Passing lane drivers

[HT Buzzo]

I've noticed a trend in recent years for people to drive in the passing lane and refuse to move over for people who choose to use a little more fuel than they do. This is so exxtreemellly irrititating I have done some investigative study into the practical utilization of artillery canons in suv's. It would have to be hidden and remotely controlled through a safety hatch of some sort, but powerful enough to displace an entire vehicle from the roadway (so that I can still continue using the passing lane).
I don't feel like I am in that much of a hurry to go such extremes, but it is getting ridiculous.
Please, if you are in the passing lane, check your rearview mirror and move out of the way if someone is coming up behind you- it could be my remote artillery suv cannon with 18 inch artillery shells as thick as your leg aimed right at you...

[STGRule]

Probably the best thing for you to do is to take a DEEP breath, let it out slowly, and realize it isn't against the law to be stupid. It really isn't going to take you very much longer to get there.

[You Betcha]

I have found if I do the speed limit in the right hand lane this problem is completely eliminated.

You,
The trucks slow you down. It poisses me off to get behind some dink going 60 and won't get out of the left lane. Almost as bad as getting behind a truck passing another.

[1pump]

Hmmmmm.......a truck passing another? Sounds like me.
Trucks get cited all the time for using the left lane illegally. Why not cars?
Some guy a few years ago was selling windshield decals that had "slower traffic keep right" printed backwards so the dork in front could read it in his rearview mirror. Pretty good idea. Too bad they didn't catch on.

Keta, you know what Hwy 97 is like. Two passing lanes, a mile long each, between Hwy 58 and Chiloquin. That's about 60 miles. Not enough for the amount of traffic on that $%^&^#@ road. At least cars can pass when they want. A truck that weighs 104,000 lbs (mine) has very few options.

[WaterDog]

Never mind the fact that I believe the law states: "slower traffic keep right". 99W (Sherwood to Mac) is one of the worst places where people are left lane drivers.

[RichH]

Anybody else ever notice that the worst offenders have Washington plates? [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/icon_argue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

1pump,
Hwy 97 should be 4 lane, But I wasn't refering to 97. The trucks there usualy are trying to get around a road barn going 45-50 mph.
It's I-5 where it bothers me. MOST truck drivers are professional and fairly courteous drivers.

[RogueFishr]

Originally posted by RichH:
Anybody else ever notice that the worst offenders have Washington plates? [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/icon_argue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">Noticed!?!?!?!?! I thought it was a requirement in the Washington Drivers Manual. :grin:
Although, in Grants Pass we have no room to talk. We have the 75/75 law in affect: 75% of the driving population is over 75 years old. It doesn't pay to get in a hurry here.

RF

[ 12-16-2002, 02:04 PM: Message edited by: RogueFishr ]

[CATCH AND EAT]

There's a fast lane?? :whazzup: I thought that was for parking or lolly-gaggers.

[Miss B Haven]

Ok - how about the other side of this coin. If I'm driving well over the speed limit (10 plus) in the fast lane passing lots of slower trucks and cars in the slower lane. Some moron comes up behind me doing warp speed and expects me to pull over in between two semis doing 50, slam on the brakes and let him get back to his reckless driving (doing 75 plus on a 55 road is just plain stupid not to mention expensive). If I'm already speeding and there's traffic in the slow lane, I'll pull over when I get passed the traffic, thank you very much! [img]graemlins/berry.gif[/img]
I figure these guys wives are about to get pregnant and they're afraid they'll miss it. :shocked: [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]
Better yet- how about those folks who just have to pass you and then pull back over in front of you and slow down slower than you were going in the first place. [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]

[GutshotApe]

Miss B - YES! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] My sentiments exactly.

I'm thinking of rigging a 5-gallon tank of used motor oil in my trunk with a remote-control spray nozzle below the rear bumper. Then, when the warp-speed moron zooms up 10' behind me and puts his high beams in my rear view mirror, he gets a little road film for his trouble.

[RichH]

Its amazing what a 1,000,000 candle power q beam will do for those folks. [img]graemlins/icon_argue.gif[/img]

[fishing is life]

i like to drive fast in the left lane but i am no road rager. i give them a chance to move over after they have passed the slow cars. if they seem like they are not going to move i give them one bright (they do this in europe). give yourself room as some will get offended and give you a hard brake. if they still dont move i go around them. i try to be courteous. one thing i do is imagine one of my own family members driving in front of me and i tend to be more patient.

just remember in the U.S. some people will shoot you for dissing on them on the road. so lets all be patient as you really dont get there that much faster.

[1pump]

I wish more people would use the high-beam flash-to-pass like the Europeans. It's a simple courtesy that's long overdue in the US. The ignorant types in this country think it's a signal to open fire.

[Lepper]

Originally posted by HT Buzzo:

Please, if you are in the passing lane, check your rearview mirror and move out of the way if someone is coming up behind you- it could be my remote artillery suv cannon with 18 inch artillery shells as thick as your leg aimed right at you...

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">Just be careful, you might come upon a truck pulling a boat with a rocket launcher mounted back at ya....

and yes, I would push the fire button.. :smile:

[DanS]

Anybody else ever notice that the worst offenders have Washington plates?

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">

We say the same thing about Oregon drivers here.

[lost_sailor]

How about the folks that you've been following at 45 mph - when the passing lane comes up they can go 70!

[fishing is life]

oh yeah lost sailor, that one gets me on the one lane highways. you follow them for miles and then when you get a chance to pass them they speed up! i have noticed they really dont like being passed by a boat and trailer.

lost,
They're worse.

[HeavyMetal BankFisherman]

I like to go fast in the left lane if I can. I won't tailgate. If I have a chance to pass I will.

Get caught on the Florida turnpike between Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale going less than 90mph and they'll run you off the road.

[Rocky]

Well said Miss B. and lets not forget that trucks pass other trucks for the same reasons, cuz they want to go faster too, they just cant do it like zip zip and its over with, takes a little time sometimes. folks gotta have some paitence.

Ron (p.s. Happy Holidays)

[HT Buzzo]

Go away for a couple of days and 20 posts.
Its funny, H.M. Bank Fisherman, I just got back from a week in Fort Laud on the 14th, and that's kind of what prompted my vent. People there practice courtesy by taking their time in the right lane(s) and let all of the frantic commuters make their way in the passing lanes. I drove the turnpike, the 595, the I-95, and alligator alley that week and thought it was much easier to get around than it is here, and its not the trucks.
Truckers know to use the right lane when they are not passing and usually will let a group of cars get around before nudging over to pass.
Its almost like lane changing is frightening to these drivers and they would just as soon play it safe and drive just under the speed limit in the passing lane.
Sit up in your seat, use your mirrors, crank your head around once in awhile, and make what lane changes are necessary to maintain the flow of traffic.
I think many of us have done it before; one of the most common incidences of road rage is when someone feels a car behind them has come up too fast or gotten too close, so you slow down to the same speed as the car next to you, blocking both lanes, until you decide to let them by or get bored. I've noticed that many of these drivers are cruising the passing lane even in the clear stretches leading up to congestion, so not only are they unfamiliar with the motor vehicle's handbook, they aren't paying attention to the signs that say slower traffic stay right. It doesn't specify how fast "slower traffic" is, but it seems obvious to me that it is a comparison to whomever may be coming up behind you.
I think many of these drivers feel like it is their responsibility to show all of the illegal speeders (70mph!They're going to kill someone!) that if they won't slow down on their own, we'll d*mn well make it difficult for them to get around.

Self-righteous, narrowminded skidmarks.

I take many deep-breaths while driving, I transport my 4,3, and 1 year olds on a regular basis, and I'm an excellent driver who would never aim a canon at someone with a boat, they could be an ifish member...

Rural interstate should be 75mph.

[GutshotApe]

It isn't?

Well, I got passed south of Roseburg by a County Sheriff, I was going 80 and he passed me like I was doing 45. Trafic was doing 80 too.

[Smj]

That's too funny!

Bumper sticker:

I bet you'd drive better with that cell phone shoved up your ***!

Smj