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12/9/2012 at 11:48am
Location: south cheshire
Outfit: VW Caddy Maxi
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Quote: Originally posted by rush768 on 12/9/2012
If everyone drove properly, sensibly and unselfishly there shouldn't actually be any need to move to an outside lane to let anyone filter in - the gaps between vehicles should be sufficient to allow filtering.
Spot on! I always leave a large gap, and look for traffic joining from a slip road, so that I can either speed up or slow down to let them in. I do the same when towing as well. I've often had to brake in the car when not towing trying to join the M6 around here, the traffic is usually nose to nose. Once I even had to carry on driving on the hard shoulder as it was impossible to join the inside lane, all three lanes were full of traffic and no-one could move over to let me in.
I leave a huge gap when towing, braking distances are longer. Other drivers will move into my gap, so I just drop back slowly until the gap is a safe one again. I'm still going forwards, so I don't see a problem with that! My Ex BF would never leave the correct braking distance between himself and the car in front, in case someone 'pinched his space' 
They have been trying to get four lanes put in here at the S. Cheshire/N. Staffs bit of the M6 for years, but still no fourth lane.
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12/9/2012 at 12:41pm
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Greetings,
Ordinarily I do not give way to traffic entering Motorways and Dual Carriageways.
I believe that this "After you Claude, NO After you Cecil" methodology of driving has now got to the stage where drivers entering the main road expect it to happen and in doing so cause danger to users on the primary route.
The only exception I make to my system of driving is if I see, in the distance, a vehicle waiting to enter a dual carriageway when the slip road is either very short with no obvious means of accelerating to a speed commensurate with that of traffic on the main road or if I see a Heavy Goods Vehicle entering 'my' road, that vehicle having no means to accelerate at the same rate as cars or similar vehicles.
In such circumstances, AND WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO!!!, I indicate and pull over into the next lane on my right.
From experience I usually find that the truckers very much appreciate this.
If I could also hijack this thread and point out a similar danger that has built up over the years to the point where it has become a daily occurrence that causes great danger to drivers, especially those towing Caravans.
I refer to the practice of joining a roundabout without giving any thought to those on the roundabout itself.
It seems to be the practice of almost 'point and shoot' where drivers believe, wrongly, that traffic should give way to vehicles on their right regardless of whether that traffic is on the roundabout or not.
I regularly enter a roundabout when there is nothing on the roundabout itself but there is a vehicle bearing down on the roundabout but some way off it. The drivers of those vehicles think that they have a God given right to enter the island at speed and regardless of traffic on it at the time.
Traffic should only 'Give Way' to traffic on the right at a roundabout WHEN THAT TRAFFIC IS ON THE ROUNDABOUT.
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