SiDHEaD

Currently (due to roadworks) I have to take an alternative route to work, down a lot of B Roads - which is fine. This morning I was following another car and we were doing 60, all was fine etc.

Then boom, we're at the tail end of a 10mph, 30 car convoy!! Eventually it became clear that a f*cktwit of a JCB driver was to blame. Did he pull over for a min to let people past? Did he buggery!!

Overtake did I hear you say?? Well yes, but nearly all of the 7 mile stretch is marked do not pass. So cars were taking ages to creep past this JCB, obviously not liking overtaking on solid lines.

The queue was just as bad behind as well. Why could he not flippin pull over.

I was late for work (well i would have been, flexi-time) and i'm sure a lot of the others were. In the end i had to hair past 5 or so cars and the JCB, hoping that the car at front would not jump infront of me (lights on full!!).

I then could not cruise as usual on the motorway and probably wasted a 1/4 tank of fuel!!

Now I'm nearly at work (another b road after the motorway) and I come round the corner... ANOTHER FECKING JCB (3 car queue)! Oh great, start preparing for overtake the lot, when he pulls over. Top job!!

Moral of the story - JCB drivers from Kidderminster area are tossers who need to read the highway code re: slow loads giving way - before some1 gets impatient and crashes + dies, and JCB drivers from Cheltenham are

Rant hereby completed,

Andy

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

They shouldn't be on the roads in rush hour!! Plain and simple! In fact while I'm at it the same rule should apply to trucks over 7.5 tonnes [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

mattstant

I hear You mate but i think caravans are worse.

Terrorists take note just buy a couple of hundred caravans and drive around london for a few days like the average caravan towing tosser and hey presto complete paralysis of the capital.

Took a boat on a trailer to wales a couple of years ago and pulling in or slowing to allow overtaking made not a jot of difference to my journey time

alcazar

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You lot should live in Lincolnshire!!!:
Doesn't matter WHAT time of day it is, you can always be sure of getting stuck behind "Farmer F*ck, and his b*stard truck"!!
And do they EVER pull over?? I should coco!
Even worse was following a HUGE queue that proved to be 12 miles when we got to the front, on the M18 before New Year.
When we got there, it was a wide load being escorted by Traffic Police. Did they pull it over onto the hard shoulder to let traffic disperse? Did they hell. Even when we got onto the 3 lane stretch after the A1 junction, they kept it in two of the lanes, and didn't pull it over . T*ssers!
Took me over 2 hours to drive a journey I can normally do in 50 minutes!
Alcazar

Jerome

From here

Do not hold up a long queue of traffic, especially if you are driving a large or slow moving vehicle. Check your mirrors frequently, and if necessary, pull in where it is safe and let traffic pass

carl

I reckon they keep in contact with each other. For example, I follow a queue behind a tractor for about 15 miles of single carriageway road. Then there's about two miles of dual carriageway, and of course we all get past. When it goes back to single carriageway, b*gger me there's another tractor

I reckon they plan it.

XRS

What about section 108?

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/10.shtml

Dracoro

Sorry to be picky but surely your generalisation should apply to HALF the Kidderminster JCB drivers as the 2nd one did the right thing not A:: of them!

MattW

Dracora


You need to read it all mate


[Edited by MattW - 2/13/2003 1:27:32 PM]

Dracoro

ooops.

wasn't me guv'! I have a ghost writer

DRUNKNORGY

I find its the skip wagons who are the biggest menace, but then its probably cos I only work 1 mile from the entrance of the tip.
The JCB drivers aren't too bad around here but it doesn't help with so many fcukwit half asleep drivers on the road in the morning, who are struggling to find second gear, and would rather sit behind them even when a gap opens to pass. I drive a Diesel for **** sake and I don't have a problem staying with the flow.

Sounds like your living in the wrong town Sid

[Edited by DRUNKNORGY - 2/13/2003 2:01:15 PM]

SiDHEaD

Could be right!!!

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ChrisB

LMAO

DRUNKNORGY

I followed someone in a black Nissan GTIR(well it had the bodykit anyway)from the kingsditch to Bishops Cleeve and obviously he was pulling away but not by a mile(he did have his foot down, and mine was through the floor BTW). By the time he'd got to the smiths roundabout I was right behind him. He did a lap of the roundabout to get behind me and check out the car. I think he was well pissed of to see Diesel (TD)on the side. I'll put that down to him being a crap driverand me knowing the road very well.

Anyway its 'all' the cars which get in the way when I'm on my bike

[Edited by DRUNKNORGY - 2/13/2003 3:28:33 PM]

SiDHEaD

He usually tailgates me on the way to work, up to the racecourt!! Well some1 in a black Sunny GTI-R anyway. Doesn't seem impressed that I should want to do 30 in a 30??!!!


Andy

DRUNKNORGY

Sounds like the same chap, Either pass me or hang back. Can't stand tailgating. I think he comes from cleeve