Highway patrol

I started this thread for "discussion" about our Highway Patrol Police that I hope will be a balanced discussion as I know we are all law abiding motorist.

I saw a rare event today on my way south on the M5 out of Sydney. a Highway Patrol Car ( HPC) had on the led readout on the roof "keep left unless overtaking"
well I actually saw a HPC pull up behing a car in the right lane that wasnt speeding, follow it for a good K with no one in the left and then reds and blues and off to the side they went.
I think I saw for the first time someone actually get booked for this offence

 

Good to see.

KIAI has a kind word for them too.

 

I travel south on the M7 and then M5 everyday, see it occasionally, but needs to happen more often especially on the M7 which is full of truck driving below the speed limit in the right hand lane

 

When I become Prime Minister I'm going to make it illegal for trucks to occupy the far right hand lane on any road, ever (unless it's a right hand turn lane of course).

Especially at traffic lights.

Few things are more annoying than trucks taking up every lane at the front of the cue, so that when the lights finally turn green only about 3 cars get through because the trucks accelerate so slowly.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M8vei3L0L8

 

My pet hate is when on a 2 lane highway two cars stay next to each other so you have to follow them in frustration waiting for one or the other to finally get the hint and pass the other ..

 

Some pretty good camera work here in 1966.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgtQj8O92eI

 

I might vote for you ............... if you had a manual 355 and the speed limit was raised to 295 kph .........

I have so many pet hates with the idiots up here there isn't enough disk space on fchat, some :

1. Slow response from the idiots at the front of the queue to realise the lights have changed
2. Morons sitting in the right lane 10 kph below the speed limit in heavy traffic
3. Coppers sitting on their fat arses letting a camera do their dirty work
4. Coppers using their one card trick of speed while letting bad driving getting a free run
5. Idiots waiting until the death knock to get off the freeway from the right-hand lane
6. Cars with 2 women in them (no-one is watching the road but the lips are flapping big time)
7. Idiots videoing my car while driving and nearly hitting it due to not paying attention to the traffic slowing down
8. Idiots that can't parallel park
9. Old people trying to take someone with them when they die driving (you can pick them, they drive 575s )
10. Morons that leave their driver's door fully open while parked thinking they have every right to open it as you drive past

 

You'd be used to the slow take offs with all that clutch slip from the F1 transmission right? 😛

 

That's cruel, he knows he made a mistake with the slower gearbox

 

STFU X 355F1


You guys should be nice to me. I found out today that my crappy original Ferrari headers are finally ****ed.

Then I checked the price of new Tubi headers.

Suffice to say the car will be spending the next month or two under its cover.

 

A VERY common problem for those ****box 355s!

Lol, might have to sell a kidney for a replacement set eh?

The 348s don't suffer from a failed header problem, but that's none of my business.
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No pants?

 

Haha!

 

You're rude Muriel

 

While we all apreciate the good work our constabular do on the roads and as a few of have whitnesed nabbing right lane hogers.
It is helpfull to be aware of there precence and one of the other Fchat threads an app was discussed that helps alert drivers to road hazzards and the like and give up the opportunity to ensure we are abiding by the law as we do when we go past one of the HWC or one of NSW mobile tax collection units.
It has a nice map that shows where you are and what speed you are doing and as you travel along it shows were others are that are using the app if you want its an option, Traffic hazards like road works accidents etc.
The App allows you to enter hazards as you see them with a couple of taps on the screen of your device help on the screen by an appropriate securing device so it is hands free as it should be.
The APP is waze. it has some requirements like data for sharing helpfull info , GPS and I would recomend power to the device.
I have found this very helpfull and its always nice to be able assist our local law enforcement agencies.

 

Thanks Graeme, I am now part of the solution instead of the problem

 

I didn't think WAZE had reached critical mass in Australia. Are you saying you're getting good info out of it?

 

My experience yesterday on the jurney south on the M5 out of sydney it worked.
For anything like this to reach critical mass it needs exposure and use. Mentioning it here is a start, unless there is a better APP.

 

I think I'll incorporate it into my ECM suite

 

Clearly an ex military background

 

I've had more jobs than The Fugitive

 

ere you good at any of them

 

Can we make citizen arrests in Australia?

I was following behind a (hooded) female driver...
She failed to indicate a turn at traffic lights, then was slow to respond to the light change. She was weaving from side to side in her lane like she was drunk (and not pulling over to the left in an 80kph zone). Then I realised she had been texting for the last few kilometers. I sounded my horn as I was forced to overtake on the inside. She ignored it. Probably because she couldn't see or hear me with her hoodie on.
I noted that she was still texting for the next few kilometers whilst tailgating cars in front of her.

I would have loved to have uploaded a video of her to YouTube (but of course, using a mobile phone to take photos whilst driving is illegal).

 

Young girls are the worst and most aggressive drivers on the road.

Sadly, when they get older, not much changes.