To say the fast lane doesn’t bloody exist?

[Brigleylake]

I’ve been driving back to work recently on an A road with two lanes, usually doing 70-75 max. I don’t want to drive in the “slow lane” and do 50/60 with tractors and lorries etc but I don’t want to be doing 90 either.

For the last week, every single day I’ve been tailgated dangerously and swore at twice! Doing 70 in the “fast lane”. Friend says it’s because that lane is for doing 80 plus!

That isn’t the law though, 70 is the law, and the “fast lane” doesn’t exist. I’m really sick of feeling forced on the other side to trudge along slowly when all I want to do is abide the law!

AIBU?

I was taught that once you have overtaken a vehicle, you then move back to the left hand lane [ lane one on a motorway ]. You do not stay in the outside lane [ lane 3 ] or the middle lane just because you don't want to be stuck behind a slower vehicle.
If you are sticking to the outside lane then you are in the wrong. It doesn't matter if you are doing the correct speed for the road, you do not stay in that lane, you move across to the left lane and let idiots that want to drive faster do just that.
There is no such thing as a slow or fast lane. The highway code will tell you how to drive in the correct lanes

You are absolutely not using the right hand correctly. For all the reasons explained. You need to learn to overtake and then pull back in.

So what about the drivers (and there are many of them) that drive the whole way of their journey for miles and miles down the right hand lane?

They're fucking idiots too.

To the on call doctor - I’ve commented on your comments on this before. There’s a ‘bloody good reason’ why you should never ever ever be doing 110mph on a road unless you have passed a high speed driving course and have a siren on. If you had a siren on I am sure very few people would block you in.

nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut

Well said.

The fact that there's other poor driving behaviours doesn't mean it's ok to hog the outside lanes.

@nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut

The right lane is for overtaking. You shouldn't be in it unless you are actively overtaking another vehicle. You need to drive in the leftmost lane.

You're effective blocking the whole road unless they undertake you so I'm not surprised you've been tailgated and sworn at; get out of the bloody way!

The OP is only blocking the whole road if there is space for them to move back into the left hand lane. If there isn't, and instead there is a steady stream of traffic travelling at 60mph in the left hand lane, with no gaps for the OP to move into, and the OP is travelling at 70mph overtaking those cars/lorries/tractors, then you stay in the overtaking lane until there is a suitable gap in the left lane for you to move into. If this is the situation, would people really expect someone to force their way into a gap which doesn't exist in the left hand lane?

@nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut

The right lane is for overtaking. You shouldn't be in it unless you are actively overtaking another vehicle. You need to drive in the leftmost lane.

You're effective blocking the whole road unless they undertake you so I'm not surprised you've been tailgated and sworn at; get out of the bloody way!

If the person in front of you is doing 70 and you want them to get out of the bloody way so you can go faster, then unless your vehicle is fitted with blues and twos it is you who is in the wrong.

@Tambora if they're doing 70 and still sitting in the right hand lane when they can go back into the left hand lane they're still in the wrong.

If you can see you can't overtake because there's no space on front of the car your overtaking then why attempt to overtake in the first place?

Because they're travelling faster than the LH lane.

[quote BoredatHome321]@Tambora if they're doing 70 and still sitting in the right hand lane when they can go back into the left hand lane they're still in the wrong.[/quote]
I wasn't suggesting that at all.

The whole point of my argument is that if they are sitting in the right hand lane doing 70 and zooming past numerous other vehicles going more slowly in the left hand lane, with barely any gaps to pull into, then they are overtaking. Why should they have to drastically slow down and shoehorn themselves into a too-small gap, just so they can get out of the way of someone who thinks they are far too important to drive at the speed limit?

@Tambora Yeah I totally agree. People are impatient however, it does bug me when they're going 65mph

And if they ARE overtaking then it's fine. But if they aren't then they need to move. They shouldn't be in that lane unless overtaking. Doesn't matter what speed they are travelling at, they still shouldn't be there.

@poppycat10

The best one is when you pull out into the middle lane to let someone come onto the motorway at a junction and they then proceed to race and undertake you. Erm - I'm in the middle lane so you could get onto the motorway! Idiots.

Ha ha, but what you're doing isnt right either, you shouldn't pull into the middle lane to let someone one the motorway. The standard of motorway driving is awful in the UK

Highway code states
259
Joining the motorway. When you join the motorway you will normally approach it from a road on the left (a slip road) or from an adjoining motorway. You should

give priority to traffic already on the motorway
check the traffic on the motorway and match your speed to fit safely into the traffic flow in the left-hand lane
not cross solid white lines that separate lanes or use the hard shoulder
stay on the slip road if it continues as an extra lane on the motorway
remain in the left-hand lane long enough to adjust to the speed of traffic before considering overtaking.