Practically Classics Forum

i have nothing against glof drivers, its the twats who i want to see crash... you know the type busy parking is his own personal racetrack etc type
funniest one ive seen in ages was a lad on his moped came screaming through the parking flat out only to fall off when a chap reversed his car out. he got up & started getting aggressive until the chap got out of his car..

rich. wrote:....was it you john?

No, I was picking up a speeding ticket on the A9 through Perthshire at the time. How come people who drive like twunts in England and Wales get to see the photo online, but Police Scotland (as their recent rebrand has named the traffic enforcement desk) make you apply in writing for a poor quality photocopy of a cruddy monochrome image that could just as easily show George Michael's fluffer at the wheel as the actual driver at the time? 76.3mph in a 70 limit, I ask you! I would do a steady 69.999 but that uses more fuel as the car barely gets out of 6th below 70. Grrrrrr.

well done mate!!
although i think we should all wear masks of prince charles when we are driving now, that would confuse them

You need to hope they get independence so you can speed up there and just get a fine but no points

It's everyone in general. My licence is my livelihood and I prefer to keep within the speed limit when driving a 7.5+ tonne vehicle. Everyone is too eager with the go faster pedal. The bus I had the other night was a fairly late model and was quite nippy. I'm in lane one (BL9 0HY) which filters of to the left for the A56. Lane two and three filter off to the right. A female motorist was trying to out race the bus in lane two,but there was another car in lane two to my offside front corner which I matched it's speed,she had to desperately indicate (nearside indicator) out of lane two as she failed to cut in front

I have been over in France with my 1944 Willys jeep. I have to say the standard of driving over there was excellant!! We never got cut up, over taken at warp speed or had somebody pull out of a side road without looking. On arrival in the UK we had all three happen to us and we hadn't got off the docks in Dover. All the incidents were with UK registered cars. We stopped on a campsite near Ashford where we had left the car and trailer. After an overnight stop the Willys was loaded and onto the trailer for the run home. We were nearly involved in a serious accident through a prize twat who changed lanes three times as we approached the toll booths for the Dartford Crossing and we were almost run over by a British truck charging up to the toll as we were trying to miss this moron in his Mercedes. We left the toll and set off on the M25 only to have the truck we very nearly hit overtake on the HARD SHOULDER and force us into the middle lane!

The standard of driving in Britain is a disgrace. I passed my test in 1962 and have only had 2 endorsments for speeding in that time. One for doing 86MPH on a deserted M6 at 2-00am and once for doing 36 MPH in a 30 MPH area. Both over twenty years ago.

It is amazing how the standard of driving has improved (the number of accidents has dropped hugely) in the inlaws lorries since they had cab mounted cameras and gps tracking installed. Driving standards seem to be pretty poor no matter where you are. Everyone is in a hurry and they all rely on each other paying attention to avoid having a prang. One sleepy driver and bump.

TerryG wrote:It is amazing how the standard of driving has improved (the number of accidents has dropped hugely) in the inlaws lorries since they had cab mounted cameras and gps tracking installed.

A lot of reputable hauliers do this now as I found when I reported an idiot in an artic with an over-width load who undertook me on the A14 in heavy traffic. The company told me that they would check the footage and the driver would receive a warning for a first misdemeanour and sacking for a second. If you can note the name of the company and the registration number it's always worth complaining. Living where I do, I see a lot of HGVs heading for the Port of Felixstowe and the standard of driving is very poor, with some fatal accidents involving private cars. Anything you can do to get these idiots off the road is a service to society.

Phil P wrote:I passed my test in 1962 and have only had 2 endorsments for speeding in that time. One for doing 86MPH on a deserted M6 at 2-00am

No way,what vehicle from the 60's managed to reach 86mph?

I have been over in France with my 1944 Willys jeep. I have to say the standard of driving over there was excellant!! We never got cut up, over taken at warp speed or had somebody pull out of a side road without looking.

..........didn't go through Paris then! The peripherique is always either totally standing still or belting along like a touring car race, and as for the roundabout around the arc'd'Triomphe....pick a big truck and follow it closely behind...it's worse than driving in Malta!

The French rural areas and the peage routes are generally pretty good, because they're not overcrowded, but in urban areas or on the toll-free autoroutes they're just as bad as the rest of the world.....I think you just got lucky!

No way,what vehicle from the 60's managed to reach 86mph?

......why, the Triumph Vitesse of course- it still does occasionally and sounds totally awesome when it's up there close to the redline with the overdrive disengaged, although one is acutely aware of the lack of any contemporary safety features and the rapidly dissappearing petrol at that sort of speed!!