Lorry overtaking ban halts ‘elephant racing’

[Breaker]

The Highways Agency has doubled motorway and dual carriageway trial sites where lorries are banned from overtaking, but should they be introducing a blanket ban?

Read more: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/250246/lorry_overtaking_ban_halts_elephant_racing.html?CMP=NLC-Newsletters&uid=aed1643d06aad63b54eacbbaa392c489#ixzz0jpeMxwqk

 

[Beancounter1980]

The Highways Agency has doubled motorway and dual carriageway trial sites where lorries are banned from overtaking, but should they be introducing a blanket ban?

Read more: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/250246/lorry_overtaking_ban_halts_elephant_racing.html?CMP=NLC-Newsletters&uid=aed1643d06aad63b54eacbbaa392c489#ixzz0jpeMxwqk

Yes they bloody well should...well on the M6 anyway..

between Junction 6-10 is my everyday commute, and the lanes are SO narrow. There have been many times a lorry has swayed into my lane causing me to brake sharply.

Its terrifying sometimes. Even move into lanes without any indicators, and also for the most part seem to be going more than the 50mph speed restrictions, and tailgate your @rse forever...

 

[texasjohn]

Edit: I now read the story properly

I live very close to 'that' section of the M42. The ban of lorries from the outside lane is often quite simply ignored.

Also, there are a number of car drivers that like to sit at 50mph in the inside lane (and I see these drivers regularly on my commute) thus slowing the lorries down and I have seen some road rage from lorries to (often frightened OAP) car drivers as a result. Sure, with the price of fuel I can understand the car drivers wanting to save a bit of cost and this will be the main counterargument from them.

Don't get me wrong I think the outside lane ban is a good thing but there aren't the police on the roads to ensure it is complied with and also it's a bit harsh on the lorries who could potentially be held up at 30mph (which I believe is the minimum speed limit for our m-ways)

 

[RichardG]

Don't get me wrong I think the outside lane ban is a good thing but there aren't the police on the roads to ensure it is complied with and also it's a bit harsh on the lorries who could potentially be held up at 30mph (which I believe is the minimum speed limit for our m-ways)

X2 this and previous Goverments seem to think that all that is needed to Police the roads are more and more Cameras, the minimum speed should also be increased, I think you are right about the 30mph the differential is just to great, but the biggy as far as am concerned is better lane discipline with should be enforced by prosecution if necessary by the non existent Police and not the Traffic Monkeys, remove the miles of cones where no work is being carried why do we have to cone off 10 miles of roads to allow work on a 1/2 mile stretch.

 

[pvr]

Best roadworks were in Germany where the limit goes from none to 100 km/h for about a few hundred yards then back to unlimited. None of this nonsense we see in the UK for 10 miles of cones before the works where everyone is having a coffee ...

 

[cj10jeeper]

Interesting that I use the M42 a lot and find in general the ban really helps and works

Of course the odd car slows lorries who become frustrated and equally the odd idiot sits in the outside lane and 60 in a car holding a line up, but in general when the road is busy it really speeds up end to end journey time. No longer do you wait for 5 minutes while 2 slow lorries pass 2, 3, 5 etc. even slower, only for the process to repeat before any cars get moving

Bit like the M42 around Birmingham that I love with use of the hard shouldder as an extra lane. For sure sometime the spurious speed limits applied at 5 am when it's empty and set to 50 mph annoy but again end to end is quicker and now that too is being widely adopted

Of course best of all is the 15 mile M6T that is £5 for one high speed cruise, expenses paid cruise where 95% of the traffic (except me) is way above 70mph

 

[Breaker]

Best roadworks were in Germany where the limit goes from none to 100 km/h for about a few hundred yards then back to unlimited. None of this nonsense we see in the UK for 10 miles of cones before the works where everyone is having a coffee ...

That's the same in the parts of the USA I've been too. Coned off areas are only literally for the roadworks being done, not miles before or after 2 people changing a road light bulb!!

 

[lacroupade]

continental lane discipline should be the rule, less the tailgating of course!

The A34 near me gets clogged to feck with these halfwits driving as if they are conjoined.

If you're a car driver and you can't go faster than a lorry GET THE F*CKING BUS!!!!

And lets get some of this goods shite of the roads and back on the railways.....

 

[bigshurv]

Many of Germany's motorways are restricted for lorry overtaking especially when there are only 2 lanes.Bloody good idea I think.keep everything flowing.

 

[lacroupade]

Many of Germany's motorways are restricted for lorry overtaking especially when there are only 2 lanes.Bloody good idea I think.keep everything flowing.

until a portubastardgese lorry driver arrives on the scene.....