I "hear" that's much less likely to happen when you have a Truck/SUV with a "brushguard" on the front.
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From what I have observed on the turnpike, is people will move over to let someone in getting on from the on ramp then they never bother getting back over. These people ignorant, they think they are being nice to the person getting on, but could not care less about the people behind them in the passing lane. This is my logic, I see you getting coming on from the on ramp, I don't care how you do it, but I'm maintaning my speed, it's your job to merge, not my job to get in the passing lane or slow down for you because you are probably the same person going 45mph when I'm behind you on the on ramp putting my life in jeopardy, learn where the accelerator is.
I almost enjoy driving to St. Louis to see my brother, Missouri has signs about the left lane being for passing only and they work.
No. I'm not physically using my vehicle in an attempt to make you stop committing a common traffic violation. A left lane camper is. Simple stuff.
Yeah, it's not a just world.
But ask any Tulsa emergency vehicle driver that regularly travels 169 how they feel about left lane campers. It was just the other day I saw an ambulance with lights and sirens on the ass of some self-important, oblivious tool in the left lane. Guy had no idea a big flashy ambulance was behind him.
Just about every day (I'm on the highways a lot) I see a TPD cruiser in the left lane all up the ass of someone that is either unaware of his presence or too scared to speed up and move over.
We could get all up in arms like some people do about how a cop NEEDS LIGHTS TO SPEED (bull). Or we could move over and let him by. He's obviously late for lunch.
Left lane campers are obvious emergency services haters, and most likely some sort of communist or Ross Perot voter.
Indeed.
To be fair, that's acceptable.
But, on someone like the tool in the Jeep Cherokee doing 62mph in the hammer lane of 169 northbound from 61st to Pine a couple weeks ago...it's not likely to make any difference.
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Yes, I lose......OR, you could just politely move over and let me through...
I can't speak for everyone, but there can be many reasons.
I love those who make comments such as:
"There's really no need to go any faster, you're still only going to get there 2 minutes earlier"
Sure, man......but if I gotta' "drop a deuce", that 2 minutes could be extremely critical.
Ridge,
For folks like the Jeep-camper.....why, that's the reason the mini-gun was invented.
Let me offer MY perspective on both sides of the opinion "table".
1)First off, I as many others routinely will drive a few over. (usually about 5). I am not a fast lane camper but if I am in the left laneovertaking a car that is in the right lane and I look up and some person has come out of nowhere to ride my bumper, I will PROBABLY speed up just a bit to overtake the car I am passing and then pull over to the right lane to let you pass. I DO ROUTINELY CHECK IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR. Now if while I am speeding up and attempting my pass to let you over, you start to exhibit signs of the "road rage routine" I might just back off to the speed limit for a bit to piss you off some more...... Courteous thing to do on my part, absolutely not. I try to stay aware of the folks who want to drive faster than I do, but if you think I am going to speed up to 10-20 over just to let your behind over while I am legally overtaking another car, well as SMS has said earlier, deal with it.....
2) Now with shoe on the "passing foot" so to speak. If I am driving a bit more than the speed limit and come upon a car that is in the left lane going slower than I am with nobody in their right lane preventing them from getting over then I will move in behind them(not at tailgating distance) and give them an opportunity to check their mirror and get over. As others have mentioned, it is a driver's responsibility to check behind them as well as in front of them.
I DO AGREE that in almost all cases, if drivers would follow the KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS, then we would probably have much less of these types of threads.
Just my two cents on the subject...
1)First off, I as many others routinely will drive a few over. (usually about 5). I am not a fast lane camper but if I am in the left laneovertaking a car that is in the right lane and I look up and some person has come out of nowhere to ride my bumper, I will PROBABLY speed up just a bit to overtake the car I am passing and then pull over to the right lane to let you pass. I DO ROUTINELY CHECK IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR. Now if while I am speeding up and attempting my pass to let you over, you start to exhibit signs of the "road rage routine" I might just back off to the speed limit for a bit to piss you off some more...... Courteous thing to do on my part, absolutely not. I try to stay aware of the folks who want to drive faster than I do, but if you think I am going to speed up to 10-20 over just to let your behind over while I am legally overtaking another car, well as SMS has said earlier, deal with it.....
2) Now with shoe on the "passing foot" so to speak. If I am driving a bit more than the speed limit and come upon a car that is in the left lane going slower than I am with nobody in their right lane preventing them from getting over then I will move in behind them(not at tailgating distance) and give them an opportunity to check their mirror and get over. As others have mentioned, it is a driver's responsibility to check behind them as well as in front of them.
I DO AGREE that in almost all cases, if drivers would follow the KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS, then we would probably have much less of these types of threads.
Just my two cents on the subject...
Let me just stop you right there.
People and cars do not come from "out of nowhere".
left lane campers = douchebags, it's as simple as that!
