Good grief. We are all guilty of something, lets just codify it so we can collect the penalty fees.
I try to be courteous and only drive in the let lane if I am passing other traffic. There are exceptions, i.e. if the right lane has a pot hole every 50 ft, and the left does not, I’m driving where its smoother. I’ll move right if I see you coming up behind me.
But a law now arbitrarily (in a troopers mind) setting a lower speed limit in the left lane, when many use the left lane to drive anywhere from 10 to 30 over the limit, puts the average driver in a quandary. Whats too fast or too slow when the general traffic is is doing 85 in a 65 or 90 in a 70?
“Whats too fast or too slow when the general traffic is is doing 85 in a 65 or 90 in a 70?”
The safest and most efficient speed to drive is the speed of the general traffic.
“… But a law now arbitrarily (in a troopers mind) setting a lower speed limit in the left lane, when many use the left lane to drive anywhere from 10 to 30 over the limit, puts the average driver in a quandary. Whats too fast or too slow when the general traffic is is doing 85 in a 65 or 90 in a 70?”
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It’s UNRELATED TO EITHER THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT or to a higher MAXIMUM speed that an individual driver may think reasonable. If you are in the left lane and there’s a car APPROACHING OR “HANGING” behind you and you’re not passing a car, MOVE OVER to another lane and let the car(s) behind you pass. Do that even if you’re doing thirty miles over the speed limit.
Don’t be a Karen deciding that you are going to enforce what you think is a reasonable maximum speed.
Exactly. A year or so ago I was driving down one highway in which they had been doing some sort of work in the right lane, and it had some discontinuity about every 40 feet or so, and it shook the vehicle every time I hit one.
I finally got sick of it and moved to the left lane, which was clear of this problem, and I just said "let them catch me."
I have noticed on a lot of highways that the right lane is often damaged and rough. It is a pain in the @$$ to drive in it.
Of course when you make everyone drive in one lane, it is going to do more damage to it than if you drove in both. I also notice that when approaching big cities, both lanes are filled up, so the law is just stupid.
I drive most days and nights on a highway with more trucks and deer crossings than seen on most highways. There are also murderers, kidnappers, drug runners and many with drug induced mental problems (news reports).
The key is to be cool, always. If the traffic gets too weird and frantic, stay in the right lane and slow down as much as necessary. Let the long line of hysterical drivers tailgate each other in the left lane.
In regards to the potholes, be ready to rebuild the front end and suspension—easier to rebuild than a human body. Driving such a highway 50,000 miles or more a year, think about your chances.
Read the area crash reports to see what you’re missing. It’s encouraging.