Can someone enlighten me on what vehicles are prohibited (under normal road conditions and circumstances) from using the right hand most lane on motorways? (ie lane three/four near the crash barrier)
The reason for asking is that there appears to be a lot of what I thought were large goods vehicles using this lane, and travelling at 70+ speeds along with all the reps and car driving punters.
I am not talking R-tics here, but very large vans (sorry not an expert on makes/models) but much bigger than any transit variants but smaller than a removal van.
I just find in disconcerting when in heavy traffic moving at 60+ mph one of these vehicles wobbles out into this lane when I didn't expect it to as I thought they were precluded from using it.
[I have to say I am wise to this now and watch out for them]
Thanks
Tim (and sorry if this has been asked before)
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The following vehicles must not use the right-hand lane of a motorway with 3 or more lanes:- any vehicle with a trailer; a goods vehicle with a max laden weight over 7.5 tonnes; a bus or coach longer than 12 metres.
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Some 7.5t lorries look as though they might be HGV's. One way to check is to quickly count the wheel studs as they overtake you. 6 per wheel means that they can use the outside lane at 70mph. More than 6 per wheel means it's an HGV
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Er, I know what you mean about 7.5 tonners looking like HGVs, but as for counting the wheel studs at 70 miles/hour????
On a slightly different note - given how the governors on the modern HGVs seem to extend the time taken for one HGV to overtake another to an interminable extent, isn't it time they were banned from both lanes 3 and 4 of four lane roads? Apologies to the HGV drivers out there, but the rest of us can do 70 up hill and down dale and the gain between on governor setting and another is miniscule.
Regards
john
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john,
I did say 'quickly'. Agree with you about HGV's overtaking. I suppose the faster ones might gain a mile or a minute in a sixty mile trip.
steve
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The biggest engined Mercedes Sprinter van does 115mph on the flat. MB is now governing them back to 100mph. So don't think that what looks like a flabby large van isn't capable of getting a move on. Also remember that, as a country, we may actually be depending on it delivering goods at 100mph +.
HJ
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I shall not darken the portal of your website again.
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Why not? Isn't your opinion as good as anyone else's? And if you truly believe what you say (and the implications, given the context), does that devalue any of the other opinions you might read, both here in the Back Room and at the website generally?
Sounds to me like you're cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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Who is Kevin Alder, because I want his home address.
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HJ
just count your blessings, mate!
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Was this design spec due to head of M-B getting sick of being blown away by Astramax vans?
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Ahhhh.
But see my new post on the supposed extinct, but now resurrected Weaverbird above.
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surely the following are far more irritating on mototways:
1. middle lane dawdlers who wont pull into the slow lane even if it is empty to the distant horizon
2. tailgaters who can see the outside line is totally chokka ahead but still think being 1ft from your rear bumper will get them to their sales meeting 30 seconds earlier
3. fog lights in rain/dark/mist. THEY ARE FOR FOG.
sadly most drivers who need to act on this (especially 1 and 2) are probably the least likely ever to visit this site
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