why do lorry drivers think they have the right to block lanes?

operation stack ive sin um

 

1 in 10 of the entire population is a lorry driver? Hmm.

 

14 million out. i think 64 mil now not 50?

 

Pedant. 1 in 11-ish then. I dumbed it down in case there are any lorry drivers reading.

 

i googled it i thought it was china.

 

i fawt that was how many yorkies they eat

 

28500 now . I googled that

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-30496851

 

I think it's probably is.

 

most of um have overtaken my bus

 

This ^^^^^

 

If lorry drivers do not typically do the up and down hills thing taking it in turns to edge ahead, why are they forbidden from overtaking for large chunks of the A14?

 

It seems that even when signs say to use both lanes and then merge in turn, we are incapable of doing it. Other countries seems to manage fine, but we have to pull in early and make the tailback longer than it needs to be. If we did it right, there wouldn't be an issue with queue jumpers either.

 

On our town ring road we have have months of roundabout,footpath,services and general hole digging,
So you get a sign saying lane closed
People move over and we get a long tail back of traffic ,

causing the previous junction/roundabout unfunctional

but there is a 1/2 mile of live lane not being used because all of the lemmings move into one lane...

And yet I feel a bit of a Arse driving in the empty lane...

 

As a cyclist I have no problems with lorry drivers, I cycle a section of the A5 (a different bit than that bit Rick ^^^ referred to), and I always get left plenty of room by lorries when they overtake me. It's van drivers and aggressive drivers in high-powered saloon cars that tend to near-miss me on the road.