WARNING: Another driving one, so anyone who finds these sorts of posts boring should probably just leave.
I usually keep left on the motorway, but when there's a lot of lorries I get sick of people drawing alongside without overtaking, so forcing me to slow down before I pull out behind them to overtake a lorry. When it gets like that I often stay in lane 2 unless there is a big gap before the next lorry. My justification is that I'm generally going a bit over the limit anyway, and there's still at least 1 lane (usually 2 or 3) to overtake me.
For one reason or another, a lot of people do the same, but occasionally you get someone who has an obsession with keeping left who cuts you up in an effort to "teach you a lesson" about lane discipline. Generally they are oblivious to the irony that they're driving 90+mph!!!
Anyway, after looking at the Highway Code for the first time in 12 years, I've noticed that there's nothing saying "Thou must keep to lane 1 or face the wrath of lane 1 man!!!" - instead it just says you have to return to the middle or left lane "when it is safe to do so", i.e. not half a car length from the car you've just overtaken.
So there.
Won't do any good, mind. They won't hear me as I shout it to them from the middle lane!
(I'm not a member of the "middle-lane owners' club", those people who always drive in the middle lane regardless of speed or traffic!)
I usually keep left on the motorway, but when there's a lot of lorries I get sick of people drawing alongside without overtaking, so forcing me to slow down before I pull out behind them to overtake a lorry. When it gets like that I often stay in lane 2 unless there is a big gap before the next lorry. My justification is that I'm generally going a bit over the limit anyway, and there's still at least 1 lane (usually 2 or 3) to overtake me.
For one reason or another, a lot of people do the same, but occasionally you get someone who has an obsession with keeping left who cuts you up in an effort to "teach you a lesson" about lane discipline. Generally they are oblivious to the irony that they're driving 90+mph!!!
Anyway, after looking at the Highway Code for the first time in 12 years, I've noticed that there's nothing saying "Thou must keep to lane 1 or face the wrath of lane 1 man!!!" - instead it just says you have to return to the middle or left lane "when it is safe to do so", i.e. not half a car length from the car you've just overtaken.
So there.
Won't do any good, mind. They won't hear me as I shout it to them from the middle lane!
(I'm not a member of the "middle-lane owners' club", those people who always drive in the middle lane regardless of speed or traffic!)