Where do some people get off....

[marin man]

Sorry as above crossed posting

 

[MikeD]

So this HGV out-accelerated your car from 35-60?

 

[crud]

i was driving, the guy was a complete a-hole.

quick search on the internet and I have emailed the chairman and the directors of the race series his lad races in. nothing abusive, just a statement of what happened and that his sign written van, with a quick google led straight to their site.

that will do for me, time will get the better of people like that.

 

[marin man]

So this HGV out-accelerated your car from 35-60?

I don't think so :roll: 0>60 in 5.4 seconds It is just that I had plenty of time when I pulled out and was not trying v.hard as I got a ticket the week before so I did not want to go over sixty the oncoming car was probably moving quicker than I thought :shock: so the gap closed up alot quicker than I expected :evil: But still,tosser lorry driver for speeding up when he saw my predicament :twisted:

 

[jimihendrix]

I was driving along the acle straight in norfolk in my jag the other week and was stuck behind an hgv that was doing about 35 mph in a sixty :x The acle straight is a two lane road about 9 miles long and I was only about two miles along it so I want to overtake :!: is this wrong :?: I think not.So I pull out and give it a bit of large and the tosser speeds up to about his limit about 60mph and this means I have to break the speed limit so I put my foot down (can't pull in as the gap has now closed) and notice that there is now oncoming traffic :shock: I am stranded in the wrong lane and oncoming traffic because a fat tw*t wants me to play chicken :shock: :evil: I end up doing 125mph to get in before I am dead :shock: Who is at fault here then :?: As I pass the cab I see that the idiot is laughing :twisted: Is this funny then :?:

Speed limit for a lorry on an A road is 40mph, and a lot of lorry drivers get abuse from ignorant motorists for just doing their job and sticking to the law, on some A roads the law just target lorries (in unmarked cars), i know one driver who was done for doing 47mph (i usually sit at 38-42). The limiter on a lorry is set at 56mph, if you accelerated to 125mph he would have become a dot in the rear mirror very quickly (even if he did accelerate), if you passed him at 125mph how did you have time to look up to see him "laughing" ?, if you had to accelerate to 125mph towards oncoming traffic would'nt it have been safer just to have slowed down ?

 

[marin man]

:roll: :roll:

 

[jimihendrix]

:roll: :roll:

:?:

 

[IDB1]

I know that lorry drivers are vilified unfairly on many occasions but speeding up to keep someone on the wrong side of the road is just being a tool...

 

[Easy_Rider]

I was sure the limit was 45mph for an HGV, I stand corrected.

The limits for national speed limit are quite complex arent they. Varies if you are driving an HGV, LGV, car derived and non car derived van, trailer, single carriage way or dual carraigeway, central reservation etc etc

i was driving, the guy was a complete a-hole.

quick search on the internet and I have emailed the chairman and the directors of the race series his lad races in. nothing abusive, just a statement of what happened and that his sign written van, with a quick google led straight to their site.

that will do for me, time will get the better of people like that.

Good job crud!! PM me the details

 

[jimihendrix]

I know that lorry drivers are vilified unfairly on many occasions but speeding up to keep someone on the wrong side of the road is just being a tool...

By both the law and the general public, one of the reasons i'm off the road.

I do agree with the speeding up, one of the shit*iest things a driver can do, just dont understand the situation Jag man was in.