To get the rage at this type of driver

[Wowthishurtsalot]

The ones who have no awareness of other road users and crawl down a slip road joining a major A or M road at just enough speed to get them ahead of a convoy of lorries or other slow drivers leaving you stranded and trying to join the road from a standing start once the convoy has passed.

This happens all the bloody time to me as I commute on a busy A road that is linked to a couple of major ports so the inside lane has times where, I presume, streams have come off the ships and are all on the road at the same time.

It's so infuriating and dangerous!

AIBU?

Seen it happen once in my life. And there was a gap, they were just inept. I don't know where you're all driving that (gridlock aside) motorways are nose to tail and you queue at slip roads on a regular basis.

Yy comito.
OP yanbu.

I used to have to join a busy A road from a slip road. The slip road was accessed via a very sharp bend from a minor road. My little car doesn't do 0-60 in point 2 seconds. I frequently had irate Audi/BMW drivers behind me.
Except... the slip road had two lanes and they could easily have overtaken me and whizzed off at eleventy billion miles an hour if they'd not been such twats.

The highway code specifically says you must not stop on the slip road, so stopping for a gap in the traffic is a big no no. Obviously that's assuming the traffic is actually moving.

As someone joining the motorway, you have to defer to traffic already on the road. However, this doesn't mean you can't adjust your speed accordingly, indicate and move into a gap.

Also, 99.9% of traffic already on the motorway will move out of the inside lane near a slip road to allow traffic to join. The exceptions are a) they are too dim to notice, b) they are can't move over because they are an HGV or there is heavy traffic, c) they are a bloody-minded idiot intent on asserting their right of way.

If you match the speed of the traffic on the motorway, indicate and watch out for a space you can move into, there should be no need to slow to a crawl on the slip road. If you do slow to a crawl it will be even harder to join.

people who are either unaware of the speed limit or who are so pig ignorant they go at whatever speed they fancy

Or are they people who are driving to the conditions rather than some arbitrary number?

Luis, in 20 years of driving I reckon I have had to stop on a sliproad once or twice, when a fairly inexperienced driver. It is usually possible to judge the speed of the traffic and slot in, which is what you should do.

Where we live (near a major A road and not far from a motorway junction) most of the slip roads are pretty long with decent visibility which makes it quite easy to slot in to the traffic already on the road. There is absolutely no need to crawl up the slip roads doing 30 mph but people do, and lots of times I've seen them join the busy A road at 30 odd, 40 at best, and almost cause an accident.

YANBU OP. It's one of my pet hates as well.

No roger. They're simply unaware/ignorant.

My local motorway is the M25. I often have to stop on the slip road to join it because:
traffic is so solid, it is all moving at about 70 with no gaps in between, and no room to move out of the nearside lane
traffic is so solid it is stationary with no gaps in between
the nearside lane is solid with HGVs which can't move out to let you in