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Comment Re:Not really (Score 4, Informative) 732

I'm a lorry driver... and GP is right. Very few drivers actually pay for their fuel any more, and if they're from the same company, they wouldn't bother rotating. I certainly never have deliberately sat in a convoy - it's a lot harder to drive when you can't see all the road in front of you. Sometimes you'll get trucks that constantly overtake each other, because one is quicker up hills, the other is quicker on the flat, but they don't do it deliberately.

Comment Re:Reads the signs? (Score 1) 732

Man, I so wanna steal a residential speed sign and hang it out my back window on the highway. It applies to police cars as well, right?

Police cars don't have to obey any of the normal traffic rules. I've seen police drivers do some monumentally dumb things in the UK.

It happens in the US as well. In thirty days, the state I live in is going to make talking on a cell phone without hands free an excuse for a stop (currently, it can be cited, but only incidental to a stop for another reason, such as, driving erratically.) Yet it's not unusual for me to see a police officer operating a cell phone (held to ear, not with a bt earpiece) and a laptop computer while driving. I've seen some use two cell phones at the same time. And follow speed limits, laws regarding signalling, etc, etc? Forget about it.

Comment Re:Seems a stretch (Score 2) 105

I don't get this... I don't let anyone sit on my arse, ever. If someone does get too close, in the overtaking lane, when I'm looking to overtake someone in a queue, I pull over. It's their problem, and I'm not going to be a part of it. I only sit on the arse of others when they do not pull over for no reason (actually, generally I undertake them, carefully).

I don't drive _that_ fast... generally about 80 when cruising in the UK, which is technically illegal, but what loads of other people do, and police won't do you for it (most of the time).

Seriously, people, if someone is sitting on your arse... pull over. Don't complain about it... they're more likely to die than you. You lose nothing.

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