Dip your high beams... Oh, Happy New Year. :-)

Firstly, Happy New Year to everyone, I hope this year will be great for you.

I just travelled the 600km from Kalgoorlie to Perth and in that distance you are bound to find plenty of 'ass clowns' on the road... Here's my rants for the trip down... I'm sure there will be more as I cruise around the city. I've been cut off twice so far... All good. :-)

This time it was people with their high beams on during the day. By all means have your lights on (I do myself, as it makes you more visible on the road), but make sure you have them dipped to low-beam. The last thing I need is to have your four billion candle power spot lights blinding me as I pass you.
It doesn't help when our local car manufacturer, General Motors Holden, makes cars that switch your headlights off for you when you turn the motor off and exit the vehicle. Fine, it saves your battery if you are the sort that leaves your lights on, but if the Commodore owner had the high beams on when they got out of the car last night, the high beams will be on the next day when the motor is started... Great!!

As there wasn't a whole heap of traffic on the road, there wasn't a whole heap of things for me to get pissed about... Not even a sore back that I would normally get from driving my car. The new seats I have fitted are great!! :-)

But of course there's a couple more things... hehe
When myself and my gf come to Perth we usually bring two cars, as it makes it easier for us both to do our own thing and I can get my car serviced etc. and not be without a car. So we have CB radios to communicate with each other and leave enough space between us to allow faster travelling cars to leap-frog us... After all, it's the courteous thing to do...
It seems some people haven't caught onto this concept, as when travelling in convoy with friends/family some people leave hardly enough braking space for themselves, let alone enough room for an overtaking vehicle to slot in between them. What this means is the overtaking driver has to pass both vehicles in one maneuvre, which is unsafe and I believe also illegal.
On one trip down there was three caravans in a row with hardly two car lengths between them, and to make it worse they were travelling 20kph below the speed limit. I wonder how many 'near misses' were caused because of them...
When I overtook them, I ended up passing the first two and forcing my way in between the second and last van. I could've easily overtaken the lot but the road was coming to a crest... I'm sure other drivers would've taken the risk with a possibly catastrophic result.

Tailgaters... Geez I hate being tailgated. I've done the apply the brake pedal enough to make the brake lights work trick, to warn them to back off, but it never seems to work.
On the way to Perth this time, and it's happened heaps before, I noticed a car coming up behind me going approximately 10kph faster than me judging by how long it took them to catch up. I'm thinking, no worries, he'll be able to overtake easily after the next bend, but no, he (turns out to be a she) decides to sit on my ass for kilometres whilst having had at least five chances to overtake safely.
I'd had enough by this stage, as the distance they sat behind didn't allow enough braking distance for them if I needed to emergency brake for wildlife or something, so I waited for another safe straight and eased off the accelerator, forcing them to overtake. By this time there was approximately 6-800m between my car and my gf, but rather than just pulling in front of me and leaving a safe distance between the three cars, they insist on sitting right on the tail of my gf's car...