Time to move over, left lane slowpokes

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  1. Thedimon

    Thedimon Well-Known Member

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    I’ve been driving for 18 years, longest stretch over 1,000 miles and had only 1 accident that was my fault (still, I was 19 at the time, almost doesn’t count).
     
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    Ive been driving for 30 years

    1 accident
    2 speeding tickets.

    Bought a new car in 2015 its already got 200 000 miles on it.
     
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    The only time you're allowed to pass someone in the right lane is if they're under the speed limit. Also, if you are attempting to pass someone, that someone has to let you pass.
     
  4. Bluesguy

    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    I do about 40,000 a year in the SE and there is construction going on EVERYWHERE. Repairs, widening, new roads, etc etc
     
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    ARDY Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So, we need to be considerate not to irritate you, but you do not need to be considerate not to irritate others who find your driving habits reckless and dangerous to us?
     
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    No i am saying everyone should be courteous to everyone.
     
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    I drive 5-10 miles faster than the speed limit in the left lane on cruise on the interstate. I might move over to the right lane ( still on cruise) if everything is clear for the foreseeable distance. If that is not fast enough or convenient for the demon drivers, they get to figure out how they want to deal with it.
     
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    As the other poster said, if you're not actually passing, you should be in the right lane, if somebody is coming up behind you.
     
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    At night ... makes sense now. I was kidding a bit about trying to get them over because most rig drivers are aware of your presence.
     
  11. LangleyMan

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    Yikes. 50k/year. A road warrior.
     
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    A lot of highways in the Northwest, the I-5 in particular, have major stretches were the right lane is either rough and/or grooved.
     
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    84 in the rain at night between Troutdale and the Dalles .. that can be very scary.
     
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    No it is when someone is impeding he flow of traffic.
     
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    Most people do go with the flow and speeders come flying up behind them.
    Slowpokes in the left lane is on the rare side.
     
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    Oh hardly which is why more and more states, mine just recently, have passed more strict laws. No people shouldn't come flying up and immediately get on someone's bumper especially if the person is overtaking someone in the right lane. But once they have and that person does not promptly move back then comes the time to slowly close in and remind them you are back there. It is unsafe to overtake another vehicle on the right, there is a blindspot of the the back right side and most people it seems to me do not know how to use their mirrors, it's like they were options on the car. Sometimes I will put on my left blinker it they refuse to move over to get their attention.
    It's not a cruising lane it is a passing lane. Don't they teach that in Drivers Ed anymore? I see people coming on the interstate were it is 70mph and they just immediately get in the left lane and do 65mph. They don't even look to see what is coming up behind them. And then stay in the left lane for their entire trip. I don't understand why some drivers do that at all.
     
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    Well on the I 25 corridor here in colorado
    The speed limit is 75. People going under 85 in the left lane is rare. Highway fatalities are super common.
     
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    And if you are in the left and people are passing you on the right then YOU KNOW you are in the wrong lane. There is a reason for the law, it is safer to pass on the left and more consistence if everyone does it the3 same, more predictable and less people behind you having to speed up and try to shoot the gap between you in the left lane and another car in the right lane.
     
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    Good I'm glad they follow the rules of the road and stay out of the left lane.
     
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    The rain on the I-5 just south of Portland has been so hard a couple of times that I literally could not see for what seemed an eternity. You can't stop or slow down significantly because you might get nailed from behind, so you keep going and hope the guy in front of you doesn't panic and hit the brakes. Dang near the same spot the second time. I hope there is never a third go.
     
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    I-80 in northern California heading to San Francisco ... lots of the time the left lane is 85-90 mph.
     
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    The problem you now have with semitruck is the new rules on drivers forcing companies to lower the speed limiter on trucks. This is done for two reasons fuel economy and safety rating for the company. The day of getting behind a. Truck and having him blaze the way for you is over for the most part, except with the few owner operators out there.
     
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    I am guessing that you are one of the merged at the last minute dicks when coming up on road construction.
     
  24. Thedimon

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    There are lots of people driving behind you with a strong desire to choke your arse! :)
     
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    They made it a law in PA a few years ago, yet I've never seen anyone pulled over for hogging the left lane and plenty of people stay in it. Part of the problem could be they don't get the word out very well. If I didn't see it in a newspaper article I wouldn't know it's the law. They should put reminders in with vehicle registration or license renewals.
     

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