Best intentions, then you lose your momentum. Seen plenty of lorries get going and then flub just as they hit the head wind of the lorry their trying to overtake.
Seems evil but I'm sure almost all of the thousands of lorry drivers wouldn't do that intentionally but one might. |
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I think it's what's known in the trade as a "loadblock"
With the ups & downs on the A30 in Devon and Cornwall I'm quite used to it - Sourton hill in particular is a HGV momentum killer - especially eastbound - I'm often behind two lorries here for 5 + miles!  |
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It’s some drivers mentality, they’re probably stubborn and one doesn’t want to give quarter to the other.
As a former LGV driver. I like to think that I was a courteous one, and recognised when the speed differential was minimal. I’d lift off the shouty pedal and drop back. It didn’t hold me up any, and didn’t create the rolling 56.2moh rolling roadblock. |
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Downhill I'll overtake cars easy enough uphill with 44 tonne it's anyone's guess it's not intentional if a lorry is struggling to pass me ill back off a little bit so they can pass some won't do the same but sometimes with how drops are planned 2 miles an hour on a 10 hour day of driving can make the difference to being on time or late |
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"Downhill I'll overtake cars easy enough uphill with 44 tonne it's anyone's guess it's not intentional if a lorry is struggling to pass me ill back off a little bit so they can pass some won't do the same but sometimes with how drops are planned 2 miles an hour on a 10 hour day of driving can make the difference to being on time or late "
Driving a lorry, particularly long distance, is all about maintaining momentum and keeping your average speed up. People say “1/2 mph makes no difference”, but over a 56 hour driving week, that’s 28 miles, or 1/2 hour pretty much, which is enough to catch or miss a delivery, or a ferry, and is very often the difference between home in your own bed Friday night, or not until Saturday afternoon. Given the choice between getting past someone, or spending the weekend in a lay-by, I know which one I’d choose.
That said, if ever I had someone stuck outside me unable to get past, it’s only right to ease off enough to let them pass. |
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Had to follow 15 miles spoof
Got to the end the 2 lorries responsible got stuck in the exit dual lane
Side to side between lampposts & exit sign, kerbs
One stuck in the cab the other fuming foreign expletives both laden
Like squashed crammed marshmellow |
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I'm a Lorry driver in the USA. There's some good ones and some boneheads. Maintaining a constant speed is very important to fuel economy. That being said, I slow down and let the other guy pass, if he's taking too long to pass me. |
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Don't have that issue in a V8 haha. I'm one of the lucky ones, who has a truck that will do 59 before restrictor kicks in (62 before I get an overspeed) but majority of the time I see it, chances are it's not done internationally, but bit of curtesy driver in lane 1 could lift a little to get that past
The question that should be getting asked is..... car drivers on dual carriage ways and motorways, why are you going so dangerously slow that hgvs are having to either brake or overtake you? |
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" The question that should be getting asked is..... car drivers on dual carriage ways and motorways, why are you going so dangerously slow that hgvs are having to either brake or overtake you?"
This. ^^^ |
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"Worst is when you just pass and the nob on the inside gets a bit of overspeed and you have to start all over again
Twats lol"
And the ones that are loaded and your empty but your both 56 but he’s hit a little incline and then you get all the way along side and his cabs about 5 ft from your rear and he’s back up to speed and will just stay there and not let ya back in!! There first class cunts  |
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It’s not as bad now most are automatic but when you had manual gears and you lost your speed it took ages to go back up the gears. So as for the question it all depends on the driver being overtaken a given rule is to drop bk abit and allow truck to pass but some are wankers. But my pet hate is car drivers that go slow till you try and overtake then they speed up |
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