Posted on 12/10/2008 8:53:48 AM PST by Smogger
In these days of longer commutes and simmering tempers, nothing seems to set off already-testy motorists like the left-lane camper -- the guy or gal who drives in the passing lane and bars faster drivers from easily passing. Web sites have cropped up to educate other drivers, or to vent. There's a (somewhat painful) YouTube song called "Keep Right."
Even bigwigs get frustrated. Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell, weary of having his limo slowed down by such left-lane pokies, ordered an aide to have the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission install signs a few years ago reading "Keep Right, Pass Left. It's the Law."
And now some states are cracking down on left-lane campers, both to keep traffic moving and to tamp down the road rage that goes from zero-to-60 faster than ever before.
That's not just a pretext. Last year, a driver was arrested on Interstate 79 outside Pittsburgh after allegedly brandishing a semiautomatic pistol at a driver who was on his tail.
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Geeze. Who hasn't done that?
Wrong. You can’t legally be impeding traffic if you’re going the maximum allowable speed.
HERE'S THE RULE MOVE RIGHT UNTIL YOU REACH YOUR SPEED.
Most of which are truckers going 59 mph passing trucks going 58 mph. They should raise the truck speed limit to 65.
That's the point -- they're NOT following the law. They're properly driving at or below the speed limit, but they're violating the law that requires motorists on multi-lane highways to stay to the right unless passing other vehicles.
It's also worth noting that the two laws are not equal. The law requiring drivers to keep right except to pass is related to the safety of the road, while a posted speed limit is a statutory limit that usually has nothing to do with the safe operation of the road.
Shoot! In Juneau you could walk to work from practically anywhere. It ain’t that big.
Impeding traffic, even if you are following all traffic rules, is a ticketable offense. So, the guy who speeds in the left lane is violating the law, but so is the guy who impedes a row of drivers behind him.
You ARE impeding trafic regardless of your speed, if there are people behind you. In Cal, if there are more than five cars behind you. Your speed is a different question altogether.
If you are not pasing, you are not to be in the left lane, no matter what your speed is. The left lane is for passing, not travel, regardless of how fast you are going.
I don’t mind if they are, at least, doing the speed limit.
I’m more driven crazy by the speeders. They are far more dangerous whipping in and out of each lane almost hitting people. Where is a cop when you need one? In fact, has anybody ever had a cop there when you needed one?
I don’t mind em as long as I can pass them on the right but I hate those that will not get over and will not speed up.
Its a long Highway from San Antonio to Wichita and out there in Oklahoma there ain’t no reason to hang out in the left lane.
On more than one occasion I have had the self appointed law officer drive under the speed limit in the left lane and not let me go on down the road. Heck as fast as I’m driving by the time they get over I’m already way ahead of em.
And, by God, it is their RIGHT to drive in the left lane!
That is pretty pointless.
Wrong!
Also, it doesn't metter what the relative speeds are, the left lane is for passing. It is not a travel lane, it is for passing only.
regardless of speed, anyone who rides the left lane when not passing is a jerk.
If they are going below the posted speed limit, I agree.
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