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i do a fair bit of travelling with trailers. namely boats. and so get to see a fair bit of other peoples driving behaviour

the best are the people that wait. dont take a risk and give you a friendly toot when you get a chance to let them pass

the worse being the wanka's that hover on the back of the boat, try and pass on blind corners and dont even recognise that you did them a courtesy. (one day one of them is gonna get a propellar in their front window i tell ya)

so. honestly now.......

what do you fall in........

Im definetly a "honk giver" for good driving practice a freindly wave doesnt go astray either

I reckon more people need to start being friendly when you give way to them so they can pull out into traffic.

sometimes, this isn't because im sometimes kind to other road users, its that sometimes those other road users are blind deaf and dumb
I am absolutely blown away when people towing pull onto a shoulder at the entrance to a town or keep left and at consistant speed, you will get a wave and even a honk

People who tow and speed up for passing lanes, creep round twisty corners and act like arseholes on straights, they dont get a friendly wave and no honk for then

Post Whore wrote:
People who tow and speed up for passing lanes, creep round twisty corners and act like arseholes on straights, they dont get a friendly wave and no honk for them

Precisely usually they get a finger out the window just for my troubles

M R 2 Mk1 wrote:

Post Whore wrote:
People who tow and speed up for passing lanes, creep round twisty corners and act like arseholes on straights, they dont get a friendly wave and no honk for them

Precisely usually they get a finger out the window just for my troubles

i knew if i didn't say it then someone would say it for me

Yup I always give a friendly honk as i rip past in 3rd...or 4th

I will however be one of these tailgaters if you arent pulling over when you notice me fly up from out of no where and decide to make me wait.

Im generally patient, but if you have a line of cars behind you and you are doing 60-80....yes well....

if perchance the guy reads this thread.....

hope you liked the look of the prop. next time i hope it goes through your windscreen...

<<< said wanker was following WAY to close and couldnt slow enuf when some1 pulled out in front of me. he got a good look at the bottom end of my motor lol

i definately won't drive up sum1's ass when they tow a boat or trailer simply becuase i've done it allot myself and do realize how it feels when some people do it.

i reckon wait untill the opportune moment and give a friendly honk and a wave when passing

you will find im a real courteous driver if people show the same courtesy to me...i ALWAYS give a friendly wave or honk to ANYONE who pulls over to let me by, or lets me into the flow of traffic, etc and will usually show the same courtesy when the situation is reversed.
After all, who sez they arent gonna be the ones saving yo azz 10kms down the road when sum dipstick pulls out on u and writes u off. Could be your next boss, or even ya future mother/father-in-law!!! Who knows?

Look ahead people! It's surprising how small a world it is! Ran into HEAPS of people in my time that i have known thru TOTALLY unrelated circumstances.

And for another take on it: that late model hsv hounding your tail could be the one that gets pulled over for speeding INSTEAD of u (failsafe radar detector that one), so let him by eh? *cough* Not that we would ever speed, would we people? lol *cough*

When I get to a passing lane, and I'm happy to tootle along at 80/90 (regardless of whether or not I'm towing something) - I actually let off the throttle. This is so the car passing me can get past without having to go unnecessarily fast (there are some nastily cambered passing lanes up north).

I've even towed a loaded trailer and quite happily let a lines of cars zip past me - they build up over less than a few km's. It's good karma I tell you!

My proudest moment was when I was travelling at 100, and a much quicker driver (around corners) caught me on a hill. We crested over the top, short passing lane, I stayed left and lifted off the gas. He (and she) went past, tooted, flashed hazards and pulled back in. At the end of the passing lane (over another small crest) sat a highway patrol unit.
If I hadn't dropped my speed to allow them to pass quicker, they'd have been hit by the laser.

I was quite chuffed.

Well I always without a doubt give a toot and a wave out the back window to everyone who pulls over to let me by. Weather there towing something or not its just really good of them, I mean its not like they have to get out of your way or anything.

I always wave if people pull over...I generally try to be a courteous driver, but some people oughtn't be allowed on the road!

I give them a toot if i remember or a wave out the sunroof. But the ones that dont pull over for AGEEESSS i give them the bird

If someone makes the effort to let you go past, then I try to toot...Just that the horn buttons on the wheel are set up for thumbs(not in the centre like "normal cars")and when your weaving all over the road they sometimes don't fall readily to hand...so some people miss out.

Mmm, Boost wrote:but some people oughtn't be allowed on the road!

Amen to that.

Especially the drivers that speed up when u try to overtake them

semloshen wrote:Especially the drivers that speed up when u try to overtake them

Note to the Audi A6 wagon that tried to not let me pass up the Whangamoa incline passing bay.....ever been off the clock going UP a hill?

I subscribe to the "flash of the hazzard lights" school of thanking, picked it up from the truckies.

Al wrote:

semloshen wrote:Especially the drivers that speed up when u try to overtake them

Note to the Audi A6 wagon that tried to not let me pass up the Whangamoa incline passing bay.....ever been off the clock going UP a hill?

Same thing to the mitsi turbo wagon (not a legnum the gsr motored ones) just south of sanson in the new passing lanes been cruising along about 80 kms then decideds to gas it when i pull out to pass! Hmm bit of a no no as he found out probably to his disgust to be passed slowly but surely up a hill by a 20 valve

but yeah i prescribe to the same method of thanking people as jools after driving trucks for a bit!

last time someone stopped us from passing by swerving into the passing lane to stop us, we *555'd them, rang in saying this cars swerving all over the road they seem drunk, we kept following them and sure enough they got pulled over

I acknowledge acts by any driver which demonstrate the concept of thinking about other motorists... or just commonsense.

This includes not only trailers that make room to pass but also people who make a space for left turners at intersections, people who dont park across intersections (!) and all the rest.

Admitt it, you like to be acknowledged... so give it out ! That feel-good feeling.. hehe