Break the law, or I'll arrest you.

[magooch]

Without any question, the biggest hazard on our freeways is big trucks when it's raining.  They put out an absolutely blinding fog that the best wipers in the world cannot keep up with.  At night, it is horrible and although I too think there are enough laws, but I'd sure like it if the big rigs were made to slow down to 55 when it's raining at night.

[Empty Quiver]

The passive aggressive left lane rs are causing road rage, plain and simple. Forcing someone to pass on the right, a more dangerous maneuver than excessive speed I might add. It is a good law.

It is no ones imagination the roads are much more crowded than they were just ten years ago. The population is aging, old people drive slower and more cautiously.  Driving skills have not improved a wit, air bags have defeated Darwin's Law, more idiots survive to drive again. (if you are not an idiot and an airbag saved your life, relax.)

If water, or snow blowing up off the tires of trucks is scaring you, perhaps it's time to pull over and get a cup of coffee and a danish, wait till the rain lets up. Do you remember it being so bad twenty years ago? Rain and road surfaces haven't changed, your perception, and reaction times as well as possibly your vision have.

Merging onto an interstate highway... takes about the same mental skills and eye hand coordination as hitting your mouth with a straw in a glass of Coke. IGNORE the sign 600yds back that said ramp speed 30mph, that was then this is now. 100yds before you encounter traffic be going FASTER than those you intend to merge with. Move left and apply brakes OR accelerator as needed. It is no more the responsability of those on the interstate to move over for you than those people in Perkins to come out and move their car so you can park easier. Read that over again, they don't have to move to accommodate you. Yes, some could, and don't, the same folks could hold the door for you at the filling station and don't. Are you screaming at them, rendering obscene gestures, provoking a fight in the Stop and Rob parking lot?

[Land_Owner]

It is no more the responsability of those on the interstate to move over for you than those people in Perkins to come out and move their car so you can park easier. Read that over again, they don't have to move to accommodate you. Yes, some could, and don't, the same folks could hold the door for you at the filling station and don't.

It should be common courtesy upon seeing merging traffic from an on-ramp, even the potential for on-ramp merging traffic, and the left lane is clear, repeat, the left lane is clear, that those already on the Interstate would move into the left lane to give on-ramp merging traffic the unimpeded right lane.  Makes too much sense to not impede on-ramp merging traffic.  The excuse that "I don't have to move over" is damm poor and a cause of their being more prone to an auto accident on the Interstate at on-ramps.

[powderman]

LAND_OWNER. Agreed Sir. POWDERMAN. 

[Empty Quiver]

It is no more the responsability of those on the interstate to move over for you than those people in Perkins to come out and move their car so you can park easier. Read that over again, they don't have to move to accommodate you. Yes, some could, and don't, the same folks could hold the door for you at the filling station and don't.

It should be common courtesy upon seeing merging traffic from an on-ramp, even the potential for on-ramp merging traffic, and the left lane is clear, repeat, the left lane is clear, that those already on the Interstate would move into the left lane to give on-ramp merging traffic the unimpeded right lane.  Makes too much sense to not impede on-ramp merging traffic.  The excuse that "I don't have to move over" is damm poor and a cause of their being more prone to an auto accident on the Interstate at on-ramps.

I agree with the common sense and courtesy both. When you get to the end of the ramp though, recognise it is incumbant upon you to merge into traffic. The fact they could have moved over is no excuse for poor planning and poorer driving skills. Blaming someone for your accident because they didn't move is a non-starter. Like blaming the fence post for the dent in your bumper. It was already there and why should you expect it to be moving out of your way?

 I can not estimate the number of times I have been waved at, by amputees apparantly, because I did not slow down for three cars to pass me, then move over, and send a certified letter as to the availability of space in the right lane.

If limited access highways make you nervous or you have trouble understanding how they work choose another route.

[williamlayton]

Speed limit is 70mph and trucks 65mph----this is an example.
Three or four trucks in the right lane doing 65mph.
Some pull out at 70mph and maintain that speed until they pass the trucks.
That is the law.
Folks I don't want to drive along side an 18 wheeler, taking that long to pass.
Those truckers I know don't want a four wheeler driving next to them.
I say, burn that Arabian oil and pass those suckers quicly---I did not say floorboard it---just speed up and get past them.
I have been alongside one that has lost a tire---not fun.
Those old boys got more blind spots than most realize---give em a break and get where thay can see you.
Best piece of driving I ever witnessed.
IH 10 West of LaFayette. I was passing a rig and we were going over an overpass. The trucker could see father than I. When he got to the top of the overpass he hit the breaks. In front of him was a woman drinig about 35mph in the right lane with her emergency blinkers on. There was a feeder road and she was on the highway driving 35.
He slide in a straight line. If it had locked up and jacknifed, i would not be here to tell the tail. 
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