Revenue gathering or road safety ???

[pervert]

Last time I checked the road code, and here yellow lines relate to overtaking.

So are the trucks overtaking on corners with yellow lines?
If so hang the bastards high I say.
If not, what are they being charged with?

You should have probably read the page you site as your information first.

Yellow lines mean you are not allowed to cross those lines for any reason at all.

You can still overtake, provided you don't cross the yellow lines.

Read the page you referenced for proof.

They are being charged with crossing the yellow lines.

I'm impressed at your ability to disprove your own theory without knowing it...hahaha...

[Paul in NZ]

I don't have a problem with that....

I remember going for a fang around the port hills one evening and missing a tour bus by inches because the god damn thing was so long it could not get around the corners without taking up 1 and a half lanes. I made a complaint - no one cared.... IMHP It's pure commercial greed taking a monster like that up there and grossly irresponsible. Yes we need tourisim but that is a very narrow road and a mini coach / small bus is all it will take.

The trucking companies are always trying to get permission for bigger trucks and yet the damn things are so big already most of them struggle on those roads. These guys need to understand this is NOT the Outback of Aussie or the Midwestern USA - we don't have the roads to support these monsters.

If your vehicle cannot pass over a stretch of road without crossing the centre line or taking out the armco - make 2 trips in a smaller one FFS....

Paul N

[The Stranger:Me]

You should have probably read the page you site as your information first.

Yellow lines mean you are not allowed to cross those lines for any reason at all.

You can still overtake, provided you don't cross the yellow lines.

Read the page you referenced for proof.

They are being charged with crossing the yellow lines.

I wasn't citing the page as proof per se. The road code is of course not law. I was more enquiring as to the law.

The page heading is "Passing" and I had for some strange reason thought that the heading had set the context of the text to follow.

The only place I see the reference to where you may not cross the line is next to an image describing where you may and may not pass.

I see references to the likes of
"it is unsafe to cross the centre line to pass" it doesn't say "it is unsafe to cross the centre line at all ever"
and
"This solid yellow line is called a 'no passing' line." note it is not called a "no crossing at any time line"
and
"You must not pass another vehicle if it means you have to cross over a no passing line on your side of the centre line.

Please accept my humble appologies for my incompetent interpretation of the english language.

[steved]

Last time I checked the road code, and here yellow lines relate to overtaking.

So are the trucks overtaking on corners with yellow lines?
If so hang the bastards high I say.
If not, what are they being charged with?

Crossing the centre-line maybe?

[SPman]

" You must not cross the solid yellow line between C - D."

[The Stranger:Me]

" You must not cross the solid yellow line between C - D."

That kind of really fucks things up then.
Cause I see hundreds of people break this law regularly by turning into driveways and entrances across yellow lines. Watch out if this one is ever enforced, you will get people driving to the end of the yellow line and pulling a U turn instead.

[WINJA]

Oh yeah, they are real badasses doing that and causing such a problem driving those empty roads only endagering themselves...

Do you get sick of pushing the shift key at the start of every word?

ITS NOT ABOUT BEING A BAD ASS BUT FARMERS CAUSE A LOT OF HAZARDS ON THE ROADS AROUND HERE AND THEY CANT EVEN BE *555ED CAUSE THEY GOT NO NUMBER PLATES , ID RATHER SEE PIGS TARGETING FARMERS THAN PICKING ON BOYRACERS AT 2AM IN AN INDUSTRIAL AREA

[kevie]

heheheh talking about passing in the gorge ..... a car passed another last week in the gorge on double yellows , the driver of the passed car watched him as he also cut the corner crossing the yellows a further 8 times .,....... unfortunately for the offending driver .... the passed vehicle was a mufty cop hahahhahahahahaah ooohhhhhhhh bugger

[MSTRS:Me]

And each time a separate offence. Oh dear. Hope the cop did him for the max

[The Stranger:Me]

That kind of really fucks things up then.
Cause I see hundreds of people break this law regularly by turning into driveways and entrances across yellow lines. Watch out if this one is ever enforced, you will get people driving to the end of the yellow line and pulling a U turn instead.

What happens on roads like Royal View in Te Atatu Sth and (if my memory serves correctly) Don Buck in Henderson which have double yellow lines.
When a car parks on Royal View it is not possible for another car to go passed the parked car without crossing the yellow line.