"T i m" wrote in message
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I wonder what they are thinking when they sit in lane 2 (at 60 mph)
all the time when the rest of the motorway is empty (seriously)?

Is it I wonder that they are less likely to get taken off the motorway
by mistake, like they might if L1 turns off at a junction (and they
miss all the clues) or that they think it's just for lorries?

I think it's more that they want to go faster than lorries at 56 in Lane1,
and don't want to have to keep swapping between L1 and L2 every time they
meet a lorry, with the risk that they may get "trapped" in L1 by cars in L2
which won't keep enough gap from the car ahead of them to allow a vehicle to
join from L1.

I tend to drive at about 70 (I'd go at 80 if the law allowed it) and on a
motorway that has a lot of slower lorries, I mainly use L2, rarely going
into L1 except when there is a long gap to the next lorry. On a motorway
where L1 is generally going at 70, I stay in L1.

My general rule is: if traffic is going at within a couple of mph of what I
want to do, I stay put behind so as not to clog up the next lane, and if I
do move into the next lane, I aim to be doing at least 5 mph faster than the
traffic I'm overtaking. I try hard to avoid travelling at the same speed as
the vehicle my left.


I wonder whether speed limiters on lorries in the UK will tend to be
adjusted up to 60 mph (the UK limit for HGVs over 7.5 T) rather than 56 mph
/ 90 km/hr, after Brexit. No doubt foreign drivers from the EU will continue
to have their limiters at 56 but UK lorries that don't go abroad won't need
to comply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_s...United_Kingdom
(section "Speed Limiters") says that at present limiters are set at round
numbers of km/hr - so coaches are allowed to go at up to 70 mph on motorways
but are required to be speed-limited to 62 mph / 100 km/hr.