Thread: There are drivers....and then there are drivers

Same in WA, The right hand lane is NOT a racetrack.

The other issue is lots of people drive by their speedo,which at 100km/hr,many vehicles are actually travelling at around 96km/hr.

Obviously some vehicles will be different for many reasons.

Trucks will sit on 105km/hr as per their GPS,so in actual fact are travelling 10km/hr faster than a law abiding citizen driving by what the speedo read out is indicating.

I drive by my street finder,which is more accurate than the speedo,and for me,i find it easier to see the speed readout on the street finder than look down at the speedo.

Originally Posted by trout1105

Same in WA, The right hand lane is NOT a racetrack.

Note to self ???????

There was quite an amusing incident on James Ruse Drive in Sydney a few weeks ago.

A young lady was booked for hogging the right lane in a 90Kmh zone, and went on facebook and the Channel Seven morning show to complain of unfair treatment.
She was thoroughly flamed both on facebook and the morning show which has to be good.


driver blasted for going slow in right lane - On the road - Automotive

Regards Philip A

To all those people stuck behind a Disco 2a recently traveling barely 40km/h up a hill (single lane) in an 80km/h zone...I'm terrible sorry, my car was doing it's weird thing where it refuses to go any faster. The reason I had the hazard lights on and was as far over on the left hand shoulder as I could fit was to indicate that I was happy to be over taken...not sure why none of you did.

There was quite a long queue behind me....

Keep left unless overtaking signs are plastered all over NSW and am sure other states but this seems to be rarely policed.

I live in the country and travel narrow windy gravel 50 Kph posted roads everyday and i reckon i must be the only one that travels at the posted limit. I am regularly forced to move off the road or stop as there is another vehicle flying along in the other direction not surprisingly someone on a school run setting poor example for the next generation of drivers... it's the same offenders every time. I have complained to the local cops for over 20 years but never seen a patrol car on the dirt except when there is a bad accident as these roads are used as a racetrack by the kids from the local towns.

I find most of this thread rather irrelevant - with all the talk about 'Left Lane', 'Middle Lane', 'Right Lane'. Except in town, most of the roads I drive on have one lane for each direction - where any lanes are marked (paint doesn't stick well on gravel!). The best highways have occasional passing lanes, often too far apart to be very useful. For example on the Mitchell highway between Wellington and Dubbo, the 110 speed limit is a bit theoretical, as you often find yourself travelling many kilometres at 90 behind a law abiding red 'P' or 'L', or even slower behind a piece of machinery, with too much traffic coming the other way to attempt passing until the overtaking lane, and then find yourself too far back in the queue to get past before the end of the overtaking lane.

Even driving to NW Sydney and back ten days ago via the Mitchell Hwy, Stuart Town, and Bells Line of Road, it was almost all two lane road, with at best occasional passing lanes, until into the Sydney basin, where certainly there were up to three lanes each way - but with the speed limit rarely above 60, never above 80, and traffic invariably almost gridlocked and travelling way below the speed limit! (Last time I drove down for the Expo, the roadworks on the Great Western Highway between Lithgow and Mt Victoria made me swear off it until they are finished - if they ever do!)