You're all so obsessed with making puns that you've forgotten to victim blame! 🙄
So OP, after you pulled out in front of the other driver, forcing him to alter course, what exactly happened...? 
Let's hope this changes his altitude in future
Do all car drivers do road rage or is it just one type that has been singled out ?
Was it this guy?
If he has been caught he’ll probably just say “damn, busted”
I indicated well in advance and then pulled into the outside lane of the A1 to overtake a lorry
Oh so you were doing 56mph. Stuck your indicator on and moved out forcing the vehicle to brake to 57mph. Or did the kind gentleman see you indicating and flash you to pull out?
I was driving my wife’s small car, had I been in my own car would you have been quite such a ****?
Are you suggesting you hadn't taken in to consideration the road conditions, and that your car took an eternity to get to 70mph?
Maybe the person in said vehicle just thought pulling out without giving consideration to the speed of traffic coming behind was a bit daft. (not excusing him being a d!ck though)
Hope you have better luck than I did.
Dangerous close pass on a narrow road blind bend with double white lines, forced oncoming traffic to a halt.
Car had a private plate and dotGov site showed MOT a month out of date.
Unenthusiastic response from the police and its still driving around now MOT five months out of date.
Lack of funding?
sounds like you got their Atten-SHUN!
I was driving my wife’s small car, had I been in my own car would you have been quite such a ****?
Nothing to add apart from that made me chuckle.
Driving past Wittering in a bit. Will keep an eye out for anyone doing extended drills in their pants.
There’s no need to get in a flap about it I suppose.
Flashy???
extended drills in their pants.
Ooh-err, etc
I'm sure he was just requesting a fly-by, you just didn't tell him the pattern was full.
I was driving my wife’s small car, had I been in my own car would you have been quite such a ****?
Nothing to add apart from that made me chuckle.
Me too.
Such an odd thing to say 😆
The OP's own car?
Such an odd thing to say
Not really. Both myself and my better half have noticed we get far less hassling behaviour from drivers of larger, more powerful cars when we're driving our larger, more powerful car; my other half noticed this markedly after we got rid of her old Polo.
I think the OP's getting a bit (re)heated about all this. It's alright piloting all the blame on someone else & to some degree I understand why he wants to spit fire, but the OP has to realise it's a Really Awful Fact that this stuff happens every day & he should stop Wittering on about it!
Were there any wheelie bins involved?
This guys seems to have a real Maverick approach to driving, perhaps once he has been spoken to by his superiors he will feel like his Goose is cooked.
Im just glad you chinook the time to report the incident, im sure the time will flyby until you hear an outcome on the result.
The poor **** is probably on his way to Colchester as we speak !
Not really. Both myself and my better half have noticed we get far less hassling behaviour from drivers of larger, more powerful cars when we’re driving our larger, more powerful car; my other half noticed this markedly after we got rid of her old Polo.
Yup. I currently drive a teeny little Yaris, and a beaten up old panel van. My experience is that people in big flash cars definitely pull out on you, tailgate you, play chicken with you, and try to push you around a lot more often when you're in a small car.
And when you're in a 15yo mangled skip on wheels that clearly doesn't owe you anything and has various coloured paint stripes on the bumpers, even people in white Audi SUVs almost start acting like polite human beings, it's quite remarkable. I love my van...
I used to find this in my wife's Yaris, it really doesn't happen as much now she has a Pasatt estate. The Yaris was 1.8 though with some mods so it could make the unwary big flash car driver look like a **** tit!
I would be annoyed if my employer kept a detailed log of every private vehicle that I drive to and from work and used it for purposes other than controlling access to the car park/site
When im working, I drive a great many private cars, my employer does not allow their use for any private purposes, mileage is recorded electronically, fuel is recorded, and places I take the cars to and from have the registration logged and take my name and sign for the car. Usually,; there are one or two places that don’t. Military bases that I visit take my photo and issue an ID card, and all details are logged. I’d be very, very surprised if that vehicle, if it goes on site at the owner’s base, doesn’t have all of its details logged against the owner’s service number and personal details and photo, security would demand it, especially when there are gentleman standing around at the entrance holding loaded automatic weapons.
Countzero: You're right in part. If the driver takes his car onto base then he will have to have a car pass which is logged against his details for that site. However, the IT systems are site specific and it doesn't generate a generic service wide list of all cars logged against personnel i.e. if you got to another camp, you have to provide all the same details again.
Sounds like his driving is a bit (a)pache ......
Our last car was a cheeky little Clio Renaultsport. Seemingly every other white van driver would compliment me or wife about it in the queue when filling up and let you out of junctions with a cheery thumbs up. Now we have an Audi TT............let's just say you have to work harder to get out of junctions and more time to think to yourself in the petrol station 🙂 In our self build campervan that looks like a boggo white van from most angles you get acres of space to drive in. To be fair when it's raining I can see the square route of bugger all behind me so probably a good thing. From my experience your treatment on the road is effected by what you are driving at the time. Low powered vehicles making ambitious lane changes and unable to make it up to the speed of others in the lane before the car you have pulled out in front of has to put the brakes on are doing themselves no favours in the relationships stakes however. I've always used the concept that my actions behind the wheel should not force another driver to make an adjustment as a good starting point to good driving.
I don't get people getting angry behind the wheel; try as I might I can't get wound up.
I also regularly drive a little Yaris, a selection of work vans, a T4 camper van and a lovely new Passatt GTE Estate.
I seem to get the same treatment from other road users regardless of what I’m driving. Never noticed any difference at all.
Possibly related to my post in the “wife speeding” thread though, who knows 🤔
"Never noticed any difference at all."
Says more about you really, doesn't it? 😉
'Come in, close the door, DON'T SIT DOWN!'
Says more about you really, doesn’t it?
Possible, although I doubt it to be honest.
A Million trouble free miles driven in the last 14 years or so says I’m not too bad at it. 👍
And when you’re in a 15yo mangled skip on wheels that clearly doesn’t owe you anything and has various coloured paint stripes on the bumpers, even people in white Audi SUVs almost start acting like polite human beings, it’s quite remarkable. I love my van…
Genuine LOL
Not really. Both myself and my better half have noticed we get far less hassling behaviour from drivers of larger, more powerful cars when we’re driving our larger, more powerful car; my other half noticed this markedly after we got rid of her old Polo.
I've found the opposite around here. No bother at all driving around in our Polo, but tailgaters seem much more common when driving our BMW 530d MSport. People with some sort of point to prove I guess.
A million trouble free miles? neal glover - 70 000 per annum? 4 - 5 hours driving every day of the year for 14 years?
A million trouble free miles? neal glover – 70 000 per annum? 4 – 5 hours driving every day of the year for 14 years?
😁 He’s never noticed any difference in the vehicles because he’s stuck for hours each day in traffic jams.
I did 50,000 miles last year, mainly in a large company car. Very noticeably different treatment in this compared to my family small hatch, especially in the outside lane of the motorway.
Im not sure i agree with the comments re your car affecting how other people treat you, i find i get treated the same whether I’m driving the wife’s little clio, or the 15 metre bright yellow coach i drive at work, or my own Renault scenic.
i reckon how i drive is more likely to have an effect on others behaviour toward my vehicle than what i drive.
Im not sure i agree with the comments re your car affecting how other people treat you, i find i get treated the same whether I’m driving the wife’s little clio, or the 15 metre bright yellow coach i drive at work, or my own Renault scenic.
Road users don’t treat other users differently depending on the type/size of vehicle? Try finding a cyclist and asking them. 😁
I am a cyclist, (i know, a rarity on here eh)
road users don’t give a shit about me.
Or horses.
or buses.
or people.
SOME road users.
Try finding a cyclist and asking them
Not really proper users, tho. Don't even pay road tax.
