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[Andy H]

Going to work the other morning, the car in front of me on the roundabout immediately went into the right hand lane on the motorway slip road  I undertook him in the left .... they then look at you in bewilderment  He was doing 50-ish, I was obviously going faster, as were the cars on the motorway at the end of the slip.

And as above, I've gained on cars that were in the middle lane of an otherwise empty motorway, I'm stayed in lane 1, flashed my lights a good distance back, sometimes they move left & I overtake as normal, and they've then moved back to lane 2  . Other times they stay put, so I undertake, I don't ever intand to move 3 lanes cos of a numpty that can't keep left.

The middle of the night / early morning are top times for impacts with deer/wild boar/badgers etc. If I am driving down a truly deserted stretch of motorway in the middle of the night I do tend to use the middle lane to give me a moment longer to observe the wildlife (or potholes) before impact. I wouldn't be driving too slowly though so I doubt we would come in to conflict 

[BazaJT]

Seems a dodgy-not to say illegal way- to proceed to me,but you're in the driving seat/responsible for the fines etc.

[Andy B]

Seems a dodgy-not to say illegal way- to proceed to me,but you're in the driving seat/responsible for the fines etc.

Me? Or t'other Andy? 

[LFF64]

Andy H nothing wrong with that I do it on the roads to and from work for the same reasons but these are rural and at the time of day or night I am about not much other traffic is
But I would suggest you are aware of traffic around you if any , the sort of drivers being discussed here just seem oblivious to every one else that is the difference
It is one reason I have dash cameras fitted to the car one front one rear

[Terbs]

Yes, Martin, a dash camera is on my list.
It seems a consensus here that we all agree on one thing...middle laners and right hand laners are rife.
Despite the publicity of it being an offence and the police cracking down on the new law.
But when it is reported many, many times, that the police have not got the resources to police the new law, I think people get complacent.
I think if the media reported in newspapers, and a tv campaign, saying that x amount of people had been prosecuted and handed points and fines (even if a few porkies are used) then possibly people might start to take notice.
Same applies to Mobile phone use. Really come on heavy on the tv and papers, hit it with a hard campaign.

[Andy B]

.... I think people get complacent.
 .....

IMHO its's not complacency, it's mostly ineptitude.

[Andy H]

Andy H nothing wrong with that I do it on the roads to and from work for the same reasons but these are rural and at the time of day or night I am about not much other traffic is
But I would suggest you are aware of traffic around you if any , the sort of drivers being discussed here just seem oblivious to every one else that is the difference
It is one reason I have dash cameras fitted to the car one front one rear

Yes - fair point.

I met with a few vehicles today that sat in the outside lane at a steady 67 mph and saw no reason to move back to the inside lane 

[05omegav6]

I have driven all the way from Guildford to Norwich using only lane one, with the exception of approximately a hundred yards of the M25 hard shoulder when the onanist in lane two decided that he didn't wish to be undertaken...

That was in the early hours and in no real rush so sat at 55 iirc