RANT! Angry with other road users!

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OK, so anyone that drives horseboxes will be aware of the stupid things people do to get past you, but this morning was just unreal!
I was driving a mare and foal back from a covering, and driving up a small lane, uphill. The road is narrow, and usually have to slow right down and pull in to let oncoming cars past. Then I spot in my mirror a big BMW with irate woman driving trying to overtake me! Waving her hands and swearing cus she can't get past! There's no way she could see what was coming, and in order to let her past I would've had to drive on the verge! Which of course I was never gonna do with half a million pounds worth of horses on the back!
Unbelievably, she pushed her way past, missing the side of the box by inches, then sped off still waving her arms!
What is wrong with people? Why endanger other roadusers just to get where you're going 30 seconds quicker? She had a very distinctive personal number plate, and if I see her again I'll give her a piece of my mind! Rant over.
Anyone else have some box driving horror stories?
 
We had a barney with a woman in a RR on the way back from an event, she tried to overtake our lorry on a single track road on a blind bend, then claimed we had hit her, which we hadn't. Total fruit loop then stood bickering with us til we threatened to call the police at which point she jumped back in her car & sped off.

Some people shouldn't be allowed out in public let alone given cars!
 
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I agree with that, I don't drive boxes so no stories but could give a very long list of people just trying to overtake me in general either when riding or driving (car).
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some road users are utter ***** and will kill someone one of these days
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I don't drive a box either but see people behaving like idiots trying to get past them. Even when I am out riding people act as if they own the road!! - was once out riding with my friend once and a woman refused to pull over in a layby to let us carry on on our way. She kept coming towards us and we were forced to try and squeeze a 16.2 and 15.2 into a tiny gap. The driver then decided to shout at us and tell us she had the right of way!!!!!! Think she was confused!!
 
recently someone shot round the inside of me on a roundabout (I was in lorry) then turned left, without checking they ahd cleared me (think they forgot I was moving too). They went straight into my cab door. £1500 damage to my lorry.
 
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I could say a lot about stupid things that people do in cars but I'm also very aware that I am far from a perfect driver myself so maybe I'd better not!
 
When we moved Molly, Hubby and friend were in the horsebox, I was in my car ahead of them.

Two cars overtook us on a country lane. The second car stopped a few hundred yards ahead, wife got out of the car to open their gates and took about 10 minutes doing so
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Why on earth did they bother overtaking on a narrow country lane only to stop a minute later and hold us all up
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"Nowt stranger than folk!"
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My instructor, their kid and five horses got toppled into a ditch and lorry was totalled because two berks decided to overtake and shunted each other. Luckily all OK.
Even in a hurry that is one vehicle where you just slow the hell down and think "it's not worth it."
Same with a school bus.
 
People need educating to realise that the road is a public highway to get from a to b, not a bloody race track for their twattin souped up 25 litre 0 to 60 in a billionth of a second phallic status symbol peice of metal shite, bloody fed up of being told to save the planet and yet car makers are churning out BMW Mercs Audi Aston Martins ect ect ect with 4 litre plus engines which are totally unsuitable for todays busy congested roads, and it's not like they are towing anything to need that many horsepower, now with the budget those of us with a legit reason to have a 4x4 to tow with are going to PAY AGAIN for the fashion bimbos who have to have the latest 10 litre JCB earth mover just to take Tristan and Mimi to nursery,
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bollocks bollocks bollocks
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Pendantic, totally understand, but, I have the new Audi Q7 and I get more to the gallon than I do the 1.4 Fiesta, the new 4x4's now are so much economical.

Its the old gas guzzelers than should be banned from the road churning out black smoke that makes you choke, how they pass the emissions test is beyond me.

I'm not a fashion bimbo , I go to the yard in the early hours with bed hair, god help me if I met anyone I knew, I look a sight .But I do take my 2 kids to school and its great for having a nosey as you are quite high up.

No its not a status symbol, its just great for towing .

Its the teenagers , lads in particular racing round in their corsas with go faster stripes that need taking off this planet, they have no regard for anything or anyone.They are complete Kn*bs!.
 
A woman driving a BWM...it's all there really isn't it.

Uh oh! I'm off to the fallout shelter now
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Oh, and I too have been squeezed onto a stone wall by some inconsiderate pratt who was in too much of a hurry to wait the few moments it was going to take me to get to a wider part of the road. Second time it happened, the lady in the large red people carrier (with Tristan and Mimi) ended up with an unfortunate scrape on the side of her car from a stirrup iron...it really was an accident...no, honest IT WAS!

She drove off and I was SO tempted to report her for leaving the scene of an accident and failing to report, but she was probably unaware, of both the scrape or me and the horse.

Last, nearly got hit while riding the horse by another lady in another people carrier doing about 60 around a bend (30mph limit) half on my side of the road, but she had a really good reason, I mean you can't look at the road, steer AND put a new CD in the Hi-Fi can you?
 
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PMSL I'm having that made into a bumper sticker!
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Pedantic, I get the feeling you don't like filthy journos, but might I ask if you had ever considered penning a newspaper column?

And as a female, apologies, and I have said this before, but women drivers are the main lunatics I come across while hacking. Boy racers around us have been known not only to slow down, but to turn the engines off.
 
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the road is a public highway to get from a to b, not a bloody race track for their twattin souped up 25 litre 0 to 60 in a billionth of a second phallic status symbol peice of metal shite

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PMSL I'm having that made into a bumper sticker!
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As long as I get royalties
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around our way there are workers re doing all the wires on the telegraph poles, they seem to keep all the vehicles somewhere near our livery yard as we have passed them every morning for the last fortnight, usually around the same place on the single track road we use to get to the field. The guys in the first van with the crane thingy on are great,they actually stop and turn the engine off (not that they need to ) the next few stop so we can get the nags passed. i guess by now they know there is 99% chance that they are going to come across the horses along that stretch of road somewhere..apparently one doesnt..this is the guy who usually brings up the rear in his landrover & trailer, he is always a few minutes behind the convoy, the other day he came down the road so fast ,clocked us and he had to drive onto the verge which is luckily wide enough to take a vehicle while desperately trying to slow down! you would have thought that after 2 weeks he would know we would be on that road somewhere!!
 
The roads up here are terrible for that. We don't have dual carriageways really and lots of lorries = suicidal overtaking. I had a head on collision happen right in front of me on the A9 a couple of years ago. What a fright I got. Thank god my car had good brakes. We also have a big problem with (proper big red) deer jumping out in front of you.

PMSL at Pedantic - I totally agree!!
 
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