Video Driving Lesson 31 Overtaking on a Dual Carriageway

[darkrsq]

Did he just accelarate more to pass a police?! :O

[GoSportsSpex]

So what happened to the 2 second rule- you are only 1 second behind the Volvo!!!!!

Also signalling to return to lane 1 isn't needed

[Ezalian]

@GoSportsSpex To be safe. You have to. Sometime some speeding moron would come fast and take the chance to overtake from the left without you knowing or worst, without she/he knowing you're going to the left.

[xIntrothehell]

stupids noobs

[loki1066]

@xIntrothehell

Don't do yourself down, we don't think you're stupid just coz you only joined youtube this year.

[loki1066]

Good video but my instructor says 'middle and right ' because 'interior and offside' sounds a bit confusing.

He's doing the first ten lessons for £15 each in suffolk - learntodrive@mail.com

[blobby1972]

I always thought a motorway was 70 and a duel carragway was 60 .

[memento18poker]

@blobby1972 no, motorway = 70mph duel carriageway = 70mph single carriageway = 60mph

[mirsimz]

I think these videos should be redone in HD format.

[wazztie16]

I think you're the only person i've seen ever overtake a police car within the law lmao. I know when i was passenger on a dual carriageway, a police car in the left hand lane in front, no-one wanted to overtake, and my step-dad got so annoyed haha.

[niceday3]

I love the way you overtook the police car.

[1ns4ne1d10t]

That was a Paramedic rapid responce car. It was not a police car. Police have Blue/yellow reflective decals, Rapid responce have Green/yellow decals, fire have Red/yellow decals & the highways traffic officers have black/yellow decals. Check the video again & you'll see what I mean. Its usefull to know that if you drive with your foot to the floor all the time, like me.

[wazztie16]

Hard to tell, it's a Volvo, and traffic police use Volvo's,and i've never seen a Volvo as a paramedic car. Have to agree to disagree on this one i think :)

[1ns4ne1d10t]

I have to disagree with you there. Medics do use the same Volvos. Here in Hampshire our NHS Paramedics use the same Volvo V70 T-5's as well as Hampshire Police. I have been a speedy multi-drop driver for over 2 years & I have a clean licence. If its Green/Yellow decals across the side its a medic... If its Blue/Yellow decals its a cop. I spent enough time on the roads/Motorways to know the decals. Type in Hampshire police V70 or Hampshire Paramedic V70. You will find that they do use them!

[UncreatedCow]

@1ns4ne1d10t Hes not breaking any laws so theirs nothing to worry about even if it was Police :)

[loki1066]

@1ns4ne1d10t

Wow that's impressive, driving with your foot to the floor.

Is there a strong spring on your gas pedal or something?

[1ns4ne1d10t]

@loki1066 I don't drive with my foot to the floor. Not now, I know what you mean. When I posted that comment I was a van driver back then and the comment is well over a year and a half old. I don't do mad multidrops in a van anymore, it sends you looney and makes you a bad driver without even realising it. My liecence means too much to me and I gave up driving jobs to keep it clean. Upside: You learn all the rat runs anywhere in England and you never get lost but I know half of england now. Lol

[loki1066]

@1ns4ne1d10t

No worries,

I was a 'red-van-man' for 20 years and drove with a parcel wedged on the gas, a coffee in one hand and a pot noodle in the other. The bastard managers used to hound you from pillar to post so it was all you could do. 'slow down' = lose your job. Have too many accidents= same result.

[1ns4ne1d10t]

@loki1066 My driving standards have improved and I am 1000X more patient. I have no intention of returning to those jobs ever again. I used to get hounded on my own personal mobile phone and I would get called into the office if it ran out of battery or if the line was busy. Its rather insulting that they tell you that you are 'breaking the code of conduct' by not keeping the line free...

[1ns4ne1d10t]

@loki1066 ...In the end they kept harassing me on my days off and got nasty with me so I left the depot with a fully loaded Iveco, turned my phone off and went off to town to buy some nice clothes, some PS3 games and DVD's. I also went for a lovely drive to a nice pub, and had lunch there. Then as I final insult I left the van down the road and handed the keys in the office. They wanted to lynch me in the office but I chucked the keys, jumped in the car and left. It was the worst thing to do.

[mirsimz]

@niceday3 thats an ambulance I think.

[ek583]

I was having a mock test with my instructor the other day, and I failed because I was on a dual carriageway with the national speed limit, but I was on the left-hand lane behind another car that was only doing about 45. I wasn't sure whether I should move out and overtake or not, but my instructor later told me that I should've overtaken the slower car. Silly mistake in judgement! :-(

[DermottF]

Well your instructor sounds like an asshole, your max speed is 45 and you have to stay on the slow lane unless someone is doing under 45, then you can overtake.

[ek583]

Well, I guess you didn't understand me properly before (or I didn't understand your reply), because I said that I was on a dual carriageway with the national speed limit of 70mph, and the car I was following was only doing 45, way under the speed limit! So I had ample opportunities to overtake without exceeding the speed limit. But anyway, I have passed my test now, so it's all good.

[monkeyspanker99]

Iwas on dual carriageway after 4 lessons, my instructor said i was learning really quickly and felt confident enough to allow me onto it, its good experience for learning to drive on motorways, the entrance to it is a little bit bum clenching, lol.

[addblive]

I'd of still signalled, slip road or not..

[zeqiri88]

My instructor put me onto dual carriageways on my 8th lesson!! Is that even normal!?! We were driving on streetway roads hen suddenly he moves me into normal roads then on dual carriageways on lesson 8 and 9.

[Lindholmer5k]

i was on roads like that the on my second lesson no worries

[kcadavies]

@Lindholmer5k so was i :)

[loki1066]

@zeqiri88

Depends on how the driver is getting on and coping.

I've got a pupil who'd practised only with his grandad on an airfield, but when I took him on his first road lesson, he was so good after an hour that we went on to the dual carriageway in the second hour of his first lesson. He's ready for his test after ten hours. That's rare though.

Some instructors, I've heard , will hold back a pupil to get as many lessons out of them as possible.

[incblotcreations]

could yuo have held off a bit then signal after the slip road.

or is it because its on a duel carageway and do not have on coming traffic