Idiots who drive on your side of the road

You just describted everything I see on my daily commute It's friggin unbelivable!

Funny how they drive on the right side when faced with a 30 ton truck eh?

But where in driving test/lessons does it say 'you must drive with the offside wheel on the centre line'...the mind boggles

X394PCK

27/9/9

Blue Citroen Saxo Forte

Idiot of a driver pulls out to overtake without looking just as a vehicle was about to overtake him. He was tailgating then suddenly decides to overtake without any signal either.

Other driver had to brake hard.

"A red TVR Chimaera"

At least it was a proper sports car, usually it's a nutter in a white van or some kid in a Renault Clito worth £50 with £3000 of crap hanging off it.

Motorcycles overtaking a long queue of cars often drive on the wrong side of the road. They are asking to get ki11ed. They should be banned for life for dangerous driving.

Motorcycles should be banned.

A red TVR Chimaera sports car reg number
DSE444.

At approx 19:15 on 24/08/09 this numbskull of a driver was speeding in a 40 mph zone.

I was doing 40 and gently braked for bends and roundabouts but he was getting up my brown and smelly and regularly had to break hard because he was too impatient and too close.

Along a straight stretch he overtook at about 50 and I caught up with him at the traffic lights. He then sped off in a 30 mph zone.

If I was in front of him as the lights turned red I would have braked letting him run into the back of me as I am not going to be intimidated to go through an amber or red light with his presence so close to my rear.

The speeding wasn't the issue but his disrespect towards other motorists such as harassment, cutting into other drivers paths expecting other motorists to get out of his way.

He reminds me of something like politicians expecting special privileges over others and getting away with wrongdoing.

Get rid of motorists like him like the politicians we have at the present.

My boyfriend will overtake someone doing 55 in a 60. He will get so close to their rear end that you can't see road between you and them, then pull out, and when there's about 5 car lengths gone by, he may begin thinking about pulling in. Needless to say, this irritates me to no end, and is extremely dangerous. I flat out refuse to stay in the car with him as soon as he starts doing it.

Oh Simo, "I am a very good (maybe too fast) driver", it's virtually impossible to judge your own driving or riding.

If the combine was a modern one, ie truly enormous, on the road it should have had an escort vehicle in front, stopping oncoming traffic as required. As Paddy points out, these things are not exactly 'road frinendly', being designed for modern farms with big fields.

Unfortunately, the standards of driving on the road today are poor. Anticipation, consequences and consideration are rarely thought of when it comes to passing a driving 'test' -whatever that is...! However, it seems interesting to assess priorities of drivers ocassionally:
boltz 30-Aug-2008 15:37......................Hang on.....
Combine Harvester hogging the road.... Lets just consider this for a moment. A combine is a) very big; its rearward visibility is poor, even with mirrors, making reversing tricky at the best of times. A combine is also b) skid-steer, meaning the rear pair of wheels steer the whole machine. Whilst this gives great accuracy in following a crop line, it makes it pretty tricky to reverse due to the nature of the 'pivot-point' of the turn. -Imagine sitting on the rear bumper of your car instead of the driving seat and directing the vehicle in reverse from there. Given the nature of these machines it would be fair to expect that it was only going a short distance. -Probably to cut a crop that will not return its true maket value due to EU short sightedness. So, is it truthly that outrageous that the combine would expect you to oblige and reverse a short distance? After all, this is a manoeuvre that most of us undertake in small (manoeuvrable!) vehicles everyday, often into tight spaces.
Give the combine a break. I would hope that had you parked your car legally and were required to move it to allow the combine safe passage, that you would happily do this. This is the machine, and the operator which is allowing you to have cheap supermarket bread on your table.
I hope you were on the road in a professional capacity also. Otherwise, obstructing someone else trying to make an honest living in tough circumstances is a simply unfair exercise, irrelevent of your worry about who is obstructing who.

Today I was confronted by a combine harvester on my side of the road , he had ample opportunity to let me pass before the road narrowed but came bullishly on fully expecting me to reverse all the way up the road to let him pass the fact I could see mouthing obscenities about me only made me more adamant to stay put and make him reverse.
I thought that if you are the driver of a vehicle that is either wide or long it is your responsibilty to take extra care and not assume other drivers will drive in to hedges to let you pass.
What is the law on this.
If I had not reversed out of the way could I have been nicked for obstruction although I was on my side of the road.
What if I had parked there legally earlier and he then came down the road do I then have to move my car to let him by?

You are so right, I live in Weston super mare and the people here are the most rude and selfish I have ever seen, you let them through and they do not thank you for it, they come on your side of the road and they make you feel you are in the wrong, there is no respect any more all people in Weston are rude, disrespectful, no manors and very selfish. I took my car for a MOT after it passed the garage parked it in the street and teenagers thought is was good to run on the bonnet, roof and boot, you can imagine the repair bill as it is a Mercedes s class.