really necessary to overtake a lorry that is already overtaking a lorry!!?

[Fizzoid]

Itz about respect, innit

#Trucklife
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[Rogerborg]

Their cargo only has a limited amount of air, you monster.
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[Loui5D]

Time is money in the trucking business.

[angryjonny]

Time is more important than money to the rest of us.

Here speaketh a mortal being on the brink of a midlife crisis.

[Robby]

This thread comes up from time to time. I'll summarise the conclusions it usually gets to:

1. Yes, this happens and is annoying to be stuck behind.
2. This will keep happening. Some days it will happen a lot, and your journey will take longer.
3. The problem used to be worse. The improvement may be down to drivers not being arseholes, wider roads, or better road design.

[owl]

diagram missing bikes filtering through truck 3 and cars #plentyspace
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[Hawkeye1250FA]

[Hawkeye1250FA]

[owl]

nice
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[M.C]

Have you ever talked to a lorry driver?

Inb4 butthurt

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[fatjames]

I find the issue isn't so much the lorries, but other drivers not knowing what to do. ie, hard shoulder, 90mph. Or, come off at the next junction and get back in front of said lorries.

[Hawkeye1250FA]

I fully appreciate that Lorries need to be there - and also to overtake...

But I cant get my head around why there was a need to overtake the overtaker?

I'm also fully aware that the issue I encountered isn't actually the fault of the lorry drivers, it was the 65mph cvnts who then continued doing 65mph in lane 3...

[Hawkeye1250FA]

[owl]

[duhawkz]

I am disappoint

I expected a thread about https://youtu.be/d0PqI5peh4Y
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[Baffler186]

[Rogerborg]

[G]

10 minutes may be the difference between sleeping in the truck and going home for the night I believe.

[wr6133]

Generalisation but

Lorry 1 will be some slow Health and safety jobsworth looking to flesh out his 6 1/2 day to ensure the planner can't fire him out on another job. His cruise control will be set to 51MPH (which he will insist is for "safety").

Lorry 2 will be the guy doing multidrops and his planner will have been a touch optimistic on just how many drops are achievable. His cruise control will be on 55MPH.

Lorry 3 will be the tramper on day 6 or the day guy on job and knock. They long ago fucked off cruise control and any eco mode the truck has and are doing their best to generate enough overspeeds that the next time they download their drivers card trutac will have a meltdown.

[Hawkeye1250FA]

[G]

You're working on the basis that truck drivers care about other road users.

As with so many in so many professions, many have a, ah, 'significant' view of their own importance in the world in relation to others.
If you were to judge it by money spent on running a vehicle, that view would likely be justified!

[panrider_uk]

I always thought that lorries were restricted to lanes 1 and 2.

Is that only on a 3 lane motorway then?
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[G]

Yes; if there's more than two lanes they're not allowed to use the outside lane.

Note that this is only for those over 7.5t - a 7.5t has the same rules as a diddy van like a Transit Connect.