Video Driving Lesson 31 Overtaking on a Dual Carriageway

On a two-lane dual carriageway you should stay in the left-hand lane. Use the right-hand lane for overtaking or turning right. If you use it for overtaking move back to the left-hand lane when it is safe to do so.
This clip shows you how.
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• dual
• carriageway

[mirsimz]

I think these videos should be redone in HD format.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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...

[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.

[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.

[loki1066]

@xIntrothehell

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

[xIntrothehell]

stupids noobs

[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