No, you are not grumpy - and when someone is frustrated by the utter futility of sitting behind a barely competant driver (driving as if they are following the man with the red flag) they will be branded as being a madman for overtaking, or tailgating. Yes excessive speed can kill, but driving at an inapproriate minimum speed can precipitate the creation of just as dangerous situations.

Hear, hear! I got stuck behind a creeper as I tried to get onto the M6 this afternoon - I don't care what that woman thought, 35mph is NOT a safe speed to try and join a motorway at off a nice long straight slip road....!!

Also people who creep away from traffic lights thinking they're doing their fuel economy a favour and saving the planet get on my nerves. It means that only say, 5 cars get through instead of 8 or 9, so they sit there idling, puffing out exhaust smoke anyway.....

RT I do understand the limits for HGV's and I do drive to the conditions, my post referred to clear, dry roads with little traffic, many of which were not restricted at all evn 5 years ago.

The constant whinging about speed from the likes of Brake and the proliferation of cameras seems to have made many drivers too timid to make proper progress and too unaware to realise they are causing unnecessary congestion.

>>The same drivers are also incapable of reading the signs which tell them a bus lane is only operational from 4pm to 6pm, so they carefully avoid using it

Let them carry on, it leaves a lane free for us that can read, like hard shoulder working on motorways.

But not that useful in the UK as we don't permit overtaking on the left.

I'm still inpressed with the Humber Bridge once the longest single span bridge in the world.

At least the fares have come down £1.50 for a crossing and the bridge is used more.