If you cant do the speed limit stay off the road, that simple
Isn't it funny how you can judge someone by what they write on ausfish. Plenty of great personalities, however......................
Jim
If you cant do the speed limit stay off the road, that simple
yeah..if it is correctly set up then the trailer brakes are applied and if the boat is correctly set up then it just stays there...but RAG...I said small tinnies..they were the headache..the larger boats I came across were no problem at all.Originally Posted by Roughasguts
There must have been a fishing comp at one of the dams as i saw quite a few boats on the highway...including the berkley boat in a roadhouse.
I know the frustration in getting caught behind all types of cars , trucks, boats, caravans. But I know that I can do the speed limit in my 4 x 4 towing the boat, even so I always try to keep left to allow anyone wanting to pass.
Peter #
Originally Posted by PinHead
MMMMMMM....easily sit on a 110.....only in that speed limited area or attract the attention of blue people....I would only move over if laned ..
Urban Myth --cannot get booked for sitting 10 k's below speed limit particularly if towing.
Law is must move over only if the road is speed zoned(multi laned) over 80KPH or signposted otherwise no offence.
Great White,
I think that's what it is all about, just sharing a bit of courtesy.
The slower driver showing a bit of courtesy to those that wish to travel at the speed limit.
And those that are stuck behind a slower vehicle showing a bit of courtesy to the others that for whatever reason are not travelling at or around the limit.
Anything else is just selfish and impatient on either side.
- Darren.
P.S. Slow drivers that stay in the right hand lane do piss me off though I must say.
As an ex-truckdriver I have learned a few things about the roads.
The vehicle in front can better see what is up ahead.
If I was slowed down by my load/vehicle/terrain combination, I would choose when it was safe and reasonable to pull over to allow those behind me to pass.
I would manage the space around my truck as much as I was able by keeping clear spaces in lanes beside me, in front and behind. This is just by careful use of the accelerator.
When going uphill and less than the speed limit, I usually moved onto the shoulder if conditions suited. When it came time to move back onto the road proper - it was sometimes a battle to get the traffic to let me in.
I learned to use my truck to my advantage. I would put on my right indicator early, wait for about 5 seconds then start to merge.
5 seconds is plenty of time for someone who is in the process of passing to get past. Others following would usually try to zoom past and make me run off the road for their convenience. - Bugger that. They were given plenty of notice - I was coming back onto the road.
I believe in being courteous on the roads because what goes around comes around. But I wont be a patsy either.
Use your indicator - (which is to indicate your intentions) allow response time, then start making your move.
It reminds me of the time I was sitting back from a truck stopped in the right lane at a set of lights. The woman in the car behind him wanted to get into the right-turn lane. She tried squeezing past him and in the process, she put a big nasty gouge along the left side of her car where she contacted the back of his tray.
The funny thing was she then pulled up along side his window and started abusing him.
when you all say that a slower vehicle should move to the left side of the road to allow you to pass, do you mean that if is a single lane road, they actually should get off the road & onto the gravel shoulder just so you can go past???? if so, not in this life people, go around when it is safe or wait untill there is a passing lane. if dual lane, yes, get over..
i must admit i will occasionally drop the trailer wheel onto the gravel in a corner if there is someone tailgating tends to throw a few rocks around & solves the problem..
Yep best way to p!ss a tail gater off, run the wheels on to the gravel and break his wind screen.
Trucks use to do it all the time 20-25 years ago, but these days the trucks and B-Doubles go like a shower off Sh!t and the drivers are fantastic. I am happy to share there lane as I know they will not do anything stupid.
Funny thing is I find the Truck lanes on the F3 Sydney New castle, a lot quicker and safer than the so called fast lanes, they just bunch up and go nowhere. The other thing I have noticed Driving the F3 for nearly 50,000 km a year is that most all crashes are cars in the fast lanes.
A marriage licence should be like your fishing licence!
Expires every year and you get a 3 day pass when you go interstate.
Well I own a campervan (1100kg) and also tow a tinny often with my 4wd, and I have to agree, people show me no consideration at all, if I leave a gap, even half a car, some d1ckweed will jump into it and we all have to brake to avoid him >
One time on the way to Pottsville for the family chrissy hols, a guy about a KM up the road from me got the scneario of no one letting him in after the overtaking lane ending, and he and his whole family and unit ended up in the bush, down a ditch, you name it.
Absolutely stuffed up their holiday plan, kids were screaming their heads off, and he and his Mrs MUST have had brown undies.. I really felt sorry for them..
Yes, towing boats and vans can make it a slower trip, and yes, there are way too many impatient buttheads out there who seem to think you will just vanish into thin air.. I think everyone just needs to learn how to share the roads better.
If men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, politicians must be from uranus ?
Have to say, Its a limit not a target! If your towing a boat and doing 90 so what?
Thats what overtaking lanes are for... to let the impatient B$#tards thru.
When I'm pulling a tonne behind me, I'm not hooning at 100, I drop back a bit, its the safe thing to do, braked as she is, she wont stop on a dime.
If so called fellow fishermen cant understand that.......... tough, like its been said before, if its such a race leave early!
my 10c
Jack
Pinhead, sounds like you have not really got a handle on it.
Jimo , you are correct , 2 lanes or when there is normally a sign that says " motorway/ freeway". The Bruce highway in QLD is little more than single lane with no shoulder , sometimes the odd overtaking lane up a hill, moreoften just a sign that says " overtaking lane 5 km".
Do not get on the shoulder of the road guys , just to let pinheads through, if it is safe yeah , but not because of some pinheads pressure.
Pinhead hope you follow me , 60 km/hr at best up hills, 80 km/hr on the flat without a drop of wind.
SLOW, but safe , i do not look at the speedo much , I do not let jerks in a hurry worry me , but yeah i'll have a go..........
saurian..are you trying to tell me that with a 4m tinnie on you go 60k/hr up a hill and 80k/hr on the flat? You either need to get a decent tow vehicle or driving lessons.
Originally Posted by PinHead
saurian..as per my post..4m tinnies