Undertaking MLOCers - pet hate
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From: Brimstone on 3 Aug 2010 06:51 "Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:1ltbuaysovzo6.1w2zhqio1pp39$.dlg(a)40tude.net... > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:42:50 +0100, Brimstone wrote: > >>> I use the middle lane on *empty* motorways, you avoid the lorry ruts, >>> you >>> maximise distance from any possible hazards and have equal ability to >>> take >>> avoiding action left and right. >> >> And you are also a lane further away from the hard should and relative >> safety. > > I quite like being not too near the hard shoulder. > Why?
From: GT on 3 Aug 2010 07:23 "Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:10hvfvil9ya0d$.51r1er1jrt69$.dlg(a)40tude.net... > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:48:42 +0100, GT wrote: > >> I >> suspect he might be a little briefer about his explanation tho! > > :-) In my very first "vehicle" (I use the term loosely) I was stopped by a > constable who delivered the immortal line "who do you think you are, > Sterling Moss?" I heard that happenned to Stirling Moss too!
From: Ian Dalziel on 3 Aug 2010 07:33 On 3 Aug, 10:43, Chelsea Tractor Man <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:33:48 +0100, GT wrote: > > The only conceivable explanation for that is the phenomenon we see at > > night - very quiet motorway and people tend to drive along in the middle > > lane - I presume this is to give them a greater change of survival should > > they fall asleep! > > I use the middle lane on *empty* motorways, you avoid the lorry ruts, you > maximise distance from any possible hazards and have equal ability to take > avoiding action left and right. If a car comes up behind I move left so it > can overtake (hopefully) with an empty lane between us. Should I fail to > see the car it still has a lane free. "I assume ignoring the HC constitutes carelessness or "delibrate bad driving"
From: boltar2003 on 3 Aug 2010 07:38 On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:30:41 +0100 Chelsea Tractor Man <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:01:48 +0000 (UTC), boltar2003(a)boltar.world wrote: > >> You have 2 empty lanes on your left (including the hard >> shoulder) and 1 empty lane on your right. > >the hard shoulder may contain an unlit stopped vehicle or driver walking to >a phone. Its marginal. Well it won't be unlit in the day and I assume you use headlights at night so unless we're talking about driving in a pea soup fog I fail to see the relevance. B2003
From: Brimstone on 3 Aug 2010 08:04
"Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:1fsp17zszdb8u.rjr98ymzbn4a.dlg(a)40tude.net... > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:23:09 +0100, GT wrote: > >>> :-) In my very first "vehicle" (I use the term loosely) I was stopped by >>> a >>> constable who delivered the immortal line "who do you think you are, >>> Sterling Moss?" >> >> I heard that happenned to Stirling Moss too! > > Yes, I think it did. > It quite definitely did. I am on a discussion forum with an ex-copper who worked with the bloke who stopped SM and who has related the story in greater detail (which I can't now remember). |