Melbourne Drivers are shocking!

[gmonkey]

dont get me started on merging.. it seems everyone over here thinks its ok to enter the freeway at 60km/h and then they sit next to another car not speeding up or slowing down to get in front/behind causing both to brake heavy once the lane goes or forcing car to jump lanes making right lane slow.. (between hepburn and whitfords is the worst spot on it) i blame ppl with white perms driving camrys or 4wd mums or just dumbarses. you have to be doing 100km/h at the merge point or it will frig it up for everyone..

appologies for rant lol

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[ChrisMaz]

dont get me started on merging.. it seems everyone over here thinks its ok to enter the freeway at 60km/h and then they sit next to another car not speeding up or slowing down to get in front/behind causing both to brake heavy once the lane goes or forcing car to jump lanes making right lane slow.. (between hepburn and whitfords is the worst spot on it) i blame ppl with white perms driving camrys or 4wd mums or just dumbarses. you have to be doing 100km/h at the merge point or it will frig it up for everyone..

appologies for rant lol

If you ever spot a Silver aurion failing to merge on those slip ways it'll be my mother... And yes she does have a Perm

[glider]

Every time I drive at speed limit, there is always an idiot that has to speed and overtake me to finally go in front and slow down to speed limit again..

Yes, all the time, shits me off to no end.

I must say Melbourne drivers are in general much better than Brisbane drivers(in the last 5 years). Especially in peak traffic.
Melbourne its a slow stop start. Brisbane they are full on acceleration then hard on brakes.

The thing that pisses me off the MOST is when driving the truck, you see the traffic stopped or moving slowler in front of you so you slow down so you dont have to come to a stop and idiots decide they want to merge in front of you, so they can get ahead of the 4 or 5 cars in front of them in their lane. usually means I end up having to stop anyway...

dont get me started on merging.. it seems everyone over here thinks its ok to enter the freeway at 60km/h and then they sit next to another car not speeding up or slowing down to get in front/behind causing both to brake heavy once the lane goes or forcing car to jump lanes making right lane slow.. (between hepburn and whitfords is the worst spot on it) i blame ppl with white perms driving camrys or 4wd mums or just dumbarses. you have to be doing 100km/h at the merge point or it will frig it up for everyone..

appologies for rant lol

again while driving the truck, was driving onto motorway and the bitch in a crv behind me decided to cut across the striped white lines to get onto the motorway before me, cutting me and the car in front of me off, almost resulting in us both beind run off the road, and me coming very close to going into the back of a car with 4t of cardboard on the back of the truck. If horn worked in that truck I would have blasted the bitch.

[Greg K]

all of the above happenned to me this morning in my 8km drive to work... the ones that piss me off the most:
- are the people who think that just because their indicator is on, they think the world stops just for them and they can move freely around the lanes.
- are the people who tailgate for no reason. I had a 4WD tailgate me for over 2km's when there was a perfectly clear lane next to me to drive in.
- are the people who close a 2.5 - 3 second gap between me and the car infront down to 0.5 seconds!

I think Sydney drivers are one of the worst around. After driving around in Newcastle all weekend, I enjoyed driving there moreso than Syd

[daiflu]

ahh, nothing like a bit of road rage to start the day!

SA drivers get my vote for worst drivers in Australia (probably something to do with the large percentage of bogans), although I have never driven in WA.

[KingOfAstras]

What about the Victorian drift... Where 1/4 of their car veers off into another lane then back into their own. It's that consistent!

[xplosv57]

I think every state has their fair share of bad drivers......

[GreyRex]

I think the main issue here is that no one would ever claim they do anything wrong

We're all perfect little angels

There's so much finger pointing, yet we all know it happens

I'm sick of basically every SS/XR8/XR6 Turbo, thinking they need to prove something by dragging me at the lights out near where I live... but who cares? They're the wankers who think they need to prove something... but how sad is that?

As Steve said, 'bad' drivers are everywhere

[Vectracious]

What about the Victorian drift... Where 1/4 of their car veers off into another lane then back into their own. It's that consistent!

thats only our taxi drivers....

[J]

it's not about how long you indicate. as a passenger car, you don't have any special road privileges. buses have right of way by law - ignore it if you like but if you don't give way and hit that bus trying to pull out, you are now legally responsible for damage to a $1mil+ vehicle! yes, a bus is worth more than a Ferrari, believe it or don't

+1. See page 11 of the following document:
http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/mediaFiles/lic_drivesafe3.pdf

I had a 4WD tailgate me for over 2km's when there was a perfectly clear lane next to me to drive in.

You didn't happen to be sitting on the right lane at the time, did you?