Here's the rant thread I've been brewing all day. Feel free to stick your own rants at the end, but I have to get this off my chest...

Perhaps my speedo is well out of kilter, or truck drivers nowadays don't give a stuff about their tachometers.

This morning I overtook a juggerynut down grade on a slip road. The bastid then proceeded to try and overtake me once we were on the main carriageway. Okay, it's downhill, but at 80mph?!?

Another one tried it on the way home. Not quite the same degree of slope this time, but I was doing 65, and he was gaining on me. WTF?!? I mean, aren't they all supposed to be governed to 56mph nowadays?

I generally spare a bit of time for professional truckers, but frankly, they're starting to taking the p!ss! Are they all now taking advantage of Aberdeen Overdrive on downhill sections? What effect does that have on their braking efficacy? Does the excess speed register on the tacho? Why the hell aren't they pulled over for it? Surely it's dangerous driving or something?

It actually winds me up a lot, so I thank you for letting me vent.

What really hacks me off is when you get one lorry doing 55mph, and the one behind can do 56mph, so it will then spend 3 weeks over-taking the "slower" lorry! Foreign drivers are usually the worst offenders.

I understand your frustration, you should have noted the "How's my driving?" number.

True - if it had one. On our stretch of the M2 we get lots of container traffic, and they don't often have anything on the back of the trailer apart from a numberplate. It's also mainly the UK trucks that do it. Most of the furriners have enough problems with their blind spots and bald tyres without speeding as well.

Equally, I don't have the phone on in the car, even hands free. I'm also too busy trying to stay alive among the marauding truckers and white van men to find time to make a call!

I feel I want to drop a broad hint to the local plod they should do a few unmarked car runs during the morning and evening rush along that stretch. It might catch a few miscreants, and act as a deterrent to others.

Once when I was going for my driving lesson I got in the car and my instructor was on the phone. His last student had been run off the road by a lorry
It sounded really dangerous, it was thankful that there was no ditch or anything...
(Was at the traffic lights near Whitehall garden center if Alun knows that road, Melksham - Chippenham)

I have a bit of an issue with caravanners.
Lorryists I don't mind so much, they spend all their time driving gert big lorrys. 10mph over or so, I'm not too worried by.
It's the cretins with the cars loaded to the gunwales, squatting low at the back, towing a caravan at 70 mph+.
In fact one of them got it wrong and jack knifed near here, on the afternoon of the Devon County Show. So that was all the traffic in both directions held up on top of the queues for the show.

Ban caravans from being towed in daylight hours and weekends.

Was it a foreign or Irish plate? Plenty of those chaps are either not limited, or have bypassed it.

Pretty bloody stupid thing to do, in any case, the stopping distance on a 44 tonner at 70-80mph is immense.

Having spent the best part of 300 miles get frustrated at middle lane hoggers, I feel un able to comment on truckers today as they didn't cause me any issues.

That would be my first thought. I've seen a lot of speeding trucks with foreign plates.

Definitely British plates. I always check. Sadly, memory isn't capable of retaining the number to report later.

That's why you should always drive with a mobile phone in your hand, or a camera if you will, in order to take pictures of things that catch your eye on your journey.

Ahh, yes, now, why didn't I think of that?

Yeah, it is a problem here as well.

We have a 100 zone on the way to work (~60 mph), where I am often "pushed" by lorries driving right on my tailgate - I engage the cruise control at exactly 100km/h and ignore them, as best I can. Problem is, it is a 5KM stretch and they aren't allowed to overtake.

Same in the roadworks, they are supposed to be limited to 80km/h, but in an 80 zone, they are usually pulling away from me or sitting right on my chuff...

At least until you get pulled over by the cops for using your mobile behind the wheel.

Seriously, ont he way home from work this evening my brother and I witnessed a blue (white in disguise) van run a Golf onto the hard shoulder of the A1(M) before he swerved back into the correct lane. He then put his indicator on.
Anyway, when we overtook the van (giving him a two lane wide berth) the driver was merrily talking on his mobile.

Sorry, I missed the </sarcasm> tags out.

I guess that's why you should always have a passenger.