LOCKED - OT: Driving on the highway

[dorndawg]

I'm not "an" authority; I am THE authority.**

In addition, I am a noted expert in the following areas: gas station food (with a sharp focus on South Mississippi), early 2000's Mississippi State men's basketball, buying/selling golf carts, women's breasts, and grilling meat.

 

[johnson86-1]

THIS. Truckers are better drivers than 90% of the rest of us on the road. They're also more courteous.

As for the OP, sound like you need to be more aware of the entire road and the flow of traffic than just your vehicle and what you deem acceptable. Traffic is an intangible, yet constantly changing "living" entity. If you pay enough attention you can often anticipate traffic jams, etc.

That used to be my experience, but now they seem like just as big of idiots as the rest of people. Not sure if it's because there are a ton of new drivers or just constant turnover of drivers or what, but they don't seem to do all the courteous things they used to do.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Not if you’re on a tight schedule. Your *** can wait 2 minutes.

 

[tbaydog]

Pull that **** I 95, 18 wheelers will push you out of the way.........

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

Slow down ********. I spent 3 hours driving on I75 today doing 78mph in a 70 and had roughly 50 cars up my *** over the course of the trip with their lights shining all up in the mirrors pissed cause I wouldn't move over to the right for them. I'm already driving illegally over the speed limit and there's a never ending line of semis on the right side of the road. Being a dangerous dickhead because you'd like to speed more illegally than I am doesn't make people move over for you. It just makes you a dangerous driver and a dickhead. Sorry rant over but I know at least half this board is that same ******* on the highway driving 90mph at night.

I personally think 10 over the speed limit is about expected now. If you are steadily passing cars in the left lane then the people behind you are the ********. I will say that slow drivers in the left lane need their license suspended. I am talking about someone that is driving the same damn speed as the right lane which might be the speed limit or up to 5 mph over. I saw a statistic that slow drivers in the left lane cause more accidents than any other issue.

 

[engie]

I can't recall seeing so many deserving down votes.

It's only slightly above his average started thread....

 

[horshack.sixpack]

69 on cruise, 72 on the pedal is common.

 

[DAWG61]

I personally think 10 over the speed limit is about expected now. If you are steadily passing cars in the left lane then the people behind you are the ********. I will say that slow drivers in the left lane need their license suspended. I am talking about someone that is driving the same damn speed as the right lane which might be the speed limit or up to 5 mph over. I saw a statistic that slow drivers in the left lane cause more accidents than any other issue.

I was passing semis that were on the right the entire time while I was going 78 mph. I guess my definition of endless traffic on the right is far different from some others though.

 

[DAWG61]

It's only slightly above his average started thread....

Hi little guy. Glad to see enough other posters joined in this thread for you to gain some courage to contribute as well.

 

[engie]

Surely this dubmass is on the chopping block now that 86 got 86'd and he's officially back to being the worst damn poster here....

 

[DAWG61]

Surely this dubmass is on the chopping block now that 86 got 86'd and he's officially back to being the worst damn poster here....

Don't be so sensitive Pee Wee. You talk so big all the time I would think a little fella like you could take a little back n forth especially when you're the first to dish it out. Back to the topic though I guess some of us are lucky we don't have to deal with that crazy Jackson and Pearl traffic you have to put up with daily in your giant overcompensating oversized truck.

 

[engie]

Still want your forehead signed pretty bad huh? Not sure I've got any pens that will draw on an empty shitshell, but happy to try for you.

 

[DAWG61]

Still want your forehead signed pretty bad huh? Not sure I've got any pens that will draw on an empty shitshell, but happy to try for you.

Don't forget your foot stool.

 

[rebsgoingdown]

I normally drive about 70-75 on interstate (now that I'm older). I drive in the right lane. When I do encounter someone slower than me,( it doesn't happen often, but it does happen) I have a right to pass them so I wait for a break in the left lane and I even speed up some to quickly pass. More often than not, I see people behind me in the left lane speed up to try and force me out of the left lane....riding my tail with an attitude. If there is a group of cars in the right lane I am passing it might take more than a couple of seconds....I refuse to speed up to 90 just to allow someone with an attitude to "rule the road". You have to use some common sense here. I have the right to pass and never try to make anyone mad and I do speed up to upper 70's. Heck, I might even hit 80. I understand because there are those out there only looking for a power trip wanting to force everyone else out of their way. Maybe they never get their own way at home..I don't know..but there is no excuse for making the roads unsafe. Driving 90 makes the roads far less safe than someone trying to stay at or around the speed limit.
On the other hand, I have been behind people who stay in the left lane looking back at me in their rear view mirror, and they simply won't budge to let me by. Then they do finally speed up, passing the vehicle, but stay in the left lane until they get to the next car in the right lane and slow down again. There isn't much that makes me more irritated. There are extremes on both ends that make it intolerable.

 

[was21]

endless traffic on the far right is too political for this forum...take it somewhere else

 

[engie]

You trying to get face to face with my pecker now?

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

Heck, I might even hit 80. I understand because there are those out there only looking for a power trip wanting to force everyone else out of their way. Maybe they never get their own way at home..I don't know..but there is no excuse for making the roads unsafe. .

Woah slow down scooter! 80 that’s blazing **

Don’t agree with that other part though. When I drive I usually stay around 80 occasionally 85. Live in Texas a little while and that’s normal. Has nothing to do with a power trip or getting anything my way at home. That’s just normally the flow of traffic and when you commute long distances it makes a difference especially on open interstate. The more issues I see everyday commuting are from people going way to slow in the left barely passing and making everyone else slow down stoping the flow of traffic.

 

[aTotal360]

I'm calling you a jackass in case no one has done it today.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

If you and I are doing the same speed you and I aren't ever in this scenario with each other ever. It's actually safer for both drivers for me to correctly assume the aggressive 85 mph driver behind me will pass on the right instead of both of us then moving to the right at the same time as they are speeding up. I say it's correct because the aggressive driver passes on the right 100% of the time.

No. It’s 17’ing not. You are the 17’ing problem here. You came to a sports message board to try and rationalize your douchebaggery and it failed miserably. It is never safer you you to force a car traveling faster than you to pass on the right

If you want to play Barney 17’ing Fife and enforce the speed limit, join the State Police Academy

 

[DAWG61]

No. It’s 17’ing not. You are the 17’ing problem here. You came to a sports message board to try and rationalize your douchebaggery and it failed miserably. It is never safer you you to force a car traveling faster than you to pass on the right

Well I disagree when it is at night and the interstate is filled with semis. I wouldn't of brought this to the board if it had been the middle of day but when it is at night and there's huge semis going 73 mph to my right and I've got an ******* on my bumper in his truck shining his brights in my mirrors wanting to go 85 mph it is an aggressive dangerous situation and I don't need to cede the left lane to him while I am actively passing other vehicles and considering he's breaking several laws.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

I’d take 50 90mph a-holes over one a-hole that won’t use cruise control and passes me every 5 miles.

This. The most frustrated I get on the highway is when I’m in the right lane and there is a car about to pull by on the left. Then they get beside me and slow down. Then inevitably I get near a slower car and have to cancel the cruise, let them pass, and pull left. Then they speed up to 80... slow to 65....speed up... slow down. How in the hell do you not use the cruise on the interstate?

My next car will have the adaptive cruise control. No question. And it’s all due to moronic drivers.

 

[patdog]

I agree you had an aggressive driver behind you. But he had a passive-aggressive driver in front of him. Pass the damn semi and move the 17 over. You're breaking as many laws as he is. One. Slower traffic (you) is required to drive in the right lane. And if you're so concerned about the danger he's causing, the answer is to move over and not escalate the situation by driving slowly in the left lane.

 

[61dawg]

You missed the part about the never ending line of semis on the right side that I am continuously passing already. I'm already doing 8 mph over the limit. I don't need to be forced to move over into little pockets of space in between two semis thus also forcing me to slow down to the two semis pace just so the ******* behind me can drive 85 mph.

The law says YES!

 

[DAWG61]

I agree you had an aggressive driver behind you. But he had a passive-aggressive driver in front of him. Pass the damn semi and move the 17 over. You're breaking as many laws as he is. One. Slower traffic (you) is required to drive in the right lane. And if you're so concerned about the danger he's causing, the answer is to move over and not escalate the situation by driving slowly in the left lane.

I'm driving 78 mph

 

[Bcash2]

The aggressive driver passes on the right because you were a) in the left lane when you shouldn’t have been because you weren’t explicitly passing someone, otherwise how the hell could he pass you on the right b) clearly not paying attention and only saw him in the rear view mirror when he was on your ***. Go to Europe ANYWHERE and you will see how to properly use the left PASSING lane.

 

[DAWG61]

The aggressive driver passes on the right because you were a) in the left lane when you shouldn’t have been because you weren’t explicitly passing someone, otherwise how the hell could he pass you on the right b) clearly not paying attention and only saw him in the rear view mirror when he was on your ***. Go to Europe ANYWHERE and you will see how to properly use the left PASSING lane.

Lol so at what speed is it no longer necessary for you to move over at? 100mph? For me it's at 78 mph.

 

[Bcash2]

If doesn’t surprise me that no one knows who to 17ing drive in this country. Luckily my dad taught me what was up, but I never went through even basic drivers ed. We hand out drivers licenses to anyone that wants one. Counter that to many European countries where people are trained thoroughly and have to pay way more $$ to get the privilege to drive a car.

 

[DAWG61]

If doesn’t surprise me that no one knows who to 17ing drive in this country. Luckily my dad taught me what was up, but I never went through even basic drivers ed. We hand out drivers licenses to anyone that wants one. Counter that to many European countries where people are trained thoroughly and have to pay way more $$ to get the privilege to drive a car.

For a second there I thought you were talking about the 2A**

 

[Bcash2]

So you get to decide how fast every other driver in the left lane can now drive?

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Well I disagree when it is at night and the interstate is filled with semis. I wouldn't of brought this to the board if it had been the middle of day but when it is at night and there's huge semis going 73 mph to my right and I've got an ******* on my bumper in his truck shining his brights in my mirrors wanting to go 85 mph it is an aggressive dangerous situation and I don't need to cede the left lane to him while I am actively passing other vehicles and considering he's breaking several laws.

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[hoopscoach21]

This has been repeated multiple times but going 78 has literally nothing to do with the situation. The left lane is for actively passing traffic. You are going slower than traffic behind you so at your next safe opportunity you should move to the left so they can pas. Multiple studies have shown that it is much safer for you to move over than to have the faster traffic weave in and out of the passing lane.

This is something I’ve always wondered. When someone comes here and is obviously proven incorrect in their behavior/opinion or that almost no one agrees with them, what happens?

I guess they either see the error in their ways and change or continue on thinking they are right and everyone else is wrong. I’m sensing from the replies that you will do the former. But for the sake of your safety and other drivers around you I hope you adjust.

 

[DAWG61]

So you get to decide how fast every other driver in the left lane can now drive?

No most of the time I just move over and let them pass just not when doing so means moving in between two semis that are already close together traveling 73-75 mph. Again nobody is really grasping how busy that interstate was last night apparently but that doesn't really matter to the ******** that wanna drive 90 mph does it.

 

[Eleven Bravo]

The left lane is for passing, period. It doesn’t matter what’s in the right lane. You put your right blinker on and get over in the right lane ASAP. After you get in the right lane, you are best served (and so is everyone else) by re-entering the left lane when there is no other vehicle in the left lane approaching you at high speed. Once you re-enter the left lane you must commit yourself to passing the vehicles in the right lane as quickly as you can and at as high a speed as is necessary to not cause more problems at your 78 mph.

You asked the question of “what speed is fast enough that you don’t have to get out of the left lane? 100 mph? I don’t know. Is there someone driving 105? The answer is that there is no such speed.

You are not the person who decides how fast someone else is allowed to drive. Even the highway patrol can’t decide that, but they can pull you over and write you a reminder of how fast you can legally drive and be in compliance with the state laws.

Just get out of the left lane if someone is trying to get around you. Being an ******* doesn’t make you right-no more than that 90 mph ******* driving on your *** makes him wrong. Hanging out in the left lane and giving him no options to get around you just creates the potential for a dangerous situation-a situation that might end up involving your vehicle as well. Just move over and let them pass, dude. It’s reallly a simple concept.

 

[msstatelp1]

Slow down ********. I spent 3 hours driving on I75 today doing 78mph in a 70 and had roughly 50 cars up my *** over the course of the trip with their lights shining all up in the mirrors pissed cause I wouldn't move over to the right for them. I'm already driving illegally over the speed limit and there's a never ending line of semis on the right side of the road. Being a dangerous dickhead because you'd like to speed more illegally than I am doesn't make people move over for you. It just makes you a dangerous driver and a dickhead. Sorry rant over but I know at least half this board is that same ******* on the highway driving 90mph at night.

States with a "Slower traffic keep right" law don't specify a speed. If you have people behind you then you are the slower traffic regardless of speed and need to get out of the left lane.

 

[Dawg1976]

I don't know if we will encounter each other on the highway or not but we are certainly encountering one ******* here.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Its only the highway patrol's job to stop speeders, not Joe ******* in the left lane. Unless you are passing or the highway is splitting and you need to stay left, you need to move over. If you are cruising in the left with someone on your right side at the same speed and someone is coming up behind you, you need to speed up and pass that car and move over to the right.

 

[PBRME]

No most of the time I just move over and let them pass just not when doing so means moving in between two semis that are already close together traveling 73-75 mph. Again nobody is really grasping how busy that interstate was last night apparently but that doesn't really matter to the ******** that wanna drive 90 mph does it.

There’s the problem. You’re cruising 78 and trying to pass semis going almost the same speed. If you’re going to pass then pass. Otherwise adjust your speed and stay in the right lane.

“Luck said that according to law, you can still drive in the left lane as long as you are not slowing down traffic, but violators will be punished.”

http://www.wdam.com/story/38560633/new-law-could-mean-trouble-for-left-lane-drivers/

 

[MaxwellSmart]

“The speed limit is a LIMIT, not a GOAL.” - mom

I thought the speed limit was a suggestion.***

The thing that pisses me off is when I scoot over to the left lane to let someone on from a ramp and they get right beside me and speed up when I try to get back in the right lane. Cruise control should be mandatory.

 

[triton28]

The time of day has no bearing on the left lane rule.

 

[patdog]

I'm driving 78 mph

You are an idiot. It doesn't matter if you're driving 78, 88, or 98. If someone faster is behind you in the left lane, move the 17 over.
I drive 78 and people pass me regularly. On the left, because I was driving in the right or center lane unless I was actively passing someone, and even then I moved right back over as soon as I could.