Lane Hog Cars!

[GTR-N1]

Out Of Interest: What type of car seems to commonly hog the overtaking lane?

[FATAZZ]

slow ones?

[stR33ter]

delivery vans

and taxis

Edited July 4, 2008 by stR33ter

[Guest]

Out Of Interest: What type of car seems to commonly hog the overtaking lane?

No word of a lie nearly every car in WA and the further from Perth they live (licence plates designate which town they come from) the slower they go in the overtaking lane.

Give me Malaysia driving 30,000 liter Tankers again or even driving with my 85 year old grandfather in his Skoda on iced roads in Scotland was better then this state.

[Redback]

4WD's... soccor mums who think there the most inportant thing on the face of this planet and can nudge there way anywhere they want.... oh and never beep your horn at them cos they floor it into your lane and 9-times out of 10 bump into someone/something... well only 3 times out of about 6 for me... yes its happened 3 times.... then they get out and abuse the people they hit....

i enjoy beeping from long distance....

[shepo]

generally supercars i find tend to dordal in the fast lase all the time, ferraris lambos, you name it.

they think because of what they are, they can use which ever lane they like!

[DECIM8]

Slow people, Qld has to be the best state they seem to know how to drive, they keep to the left lanes and let people fly past.

I was so suprised when I drove there as they actually read the road rules, obviously sydney strugles at this.

[ITZTRU]

VY SS/HSV's and up...

BA XR8/FPV's and up...

dunno why...that's just what I find on the M1...

(trying my best not to sound like I have anything against Aussie Muscle...)

[(B1) MR_fanny]

i generally find its the people not cars....eg old people, interstaters/out of towner, generally people who are clueless.

[GTR-N1]

i generally find its the people not cars....eg old people, interstaters/out of towner, generally people who are clueless.

They wouldn't drive Camrys by any chance??

[madbung]

Hey don't pick on the elderly or intellectually challenged...they're just being prepared.

Prepared for a right hand turn about 5 suburbs away. You wouldn't want them to be unsure and have to come to a dead stop in the left lane while they refer to maps, passengers or baby Jesus would you?

[Pattygtst]

easily older utes, and vans like plumbers f**k they piss me off. No offense to any plumbers

Anybody else hate on the kwinana freeway how nobody seems to go 100km its usually 95 and people alwasy just stay in the overtaking lane. Of course theres always the ones who do but to compensate for the slow ones they have to speed to overtake them, Consequently breaking the law. Slow people produce speed i think it has an opposite effect penalising speeders.

Personally i rarely speed unless i give it a bit here or there or over taking slow drivers. I used to go 20km everywhere but dont see the point now and it hurts in fines and demerits.

[babyskyline]

bloody old people, clueless people and out of towners... and those b^&ches driving huge 4wd's!!!! so sick of seeing chix driving 4wd's round town....they are either driving slow hogging the road or they are sitting up your ass honking when your doin the speed limit. Dangerous as all hell and always causing accidents...Sorry if any chix on here drive 4wds but im sick of them

[lingeringsoul]

Out Of Interest: What type of car seems to commonly hog the overtaking lane?

Teh Fulleh Sik

[turbo_brian]

Slow people, Qld has to be the best state they seem to know how to drive, they keep to the left lanes and let people fly past.

You have got to be kidding me right??

Every single time I try and drive down the Gateway Arterial, or Bruce Highway, no mtter what time of the day or night, there is always morons doing 80km/h in the left lane, and some flog next time him keeping up in the roght hand lane, and thus blocking off the friggin highway.

As for Sydney struggling, at times (Particularly the weekend) you get a similar issue, idiots istting in the right hand lane causing problems.

I tend to find it's all sorts of people that do this, Taxis, vans, utes, sports cars, old people, young people, infact pretty much the only ones that done sit in the right hand lane are Learners, but if it's a highway, they are not going fast enough to go around someone anyway.

Now, I had a Honda Accord Euro with an old bastard on the M2 a few weeks ago, wouldn't move over, and was doing 80 in the 100 zone. It had been raining, the roads where wet, but the rain had stopped. I followed this guy about 50 - 100 meters behind, he wouldn't move over, so I flashed the lights at him a couple of times, no good the prick still just sat there. Eventually I decided I will change back to the left lane to keep witht he road rules of "KEEP LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING", that and the left lane was pasing this prick.

As I changed lanes, the rear wheel managed to wedge into a pot-hole, as it did, the car spun, I accelerated to power out of the slide, but no good. End result, the entire left hand side of my GTR pounded the guard rail on the M2, and at the time I was doing roughly 90+km/h.

Why did this happen, because I was changing my lanes due to someone who was in breach of the NSW road rules, so although they where not the direct cause of the accident, they WHERE the cause.

I was fine, passenger was fine, and car's only sustained panel damage, so it's in the workshop with Jerry at Vision Smash repairs, almost repaired.

So in a nutshell, people who cant KEEP THE f**k LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING really give me the shits!!!

B.

[(B1) MR_fanny]

They wouldn't drive Camrys by any chance??

its a mix bag really. you could put the same driver in a skyline and they would do the same thing...ha

[benkoau]

i was going to start a thread about this.I recently changed jobs now im heading toward the city every morning and everyone is doing 10 under the speed limit and sitting next to car in the opposite lane not letting anyone through this is my number 1 hate on the road

[Mr. Keets]

...Anybody else hate on the Kwinana freeway how nobody seems to go 100km its usually 95 and people alwasy just stay in the overtaking lane...

+1. People in Perth annoy the heck out of me. They sit in the overtaking lane just under the limit unmoved, unaware and uninterested in the world around them. What really gets me is the lack of courtesy from many drivers, especially evident when I'm in the R....Keep left or die.

Having said all this I've worked in Africa for around four years and I'll take ordered, slightly slower over no clue excessive speeding in death traps any day.

[GTR-N1]

i was going to start a thread about this.I recently changed jobs now im heading toward the city every morning and everyone is doing 10 under the speed limit and sitting next to car in the opposite lane not letting anyone through this is my number 1 hate on the road

Yeh, in the US and Canadian multi-lane highways, drivers get fined for staying more than 10mph below the speed limits in lanes 2 & 3.

Don't you think that since Motorways have warning signs saying "Stay In The Left Lane Unless Overtaking" that Police should blitz these?

It would be less boring for them too! Think of the new excuses they'd come across!

Or on the other hand, do you think that State Police Commissioners covertly sit on their hands knowing that 'Lane Hogs' are in actual fact 'Mobile Speed Humps' that you have to go around rather than over !!!

Cheers To OUR thread,

T

[turbo_brian]

Terry, some cops DO book for not keeping left unless overtaking, but as with every other law, there is a loop hole to be used (well, something that is 'up to officer descresion') where the officer needs to deem what is 'built up raffic' before not booking people.

This is a road rule that NEEDS to be enforced to keep flow of traffic safe.

Not using this as an excuse because my first and only accident was pure driver fkup, but if the prick in front had moved from the right hand lane doing 90km/h under the limit, to the left hand lane like the law required of him/her, then I would not have been changing directions when the car spun and went into the guard rail.

I bet these Right lane hogs all turn around and say **Nerdy voice** "I have never had an acident" **Nerdy voice off**.

I bet the fockers might not have HAD an accident, but how many have they caused from their selfish driving manner.

B.