Driving in the middle lane on motorway?

[christoph]

Right just a curious question, driving home from milton keynes today down the M1 the 4 lane bit. I was in the left hand lane with nothing in front of me, lane wise for about 3/4 of mile. Yet there were people queuing in the far right lane because some cunt was sitting at 69 in the middle right lane :wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::w all::wall:. . . . Now obviously undertaking is "illegal" but it proper winds me up. . can anyone shed some light on why people do this, even if you do it yourself! I've just gotta know haha

[Prickle]

Sometimes you just have to 'undertake' ive done it a few times on the A19 due to faggots driving in the wrong lane too slow i.e 55mph/60.

Dont go hating.. i care less of your thoughts.

[logic_guy]

CLOD's

Centre Lane Only Drivers.

I sit up their arse and flash them to move over, when they don't move over (9/10) I over take them with a unfriendly hand gesture.

I think I spend more time undertaking then I do over taking. The Motorways are a great place to practice.

[eeyore]

if theres enough room for me to undertake then theres enough room to pull in, as jeremy clarkson said they should be taken outside and shot in front of there familys :) first rule of the road i learnt was keep to the left

[christoph]

prickle mate i do the same, wasn't asking why people undertake, i meant why people feel the need to sit in the middle lane haha

[L33h]

This really pisses me off! I drive about 300 miles a day and i always get stuck behind these tossers

[logic_guy]

prickle mate i do the same, wasn't asking why people undertake, i meant why people feel the need to sit in the middle lane haha

Because their fucking sheep!

They follow the car in front in their own little dream world! I witnessed this coming back from Sheffield the other day. I wasn't driving but I got more wound up then my boss did driving.

[christoph]

CLOD's

Centre Lane Only Drivers.


Going to make a sticker with this qoute "fuck clod's (caption)" and stick it on my work van so every fucker can see it cheers! :y:

[Prickle]

prickle mate i do the same, wasn't asking why people undertake, i meant why people feel the need to sit in the middle lane haha

I know buddy.

*sigh

[blackie_2k5]

get a chain and baseball bat and attack them "road rash" style

[christoph]

Because their fucking sheep!

They follow the car in front in their own little dream world! I witnessed this coming back from Sheffield the other day. I wasn't driving but I got more wound up then my boss.

The irony your dp is a sheep lol!

[eeyore]

This really pisses me off! I drive about 300 miles a day and i always get stuck behind these tossers

i had a worse hate when doing 3-500 miles a day, when waggons insist on overtaking on a dual carriage way even round a left hand bend and you end up sat there for mile upon mile:wall:

[Quick]

Middle lane can be smoother than the inside as less lorries use it!!!!!!!!!:P

[logic_guy]

The irony your dp is a sheep lol!

'Hur Hur hur'

[christoph]

get a chain and baseball bat and attack them "road rash" style

Was thinking more bolt some RPG's to my roof, blow the fuckers out the way! Everyones happy then :D

[eeyore]

Was thinking more bolt some RPG's to my roof, blow the fuckers out the way! Everyones happy then :D

theres an idea :D

[christoph]

theres an idea :D

Definitely a market for them it seems!

[eeyore]

but then the wreckege would block the middle lane

[Jay_T87]

Right just a curious question, driving home from milton keynes today down the M1 the 4 lane bit. I was in the left hand lane with nothing in front of me, lane wise for about 3/4 of mile. Yet there were people queuing in the far right lane because some cunt was sitting at 69 in the middle right lane :wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::w all::wall:. . . . Now obviously undertaking is "illegal" but it proper winds me up. . can anyone shed some light on why people do this, even if you do it yourself! I've just gotta know haha

Undertaking is legal if the person you are undertaking is doing less than the speed limit IIRC.. Feel free to correct if im wrong anyone

[logic_guy]

Middle lane can be smoother than the inside as less lorries use it!!!!!!!!!:P

Would you sit in the middle lane for a mile if the inside lane was free?

Many people don't understand that the rules of the motorway is Keep Left! Lane 2 IS an over taking lane but not a cruising lane but many people see lane 3 as the over taking lane and think its okay for them to clod along in the middle lane and for everyone to go around the outside. Morons!

READ (http://www.rulesoftheroad.ie/rules-for-driving/motorways/on-the-motorway.html)

[christoph]

I personally think its a security thing they feel safer in the middle lane. But yeah was just speaking to my dad (used to be a traffic cop) if he'd of saw someone undertake someone doing under the speed limit he'd be more inclined to stop the slower driver.

[Jazz]

Hard shoulder ftw, it's usually free.

Undertake all the lane-hogging bastards using that.

[logic_guy]

I personally think its a security thing they feel safer in the middle lane. But yeah was just speaking to my dad (used to be a traffic cop) if he'd of saw someone undertake someone doing under the speed limit he'd be more inclined to stop the slower driver.

Personally, I think its more dangerous for someone to sit in the middle lane and for 3 lanes of traffic merge into the lane 1, a over taking lane (Speed adjustments will occur, closer distances, more touching the brakes, likely hood of traffic jams)

[christoph]

Hard shoulder ftw, it's usually free.

Undertake all the lane-hogging bastards using that.

All well and good until you inevitably come up to someone who's got the aa out because they're too stupid to chance a tyre sitting there like a lost dog haha

[christoph]

Personally, I think its more dangerous for someone to sit in the middle lane and for 3 lanes of traffic merge into the lane 1, a over taking lane (Speed adjustments will occur, closer distances, more touching the brakes, likely hood of traffic jams)

No your so right, if everyone used motorway lanes as there supposed to there would be far less accidents, brake usage, ques etc etc etc. . All because some wanker can't turn left!

[saxova]

Undertaking is legal if the person you are undertaking is doing less than the speed limit IIRC.. Feel free to correct if im wrong anyone

Under taking is legal if you don't gain a advantage, ie switch lanes in front of them..

Traffic jams etc people undertake - it's legal :y:

[logic_guy]

No your so right, if everyone used motorway lanes as there supposed to there would be far less accidents, brake usage, ques etc etc etc. . All because some wanker can't turn left!

I've noticed alot of stupid amounts of Dewaoo's and Hyandi's being Clod's lately. Followed by Audi wankers and BMW tossers doing 71MPH in the outside lane thinking they rule the road.

Did the M1 really need 4 lanes from J10 to J13? If all these morons pulled over then i'm sure traffic would flow alot smoother and no need for another lane.

[christoph]

i reckon they made it 4 lanes because the traffic was bad, but only because clods made it bad. I even have a picture of my phone of it i've just realized! ha. Thats how much it winds me up. But its the same everywhere. . . Don't get where it comes from though, you don't get taught to drive that way

[danny-vts]

Would you sit in the middle lane for a mile if the inside lane was free?

Many people don't understand that the rules of the motorway is Keep Left! Lane 2 IS an over taking lane but not a cruising lane but many people see lane 3 as the over taking lane and think its okay for them to clod along in the middle lane and for everyone to go around the outside. Morons!

READ (http://www.rulesoftheroad.ie/rules-for-driving/motorways/on-the-motorway.html)

i would, and i do :)

[eeyore]

i would, and i do :)

cock :)

[logic_guy]

I'm 15 minutes from J13 and used the M1 to get to and from work when I worked in London. It wasn't 'busy', it was the fact that morons would sit in the outside lane because clod's would hog the middle lane. More and more people went round the outside (http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY) and this caused what I said in post #23

[iVTR]

Absaloute scum of the earth. I see it most days on my commute. Around 70% of the time the driver is multi-cultural.

I can't stand it, fucking idiots, I usually undertake if it's safe to do so, indicate out and carry on with my journey making them look like a tool. But they are probably so oblivious to anything going on they don't even fucking realise.

Often feel like slowing down and indicating left to right but don't as it could hold traffic up even more / cause them to do something cuntish.

[eeyore]

i dont know whether anything came of it but reported a driver to police the other day for sitting in the middle lane cruising at 60 with 3 kids in back not belted, jumping around dont know if passenger was belted and driver was too busy looking at his phone to realise he was holding up the m62, police seemed intrested to know his kirkless private hire taxi number off the back though

[Jazz]

On American freeways people pass you from any lane, there is no concept of outside, middle, inside lane. Everyone just passes wherever there is room, nobody gives two shits.

Bad trans-Atlantic influence.

[AXracing]

Agree with what most have said. For the past few months I am having to drive a fair bit further to work then i normally do. If i miss traffic I can do it in about 1:15. But come rush hour its closer to 2 hours :S But its not because the roads are that busy. Most of the time I just get stuck behind people sitting in the outside lane. I understand they move out to get past the trucks. But when don't they pull back in after. Or at the very least speed up to the speed limit :S

[christoph]

i would, and i do :)

:homme:

What do you get from being there? instead of a care free ride on the inside.....

[iVTR]

Agree with what most have said. For the past few months I am having to drive a fair bit further to work then i normally do. If i miss traffic I can do it in about 1:15. But come rush hour its closer to 2 hours :S But its not because the roads are that busy. Most of the time I just get stuck behind people sitting in the outside lane. I understand they move out to get past the trucks. But when don't they pull back in after. Or at the very least speed up to the speed limit :S

Haha I have the exact same travelling times as you :y:

[Mochachino]

Overtake them, then go in the outside lane and slow down so they overtake you, then overtake them correctly using the inside lane, then go back to the inside and let them overtake you again and repeat this over and over again.

They piss me off too and I like to make a point of staying in the slow lane then swerving to the inside lane leaving a few meters between me and the lane hogger, then swerving to the outside lane again. They usually get the point, if they dont then im amazed at how dumb they are.

Taxi drivers are the worst on city duel carriageways though. Once on the motorway I was following my mate and we were behind a taxi driver driving the exact same speed as the car on the outside lane for about 5 minutes, which is a long time on the motorway, it was at 1am and the road was empty, so I followed my mate and used the hard shoulder.

[Ross]

Under taking is legal if you don't gain a advantage, ie switch lanes in front of them..

Traffic jams etc people undertake - it's legal :y:

This pretty much. Undertaking isn't illegal at all.

Driving without due care and attention is - thats what your charged with if pulled up on it, and you'd only be pulled up on it if you did it dangerously tbh.

Someone in the middle lane at 50mph undertaking at 70is fine. Swerving round them tho is naughty ;)

[motocrossjord]

I understand your point! Totally agree.

Although most the time im too busy worrying about my fuel gauge or something to even consider being in the outside lane, lol!


How ever, on them rare occasions when i have enough fuel to drift into the outside lane, sometimes if some cock is right up my arse, ill happily sit @ 70 mph, because that is the legal speed limit. :)

[e8_pqck]

I don't like middle lane drivers, but I remember driving in the slow lane and the ruts were so bad in a small car that I had to revert to the middle lane. It was an exception but it can happen.

[motocrossjord]

I don't like middle lane drivers, but I remember driving in the slow lane and the ruts were so bad in a small car that I had to revert to the middle lane. It was an exception but it can happen.

You think it's bad in a car, try it when its pissing down on a bike mate, properly dangerous! x

[iVTR]

I understand your point! Totally agree.

Although most the time im too busy worrying about my fuel gauge or something to even consider being in the outside lane, lol!


How ever, on them rare occasions when i have enough fuel to drift into the outside lane, sometimes if some cock is right up my arse, ill happily sit @ 70 mph, because that is the legal speed limit. :)

So, you totally agree, then go on to completely contradict yourself..?

I hope you get undertaken when you do that then, just making things more dangerous, man up.

[LSOfreak]

i use the middle lane at 70mph everyday to work

if people want to go faster they can overtake in the fast lane :)

[iVTR]

i use the middle lane at 70mph everyday to work

if people want to go faster they can overtake in the fast lane :)

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[motocrossjord]

So, you totally agree, then go on to completely contradict yourself..?



I hope you get undertaken when you do that then, just making things more dangerous, man up.

Yes i do, and?

So your hoping other driver's do something, to make it MORE dangerous?

This can do two ways...

Speed limit is there for a reason. Fact of the matter is 95% Of people travel TOO close on motorways. Fact. This really annoys me when people sit yards off my bumper, especially when they do it back -_-

[danny-vts]

I suck cock :)

what you do behind closed doors is upto you :)

:homme:

What do you get from being there? instead of a care free ride on the inside.....

not being behind a slow ass lorry or oap's that think its ok to do 50 lol

[Mochachino]

You can get pulled up by the feds for lane hogging fyi.

[eeyore]

[QUOTE=danny-vts;6070721]what you do behind closed doors is upto you :)

Shame you have reverted to being childish but seen as you did il take it on the chin, like ya mum :p

[logic_guy]

You can get pulled up by the feds for lane hogging fyi.

But the police would rather pull you over for doing 80Mph in the outside lane :/

[christoph]

i use the middle lane at 70mph everyday to work

if people want to go faster they can overtake in the fast lane :)

But on a three lane motorway the middle lane is also classed as a fast lane. So sums that up!

[12u55]

Taxi drivers after midnight are real pricks... fecking love giving them abuse. Especially as they think they own the road at that hour. I'm sure Danny VTS know the a453 quite well... feckers on there do my nut in.

As for middle lane hoggers, under take them. Havnt got time for that.

[blackie_2k5]

what pisses me off...

the cunts who drive in the middle or "fast" lane when the motorway is empty!!

stupid...and actually illegal

[danny-vts]

Taxi drivers after midnight are real pricks... fecking love giving them abuse. Especially as they think they own the road at that hour. I'm sure Danny VTS know the a453 quite well... feckers on there do my nut in.

As for middle lane hoggers, under take them. Havnt got time for that.

i do know that road very well, there is some knobs on there at any time of the day.

[tom130691]

undertaking is legal aslong as the person is doing below the speed limit and you dont do it dangerously

its a loophole that was created for traffic situations

[jones91]

undertaking is legal aslong as the person is doing below the speed limit and you dont do it dangerously

its a loophole that was created for traffic situations
Really??

I thought any sort of undertaking was illegal

[blackie_2k5]

undertaking is only illegal, as said, if you do it for gain..eg you swoop out then immediately back infront

or if your dangerous in the motion you do it


if you cruise out at safe speed...past the car your underaking..keep it going a bit longer, and safely move back over you should be fine

[iluminusbutterfly]

If the road is completely empty I sit in the middle lane incase something brakes/pops, gives me room either side, but if there is other traffic I follow highway eticate

[Ross]

undertaking is only illegal, as said, if you do it for gain..eg you swoop out then immediately back infront

or if your dangerous in the motion you do it


if you cruise out at safe speed...past the car your underaking..keep it going a bit longer, and safely move back over you should be fine

Exactly this. There is no law specifically outlawing undertaking. It's covered under driving without due care. So do it sensibly not aggressively and you'll be fine.

If I come onto an otherwise quiet motorway and someone is in the middle lane doing 60mph, obviously I don't go across into lane 2 then lane 3 just to overtake. Just do 70mph down lane 1. They frequently get the hint.

[jayline]

i think the best bit is when your in a mark 2 skoda octavia and have police lights in the grill so you get so annoyed that you flick em on and they shoot over sharpish! this is talking from experience lol! did get one guy to pull over onto the hard shoulder :)

could just work in kent though :/

[blackie_2k5]

If the road is completely empty I sit in the middle lane incase something brakes/pops, gives me room either side, but if there is other traffic I follow highway eticate

copper sails up behind you youll get done..or if spots you from the side when speed checking

and its daft..thats what the hard shoulder is for..if you cant control a car to the left safely off the motorway in most cases you shouldnt be driving IMO


if your in the middle lane and car dies..and then traffic appears..your going to lose momentum daft quick.... and still be in the middle lane

with probs no proper brakes and no power steering..you telling me thats safe?

yark it left if in slow lane you dont have to worry about other cars or killing other ppl

[Moke]

Any fucker flashes me on the motorway and I anchor on...

It's usually some cunt anyways.

[jones91]

undertaking is only illegal, as said, if you do it for gain..eg you swoop out then immediately back infront

or if your dangerous in the motion you do it


if you cruise out at safe speed...past the car your underaking..keep it going a bit longer, and safely move back over you should be fine
Oh right I didn't know that lol, I always assumed any sort of undertake was illegal.... Not that it stopped me doing it :P

But middle lane hoggers do piss me off though

[motocrossjord]

Any fucker flashes me on the motorway and I anchor on...

It's usually some cunt anyways.

Thankyouuu.

[Barry123]

Did the M1 really need 4 lanes from J10 to J13? If all these morons pulled over then i'm sure traffic would flow alot smoother and no need for another lane.

No need for 2 years of endless 50 mph road works too... fuck you middlelane wankbags. fuck you.

If the road is completely empty I sit in the middle lane incase something brakes/pops, gives me room either side, but if there is other traffic I follow highway eticate

One of my spacker mates made this excuse up to me as well...
If something spectacular does happen...
a) You're closer to central reservation where cars are going much faster
b) you stop in the middlelane, cause a traffic jam and fuck up my journey.

if you think your car is that likely to fail in such a way that you drive in the middlelane, you need to take it off the road.

hate middlelaners so so so badly. Wish I was foreign and had diplomatic immunity so I could just t-bone these fuckers into a hedge.