Over taking etiquette

[RussellB[SA]]

The scene is the road to Tin Can Bay, a Prado with a pop top followed by a small pantech by us and then BiL (Prado with pop top) then some cars and then some Prados and caravans, all spaced out doing 100kmh in 100km zone no overtaking opportunities or overtaking lanes of parking bays. Then this merry crew catch up with a guy with 4wd loaded to the gunnels towing a small pop top doing 80 uphill 60 downhill.

Traffic builds up, I reckon 5 vans and 10 cars looking nasty, at least two opportunities for front guy to pull over not taken, then he turns off and road ahead clear, opportunity within 2 mins of guy pulling off for us and BiL to pull off and let angry mob go ahead.

What do you thing they did.

Flash lights acknowledging pull off
Beep and wave

Give the bird and hold horn on angrily?

Yup you guessed we go the blame for the other ahole.

Two incidences on camera of angry overtaking including double white lines and curves uphill too.

It can get scary sometimes dunit.




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[Kelvin12]

Doesn't only happen on the TinCan road. Try the Pacific on the Nambucca Heads to Urunga stretch. Very limited overtaking lanes and now with the dividing cables running for bloody miles and of course the overtakers won't go over the new 80 posted even though the overtaken is traveling at 79.9 kmh. Then we hit the cameras and of course we have to drop down a further 20 below that to make sure we don't get pipped. There are just some drivers who are oblivious to the traffic build up behind. I find in this situation its better to move slightly to the left on a right hand corner to let those following see that its not me holding up the procession. Makes you bloody mad though that's for sure. There needs to be an advertising program to educate drivers. Shame the cops don't start booking slow pokes instead of pinging those who are a few over.

Dirk

[Dot]

More traffic of every sort on all the roads but the roads are the same as they were 50yrs ago. (mostly)

[T1 Terry]

More traffic of every sort on all the roads but the roads are the same as they were 50yrs ago. (mostly)

I don't know, I remember the old Hume Hwy, The Cumberland Hwy through the back of syney, the Pacific Hwy through Gosford etc The run from brisbane to Melbourne is a whole lot better than it was, and the vehicl;e mostly are a whole lot quicker than they were. Remember when the last thing you wanted was to get stuck behind a truck, these days if you can keep up with them you are doing ok
Over 20 yrs ago when my daughter was in Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital in the serious burns unit I travelled the road every second week end, it is so much better now than it was then, but even then it was so much better than I remembered it when driving trucks down there as a young fella.
qld roads, except for the flashy bits around Brisbane have kept moving with the times though, I know they are trying to catch up on some of the major hwys but most of them haven't seen much more than a coat of tar in decades.

[dapope]

On our current trip we have been stuck behind a few inconsiderate slowpokes, causing the odd queue.
I try to get around them before the lunatics behind, so they can see what has been the real holdup. A quick burst to low flying speeds if there is room and its safe to emphasise the point, then its back on the cruise control at the 100km/h or so mark. I cannot think of the last truck that passed us, unless we were stopped

[Dot]

Just as a matter of interest what would the amount of cars on the roads be now compared to 50+yrs ago. The speed of the cars today compared to 50 +yrs ago etc. Who actually could afford a car way back when, not an awful lot of crazy drunk or drugged out young drivers then either. The hill known as Pretty Sally (Hume Hwy out of Melb)is pretty much the same as it was. GOR more or less the same except more tar on it & not very many places to overtake. Still can't keep up with the trucks these days either.

[aussiegirl]

Jnot an awful lot of crazy drunk or drugged out young drivers then either.

Maybe not so many drugged out drivers back then Dottie, but there were a heck of a lot more drunk ones on the road!!! Back when I was younger, the pubs shut at about 5pm so a lot of blokes used to knock back as many as they could before closing time. I remember my dad used to meet up with his brothers in law every Friday, and the state he used to come home in, it is a wonder he could walk in the door let alone drive, but drive he did. There were'nt as many cars on the road, so I suppose there was less chance of them cleaning someone up. Back then, a lot of the coppers would escort you home, or drive you home!!!

Thank goodness for random breath and drug testing

[Dot]

There is another Q/ what was the ratio of drunk drivers then to now?? We had a friend in Tullamarine, his father would ride his horse to the pub on Sydney Rd (the Hume highway) if he was too pie eyed to stay on the horse, it would come home and the search party would go and find the old fella. Most times he managed to ride home. That was in the early 60's.

[T1 Terry]

Even that is breaking the law, even walking drunk actually, so we have a frw strange laws. Before random breath testing the problem went 2 ways, a lot more drunks on the road and no way of proving you weren't drunk either. the number of panel beater shops more than halved within 6 mths of radom breath testing being introduced, and it was 0.08% back then, not the 0.05% it is now.
i believe the Hume Hwy into Melbourne today is a far cry from what it was 50 yrs ago, even 20 yrs ago really.