to think there should be a law against...

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Tractors, cyclists, learner drivers, old doddery drivers, trailers, farm traffic, and generally slow ass people driving half the speed limit from being on the roads during rush hour?

This morning on my way to an important meeting miles away (that I don't have the option of leaving any earlier for due to childcare) a tractor stays in front of me and 30 odd other cars for over 20 miles, going 28mph and not pulling in.

Driving home there is a lane closed on the dual carriageway and I'm stuck behind a car going 30mph for several miles creating a huge tailback.

Then on the school run where I only have fifteen minutes to drive five miles due to work, I am behind a learner again making me late.

Don't even get me started on those who think the national speed limit is 40. Which appears to be 75% of drivers. Or people who drive REALLLLLLY slowly when the traffic lights turn green and I then have to wait again as they've turned red.

This is my life on a daily basis, it's driving me insane. I am late for everything all of the time and I don't have the option to leave earlier with the school run/work.

Cyclists are doing everyone a favour by not being fat lump drains on the NHS.

Maybe s/he was a learner tractor driver?

If it's happening every day then the problem is clearly that you are seething off too late, not that the rest of the world is too slow.

Sorry I'm still getting used to this not being able to edit stuff. I meant to say that I agree with you!

I want a tractor that can do 60...

Seething off a spelling error but quite apt too

Perhaps, if the traffic is heavy everyday and there simply isn't any wiggle room in your desperately important schedule. ... you should consider some childcare. As if you' are genuinely constantly late for work you'll be damaging your employability (unless of course you are actually secretly princess of the universe as your attitude suggests).
Don't moan. Do something about it.

There should also be a law against people overtaking me on the duel carriage way when I'm doing a stead 70, and pulling in in front of me doing 70.5 mph a few meters from my bumper. Why????

Drives me absolutely bonkers. By all means overtake me and my lovely fiat 500, but don't you dare slow me down afterwards.

I agree it is annoying. SLow drivers really frustrate me. Like when they turn a corner at 5 mph or slow down when JOINING the MWay. WTF??

ARE YOU KIDDDING!!!!!!! get over yourself, leave earlier. those Tractors, trailers and farm traffic are all working, to feed you!!! We don't take them out for the sake of it on a jolly you know.

If you're fed up of being late then set off earlier, it's not rocket science!

If you can't set off earlier then that's your problem, not theirs.

We were all learner drivers once and we'll all be old and doddery one day and farmers have to work too!

Oren I agree. Especially when one lorry going 50.2mph overtakes another lorry going 50.3mph on the dual carriageway. Why?!?!?!

You sound like your anger will one day cause a very serious accident.

Why were you driving and on mums net at the same time?

Ahh sorry it was this morning my mistake!

a tractor stays in front of me and 30 odd other cars for over 20 miles, going 28mph and not pulling in

That didn't happen though, did it? It was more like 2 miles, wasn't it?

Three it was genuinely at least 15 miles I'd say, all the way to the neighbouring town along a country lane. We have a lot of country lanes here being in the middle of nowhere.

Some drivers do need to be shot.

One lane approaching a junction where the green light lets through about five cars, if no-one dawdles. Third green light since I arrived in the queue, and it's my turn to get through. Woman in front of me decides to stop at green light so both of us can wait for the next one. I think maybe she just wanted more time to decide which of the two options at the junction she wanted to take. There is no significant difference in travelling time to any destination no matter which option you take. (You can effectively switch to the other option a block later.)

Near me there is a road with a National Speed Limit and a speed camera. I have nearly totalled my car many times when a knobend in front of me has slammed their brakes on to crawl through at some random speed like 47 or 35.3. I shout ' what can you possibly think the speed limit is to go at 47!!???' but since I can't overtake them owing to a hillbrow ahead, they don't hear me...

I wouldn't mind of they were generally slow, it's the stupidity and lack of knowledge of the Highway Code.

And don't get me started on people in the wrong lane at roundabouts.

Oh, God, yes, and this:

one lorry going 50.2mph overtakes another lorry going 50.3mph on the dual carriageway. Why?!?!?!

Don't even get me started on those who think the national speed limit is 40. Which appears to be 75% of drivers.

At least where I live there are plenty of national speed limit roads which would be suicidal to drive down at 60 (unlit, shady, very windy roads without space for two cars to pass except at passing points etc.). Some bits even 40 would be crazy. Less experienced drivers are also going to have to take it slower than people who know the roads well and have been driving for longer. If I get stuck behind a slower driver I keep back and wait - if I can tell the person behind wants to go faster I pull over to get rid of them.

A tractor is only allowed to drive at 40kmph/ 25mph, so cannot go any bloody faster.

"Inconsiderate driving" which inconveniences other drivers actually is an offence, though prosecuted mainly when it occurs on motorways.

As for saintly farmers - everyone is working, lots of us are doing jobs which are necessary for society to function the way most people like it to, but that doesn't give anyone special privileges to be inconsiderate. I grew up in a rural area and the young farmer lads sometimes loved to laugh about how many suits they'd held up refusing to pull over and seeing how much of a tail back they could build up behind them - their parents might not have been so amused, but that didn't mean it didn't happen. Big farm machinery causes a lot of damage to legally parked cars, grass verges and people's garden walls and fences because some (not all, a minority, but some) farmers think they are above the law in the countryside and somehow the only ones whose work matters.

Obviously you ARE being unreasonable.

However, I am 97.5% convinced that farm workers stop all farm work at 4:30 and climb into their tractors to drive around country lanes for an hour and a half... before returning to whatever they were doing before their mandated drive...

Tractor driver husband says if he pulled in to a layby then he wouldnt be able to get put again. He needs to move tractor between fields and farms so he can get on with his 12 hr day (thats just in winter, its longer in summer). Cant wait in case it rains etc.

And i assume you like eating food the food farmers produce so therefore should have no problem with that.

I have patience with learner drivers, we were all one once. No-one is born being able to drive.

Tailgating learner drivers seems to be the norm round here. Oh and giving them a toot of the horn if they are taking a bit too long.