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Thailand Specials
Join Date: Aug 2009
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They got on then I moved back over. We get to the next onramp, a semi is getting on the freeway, I deliberately don't move over........ Driving instructor goes, we need to move over into the next lane to let him on, hold up you said that I shouldn't move over? NOW ISN'T THE TIME FOR ARGUING! ![]() |
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BLUE OVAL INC.
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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It’s a team activity. Nobody likes a player who hogs the ball.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2009
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It’s easier just to move over a lane to let oncoming traffic joining from a ramp.
1. The oncoming vehicles won’t be checking their mirror until the ramp dies 2 Most will have only got up to 80 kms hour and I ll be doing 100 or 110 depending on speed limit Merge like a zip is the No buzz line Merge like a drongo here in Qld |
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#245 | |||
Thailand Specials
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Most of the time it's speed up because it seems no one understands you're supposed to be doing the speed limit at the end of the ramp, not 20 under lol |
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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I had today did a run home from Cairns to just south of Rockhampton. Fair dinkum, people must htink overtaking lanes mean you have to drop the hammer. On nearly every overtaking section, I had Ma or Pa Kettle plodding along at around 10 or even 15k under the limit on perfectly safe roads. I set up for the overtake, and they drop the hammer and race me to the flamin' end. One dope even tried to tackle a B Double!! What are these clowns puttin' in their Bushells?
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There also needs to be some limits placed on where truckies are allowed to leave unused trucks/trailers. We've had a tipper hire company start using our street as their depot. Parking in and of itself wouldnt be an issue, but today they put cones out over the middle of the road blocking one side of the road off, so they could do maintenance on one of the trucks.
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Trucks are not allowed to park in suburban areas. |
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Not so much on the road but still infuriating imo (sorry if mentioned before)
At a petrol station you wait behind a car who goes in to pay......but then decides to look at drinks, chips etc and takes an eternity to return. Just move your car out of way first, don't clog up the lanes browsing the store!!! So selfish and lack of respect imo |
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Location: Sunshine Coast
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People doing a u turn from the right lane at an intersection who move into the left lane first by a metre or more because they have no idea how to drive.
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Location: Sunshine Coast
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I must pay before I move from the pump. My answer was to inform them it is not illegal provided I stay on the premises. |
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Thailand Specials
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Hell you get locked out of the joint after 10PM and you gotta pay through some prison cell window thing ![]() Relax Chachi I'm not here to steal like 45L of diesel or rob the joint for the like $36 you got in the till, just want to pay for my fuel and the occasional super rip-off snack, your tactical placement of the rip off snack doesn't work if you won't let me in the building |
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My beef with the servo's is that they're all coffee shops now.
I'm standing at an empty counter waiting to pay for fuel whilst the attendants making coffees at the other end. ...and here was me thinking this was a petrol station.
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People doing u turns at traffic lights when there is no right turn lane or even a road to the right. Had some mouth breather with qld plates stop in the right lane in a 70 zone to do this in NSW where all traffic light u turns are illegal.
Surely that’s not even legal in qld. If there’s a right turn lane I understand but not when there’s not. |
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People that stop at give way signs..... or ****s that speed up so a merge is not there
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People that use their indicators as "confirmators". This usually occurs at roundabouts.
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As in “Hey, I just changed lanes/took the exit/turned in front of you…”?
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More like arriving at a roundabout without indicating, enter the roundabout and then indicate when they begin to turn. In other words, the are not "indicating" but rather "confirming" their intention.
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No lights or sirens, and seemingly weren't in any hurry to get to a call out. Funny thing is there was a place they could legally do a u - turn about 50 metres up the road ![]() |
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N/A all the way
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Melbourne
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Roundabouts in general. Virtually no users know how they work.
95% of drivers think it is give way to the right. 95% of pedestrians think you have to give way to them as in a give way or stop sign at a regular intersection. If 4 cars enter at the same time they all legally have to give way to each other. The should be only built on ultra large intersections, at least the "give way to those already on the roundabout" can work there. One near my house the roundabout island is lucky to be 10 feet across.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS70cpQbzIw&t=351s Saw a Highway Patrol today turning the fast siren on and off behind a car who was stopped at a red light with a red light camera. I bet if the car ran the red to let police through they will still get a fine. |
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Must have been mentioned before but ... drivers at front who, when right turn green arrow comes on, stay put until the light goes off and then they turn. No one else gets through.
Or the turn arrow has gone red but the green lights are still on, meaning front car can creep into the intersection but they don't. Drivers who swing out in the opposite direction to which they are going to turn. Yesterday I got to an intersection, stopping to look both ways on a busy street before I cross, selfish idiot behind me wants to turn left so moves out to get a better view of traffic coming from the right, thus blocking my view of the left. Narrow street, parked cars, two vehicles approaching each other, one has to let the other through. Ignorant morons who don't make the simple, cost-free gesture of a hand wave to acknowledge you letting them through. |
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When you are on a road that has the slightest bumps at night and a new SUV or dual cab is behind you or coming towards you and it has Xenons.
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Formerly ST170ish
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Down south
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Bro's in their Bro dozer 4x4's that dont adjust their bazzillion LED headlights down after all the illegal mods to the height... and its ute not F'n truck Bruh!
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Two pretty obvious ones .... Any idiot that holds their phone while driving . Not kidding I reckon anyone caught breaking that rule needs to sit out at least 6 months for a first offence and at least double that if caught again . And a substantial drop in the bank balance like a grand or so if I had my way . Literally no excuse for mucking around with a phone while the vehicle is transiting anywhere .
If someone is seen fiddling with audio or climate control settings etc while dribbling along in motion is just as bad . Surprises me that UHF radio users don't get that much attention too and it'd be interesting to see if in an accident a UHF operator would be charged if they were holding a mic at the time like would be the case with a phone in hand . And ......bloody tailgaters . Why someone needs to be up the tailpipe of a car in front defies logic . Last edited by roddy1960; 25-03-2021 at 10:28 PM. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2010
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I'm on the highway and see a car trying to enter the stream so I move into the right lane to give the poor sod a chance. So the muppet does nothing and looks confused as I go by. So now I don't bother. In the past most drivers would get it and do something about it. These days I only bother to move right if a truck is trying to enter the stream from a side road or parking bay. Those guys get it and give a wave as I go past. They're professionals. Mostly. |
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