thomas said:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENVKeKLW6FU
The video may not have finished uploading yet, but there's the link. The video quality should get better.
Had a fantastic lorry overtake this morning. I wasn't really expecting trouble, but I'm always cautious after I've nearly had a few overtake into me....but I wasn't quite expecting the lorry to be completely over the other side and to give me about a mile of space.
Might be worth emailing that video to TNT with a 'thank you' - particularly if the reg number of something else is identifiable on the back of the truck (couldn't see anything on YouTube but presumably the original video is a bit cleaner). Does no harm for them to know when they're appreciated.
I had a similar incident on my commute lately - coming into East Kilbride from Strathaven, the road becomes 50mph limit dual carriageway, and then on an uphill a road merges in from the left. Beyond the merge point there's an unbroken double white line between the two lanes for about 300 metres to the top of the hill. It's the one section of the commute I hate - you can't reasonably hold the lane (even though for certain you will overtake everything that passes you in the queue at the next roundabout, so it wouldn't hold them up any to just be patient and wait behind). So you end up going up hill with faster moving traffic passing you on both sides, and it really isn't fun; normally no-one lets you merge left until you hit the queueing traffic, which is normally beyond the top of the rise.
So one day last week, a Builder Centre/Plumb Centre truck was coming up the slip road just when I got by the merge point. He slowed right down to allow me to merge in front of him, and then made no attempt to overtake (although I went over to secondary position to let him get by).
Downright gentlemanly and hearwarming, almost makes up for the Sainsbury's artic which consistently passes too close on bends.
