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    Going to work this morning, I was following a car doing 80 in a 110 zone, generally. We did slow to 60 to allow a school bus to pull out. Good job too. The school bus left us for dead.
    I was in no hurry. Who is in a hurry to get to work?

    Generally speaking, when I tow the camper, I tow it below the speed limit, pedal to the metal.

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    Early 1980's I'm doing 140kmph, top speed of a diesel Ford Fiesta(?), on the smooth as silk autobarn in the SLOW lane, when a Merc towing a caravan cruises past. What the!?

    The Merc gets about 20 lengths ahead when up comes a BMW right up the Mercs tail with brake lights being feathered. The BMW swings to the far lane to overtake the Mec.

    The BMW was also towing a van.

    We estimate by time taken to get to overpasses and other landmarks that the BMW must have been doing 180 clicks, at least.

    I believe we still have some open speed road left in the Territory - any takers? Bouncity bounce bounce...

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    Quote Originally Posted by workingonit View Post

    I believe we still have some open speed road left in the Territory - any takers? Bouncity bounce bounce...
    I believe thats been shut down now.
    I generally tow my camper at 100km/h - but that's the posted towing speed limit in WA
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    I believe thats been shut down now.
    Quick Google (tic tic tic)...darn it...I think you're right!
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    Last local govnt change ditched it
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigJon View Post
    It is annoying as hell, but I think the mindset goes like this:
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    I think you may be right that there are some who think as you have suggested. They think they are being helpful.

    However, can you help me understand the mindset of a couple of drivers I encountered at overtaking lanes on my last two trips down the Princes Highway?

    I was gaining on the car in front and with several hundred metres to go, I was about to move into the overtaking lane when the driver in front moved right. I thought it was fairly obvious that I had plenty of time to complete my overtaking before the end of the overtaking lane. At the next overtaking lane, exactly the same thing happened and again at the next one.

    I can think of a couple of possible explanations for that behaviour. It may be that the driver is paranoid about being trapped in the left lane by an overtaking vehicle as the lanes merge. It may be that their view in a convex external mirror gave them the impression that I was a lot further back than I was. It may be that the driver was just very bad at judging the speed at which I was gaining.

    That one I can almost understand, but I need some help understanding the mindset of the second example.

    I was about the fourth car behind a motorhome. The instant the overtaking lane started, the motorhome driver moved into the right hand lane. Since the overtaking lane was fairly short, by the time the following cars realised that he was going to stay in that lane, it was too late to take the risk of overtaking on the left.

    At the next overtaking lane, the same thing happened. At the third overtaking lane, the motorhome again immediately occupied the right hand lane. By then the three cars in front of me had decided to use the left lane to overtake.

    I was sitting back a bit to ensure that I wasn't going to be part of any carnage that might occur, so another vehicle had the opportunity to pass me but wasn't able to pass the motorhome.

    I knew that there was another overtaking lane coming up and I knew that the driver between me and the motorhome wasn't going to take any nonsense from the motorhome. I knew that because it was a lowered ute with a P plate driver.

    As predicted, the ute charged past before the motorhome had time to move into the overtaking lane and I followed close behind. The moment we were both past, the motorhome took up its usual spot in the right hand lane.

    The fact that the motorhome paused for long enough for the hard charging ute and the more sedately driven Defender to pass suggests that the motorhome drive was not completely oblivious to the fact that there were cars waiting to overtake.

    Any suggestions you can offer to help me understand the mindset of that motorhome driver would be most appreciated.

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    Hi,
    Dashcam file to the police might instill some commonsense.
    Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by vnx205 View Post
    I think you may be right that there are some who think as you have suggested. They think they are being helpful.

    However, can you help me understand the mindset of a couple of drivers I encountered at overtaking lanes on my last two trips down the Princes Highway?

    I was gaining on the car in front and with several hundred metres to go, I was about to move into the overtaking lane when the driver in front moved right. I thought it was fairly obvious that I had plenty of time to complete my overtaking before the end of the overtaking lane. At the next overtaking lane, exactly the same thing happened and again at the next one.

    I can think of a couple of possible explanations for that behaviour. It may be that the driver is paranoid about being trapped in the left lane by an overtaking vehicle as the lanes merge. It may be that their view in a convex external mirror gave them the impression that I was a lot further back than I was. It may be that the driver was just very bad at judging the speed at which I was gaining.

    That one I can almost understand, but I need some help understanding the mindset of the second example.

    I was about the fourth car behind a motorhome. The instant the overtaking lane started, the motorhome driver moved into the right hand lane. Since the overtaking lane was fairly short, by the time the following cars realised that he was going to stay in that lane, it was too late to take the risk of overtaking on the left.

    At the next overtaking lane, the same thing happened. At the third overtaking lane, the motorhome again immediately occupied the right hand lane. By then the three cars in front of me had decided to use the left lane to overtake.

    I was sitting back a bit to ensure that I wasn't going to be part of any carnage that might occur, so another vehicle had the opportunity to pass me but wasn't able to pass the motorhome.

    I knew that there was another overtaking lane coming up and I knew that the driver between me and the motorhome wasn't going to take any nonsense from the motorhome. I knew that because it was a lowered ute with a P plate driver.

    As predicted, the ute charged past before the motorhome had time to move into the overtaking lane and I followed close behind. The moment we were both past, the motorhome took up its usual spot in the right hand lane.

    The fact that the motorhome paused for long enough for the hard charging ute and the more sedately driven Defender to pass suggests that the motorhome drive was not completely oblivious to the fact that there were cars waiting to overtake.

    Any suggestions you can offer to help me understand the mindset of that motorhome driver would be most appreciated.
    Allan, a brain dead arsehole, get a dash cam and record arseholes that do this and report it to 131700 or the next police station, I always merge right into the overtaking lane as soon as I see the sign and the arrows and am back in the main lane right at the end of the merge arrows, the dotted tapering line at the end of the arrows is NOT a traffic lane and if you have an accident while merging from this section then you have NO rights, Regards Frank.

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    You should come up behind the blocking vehicle and repeatedly flash your lights until he moves over.

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    There were other vehicles between me and the motorhome, so flashing lights wasn't an option on this occasion.

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