Bloody Tail GATERS

Posted by: wellyspyder on 11 July 2005

I am sick and tired of bloody tail gaters. Why do shitty drivers have to follow right up the bum? Gonna get there any faster? Like to kiss ass? Like to loose no claims? Like to loose dosh? Bloody idiots! Roll Eyes
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by Deane F
Just gradually slow down until you see "the look" on their faces - and then speed up again. Might make you later by 20 seconds though.
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by Steve Toy
I hate tailgaters, and whilst I don't resort to full-on Brake Checking that may indeed give me a nice little compo payout, simply cos I'd rather not risk my neck. I do occasionally give the brakes a good dab, and generally they do drop further behind as a result.

As a fairly "productive" driver who doesn't ever tailgate, I see things from the other side though. Whilst I've learnt that it's stupid to attempt to hurry along the driver in front by tailgating them, I do wonder if you are the sort that ambles along as a steering-wheel-holding passenger at some 10 -20 mph below the (national) speed limit.

I so, I implore you to wake up, get a fucking move on, and stop being so selfish as to fail to acknowledge the fact that roads are there for folks to travel along making reasonable progress.

The public highway is not there for your rolling picnic unless you are prepared to pull over and let those queueing behind you pass you safely at the earliest opportunity.
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by wellyspyder
quote:
Originally posted by Steve Toy:
I hate tailgaters, and whilst I don't resort to full-on Brake Checking that may indeed give me a nice little compo payout, simply cos I'd rather not risk my neck. I do occasionally give the brakes a good dab, and generally they do drop further behind as a result.

Bloody dangerous to do as mentioned re neck unless you are piloting a double or triple super long road train, then those buggers will become fly shit if they hit you when you suddenly brake!

As a fairly "productive" driver who doesn't ever tailgate, I see things from the other side though. Whilst I've learnt that it's stupid to attempt to hurry along the driver in front by tailgating them, I do wonder if you are the sort that ambles along as a steering-wheel-holding passenger at some 10 -20 mph below the (national) speed limit.

I so, I implore you to wake up, get a fucking move on, and stop being so selfish as to fail to acknowledge the fact that roads are there for folks to travel along making reasonable progress.

The public highway is not there for your rolling picnic unless you are prepared to pull over and let those queueing behind you pass you safely at the earliest opportunity.


Get off your high horse, you don't assume that I travel well below the speed limit eh? We travel at the speed limit or as conditions allow for safe communiting damm it. Its those bloody buggers who want to go faster than the speed limit that often tailgate.
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by Steve Toy
No I didn't assume, whoever you are, that you travel well below any speed limit.

REMEMBER: As a more "productive" driver, I do still suffer more than my fair share of tailgating.
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by wellyspyder
Okay Steve! Smile


I am whinging here, never gonna change stupid behaviour, the saying.......no cure for stupidity! Winker
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by Steve Toy
No worries. Smile

BTW, the gentle dabbing of brakes does work!
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by BigH47
Flash the brake lights BUT accelerate slightly as well, the tailgaiter might not have the brainpower to react to the lights. (unless you need a new rear end of course.)

Howard
Posted on: 11 July 2005 by Nime
My pet hate too. I just won't break the speed limit and it drives "them" absolutely crackers!

If the repeated dab of the brakes doesn't work and there's plenty of traffic to stop them from overtaking I just take my foot of the accelerator and coast down to to a complete hault. That drives them crackers too! Big Grin

That said it is a shame that one can't enjoy the countryside as one could in former times. These days you can't go far without picking up a tail due to the sheer weight of trafffic on the roads.

I've had Mercedes white van man try to side-swipe me off the motorway when I wouldn't break the speed limit while overtaking lorries.

My wife would like us to have a large string-powered flip-up notice in the rear window saying something like "Brown Noser!". But we're not sure of the danish equivelant, or the german, polish, latvian, french or ..... Cool
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Nime
Eureeeka! A large flip-up picture of an arsehole in the back window of the car will give them pause! Auto-mooning on demand! Big Grin

Hang on though... where can I get a large picture of an arsehole? Confused

Phritz! Are you up for this? How about you Mick? Cool
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by HTK
It’s a facet of the society we live in. Rude, stupid and me me me. It’s also a damning indictment of modern day driver training. If you’re really in a hurry to pass someone, what’s the relative position to the vehicle in front where you’re least able to see the road ahead? TBH I don’t think half of them realise they’re doing it. Had an HGV up my arse honking and flashing the other day? Why? Because I was doing 50 (well, 55 actually) through a 50 limit contraflow. Fucking morons. A plague on them all.

Ahh – that’s better
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Stephen B
I got 2 of 'em yesterday, only they were both using their mobile phones at the same time as driving 1 car length or less from my back bumper. Red Face
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by HTK
You can get away with just about anything provided you don't break the speed limit.
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Berlin Fritz
As mentioned afore in a previous tailgaters thread, I used to switch on my lights when flying down the wet M11 back to the smoke, making the wallys think I was breaking, worked every time so it did.

Fritz Von No bloody camera's then Big Grin
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Basil
quote:
Hang on though... where can I get a large picture of an arsehole?


This do?


Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Nime
quote:
Originally posted by Tarquin Maynard-Portly:

Charming, Nime.

I assume you will have no objections to future random insults from complete strangers?
Mike


Oh I can assure you that this is the perfect place to collect random insults from strangers. Mick in particular will happily share his thoughts on anybody online on the flimsiest of evidence.

But I digress. I only asked if these worldly gentleman knew where I could get a large picture of an arsehole for my patent anti-tailgater device. Seems innocent enough to me. Big Grin
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Nime
quote:
Originally posted by Basil:

This do?


Nice try Basil! What about this?
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Berlin Fritz
When I was an Apprentice A-Hole !!! Eek
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Nime
You appear to be living in a dimension at 30 degrees to the rest of us Phritz.
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by andy c
Not another traffic thread Big Grin

Eee its like being at work...
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Derek Wright
When I took a Defensive Driving Course - we were advised to allow not only for the braking distance for one's own vehicle but also for the tailgater - this allows both cars to stop safely - so one should allow at least a 4 second gap in dry conditions and more on a wet road or in poor visibility
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Steve Toy
quote:
It’s a facet of the society we live in. Rude, stupid and me me me. It’s also a damning indictment of modern day driver training. If you’re really in a hurry to pass someone, what’s the relative position to the vehicle in front where you’re least able to see the road ahead? TBH I don’t think half of them realise they’re doing it. Had an HGV up my arse honking and flashing the other day? Why? Because I was doing 50 (well, 55 actually) through a 50 limit contraflow. Fucking morons. A plague on them all.


That one's happened to me. Truck drivers continue at their governed 56 even through 50 limit contraflows. I always stick rigidly to the 50 because amongst all the cones, signs, spotlamps etc you've got unmarked police cars, GATSOs, SPECS etc. The truck driver tailgates, blows his airhorn before overtaking me. A mile later after the end of the contraflow I pass him at 85 with the victory sign out of the window!
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Berlin Fritz
10th dimension Nime me old Ice pick not 45°innit Cool


Fritz Von On my old Fairgame website I was warned about putting pictures of senior poilticians up with very abusive text next to them, strange that wunnit, then it closed down Cool
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by JonR
I think it should go in the Tate Modern Big Grin
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Berlin Fritz
quote:
Originally posted by JonR:
I think it should go in the Tate Modern Big Grin
I don't one is allowed to use Caital letters in the trhread titles, cos it ain't in der Eyeway code, innit `? Eek
Posted on: 12 July 2005 by Occean
I find the whole tailgating phenomenon very odd, I have only really started driving this year, but I have previously spent the last 8 years on a motorbike and virtually no one gives you any hassle on the road. Now changing over to a car, I swear every time I go out at some point someone sits on my tail, waiting for me to pull over, whether I am under the speed limit or way over…always happens. Its not like I am driving a slow car either.

It’s crazy, stupid, pointless and dangerous.


quote:
When I took a Defensive Driving Course - we were advised to allow not only for the braking distance for one's own vehicle but also for the tailgater - this allows both cars to stop safely - so one should allow at least a 4 second gap in dry conditions and more on a wet road or in poor visibility


More often than not when you try this on a dual carrage way they will eventually try and undertake.