Whinging Courier wrote:
Are they taught to deliberately block both lanes when they stop at traffic
lights, so that no-one else can overtake them?

As a driver of a HGV I can say yes.

If you don't block both lanes, some clever **** a Beemer or Audi or one
of those green-disc-mini-cab-****s will just pour through the gap
squeezing us out with nowhere to go.

I don't see why this is a problem for you. Why not just go /after/ the
Beemer, Audi or minicab has set off - you won't lose much time, as
it'll accelerate faster than you anyway...?

Or is it just an ego thing: "I arrived at these lights first, and no
bugger is going to go before me, no matter how fast their car is..."?

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