Thread: Truck Driver Tailgating?,...in the "Nanny State"..Yeah right.

Travelling at 6k under the speed limit is Not impeding traffic, However here in the West travelling in the left lane is enforced and old mate should have been either In the left hand lane or moved into it to let the truck through.
Old Mate is in the wrong But If trucks are banned from the right hand lane on this stretch then he is also in the wrong as well.
Common curtesy Should have prevailed with the car moving to the left But it didn't But that doesn't excuse the truck driver from using the right hand lane out of frustration.
In reality both drivers did the wrong thing.

Originally Posted by garrycol

It was in all the news reports that were shown on tv with the video. Clearly the car is going at a reasonable speed and the truckie just had no patience.

I asked you how fast the car was going. If He was travelling at a true 100KPH, then of course, the truck driverr is at fault, but if not, if He's travelling under, and the truckie simply wants to maintain 100KPHi, then I say, maybe not you, but I say, a sensible driver would move over,.....IF He was travelling under the limit,....if He wasn't, my argument is rubbish.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by Tombie

And Mick - it’s impeding the flow of traffic - and is an offence.

Yes, but, he wasn't in the r/h lane, the r/h lane was available for other vehicles to overtake, so that charge wouldn't fly.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Yes, but, he wasn't in the r/h lane, the r/h lane was available for other vehicles to overtake, so that charge wouldn't fly.

Doesn’t require lanes...

I was in Melbourne only a month ago, and went out to Geelong area, a couple of times...

Its 100 along there except where the barrier is being worked on... Trucks not allowed in right lane, signs all along...

Trucks have speed limiters, some states allow them to be set as high as 103 kph...Thus a bit hard for a truck to be exceeding the speed limit to overtake...

One thing I did learn about freeways, every one I have been on in Australia, have idiot drivers that have no concern for anyone else... Right hand lane when they are travelling slower than the rest, blocking others from overtaking, cutting others off, and above all else, taking on trucks as if they are driving a dozer...

It amazes me how others on the roads know more about what trucks are allowed to do and take it into there hands to cut trucks off...

One thing I have been abused for is sitting on the speed limit and overtaking a car, car driver came up and informed me that "trucks are not allowed to overtake and they must be 20 k under the speed limit"...
Sadly she didn't try stopping in front of me but she did cut me off to turn onto Toodyay rd...Pity, I could have had a pancake flattened by 50 tyres, that day...

Originally Posted by garrycol

The truck driver should have done what I have to so when driving up the Hume and all three lanes are taken up with B doubles side by side doing 60kph - sit and wait until clear and safe to move on.

Are you also driving half a million dollar vehicle that has to make a return on investment?

(1) This rule applies to a driver driving on a multi-lane road if:
(a) the speed-limit applying to the driver for the length of road where the driver is driving is over 80 kilometres per hour; or
(b) a keep left unless overtaking sign applies to the length of road where the driver is driving.
Note 1 Length of road and multi-lane road are defined in the dictionary.
Note 2 Part 3 deals with speed-limits.
(2) The driver must not drive in the right lane unless:
(a) the driver is turning right, or making a U–turn from the centre of the road, and is giving a right change of direction signal; or
(b) the driver is overtaking; or
(c) a left lane must turn left sign or left traffic lane arrows apply to any other lane and the driver is not turning left;
or
(d) the driver is required to drive in the right lane under rule 159; or
(e) the driver is avoiding an obstruction; or
(f) the traffic in each other lane is congested; or
(g) the traffic in every lane is congested; or
(h) the right lane is a special purpose lane in which the driver, under another provision of the Australian Road Rules, is permitted to drive; or
(i) there are only 2 marked lanes and the left lane is a slow vehicle turn out lane.

(3) A keep left unless overtaking sign on a multi-lane road applies to the length of road beginning at the sign and ending at the nearest of the following:
(a) an end keep left unless overtaking sign on the road;
(b) a traffic sign or road marking on the road that indicates that the road is no longer a multi-lane road;
(c) if the road ends at a T–intersection or dead end — the end of the road.
Note Road marking, T–intersection and traffic sign are defined in the dictionary.
(4) In this rule:
lane, for a driver, means a marked lane for vehicles travelling in the same direction as the driver, but does not include a special purpose lane in which the driver is not permitted to drive.
Note 1 Marked lane and special purpose lane are defined in the dictionary.
Note 2 Rule 95 deals with driving in emergency stopping lanes, and Division 6 of this Part deals with driving in other special purpose lanes slow vehicle turn out lane means a marked lane, or the part of a marked lane, to which a slow vehicle turn out lane sign applies.
Note A slow vehicle turn out lane is designed for slow-moving vehicles to move into to allow faster vehicles to pass in an adjacent marked lane.

The car driver was diving in accordance with the road rules.

sourced from:

Australian Road Rules
As approved by the Australian Transport Council
Published by the National Road Transport
Commission
Maintained by the National Transport Commission
The Australian Road Rules were drafted by the
Office of Legislative Drafting,
Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department
February 2012 version
ISBN 0 7240 8874 1

If you have any road rule to the contrary, please post it up and reference it.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

The car driver was diving in accordance with the road rules.

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If you have any road rule to the contrary, please post it up and reference it.

It's easy to "quote rules", without giving an opinion as to how they apply in a particular circumstance. However,in view off what you have posted (thank You), it appears to me that if the car driver had, as stated in your rules, "kept to the left", there woould've been no issue.
Pickles.