Originally Posted By Burgundymog
Originally Posted By PeterG
Originally Posted By Burgundymog
Originally Posted By PeterG
On dual carriageways and motorways you can undertake slower vehicles.

"stay in your lane if traffic is moving slowly in queues. If the queue on your right is moving more slowly than you are, you may pass on the left" from the Highway code.

I was also told by a senior traffic officer that if there is not a queue and you travel for x amount of distance (I think it was a mile) then you may undertake by giving the driver ahead notice by indicating, flashing and sounding your horn as you go past on the nearside. This as you can imagine doesn't tend to go down well in general with the driver ahead wink

The general standard of driving in the UK especially on national speed limit roads is pretty poor. Seems even worse the more lanes there are. When did the inside lane become a lorry only lane on motorways? Seems that way to me anyway.


Not true, you can only undertake in slowly moving congested traffic. Undertaking in a left lane and then pulling into a right lane is not allowed. Careless Driving.


Thanks for the clarification Keith, do you know at what point i.e. distance, you are allowed to pull back into the outside lane or was this traffic officer talking bs? I can't ask him as he passed away the other year. It was told on a driving course by him.


Basically he was talking BS. There is no fixed distance when you can move into right lane.


Thats Laindon traffic officers (Sergeant) for you wink