What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Bob Culver]

Hi Hedd

It is very annoying but the lead vehicle usually gets the blame whilst it is a close following second which hugely compounds the situation. I hold my 1964 modern at 100 kph on regular long drives (360m) but try not to exceed as 4,000 rpm is already plenty . So inevitably end up following 95 kph trucks and others. Keeping a long spacing allows others to filter past. Police are often unsymapathetic toward drivers accumulating  tails, although they tolerate for trucks as they have a very powerful lobby. Often the lead driver is a tourist, someone not over competent etc. Cops  and others do not realise that it requires a higher level of skill to closely monitor following traffic, especially many cars back,  and to regularly pull off and back onto the road than it does to just drive fast. They also do not appreciate how quickly tails grow in heavy traffic. Expecting non confident drivrs to repeatedly reenter the stream from a near standstill is unreasonable. One of our Bradfords incurred a ticket in holiday traffic despite steady 50 mph on a wide straight for miles road with little oncomig.