Thread: Road Rage

So many differing views and stand points,

I only add my bit due to some anti road rage , sort of,

last thursday , I had to bring my SIIa ex mil 1969 2.25 down from Lancelin to Perth.

this trip filled me with a bit of trepidation (even fear) as the lancelin road is about a 100 km of windeyish road with a bit of double line action, as you would expect from WA roads.
and WA agro can be a bit extreme , at least in the metro area.

I picked thursday early as a good buffer zone against too much traffic,
and with a series landrover I am always mindful of my route, and plan things in advance.

So here I was doing 70kmh back to perth, Bearing in mind I was always paying attention to who was behind and the road ahead.

Weaving far left on broken lines to give people behind a view ahead to overtake, and always keeping a constant speed.

I was surprised and proud to find that not one person was obviously agro,no one beeped and I got heaps of waves and thumbs up, from all sorts of cars and 4WD,s with a faster cruising speed than me.

even a telstra convoy of 4WD's pretended to make slow down arm moves as a joke.

In fact, It was not until I was back in the metro area where a hsv commodore V8 ute tailgated me for 5 k's then overtook so close before nearly ripping off my front end, I thought "ahh back in the metro area"

sure enough the next speed sign was 70kmh - a repeater.

my question to the forum ?

If I do the right thing , can I expect any support from the faster crowd to the vintage crowd.

or do you want me off the road ! until I drop a TDI

mate, why worry about the fools...

get out in your truck and enjoy it,

let the ignorant clowns go their own way..

Originally Posted by Sealo

my question to the forum ?

If I do the right thing , can I expect any support from the faster crowd to the vintage crowd.

or do you want me off the road ! until I drop a TDI

You can probably expect support from mature people... as you already know. There may be exceptions but I think this will mostly be the case

However from the young crowd I think it will be a different story. That's not to say than many of them won't support you... but there will probably be a bigger % that won't and will do silly things

I find it varies. I hug the left hand side of the road and try to keep my speed constant so its easy for others to pass. I find P platers don't get it but most older people do. As for the trucks the main troublesome ones for me are these 2 woolies trucks that are in convoy on thursdays. Those two don't seem to care about anyone and will use scare tacktics to push their way through and happily cut anything up to stay together at their speed (Faster than most things on the road). Most trucks are realy good and if you give them the safe to pull in flash they soon learn who you are and treat you as one of them.

Edd a well writen letter to woolies would fix that problem, With trucks I give respect, I look at it like this, some of these drivers are operating tied and on a misson to get somewhere so I don't play roulet with them for my own safety.

How ever I did have a "counselling session" with a truck driver several years ago in a service station, 65 tonne under control of an idiot. some truckies are just not that tough. Most truckies are very good and drive with the flow of traffic. I think they suffer the same as we with the anti 4wd fools. I don't suffer from road rage and will ignore it most times.

glen