OT: Disgusting behaviour.

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On or around Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:16:19 +0100, "GbH" enlightened us thusly:

The highway code states that where practical, drivers of large or slow-moving vehicles should pull in to allow other traffic to pass, but I don't see that a vehicle in, presumably, the left-hand lane of a motorway at

The coach driver IMHO is an impatient and dangerous f****it, and deserves at the very least disciplining by his employer and possibly suspension of his licence. And that's assuming that he didn't himself, write the TW*T sign, if he did he's also guilty of driving without due care.

On a motorway, unless the traffic is constant and very heavy, if you're behind something with no opportunity to pass, then you quite soon get an opportunity. If the coach driver has such bad judgement that he tries to pass uphill and fails to do so, then he's a crap driver, and to try to indicate that the thing he's overtaking is at fault makes him worse. I'd certainly, myself, report him, especially as the coach was loaded.

What about describing the coach? Did it have any logos on the side? Any colours? Surely someone would recognise the paint scheme...

I rang a well-known company after watching one of their van drivers reverse down the hard shoulder of the A404M (dual carriageway) having missed his junction, instead of going a mile further up and looping back. They said they'd take the complaint seriously and get back to me, but never did. Maybe I should have told them I had already notified the police too.

David

They would have seen this anyway at that on CCTV I'm sure.

Tell us all the company

kf> Would it not have been more thoughtful to slow to let him pass... even kf> though you considered his driving to be poor... particularly with a kf> fully laden coach... letting him get back into a safer situation as kf> quickly as possible. kf> You would have avoided all the aggression and you both would have had a kf> pleasanter and safer journey home.

Hi,

After he failed to pass us he just in the middle lane with nothing stopping him coming back in. The website for said comapny is

Neil

P.S. Still heard nothing from them.....

Well, when I was a lacrosse goal-keeper (many many years ago) I always considered that the best form of defence was attack!

Judith

Well, theres;

The Guild of British Coach Operators

and also their IIP that you could use to challenge the drivers behaviour?

I'm sure some of the graphics peeps here could get photoshop to place some topical registration numbers and bus destinations on the pics they have on their site - I'd host anything (provided copyright isn't an issue, however as 'original art', it should be fine) :-)

You neither slow down nor speed up whilst being overtaken.

Peter

P> You neither slow down nor speed up whilst being overtaken.

Indeed, as I stated - "As we pootled up a slight incline at 60mph, with the cruise set,"

Neil

Hi Neil,

Yep, but Elisabeth stick reckons I'm still as one-eyed as ever. And I don't she was referring just to Landies.

Ron (still over 1500 unread emails to read and/or answer)

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Splash

"And all because the lady loves Milk Tray"

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I seem to remember a brief fashion for black polo-necks under dark jackets around this time. I thought I looked cool, but...

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On or around Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:21:37 +0000 (UTC), "Neil Brownlee" enlightened us thusly:

which I took to mean that you were doing a steady 60, matey in bonkersbus came charging up ahind, failed to notice that he was approaching a hill, pulled out to pass, then had the ignominious whatnot of running out of power half way past. In which case, he could simply have sat beside you and just driven normally, and later accelerated, or could have dropped back and waited.

Had it been me, I'd have simply sat in the middle lane.

I suppose he thought you were deliberately going faster so's to wind him up, but a glance at his speedo should have told him this wasn't the case.

basically, I think the guy's sign was probably self-descriptive.

That's one thing I find with cruise control. People overtake you, then pull in and slow down. You then cruise past them doing exactly the same speed you were before. Then they overtake you again, and slow down. I had a guy the other day who kept pulling alongside me and then slowing down behind things (instead of overtaking) and blocking me in. Most irritating, as I was trying to maintain a constant speed (although not in this instance irritating enough that I wanted him to be run over by a lorry).

It's often frustrating when other people's driving styles are different than yours, as although both of you may be being reasonable and consistent, the two styles sometimes obstruct each other.

On or around Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:09:37 +0100, "David French" enlightened us thusly:

that happens even without cruise. On the motorway in the 110, I'm normally around 60-70, and still get that.

sometimes they're going slower 'cos they're talking on the phone... Mind, the kind of people who go fast on straight roads (50-60) and slow to 30-40 for every corner, whether it's necessary or not, I find very irritating to follow.

The first rule of Jazz Club is you do not talk about Jazz Club.....

P.

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