Wow! Insulting much! My point wasn't to show off how good my ute is but how inconsiderate some drivers are. I had every right to pass a car doing 30km/h + under my towing speed limit but to her I was a pure maniac driver who was going to kill everyone on the road including her and her kids. I wonder how all the other drivers felt being stuck behind a car doing just over half the speed limit, hugging the centreline on a fine day on a straight road. Bet she would plant it on a passing lane.
hkjoe,
Oct 29, 2:47am
You are also so right.
hkjoe,
Oct 29, 2:49am
That's my attitude too, up to about 10-20km. By then there's usually a town or an overtaking opportunity.
fekim,
Oct 29, 3:04am
But then it's ALL about you eh! I sense you're a roadhog who thinks 100% of the road is yours and anyone else on it should be by invitation only. I love drivers. oops, steerers like you.
sadmuddle,
Oct 29, 3:13am
Did a trip to Auckland last week and as a experiment maintained a speed of 120 in the outside lane to see if any body passed in the left lanes. Several did. Conclusion ? you are the problem.
marmar1,
Oct 29, 5:23am
If your holding people up you ARE a steerer, and should just let people pass instead of dictating to them what speed they should be driving at.
lusty9,
Oct 29, 5:48am
hahaha get over yourself mate, of course you were showing off otherwise why did you add your sh$tty dmax to the mix, I for one dgaf about someone driving slow little more than someone whizzing past on a sh$tty smokey dmax towing a caravan and then maybe the said slow driver may speed up on the right, left, middle lane or even up on the guard rail lol, for all I know it could an inexperienced driver or perhaps someone under the influence or a spritely 18yr old just being given their full license and with the immaturity wants to play cat and mouse on the lanes. Sometimes in ones life you just got to stop and think instead of jumping the gun like a monkey on heat and think the road is yours 'get out of the way I'm on my dmax' attitude. I doubt very much she was such a maniac, otherwise she'd chased you down and rammed you off the road. All she did was look at you probably in awe of the a$$-tingling smoke bellowing behemoth towing a caravan passing her lol, Back off and follow, I'm sure you made it home in one piece to your family that day - get over it.
intrade,
Oct 29, 5:59am
id like to advise anyone here read the thread title it states its a rant . Not a i know it better then you thread.
lusty9,
Oct 29, 6:03am
and with a rant expects sympathy for not being able to pass should of went 120 or 130 if that were the case. lol
socram,
Oct 29, 6:27am
What a load of rubbish. As usual. If people are overtaking YOU are in the wrong, regardless.
I've driven from the Shore to Hampton Do0wns and back several times in the last few weeks. heading south before 6:30am ad returning early afternoon.
I have never been faster than about 110kph and only been passed about twice (and on the right. ) in the 100kph zone.
However, I have had to pass any number of clatties hogging the right lane, on the left, and often, the left lanes are clear as far as the eye can see.
When it comes to the 80kph sectors, effectively from the Harbour Bridge to Market Rad, or Manukau to just before the Karaka turn off, a totally different story. I have travelled at about 88kph but been overtaken by dozens, every single trip.
I have rarely seen anyone doing 120kph and certainly not Sing Song ute pilots - in any lane.
mrcat1,
Oct 29, 6:28am
Interesting reply, so I should assume you don't have a earth shattering Dmax then? You just dont know what your missing not having a Dmax ute.
socram,
Oct 29, 6:40am
You wouldn't last 5 minutes driving on a UK motorway. For one thing, you'd be ticketed for hogging the right lane.
I have driven on the UK roads for over 50 years and still spend at least 2 - 6 weeks a year driving there. Of course some of the roads are busy - there are 62 million people in the UK, but generally apart from a few obvious places, traffic moves surprisingly well.
Talking today to someone who has just spent 2 months driving in the UK for the first time and he was just blown away by the high standard of driving compared to here.
Electronic signs on the motorways often say 'Don't be a lane hog'. 'Keep to the left lanes unless overtaking'. Driving 101 I would have thought.
peja,
Oct 29, 6:44am
This is the problem, a public information and education campaign is needed, followed up with some enforcement. In Australia there are lots of signs on the motorways that say "Stay in the left lane except when overtaking", we need the same here along with TV and internet ads
Coming over the Kaimais today there was an idiot in a Skyline of all things going slowly which is fine - but he never once pulled into any of the slow vehicle bays. People ended up passing him in the bay on the left and I followed suit.
People need to be educated to pull over if they have vehicles queued behind them, and to only ever the right hand lane to overtake. This would make motorways in particular flow far better and also make it easier for emergency vehicles
lusty9,
Oct 29, 6:47am
Read my comment again, a$$-tingling was the word. lol
sadmuddle,
Oct 29, 6:48am
If the motorways are a lot longer that changes things a bit. My wife brother in law who drove around in Italy or Spain said don't do it . Its scary.
sadmuddle,
Oct 29, 6:57am
In the last three years since the introduction of a fine for what they call middle lane hoggers just 135 tickets have been issued . If a cop tried it on here I would tell the officer to go fuck himself.
mrcat1,
Oct 29, 7:00am
So the thought of owning a Dmax makes your ar$e tingle? So your off tomorrow to buy a fleet of them then?
mrcat1,
Oct 29, 7:03am
Could ask the same of you thinking that a hilux can go over 90km with a boat on the back.
ally-oop,
Oct 29, 7:39am
Here's an example of the attitude and problem.
electromic,
Oct 29, 7:48am
So you don't like Dmax utes then! I don't think you read my post correctly, I didn't say that SHE (was referring to how SHE thought of ME) was a maniac, slow and inconsiderate, but not a maniac. Have a nice night.
ignition328,
Oct 29, 7:52am
Charming character aren't ya.
sadmuddle,
Oct 29, 7:56am
If all drivers try for the inside lane the lane gridlocks .The argument that a out side lane is a passing only is nonsense. Once in the outside lane it is not that easy to change lanes .I dont bother myself
hkjoe,
Oct 29, 8:05am
You are right about people driving at their own pace regardless of the speed limit. There is a lot of publicity about the 80km/h speed limit on the NW motorway around the new tunnel, and people thinking it should be 100. Besides driving this route regularly, on Mon, Wed and Thurs at about 7.30-8pm I get on the motorway at Great North Rd, accelerate to 80km/h or thereabouts. Many but not most of the cars overtake me. When we reach the 100km/h just before Patiki Rd., I try to reach 100km/h or so, but am thwarted by 3 lanes of traffic at speeds of 70-90km/h. Much as I hate this phrase: What gives?
marte,
Nov 2, 7:45am
And the 'outside lane' is the one closest to the centreline …. Right?
laurelanne,
Nov 2, 8:08am
If I happen to pass you sadmuddle, I will give you a toot. Probably be on the left though.
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