Police getting tougher on speed tolerance

[Autech]

I'd say with 50% more courtesy on the road the toll would go down quite alot.
Every single time i go out I come across some numpty who does 70 through the mildly twisty bits them straight up to 110 every section you are able to overtake.
That leads poor old Autech to roll the dice, either get stuck behind or drop it a few gears and do the speed required to overtake and hope like hell there is no cop waiting ahead to ping me.
My folks taught me when I was learning to drive to have the foot buried until you're back in you own lane. As I've gotten faster cars I'm a bit gentler on the gas to not hit lose your license speeds by the end of the maneuver.
What would be amazing is if they'd look back and think, that guys clearly more comfortable than me on these roads, I'll just lay off the gas next straight and we both can be on our merry way... That's what I do when towing why can't others?
Wishful thinking. Maybe a road campaign teaching to be courteous would have more effect than "stop speeding or get ticket" that we get all the time.

Sent from my SM-A730F using Tapatalk

[ellipsis]

We are now onto Plan F the previous ones having been overtaken by the pandemic.

...I hope they were overtaking at the correct speed...

[Gremlin]

What would be amazing is if they'd look back and think, that guys clearly more comfortable than me on these roads, I'll just lay off the gas next straight and we both can be on our merry way... That's what I do when towing why can't others?
Wishful thinking. ...

No need to get so technical. I was on the Waikato Expressway southbound on Friday night. I slowly catch up to a BMW hatch just before Hampton Downs. Consider whether I should overtake, meh, I caught up, so I'm going quicker, and ease past (two lanes each way).

On the way to the Te Kauwhata interchange I notice him noticeably gaining on me. Doesn't overtake, tailgates me for a while. Finally overtakes by Rangiriri. Fine, you want to go faster, off you go. On the next straights to Ohinewai... I catch up again (I'm trying to keep my speed in a 1-3kph band). I overtake and don't see him again.

So, if they can't even maintain consistent speeds on a freaken expressway...

[caspernz]

No need to get so technical. I was on the Waikato Expressway southbound on Friday night. I slowly catch up to a BMW hatch just before Hampton Downs. Consider whether I should overtake, meh, I caught up, so I'm going quicker, and ease past (two lanes each way).

On the way to the Te Kauwhata interchange I notice him noticeably gaining on me. Doesn't overtake, tailgates me for a while. Finally overtakes by Rangiriri. Fine, you want to go faster, off you go. On the next straights to Ohinewai... I catch up again (I'm trying to keep my speed in a 1-3kph band). I overtake and don't see him again.

So, if they can't even maintain consistent speeds on a freaken expressway...

That's like a trucker joke. How do you make that slow car in front speed up? Indicate to overtake them and watch them crank it up

[caspernz]

Cause as a previous long distance trucker on some of our worst roads, that mr and mrs average
With bikes on the back usually do dumb passing moves whilst no doubt fatigued from a ‘race’ on public roads in another town some distance away.
The flasher the SUV the more entitled to overtake in dumb places.

There's a bit of truth to the maxim of "the flasher the car, the dodgier the driving" and I suspect it's about entitlement.

As a career trucker and trainer, we did a survey at the firm I worked at, of onboard camera activations for a lengthy spell. Nothing fancy, just a tally of the usual nonsense a trucker sees routinely. Overtaking on double yellows, pushing past at end of passing lane when lane has actually ended, overtaking into oncoming traffic, peeling out from sideroads with zero margin for error, you get the gist by now.

So for our national fleet, we found at least 75% of these types of incidents involved a fairly late model high cost car.
Make of that what you wish, I'm just sharing the facts we found.

[Scuba_Steve]

That's like a trucker joke. How do you make that slow car in front speed up? Indicate to overtake them and watch them crank it up

I still remember a time when it was trucks holding people up

[rastuscat]

There's a bit of truth to the maxim of "the flasher the car, the dodgier the driving" and I suspect it's about entitlement.

As a career trucker and trainer, we did a survey at the firm I worked at, of onboard camera activations for a lengthy spell. Nothing fancy, just a tally of the usual nonsense a trucker sees routinely. Overtaking on double yellows, pushing past at end of passing lane when lane has actually ended, overtaking into oncoming traffic, peeling out from sideroads with zero margin for error, you get the gist by now.

So for our national fleet, we found at least 75% of these types of incidents involved a fairly late model high cost car.
Make of that what you wish, I'm just sharing the facts we found.

Facts? Facts? There's no place for facts here.

[Autech]

Almost every close call I have had recently has been a ute driver unfortunately.

Seems if you buy a Ranger it disconnects your brain in the Waikato

Sent from my SM-A730F using Tapatalk

[caspernz]

I still remember a time when it was trucks holding people up

So do I, and in fairness the behaviour of bikers and truckers has similarities, the good work done by many is undone by the looney few...

Facts? Facts? There's no place for facts here.

My apologies Pete, will admit to being mildly surprised when we did the tally. The linehaul boys capture mostly out of town stuff, around town the mix changes, work vans and utes feature prominently there.

[Gremlin]

I still remember a time when it was trucks holding people up

I feel really sorry for the trucker when I come up behind a long haul rig stuck behind an idiot that struggles to get over 80kph. I find a safe section and nip past, but the truck has no such luxury...

[Laava]

Almost every close call I have had recently has been a ute driver unfortunately.

Seems if you buy a Ranger it disconnects your brain in the Waikato

Sent from my SM-A730F using Tapatalk

I peeled the R off mine!

[Kickaha]

I feel really sorry for the trucker when I come up behind a long haul rig stuck behind an idiot that struggles to get over 80kph. I find a safe section and nip past, but the truck has no such luxury...

Several years ago I got a ride Woodend to Picton with a friend of mine who drove it every day towing a B Train, I was surprised how frequently we were held up by car drivers

[rastuscat]

Several years ago I got a ride Woodend to Picton with a friend of mine who drove it every day towing a B Train, I was surprised how frequently we were held up by car drivers

And that's the difference between a professional driver, and a weekend warrior.

[Berries]

And that's the difference between a professional driver, and a weekend warrior.

What, that car drivers hold trucks up?

[Bonez]

Nice wee toodle today over the Saddle Rd the first truck, a low loader with hydraulic lift. pulled over on a gravel siding letting the eight or so vehicles to go past. The second truck, Hall refrigeration unit. we came across speed up to 80kmh, in a 60kph area in the left lane of the passing lane and almost took out the last car in the cue passing which was in front me. I hit the bakes hard. Had the odd Boi racer or newer sedan pass in stupid places. Other wise it was a good ride today. Most of the road users I come across today were fine apart from traveling way too close behind the vehicle in front.

Shit I almost forgot. There was this dude on a black Honda four who got well ahead of the Hall hauler by passing it on double yellow lines.