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[quote=]"DillonSo, should you overtake on the Offside, the Nearside or either side of the vehicle in front?[/quote]


The law here is the same as the UK - "undertaking" a vehicle on (in this case) the right hand side is an offence. The correct way (legal way) is on the left.....but as everyone says and knows, what's legal and what happens on a day to day basis are tow entirely different things.

Similarly, "tailgating" is illegal here, but it goes on to one hell of a degree. Things that you see here would result in a driving ban in the UK for dangerous driving, but here, it's the accepted way to overtake for some people. AD Police had a campaign running about it before the summer. I suppose they may have caught a few people, but nothing chnages on the whole. Because like in every other aspect of life here, the law doesn't apply to all of us....

There is a difference between 'undertaking' and 'moving faster than a slower vehicle in the left hand lane'.

All lanes here are designed for travel at the same speed, however there is no rule about keeping to the right hand lane. In the UK, for example, the inside lane is 'The Highway', the next lane is the 'First Overtaking lane' and the outside (or fast lane) is the 'Second Overtaking lane'.

It is quite common here to find someone tootling along at 80kmph in the left hand (fast) lane and all the traffic around him is moving at 120kmph and therefore technically undertaking him. There is normally a long queue behind him with a 4x4 stuck 1cm from his back bumper with lights a'flashing and being completely ignored.

Its the same in the US. The Interstates are all 65mph speed limit and you will find a 40ft semi in the inside lane, a ute with a gun rack in the back window and a micro bus full of Christian soldiers all sitting in the other lanes all travelling at the same speed.

Someone needs to educate drivers about pulling over into the inside lane.

Incidentally, when I presented my rather tatty and worn UK license to the police here, they gave me a UAE one that entitles me to drive all the categories I was qualified for in the UK. So I am licensed to drive motorbikes, PSV, trucks and trailers, cranes, tracked vehicles and even 3 wheelers! Not seen many of those here yet...



Knight