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Lorries like other vehicles can over take. Th last thing a lorry driver wants is a accident. A old saying with drivers is You are only a proffesional when in court. Car speedo's arent as accurate as lorries. This can cause tailgating if th car doesnt move back into a none overtaking lane. But remember lorries look bigger and closer than a car behind at th same distance. As for trains.... Totally unreliable delivery. Been tried many times and failed. Lastly.... Sit in your house and think... All of this including th house was delivered in trucks. So they must av a value. Reason there is a shortage of them is they are under valued in time and money. So... as i saw once written on th back of a truck... "if you dont like trucks stop buying stuff"
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No - that doesn't work. I did not say I was overtaken. The post was about one lorry overtaking (although materially that is not what they achieve!) another whilst traveling at almost the same speed. On many A-roads this causes congestion spot after congestion spot. So they reduce the average speed on a 2-lane carriageway to the speed of the slower lorry in the inside lane.
I actually buy very little in order to do my bit for the planet, but this is not relevant when considering driving skills.
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But isn't it unfair to single out HGV drivers? As Phil has said, car drivers don't want to use lane 1 even when it is free of traffic. It takes far less concentration and skill to sit in lane 2 or 3 maintaining a distance from the car in front by either accelerating or braking. It is this practice which results in congestion, not the HGVs who are limited to lanes 1 and 2 anyway. If lane 3 was used properly traffic would flow much more freely. Simon
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Simon - the issue is that their efforts are usually futile because the speed differential isn't sufficient to get one lorry quicker to its destination than the other. Most of the time it would be far better to dial the cruise back a couple of notches and match the speed of the lorry in front than to overtake. My issue is primarily with the practice on 2-lane carriageways e.g. much of the A14. I am only singling out lorry drivers because on roads like the A14 it is lorries that cause most of the issues of the type we are discussing. Fortunately, we do not get the same volume of Honda Jazz drivers on their way to Felixstowe.
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True many car drivers still have an aversion to lane 1 on motorways, sometimes lane 2 as well. It's ridiculous when driving in lane 1 to find yourself passing vehicles in lane 3 (of a 4 lane m'way) when there's no congestion. HGVs aren't limited to lanes 1 and 2 - they are prohibited from the outside lane. Plenty of the M1 has 4 lanes and yes, the lorries use lane 3! Quote:
Maybe because a car would be doing er... 70mph and the lorry is doing 57.5mph (at best). And the car is stuck behind it for sometimes what seems an eternity. I can quite easily count a difference of half an hour or more on some journeys depending on the lorry lottery when using the A1 long distance. The 1mph difference between 2 lorries at most is going to make no more than a 10 minute difference over 8 hours. For the car that would otherwise be doing 70mph that's an hour and half difference. Sure following a lorry for 5 minutes while it tries and eventually fails to overtake only costs a minute or 2 in reality, but on a 100 mile trip that can happen every other mile.
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