Kid has got L plates. I am astounded at how many people bully, toot and deliberately intimidate learner drivers.

As well as seeing the learner harassed, husband and I have been given the same treatment at times when we've forgotten to remove the L plates.

What happened to civility?

The main problem son finds (green P plater now) is he sticks to the speed limit, so he gets people tailgate and harass him for doing legal limit. Real problem and it used to worry him.

Son 3 gets the L plates in november, I am so not looking forward to the 100 hour thing again.

It is incredible but I witnessed it when teaching my wife to drive. That was stressful enough.

We see a fair few L and P platers driving to school and see them get hassled all the time.

It's as though drivers forget that they were learners themselves at one point.

I called a driving school this week to complain about one of their instructors. One afternoon during school run there was a learner driver in one of their cars in a T2 lane who came alongside me and he raced to get into the traffic stream in front of me at the last minute rather than going into the space behind me. I was doing 60 in a 70 zone because of the speed of traffic ahead.

I followed him for about 5kms and he was weaving in and out of traffic trying to get ahead. Thing was he couldn't get ahead and pulled back into my lane in front of me twice then ended up behind me.

I reckon the driving instructor should have told him to pick a lane and stay in it. It did make me wonder if some instructors are actually teaching learners to weave from lane to lane.

The road at the back of our school is a 40 zone morning and afternoon, but the police have been there twice already this term (three weeks) and are ticketing speeding parents. One woman yesterday was clocked at 62km, (I was parked just in front of the police and heard them talking to her).

MG

Daughter was on Ls for 15 months. She has never once complained about being harassed or intimidated by others.

Where do you live and drive?

Brisbane. Judging by the above posts, it seems others have experienced similar, unfortunately.

Your daughter was lucky from what I see.

I think it goes up to 200 hours minimum soon.

I was never a learner driver in Australia but I do find driving a small car it is always the women on the school run in their landcruisers that try and bully me - one to the point of trying to over take me and force me on to the grass verge on a road that is one large land with no overtaking.

Now I occupy the middle of that road so they have no choice but to wait for me, I will not be bullied in my small car. And I get tailgated a lot to try and make me speed up, doesnt work, I do the speed limit, I cant afford to break it and dont want the points but I have no objection to the penis heads behind me that want to break it - they can do so and as long as they only kill themselves I am comfortable with that providing they dont delay me or inconvenience my journey in anyway whilst they are organising their own accident and they dont leave too much mess on the road.

I have also seen P platers being bullied and tailgated on the roads and it makes me sick - but to be honest, it is usually twatmouths that bully P platers, that tailgate and try and bully smaller cars.

Most of the cars that have tried to bully me have been P platers.....and I am no slouch when driving.

Most of the really bad driving I have seen has been by P platers

Urban myth as far as I can gather. That number has been bandied about for four years now and I did ask a couple of years ago in QLD T and the woman just sighed and said 'oh not again'!

I've been working down on the Sunshine Coast for several weeks commuting the infamous "speed reduced" Cooroy to Curra section of the Bruce highway daily. It's a nightmare drive, early morning sun in your eyes on the way & afternoon sun on the way home. Couple that with P platers in Commodores screaming past at 120+ on the few overtaking lanes & truck drivers sitting on my tailgate at 90kph it's easy to see why it's gained a reputation for being one of the worst sections of highway in Australia.
I've seen a fair few learner drivers on this section & you'd have to be mental to want to take a learner through there without dual controls.

I find they tend to weave rather than bully....I remember being harassed in a school car in the UK and my instructor would flip them the bird......

I once harassed a learner in a fit of frustration..not too proud of it...

Cutting up L-platers is great fun - keeps 'em on their toes

Sink or swim

Hope you are joking?

A bully is a bully - no matter who it is, or what their status is as a driver and at the end of the day, a driver that bullies others is a twat.

Cause me to have an accident by their stupidity/actions, I would move heaven and earth and my entire stomach contents if I had to, in order to make the other driver pay - handsomely and with his home if I had to.

And if they did it to my husband, my god then they really would need the help of Jesus Christ himself. Why people cant drive with courtesy obey the laws of the road - is totally beyond me.

It is frustration in most cases, I must confess to getting cross on occasion if I am in a hurry. It is no different anywhere else in the world to be honest. I have fond memories of retaking my driving test in Canada and having other cars up my backside.