I drive a fair bit doing this job.
Not as much, I grant you, as the merry band of truckers who keep the country moving by transporting goods the length and breadth of the country.
My last post in the sports department saw me scooting to various stadiums across Scotland – Dingwall on a Friday night anyone? – so it’s something of a relief to stay fairly local.
However, over the last few years I’ve developed an unhealthy dose of road rage on my travels, growing increasingly frustrated at the folk across Fife who don’t drive properly or courteously.
My most recent rant was sparked by some footage captured on a dashboard camera inside a car at a roundabout in Glenrothes.
The car slowly negotiates the roundabout, in the right lane and turning right, until the camera shows another car undertaking the first vehicle and cutting the driver up going into the right turn.
The footage then shows the second car stopping, and the irate driver getting out to remonstrate with those in the first car.
That the first driver was a learner was a makes this sorry tale bad enough but the fact the learner driver was 100% in the right really got my hackles up.
Maybe it’s old age getting to me, but I’m seeing poor driving standards on our roads more and more. It’s little wonder there are accidents.
Travelling up and down to Dundee regularly as I do, it’s almost a daily occurrence to see someone taking a chance by trying to overtake when it’s clearly unsafe to do so.
Recently I even saw a chancer in a black van overtaking three cars on one of the hills between Cupar and Kennoway, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision.
And don’t even get me started on indication.
The number of people who don’t use their indicator these days boggles the mind.
It’s enough to drive folk up the wall.