There are all sorts of jerry rigs in 3rd world countries, most perfectly drivable as long as you take their issues into account. The more issues there are though, the harder driving them gets.
NT
indeed..wait till you come on a truck rolled on its side, with man with a oxy set at the roadside welding the propshaft back together or similar.
The foreman of a small contracting company that spent years working within a factory where I worked, once got a contract elsewhere for which they needed their crane (a little four wheel, rear-wheel steer job). First they serviced and MOT'd it, then got it taxed (it hadn't been out of the factory for years) and he drove it to their client's - Manchester to Cornwall at a maximum speed of 12 mph!
SteveW
And driving too closely in front of the vehicle behind you.
Explain how that is different from 'extreme tailgating' hugh?
On a petrol tanker ...
It's the fault of the driver in front, whereas tailgating is the fault of the driver behind.
Well that just broke my head.
:-)
? Without a tow rope?
Or are you saying that a driver doing the speed he or she feels safe doing on that particular bit of road should speed up to lose the tailgating twit who's trying to push them along? Or just stop to encourage them to pass, so hitting the innocent third driver who's just come riund the blind bend?
Tailgating is *always* the fault of the driver in the rear. As is a shunt caused by it. Where I work, if you shunt into another vehicle from its rear, it's an automatic disciplinary hearing, and, very likely, the sack, or at the very least, a session with a very annoyed driving intructor.
Its funny how those that do 30 say everyone else should too, those that do 50 say everyone else should too, those that do 100 say everyone else should too, etc, yet so many seem to miss the big picture.
Reality is there are classic vehicles that take ages to pick up speed,
200mph Veyrons and everything inbetween on most types of road. Best get used to it. As for what's dangerous, that's easy to answer. It was righly established in the early days of motoring that in the case of a rear shunt, the one behind that drove into the one in front is normally 100% at fault. Anyone that drives in such a manner as to be unable to deal with slower traffic ahead is driving unsafely.NT
The correct response, assuming your brake lights really are working, is to do an emergency stop. Claim a dog ran across the road and you didn't want to hit it.
In message , charles writes
Touch your brakes whilst simultaneously putting your right foot down. Repeat.
So turning on the pump that fires a light misting of used brake fluid and engine oil from the nozzle under my rear bumper ensuring a covering all over the windscreen of any tailgater isn't the correct response then?
I'd agree with tailgating (as a continuous verb), however there are plenty of ways to get caught from the front on a motorway with heavy traffic. If another driver cuts in ahead, you're in a position where you are now "tailgating" unwittingly. The action to take next is generally agreed to be to slow down and allow the appropriate gap to re-open. However that itself takes time. You can't do this by heavy braking, because the likelihood is that there's another idiot right behind and tailgating you. It's considered as impolite to slam into their front bumper as it is to go into the rear of the one ahead. If (as is not entirely unlikely) this takes place in several lanes of heavy traffic, all far too close together, then a shunt ahead can take all four of you in one go, even after one driver in the middle driving pretty much blamelessly.
In message , Andy Dingley writes
Hear, hear!
This sort of activity commonly happens near junctions when, before the turn off, drivers realise they are in the wrong lane. Conversely, drivers joining and immediately trying to push across to the outside lane.
Signage in the approach to junctions appears adequate so, apart from shooting the offenders, I have no solution. There is however, a way of regulating the *joiners*: a solid white line on the inside lane preventing lane changing for some distance. This already exists in Portugal and Formula 1.
regards
IIRC the AA won't even try to repair brakes, so if they believe you when you report the problem they don't bother with a patrol.
Just get yourself a Defender with towball set to optimum BMW radiator height.
Yes.
In message , Tim Lamb writes
Or even here here.
Some of us have gone on holiday and can't be bothered to get the computer out.
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