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A short stint to 140+ is quite easy in a modern car and when overtaking, 100% of your attention should be on the job at hand. This should be within reason of course, just because you've overtaken someone when an overtaking lane is present, doesnt mean you should maintain that speed for the remaining length of that lane. |
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I always thought that law had been in existance forever, just no one paid attention to it.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Hervey Bay
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I really think we need legislation that enables police to fine people if they are not keeping within say 5% of the posted speed limit.
Keep traffic moving, keep everyone happy. Then there would be less of a need to overtake at silly speeds and break laws to get around one of the lowest common denominator drivers that seem to populate our roads these days. I got caught behind 5 nose to tail cars while driving between Canberra and Cooma one fine morning. The lead car varying between 80 and 90 in a 100 zone. None of the trailing 4 were willing to overtake on a perfectly straight road with unlimited visibility, so I took it upon mysef to act and quickly cleaned them all up. Only to be met by Mr Plod as I was coasting down. Interesting trying to explain that I was eager to make Cooma as the previous nights mega AGB was about to hit and tweedle dumb and friends refused to go the posted limit. Still got fined. But I maintain had those morons been doing the speed limit, I was more than happy to follow, not risk a high speed over take and it would have saved me $228. |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Centrefold Lounge
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The best thing I've ever seen regarding this law was going to work a few weeks ago, I live out in rural Victoria, anyways I was cruising at a leisurely 90 in a 100 zone going to work (whats the damn rush to get to work?), anyways I left a big gap in front of the car ahead, in case anyone wants to overtake they can safely get in front of me instead of having to overtake two cars.
Anyways, the car ahead of me, started to slow down to about 80, I slowed keeping my distance, three or four cars overtook both of us and they all got done by a mobile speed camera haha. |
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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'Cops not cameras' I say. (Taken from GB - a campaign which seems to have worked thanks to the conservatives).
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The pruck in the left sped up and held me on the wrong side too. I was seething for the rest of the trip so you can see that on this topic I'm being very restrained with my views Under the law, you have no right to exceed the speed limit to pass someone and remember if you get caught doing 20 kph or over twice inside 12 months, your open license is gone in Queensland. |
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You are also to take all reasonable measures to avoid an accident. So if I am overtaking a slower car and doing the speed limit, and a car suddenly appears to be approching, i have the choice to accelerate or brake. Heavy braking may make the car unstable and it may spin out of control if the brakes lock. So i decide the safer option is to accelerate if safe to do so and avoid an accident. Thems the laws i'm affraid.....
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Having covered over 2 million kilometres as a rep my whole worlking life I am still infuriated beyond belief by imbeciles who sit on a single lane country road either doing less than the limit or varying their speed wildly . If there is a single lane road and the speed limit is 100 KMH you should be booked and fined the same for doing 20 kilometeres per hour under the limit as for doing 20 kilometeres over the limit . And as previously mentioned if you are not going to overtake the car ahead you should sit 200 metres behind it or get booked also . If these 2 things were enforced the road toll on country roads would drop dramatically . The amount of times i have seen accidents because someone is driven to distraction by one of these motoring morons is alarming . People just get so frustrated they end up making and overtaking manouvre they would never normally consider doing , hell I'm guilty of it a few times . As for the absolute arrogant XXXXwits who suddeny discover the accelerator the instant you go to overtake them they should be shot on sight . That is akin to attempted murder nothing short of it and should be treated as such , I am 1,000.000 % deadly serious when I say they should serve serious gaol time for it . Someone said earlier in this post that they are doing it subconsciously , if that is the case they should not be on the road at all under any circumstance as they are obviously incapable of controlling a car . Here endeth the rant from a very frustrated driver .
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if Damo is leaving plenty of room for people to overtake him what's the problem? I haven't done 200000000000 klms or anything, I've only averaged about 150 a day in a small truck for most of my working life, but if it has taught me anything it's that there are a hell of a lot of stupid people with very short tempers out there and you just have to learn to accept that and just stay safe and sensible out there. |
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I drive Interstate for a living with Trucks that are speed limited to anything between 99 and 104kmh. If a car overtakes me with his cruise set on 105 he spends a bloody long time on the WRONG side of the road to get past 26 metres of Truck. An unwritten law (in Transport) on single lane roads is that if another Truck pulls out to overtake me - remembering that there is probably only a 3kmh speed difference - I back off to about 80kmh until he's past then we both go on our way. He's around me safely and I've lost about 15sec in time. Win Win. As far as I'm concerned the less time spent on the wrong side of the road better. The Enemy is over there ![]()
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Size it up
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: big blue ball of mostly water
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Didn't the police used to teach overtaking as quickly as possible? |
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I would take the bus, that would work excellently but theres no such thing as public transport here in Rural Victoria. It would save me a fair bit of dosh, rather than doing 500km a week just to get to and from work. You can drive me to and from work though ![]() Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 30-07-2010 at 10:49 PM. |
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