Not ok unless we introduce the us style freeway where undertaking is legal. Keep left unless overtaking, used to be a public service ad "don't be a middle lane hog" another was "dont be an amber gambler". Should reintroduced them, and the beach safety ones imo.

I got done for driving down the middle lane on the road to Hull Airport albeit I was the only car on the road, Bank Holiday Monday at 7 am and I was doing 90 ! Copper asked me why was I driving down the middle lane, he never asked me why I was speeding !

But you do otherwise why the aggressive response?

Try reading your initial response, the questioning of my first language is hardly passive either to be fair.i didn't realise it was a mortal sin to air an opinion which contradicts The Great Snowy. Who'd have thought this was a forum for discussion and debate eh?

I'll decide where and how I drive thanks.

I got done for driving down the middle lane on the road to Hull Airport albeit I was the only car on the road, Bank Holiday Monday at 7 am and I was doing 90 ! Copper asked me why was I driving down the middle lane, he never asked me why I was speeding !

Since when has Hull had an airport?
I was a student in Hull '96-'99., so know the place quite well. Admittedly not been back recently, whereabouts in Hull is this?

I'll decide where and how I drive thanks.

Since when has Hull had an airport?
I was a student in Hull '96-'99., so know the place quite well. Admittedly not been back recently, whereabouts in Hull is this?

Admit it Jamie it actually was the runway at Hull Airport…we’ve all done it.

If we all had to move into the near side lane we’d have a convoy of cars squeezed in between the lorries chugging along, getting nowhere fast and begs the bleedin obvious question ….who is supposed to be there in the middle lane…I realise the outside lane is only for sale reps, area managers and general feckwits.

I’m with Snowy on this one, I can’t get at all excited about drivers ‘overstaying their welcome’ in the middle lane. What does make my blood boil are the wankers who believe that it’s OK to drive down Easington Road past the hospital, pelican crossing etc at 80mph and more - or the equally brainless tossers that belt through 20mph school zones at 40-60mph. Surely how the police should deal with these increasingly common offenders deserves a little ‘discussion and debate’ on this forum?

seems something that winds so many drivers up. personally i cannot see whats wrong with it on a three lane motorway as its far safer and easier than zig zagging in and out of slower moving traffic especiaaly if you are driving up to the speed limit. there is always the outside lane that the german car drivers can use.

But correct use of lanes is supposed to prevent the convoys and improve safety, isn't that reasonable?

You clearly don’t realise that anything over 3.5 tonne or towing a trailer can’t use the outside lane so you’re basically blocking the road.

Naw, these middle laners are happy at 50 oblivious to traffic overtaking them both sides.

Try using Google it can be quite useful at times.

I do seventy in the middle lane because the outside lane is the home of the loons in semi house trained Audi’s ans BMW’s.

Just as likely to be a van in the outside lane these days - or someone tootling along in a compact car. Anyone who doesn't want to sit in a tailback created by a Middle Laner Hogger.

I do seventy in the middle lane because the outside lane is the home of the loons in semi house trained Audi’s ans BMW’s.

Next time I'm stuck behind a middle lane hogger I'll be thinking "wonder if that's so and so from the bunker".

Is there a case for mandatory motorway driving lessons and test given the differing stances on here? Also should refresher assessments be introduced possibly with them being more frequent as we get older?

i,d go even further and demand health checks for all motorists like HGV and PCV drivers have to go though. plus regular testing of all drivers over 65 on a 2 or 3 year basis. if you want your licence you,d pay the fees and might rid the roads of some who should not be driving in modern conditions. some, not all youngsters, are also involved in more accidents but feel others may have caused their actions in the first place for the problems they have got themselves in to they haven,t the experiance to get out of.

think there is a bit of adding a bit on drivers speeds going on there especially in the 20 limit near schools. thing is these limits are not all near schools anyway and going over that limit on weekends and non school days isn,t going to put loads of kids lives in danger. possibly if everyone remembered what they were taught when starting to drive we would not need speed limits or cameras even if the latter were for safety reasons only.

Apologies for not having a speed radar camera installed in my car in order that I can prove the above. However if I’m doing the regulation 40mph and some numpty overtakes me and the cars in front in a couple of seconds then he must be doing at least 70mph in my estimation. Fast enough to maim or kill an innocent pedestrian on the pelican if the little green man appears in front of him/her, especially the aged or infirm who may struggle to cross what is a wider carriageway than most in the town.

As for questioning my estimation of the speed of arseholes who do 40-60 mph in school 20mph zones, I have witnessed this on several occasions - and the sad fact is that several of the offenders are actually regularly late arriving parents who are risking other children’s simply to ensure that their kids are not left holding teachers hands for a few precious minutes.

I admit that like most drivers I occasionally break the speed limit by a few mph but I’m talking about serious offences which will at some point result in death and/or serious injury to innocents. It is only a matter of time.

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Apologies for not having a speed radar camera installed in my car in order that I can prove the above. However if I’m doing the regulation 40mph and some numpty overtakes me and the cars in front in a couple of seconds then he must be doing at least 70mph in my estimation. Fast enough to maim or kill an innocent pedestrian on the pelican if the little green man appears in front of him/her, especially the aged or infirm who may struggle to cross what is a wider carriageway than most in the town.

As for questioning my estimation of the speed of arseholes who do 40-60 mph in school 20mph zones, I have witnessed this on several occasions - and the sad fact is that several of the offenders are actually regularly late arriving parents who are risking other children’s simply to ensure that their kids are not left holding teachers hands for a few precious minutes.

I admit that like most drivers I occasionally break the speed limit by a few mph but I’m talking about serious offences which will at some point result in death and/or serious injury to innocents. It is only a matter of time.

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I had that experience this morning followed by a white Merc so close I couldn’t see the number plates that appeared from nowhere..two women talking and looking at each other as they did….what’s really getting bad is the drivers who abuse zebra crossings…you stop to let someone over and some arrogant twat from the opposite direction just drives through oblivious.