Driving Experts Thread

Scr77 said:
When merging onto a freeway, you need to do the speed of the traffic. Not necessarily the speed limit and not 50kms slower than the traffic because you’re nervous.
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Agreed, that’s something that really cheeses me off.
 
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Luke Annear this morning near Coffs Harbour, very unlucky accident, but both very lucky to emerge unscathed, and yes he is an expert driver.

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Everyone going FASTER than you is a Moron.

sigh.. One (of many) ways to survive on two wheels is to be going ( a little) faster than everyone else..

Cossie there was time when I mighta/coulda made some kind of a rally driver as throwing cars around was second nature to us country boys.
Struggling to navigate while trying not to be sucked into the huge weber that replaced the speedo in Dougs red hot Cooper S , the lights flashed around the trees in my peripheral vision and the gravel played a symphony as I frantically tried to call the route..I wan't much good at that either...
I looked at a few collector rally cars after your posts and now fb is flooding me with them….
 
Don't be afraid to indicate what you are intending to do with your indicator ... you won't wear out the indicator fluid!

Apologies for rubbing-in the fact that most other vehicles have indicators fitted as standard to all the BMW, SUV & dual-cab drivers.
 
Drive slow. Better arrive safe than not at all.

I can still picture that semi-trailer sitting on my bumper bar at 130km/h just outside of Taree heading back to Sydney. He was jack-knifing at each corner. I decided to stop and have a long cigarette break.
 
I’ve just come back from a month long drive from Wodonga to the Flinders Ranges. Towing the van, I normally drive at 90+/-5 kph. Fast enough not to be a road block, but slow enough to be easy to pass. This trip though, the roads were in such horrendous shape that even 90 was mostly wishful thinking. Over the entire 5,000k we only saw a couple of suicidal drivers…those for whom double lines are an invitation to overtake. As usual, the road train drivers were professional and easy to deal with. Coming back via Geelong and Melbourne was the hardest part of the trip, as the ring road seems to bring out the maniac in so many.

Lost the windscreen on the first day, to a truck that was throwing stones from its uncovered load. RRS windscreens are expensive, and proving a bit elusive at the moment. Fuel consumption for the entire trip, with about 4k of the 5k towing, came in a 10.1 lt/100km. Proof that drag relates to Vsquared, I guess.
 
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Check the air pressures in your tyres once a month. Might save your life one day.
 
Most tipper truck drivers get paid by the load or job, meaning they have a financial incentive to rush. Treat all tip truck drivers like kamikaze!
 

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