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So that'd mean the guy with enough foresight to leave a gap so he doesn't have to stop/start all the time and helps the traffic flow by doing so?

Watch the inside lane and see how often trucks actually come to a halt...

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We need a little bit of commonsense here.

More times than I care to remember, I have been on the inside lane of the M6 in heavy traffic, and the middle and outside lanes have slowed down. My lane is clear, and the gap is maintained between me and the vehicle in front, normally a lorry. In such circumstances I maintain my speed and pass vehicles to my right, but keeping an eye open to my right, and maintaining the 2 second rule.

Yet surely by any definition of 'overtaking' I am not overtaking; I am not trying to pass these vehicles, they just happen to have slowed down relative to me. It would surely be madness to slow down to match them; it would reduce the capacity of the motorway considerably to no benefit to anybody. Often the 2nd and 3rd lanes soon speed up and leave me behind for a bit, then I catch up again. It can go on like this for many miles as others with experience of the M6 will testify.

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Good manners maketh a good motorist

Yes!!! Someone with common sense at last

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Smokebelching,CO2 making,child murdering planet raping,granny mugging,politically incorrect globally warming (or is it climate changing now it's getting colder?)thug.
That's what the government want you to believe of me. If they get back in I'm emigrating.