Around here, the left lane has become the designated dump truck lane. Not unusual to see them 3 abreast. When they merge onto the highway, right to the left lane they go, not even close to being up to speed
Mini Rant - Drive right, pass left!!
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I normally try to stay in the right lane unless passing, but when the right lane is rough and the left is smooth, I tend to hang around in the left lane a bit more.
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Driving is a Privilege, not a Right. About 90% of drivers need to go back to driving school, if they ever went.
Pass left, stay right, road conditions permitting, not a hard to understand concept.
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Traffic as I was taught.
Slow moving vehicles on the Highway is always to the right. Left lane is for passing.
The Ignorant campers of the left lane are too self-absorbed to bother moving to the right. I have encountered once or twice these people at rest stops where I was approached as a tailgater (I wasn't) and was putting everyone on the highway at risk. At risk I said. My response was simple left for passing and faster traffic. then out comes the Karen about how I was too dangerous to be on the road. I simply replied " if I was still driving my old beater of a Ford Bronco" I would have simply smashed into, your car and wrecked you into the median and I would sleep very well that night. Looks are priceless! The very fact I was followed into a rest area to be yelled at by someone driving below the speed limit in the 1st place just to annoy other drivers speak volumes. I always stay 2 car lengths back not to avoid accidents per say but to avoid damaging my car at all costs. I move to the right when I notice faster cars approaching. It's just simple curtesy. Others are right Road rage is real. I know of a victim of such a thing she purposely cut off a motorcyclist, at the next stop light he parked his bike pulled her from her car and beat her jumped back on his bike to never be caught this was in the 80's. By no means justified as she was known for being a Karen while driving. Just saying in today's world it's smarter not to antagonize people because you are right or not. It's almost too dangerous to walk out your own front door these days. Yes, I generally go about 10 miles over speed limits on highways in the fast lane.
I'll stay safe and let God sort out the idiots on the highway.
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Slow moving vehicles on the Highway is always to the right. Left lane is for passing.
The Ignorant campers of the left lane are too self-absorbed to bother moving to the right. I have encountered once or twice these people at rest stops where I was approached as a tailgater (I wasn't) and was putting everyone on the highway at risk. At risk I said. My response was simple left for passing and faster traffic. then out comes the Karen about how I was too dangerous to be on the road. I simply replied " if I was still driving my old beater of a Ford Bronco" I would have simply smashed into, your car and wrecked you into the median and I would sleep very well that night. Looks are priceless! The very fact I was followed into a rest area to be yelled at by someone driving below the speed limit in the 1st place just to annoy other drivers speak volumes. I always stay 2 car lengths back not to avoid accidents per say but to avoid damaging my car at all costs. I move to the right when I notice faster cars approaching. It's just simple curtesy. Others are right Road rage is real. I know of a victim of such a thing she purposely cut off a motorcyclist, at the next stop light he parked his bike pulled her from her car and beat her jumped back on his bike to never be caught this was in the 80's. By no means justified as she was known for being a Karen while driving. Just saying in today's world it's smarter not to antagonize people because you are right or not. It's almost too dangerous to walk out your own front door these days. Yes, I generally go about 10 miles over speed limits on highways in the fast lane.
I'll stay safe and let God sort out the idiots on the highway.
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I don't think it's illegal to park in the left lane in NC. There is probably a law about obstructing traffic generally, but it is not enforced as relates to folks going near the speed limit (say 10-15 mph under) any more than speeding enforced until you exceed 10-15mph over. I look at the drivers on the left lane with disdain, but I've no interest in slowing down once I pass them.
Road rage is real, once or twice a year someone decides to be offended that I passed them on the right and they chase me. I usually give them space, if I can get them on my left with nobody behind me I'll brake hard and they usually roar off going 30 or 40 mph faster than they were a few min earlier.
Buddy of mine got cut off a couple weeks ago by a nice pickup truck, he was driving a new to him Lexus LS500. He honked at the guy and the guy started throwing rocks at him. Broke a couple windows and the sunroof, dented up the car pretty good. Called 911 with the plate number and let the guy go, police haven't done anything,
Road rage is real, once or twice a year someone decides to be offended that I passed them on the right and they chase me. I usually give them space, if I can get them on my left with nobody behind me I'll brake hard and they usually roar off going 30 or 40 mph faster than they were a few min earlier.
Buddy of mine got cut off a couple weeks ago by a nice pickup truck, he was driving a new to him Lexus LS500. He honked at the guy and the guy started throwing rocks at him. Broke a couple windows and the sunroof, dented up the car pretty good. Called 911 with the plate number and let the guy go, police haven't done anything,
Jim Watson
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That is known as a "brake check" and there are ample dashcam videos of it leading to wrecks and fights.
If I am doing the speed limit, why does it matter which lane I am in and why do you need to pass me? Unless an emergency vehicle, of course. Drives me nuts that people will come to a stop for a dead man and not get out of the way of fire, police, or ambulance.
ridewv
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I believe the majority of them believe this.
What I've noticed on an Interstate I drive almost every day are trucks not using the truck lane up the mountain causing cars to pass them both in the passing and truck lanes often at the same time. It's dangerous passing on the right given the large speed disparity with the slow moving trucks. Some truckers eventually wake up or finish their phone call and realize they're in the center lane and swerve over. Others stay in the center lane all the way up.
What's really needed are officers in unmarked cars out there pulling over fast enough Freds in the left lane and distracted drivers chatting on their phones paying no attention to their driving.
ridewv
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Oh my......
First, because it's the law in most states to stay right if you are moving slower than the flow of traffic.
Second, it's common courtesy. Speed limits are arbitrary numbers, and most people drive to a speed that they are comfortable driving at. It's not your job to police the world, and doing so causes more problems than it solves.
Mostly because they are selfish, inconsiderate arse-wipes. They're comfortable where they're at and they really don't give a fat crap about anyone else.
Theoretically true, but in reality I have NEVER seen anyone pulled over for that reason.
In other words, they think it is their job to force everyone else in the world to do things their way. Probably liberals!
I call it DWO -- driving while oblivious. If it was a real offense, I think at least a third of the drivers on the road would be guilty.
Bozz10mm
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Some folks, and I see a couple of them here, believe it is their duty to slow down the speeders. "I'm going the speed limit, you don't need to go any faster" type thinking. Just as a license to carry doesn't make you a policeman, neither does a license to drive.
There is a popular Sheriff out west that has a youTube channel and all he films is him pulling people over for left lane camping. I think Interstate 40 runs through his county.
He never gives tickets, but he tries to educate drivers to move over unless you are passing.
Yeah, I doubt he and I could be friends....I don't mind passive, and I can deal with aggressive...But when you combine the two qualities, it can be challenging.
What bugs me is when a semi comes up behind another semi going 2 miles an hour slower than him and pulls out to pass. That ends up blocking both lanes for a mile or more because he is still going that 2 MPH faster
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Entitlement! "I'm entitled to do whatever to hell I want, and don't give a flying rats tail how it affects anyone else." From my observations, these are the people that cry first and the loudest if someone looks at them cross-eyed. What's needed is a little physical counseling to remind them of manners, but we are much to civilized, and understanding for that.
ridewv
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Yeah some truckers don't mind causing a string of other vehicles to slow down 30 mph but they won't pace another truck in front of them if it slows them down 1 mph.
venomballistics
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Not sure I'd call it a first world problem. There are safety issues involved when you have this highway speed blood clot rolling along just one good catastrophic failure away from a multi vehicle pile of twisted metal and injuries.
At times, you might call me a lane camper. I'm not lolligagging over there as far too many do. I just see unnecessary risk in frequent lane changes in stretches with a lot of interchanges.
Before everyone settles down into their spaces in or around the traffic blood clots, I'll be well clear. I will maintain space around my car.
I don't like a lot of disparity in speed. when overtaking a car doing, say, something like 50 in a 70, one should take a few seconds to wonder why. Are they drunk, high, suffering dementia or some combination. Don't rock there car on the way by, should you startle them and end up wearing them in your quarter panel
