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The Highway Code wrote: 3. Joining the motorway (259)
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Joining the motorway. When you join the motorway you will normally approach it from a road on the left (a slip road) or from an adjoining motorway. You should:
- give priority to traffic already on the motorway
- check the traffic on the motorway and match your speed to fit safely into the traffic flow in the left-hand lane
- not cross solid white lines that separate lanes or use the hard shoulder
- stay on the slip road if it continues as an extra lane on the motorway
- remain in the left-hand lane long enough to adjust to the speed of traffic before considering overtaking.
yella wrote:the only thing i will say on this, although the civic does not have right of way, if that was a lorry coming you would be expected to move over for him or slow down and make space,It'd be nice but, in my experience, they usually only move over to allow other lorries out.
but lorries very rarely make space for other drivers, that could have been avoided if the lorry had slowed a little to let the driver in.
yella wrote:the only thing i will say on this, although the civic does not have right of way, if that was a lorry coming you would be expected to move over for him or slow down and make space,Cant really argue with that.
but lorries very rarely make space for other drivers, that could have been avoided if the lorry had slowed a little to let the driver in.
J@mes wrote:Because most of them went through secondary school licking their own reflection off the windows in the special needs room. They also find great difficulty in conducting other complex challenges in life, such as spelling their own name correctly or eating a sandwich without spilling half of it down their hi-vis. Don't frown on them, feel sorry for them.yella wrote:the only thing i will say on this, although the civic does not have right of way, if that was a lorry coming you would be expected to move over for him or slow down and make space,Cant really argue with that.
but lorries very rarely make space for other drivers, that could have been avoided if the lorry had slowed a little to let the driver in.
I don't know if anyone is a lorry driver here? But, can anyone explain why lorries overtake each other for aaaaaaaages taking up two lanes to get a couple of seconds in front of the other? Does it really make that much difference to their journey/tacho?
NHB_EP3_Chris wrote:Understood, but if there is so little difference between the speed that you want to travel and that of the other truck, what's the point in attempting it? It will shave such a small amount off your journey it's not worth holding everybody else up, is it?I understand where your coming from but look at this way if your going through the average speed limits on the motorway say at 50 and you get 1 person doing 50 and the person behind him doing 49 and the person behind him doing 48 and so on you wouldn't get anywhere ! So if you catch a slower lorry up because yours is faster or unladen you overtake when possible just the same as you would in a car ( but slower )
When driving a car, you wouldn't overtake someone only to then pull in front of them and continue 2mph quicker than you were doing before, so why do it in a lorry?
graeme01 wrote:You are talking about such small differences though! Something I've noticed over the last 10yrs is that overtaking on British roads doesn't tend to gain you much, unless it's a clear road and you keep the extra speed up for a substantial amount of time. In most cases, on most roads you will have to slow down again before much of an advantage can be gained. For example, I see no end of car drivers overtake in dangerous places, only to reach a set of lights 500yrds down the road and the car they were following pulls up a metre behind them. What's the point in taking the chance of a head-on collision, just to gain a few feet?NHB_EP3_Chris wrote:Understood, but if there is so little difference between the speed that you want to travel and that of the other truck, what's the point in attempting it? It will shave such a small amount off your journey it's not worth holding everybody else up, is it?I understand where your coming from but look at this way if your going through the average speed limits on the motorway say at 50 and you get 1 person doing 50 and the person behind him doing 49 and the person behind him doing 48 and so on you wouldn't get anywhere ! So if you catch a slower lorry up because yours is faster or unladen you overtake when possible just the same as you would in a car ( but slower )
When driving a car, you wouldn't overtake someone only to then pull in front of them and continue 2mph quicker than you were doing before, so why do it in a lorry?
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