Progression and continuous white line.

Hollister11

Obviously, you're not meant to overtake on a continuous white line, but once you pass your test people do anyway.

What are you supposed to do if you're behind a cyclist on a CWL and driving slow (not making enough progress?). Do you just keep going slow, or should you overtake to make progress?

Or if you behind a bus that's picking up passengers. Should you go around it, or should you wait?

MascotDec85

If you can see that the way ahead is clear and it's safe to overtake, crack on!

From the driving test marking guidelines:

"Examples of ‘Road Marking’ faults include:

(ii) Disregard for a continuous white line, but where an applicant is following behind a slow moving vehicle e.g. a tractor, a cyclist, or a refuse collection truck, and overtakes on a continuous white line a fault should not be recorded for ‘Traffic Control’. Where the applicant does stay behind the slow vehicle because of the continuous white line, a fault should not be recorded for ‘Progress’."

Hollister11

Fantastic. Thanks you.

neris

An instructor told me that if you are going to over take a slow moving vehicle/cyclist/obstruction etc just say to the tester Im over taking ...... as a slow moving object. I did end up doing that on the test and the tester just said you continue driving in your normal way when I had to overtake a cyclist and I asked the tester after he said what I did was fine and wasnt a mark against me and what I did was right as I could have been putting the cyclist under pressure and also as the road we were on was clear it was fine to overtake as i could have caused a tailback behind aswell. is that for a truck test your asking?

ban resistant recalcitrant debutant

That information is quite strange.

Some people are too rigid in their application of the rules. Some drivers refuse to break continuous white lines even for obstacles in their path, like a fallen tree, or a crashed car.

But overtaking a tractor on a continuous white line seems dodgy to me. What would your insurance company say if you crashed, or caused a crash, and you're on the wrong side of a continuous white line?

I accept that you can't stay behind a cyclist, and you must give the cyclist room, so you should cross the line when dealing with a cyclist. The problem with vehicles is that who decides if the vehicle is sufficiently slow moving?

Although I do overtake slow moving traffic on continuous white lines I thought I was breaking the rules of the road when I was doing so.

MascotDec85

ban resistant recalcitrant debutant wrote: »

That information is quite strange.

Some people are too rigid in their application of the rules. Some drivers refuse to break continuous white lines even for obstacles in their path, like a fallen tree, or a crashed car.

But overtaking a tractor on a continuous white line seems dodgy to me. What would your insurance company say if you crashed, or caused a crash, and you're on the wrong side of a continuous white line?

I accept that you can't stay behind a cyclist, and you must give the cyclist room, so you should cross the line when dealing with a cyclist. The problem with vehicles is that who decides if the vehicle is sufficiently slow moving?

Although I do overtake slow moving traffic on continuous white lines I thought I was breaking the rules of the road when I was doing so.

It's up to the driver to determine if the vehicle is slow enough to need to overtake. If it's a tractor hedge cutting that would be slow enough. If the tractor is doing 40km/h perhaps not! It also depends on what distance you can see to be clear in front of you.