To think mopeds should do as tractors do and pull over?

[NorfolkNChance]

Another journey home after work stuck behind a moped.

These mopeds only seem to be able to 30mph max and in our country lanes cause massive tail backs.

Tractors (of which there are plenty) always pull over at the numerous lay bys on these routes but mopeds seem oblivious to the Highway Code rules about moving over when causing obstruction on the 60mph speed limit areas.

If there weren't all these lay bys available then fair enough but the moped causing the issue today passed 10 of them without considering to pull over to allow the rush hour traffic behind a chance to move on at a speed that cars are used to doing on that stretch (around 50 mph).

Why couldn't you overtake? I had to overtake a car yesterday that was doing 25mph on a 40mph road.

Overtake it. A tractor can be huge - a moped is just moped-sized.

YY. I follow two with L plates on to work most weeks. They wobble in the middle of the road at 30mph for miles before I can pass them.

My driving instructor once told me he had sat in on a moped test, everyone passed, despite two of the candidates falling off when stationary . I think that's all they need to drive on the road, a basic test, not so much focus on the Highway code.

Winding country roads with mostly double lines in the middle otherwise I'm sure many of the cars would have overtaken (I was about 10 cars behind said moped so at no point could safely overtake)

Overtaking is rarely an option in the country lanes where I live

You don't need to take a test to ride a Moped, just a CBT which should take a day.

And they teach you to ride just left of centre of your lane as it stops people just driving past you as if you were a bike

Moped/Motorbike riders are TAUGHT to drive in the centre of the road, for their own safety - if they are over on the left stupid car drivers try to skim past them and knock them over. Just because it is a 60mph limit doesn't mean you HAVE to drive at that speed. Slow down, take it easy, be tolerant to other road users.

YY OGWT - Why do people think of roads as 60 roads or 40 roads? It is the speed LIMIT - not the speed you are compelled to travel at.
A friend was actually followed home by a road-raging fuckwit the other day who bellowed at her for "only doing 40 on a 50mph road".

A vehicle moving at 30mph really is not an obstruction. It may piss you off because you want to go faster but it is doing nothing illegal.
Horses, cyclists, pedestrians, farm vehicles - all entitled to use the road without harrassment from car drivers - whatever speed they travel at.

(PS- have the misfortune to currently reside in rural Norfolk which has the highest number of tailgating twonks I have ever encountered. The entire concept of braking distance has passed this county by.)

I'm with you, Norfolk. What scares me is that often moped drivers are teenagers who have only the sketchiest idea of road safety. I am in the countryside too and often see and am part of lines of cars impatiently following a moped. Any moment one will try to overtake dangerously and then the moped rider's life is in that driver's hands. I think moped riders should be taught to pull over. It is particularly bad here at the moment when you see cohorts of school buses trudging along following one or two mopeds. Very scary.