Driving Pet Peeves

[McAvoy]

Usually when I pass idiots I would say more than three quarters are on the phone. The worse ones are the ones who are looking down on the phone that is in their lap.

[Graham Kennedy]

Okay, oddly specific one for me : people who stop to let you out when (1) they have the right of way, and (2) there's a huge gap behind them.

I get letting people out when you have the right of way. It's great, thanks for that. I do it myself all the time. But when I'm at a junction sitting looking at a lone car coming, and I'm all prepped and ready to go as soon as he's gone past because there's a nice big gap behind him... and then suddenly he hits the breaks and flashes me like "No, man, you go!" He's trying to be nice but now he's thrown my timing all off and I have to switch gears (mentally and actually!) and go before I was planning to.

That irritates me no end.

Also, people who sit in the inside lane on the motorway at 60mph. The limit is 70! I like to sit at 70, especially if I have cruise control where I can sit perfectly on exactly 70 mph. But because of you idiots going below the speed limit, I have to either keep slowing down or keep pulling out. And if I pull out I have to put my foot down and go like 80, or else it takes an age to get past you. Drive at the speed limit!

[Teaos]

People who can't merge.

[Jim]

Idiots who still use their fucking phones, despite it being illegal. And yes, I have almost been involved in some accidents with those fuckheads.

Over the summer I yelled out the window at someone that I would smash their phone on the ground if she was looking at it again when the next light turned green (she was doing it the last two). However, I yell a lot of things, windows up or down.

[Jim]

Left lane drivers. Not sure what the equivalent in the UK is. Usually the right lane is considered the driving lane and the left is referred to as the passing lane. I HATE it when two cars are going down the highway next to each other. The guy in the left not actually passing.

[Mikey]

Drivers of duallies who can't keep their wide-ass vehicles within their own lanes. I get it, they're bigger than other vehicles, but guess what? They still fit in the lanes! I've driven 60,000-lb. GVWR trucks on local roads and I'm not even legally allowed to drive trucks heavier than 24,999 - this is what you do for a friggin' living, learn how to get it right!

[Captain Seafort]

Left lane drivers. Not sure what the equivalent in the UK is.

CLOCs - Centre Lane Owners Club. Graham may have a beef with people going at 60 in the inside lane, but I don't have an issue with that (although any slower would start causing issues). Idiots who go bimbling down the middle lane, thumb up bum, mind in neutral, on the other hand, infuriate me. Either get in the fucking inside lane or put your fucking boot down, fuckwit.

[Reliant121]

Middle laners irritate me no end. I personally don't mind 60mph types as long as they stay well to the left. I sit at 70mph and i've never driven a car without cruise control so always sit on it. Occasionally i will speed up a little to pass quickly but otherwise I sit at 70 and going middle lane only when needed.

After spending a lot of time Driving up and down the A34, lorries overtaking one another 1mph faster than the other drive me nuts. Especially when the entire road is a dual carriageway.

[Angharrad]

Okay, oddly specific one for me : people who stop to let you out when (1) they have the right of way, and (2) there's a huge gap behind them.

I get letting people out when you have the right of way. It's great, thanks for that. I do it myself all the time. But when I'm at a junction sitting looking at a lone car coming, and I'm all prepped and ready to go as soon as he's gone past because there's a nice big gap behind him... and then suddenly he hits the breaks and flashes me like "No, man, you go!" He's trying to be nice but now he's thrown my timing all off and I have to switch gears (mentally and actually!) and go before I was planning to.

That irritates me no end.

Same for me, well it used to, I don't drive much now.

[Jim]

Drivers of duallies who can't keep their wide-ass vehicles within their own lanes. I get it, they're bigger than other vehicles, but guess what? They still fit in the lanes! I've driven 60,000-lb. GVWR trucks on local roads and I'm not even legally allowed to drive trucks heavier than 24,999 - this is what you do for a friggin' living, learn how to get it right!

I actually just had that happen yesterday. He also seemed like he couldn't make up which lane he wanted to be in. I finally got next to him by crossing the center yellow a little an "pushing" him back into just one lane. I then yelled (as I said, I do that a lot) to pick a f****** lane. He beeped and gave me the finger. I yelled "whatever jack888" and that was basically the end of it as I made a turn.

[Jim]

When you say middle lane or center lane are you referring to the "fast/passing" lave of a two lane road or the middle lane of a three lane road?

[Captain Seafort]

When you say middle lane...are you referring to...the middle lane...?

Hmm. Let me think...

[Reliant121]

central lane of a three lane road.

Technically we would probably use outside, inside (for a two lane road) and then a centre (for three lane roads). I believe in the states you refer to the Outside Lane as as the one closest the roadside and the Inside the closest the centre; we reverse them, as the outside lane is the one closest the centre of the road and the inside is the one farthest from the centre road.

[Mikey]

We rarely use the terms "outside" or "inside" in reference to a roadway. The right lane - which for us is the farthest from opposing traffic - is supposed to be for the slowest-moving traffic, and the left lane is supposed to be for passing/faster traffic, and is occassionally off-limits to trucking.

[Reliant121]

Same for us but reversed (other side of road ofc.). There are specific laws now in place that legally prohibit "middle laning" IE lingering in the middle or right lane. The Highway code stipulates that you should travel in the left most lane except when you are passing slower moving traffic; once complete, you should move back over to the left when safe to do so. I think only one person has actually been prosecuted under the middle lane law so far though...