Tractor drivers

[Mark Bolam]

You lot need to chill out.

 

If I get stuck behind a tractor I just pop another can of Stella.

Edited November 20, 2011 by Stephen Blair

[harvey b davison]

I regularly end up behind either a hgv or a tractor due to where i live. I also drive hgv's periodicly, and want to learn tractor driving, i am also a cyclist. All it takes is a senseable approach from everyone to make the roads safer. If i'm behind a tractor i just sit back and relax until it is safe for me to overtake. We have both got somewhere to go and we both want to get there in one piece so whats the rush, i know he is going as fast as he can. Hgv's, have different speed limits on all roads compared to cars, ie single carrage roads is 40mph, cars dont give a damn, as they can go at 60, this is not the hgv drivers fault so why hassle him. I currently work with a guy that refuses to drive at more than 55 on a motorway, and dispises wagon drivers, he is dangerous to other road uses. Everyone is always in a rush these days, personnally i'd rather be 10 mins late than get irate at another driver who is just doing his job.

[RobRainford]

Driving a tractor gives you a bit more appreciation for them once you get stuck behind them IMO. You know what it's like. It doesn't bother me to get stuck behind them, I've driven to Lancaster fro, our place, 48miles, mixture of all sorts of roads. City centres are the worst, everybody wants to be In front of you at any cost

 

I agree with the fact that some people are outright unsafe or dangerous, this is only a minority thankfully!

 

An observation of mine, not aimed to be sexist or discriminatory, but I notice that female drivers follow closer to other drivers compared to male drivers, and at higher speeds the distances don't change much!

[Matthew Storrs]

I personally think its crazy that cyclists should be allowed on the same road as several tonnes of speeding metal, especially as so many of them seem to go out of their way to get in the way of said vehicles

[tommer9]

But cyclists have right of way over cars etc dont they?

[treebloke]

But cyclists have right of way over cars etc dont they?

 

No, I think you are getting confused with BMW drivers.

[treebloke]

I personally don't pull over but and its nothing to do with being thanked. I generally want to get where I'm going as quick as I can and when you can only avaerage 25-30mph it makes all the difference pulling over or stopping. Car drivers can make up the time lost waiting for a safe place to overtake but I can't. Hgv's are another story though!

 

So your time is more important than everyone stuck behind you:001_tt2:.

[treequip]

No, I think you are getting confused with BMW drivers.

 

I thought the built in right of way was part of the options pack

[tommer9]

No, I think you are getting confused with BMW drivers.

 

 

I am not sure of how the law is now, even though i have trawled google for it. It (once upon a time) went something like horses, pedestrians, cylists then everything else. It has probably changed now for some incomprehensibly complex set of rules that no-one including the plice understand:001_rolleyes:

[Gollum]

I thought the built in right of way was part of the options pack

 

No that's Audi