Wild Turkey
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"But my GPS didnt say anything about looking in the mirrors!"
Trucks driving in both lanes
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"But my GPS didnt say anything about looking in the mirrors!"
SO which moron is really the problem? If the driver in the right lane slows to allow the driver in the left lane to pass, then the driver in the slow lane knows he is going to be continually hindered by the truck that is passing. If the driver in the fast lane slows to move back over to the right lane he knows all those cars behind him are going to start passing him on the right, preventing him from moving back over. it become a no win situation. i think that the driver in left lane should have never attempted the pass to begin with, but that would be in a perfect world. I know in some places they have rules 9time or distance) in which a pass must be completed. As a general rule, in racing its the responsibility the person making the pass to do so in a safe manor.
Duck
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It would be nice, but no. How would you write a ticket for someone for obeying the law? You can't have laws that conflict with each other.
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Where is there an 80 mph speed limit on a 2-lane road?
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In Kansas, most 2-lane roads have a 65 mph speed limit. Occasionally I've come up on some slow governed Swift truck or something. I think if the vehicle is incapable of going the speed limit, on a 2-lane road, if passing is not possible (or safe), the slow vehicle should be required to pull over whenever a faster vehicle approaches from behind. Driving on the shoulder should be legal for this purpose. I've had old geezers in their 40 year old farm trucks get onto the shoulder and let me pass them in Kansas where the 2 lane roads have paved shoulders that are wide enough to safely do that.
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terrylamar
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The actor has the responsibility. If your truck doesn't have the nuts to pass, then don't pass.
Texas has 80mph speed limits. Also, in Texas you will get a ticket for for driving on the shoulder to allow somebody to pass. IN California the law reads that you have to pull over if being followed by 5 or more vehicles on a single lane road (each direction).
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patriciajnsn
Steering Wheel Holder
That's a stupid law in calif just like it's against the law to have your flashers on if going thru a mountain and slow.So if you're driving the speedlimit and 5 vehicles are behind you which means they wanna pass you speeding,you still have to pull over?
johnday
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Seems I recall in the days of yore,[or mine], if you were loaded to the pointe of being a hindrance on a two lane, you'd get on the CB and talk to the guy/s behind ya, work out something that you could get them around you, and everyone was fat dumb and happy. Well, at least fat and dumb. All that assuming the guy behind you isn't yapping on a cell phone nowadays.
Wild Turkey
Member
I think if you cant run the speed limit you shouldnt be on the road in the first place.
These companies turning their trucks down to 62 and even lower is ridiculous!
These companies turning their trucks down to 62 and even lower is ridiculous!
patriciajnsn
Steering Wheel Holder
I'll have to agree with u there.
I didn't know it was the law you can't use your flashers in CA? Has anybody else heard of this? I know its required in some places.
The CA law does not make it clear if you have to pull over and you are doing the speed limit. Probably something for a court to decide. Technically you would still be breaking the law.
patriciajnsn
Steering Wheel Holder
I use to go to Calif and another driver told me that when he seen me using my flashers,back then I did have a CB.So I asked a few drivers and they said the same thing.I imagine that law only pertains to truckers because calif hates us.
The speed limit is the MAXIMUM speed you are ALLOWED to travel by law (under ideal conditions). You can actually get a ticket for driving the speed limit in some places, under certain circumstances.
The posted speed limit is not a requirement and in most places there is no law to suggest such.
Wild Turkey
Member
Thats all well and good, but we all know that going 55 on a wide open interstate makes you feel like you are barely even moving.
Speed limits stay down so the revenue stays up.
patriciajnsn
Steering Wheel Holder
Many laws is ALL ABOUT REVENUE.Many of the laws are so rediculously stupid they know ppl are going to brk them as to why they made it into law,
Duck
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It SHOULD be a requirement on 2-lane roads. By going slower in an area where passing is impossible or unsafe, you're preventing others from being able to reach the maximum allowable speed, therefore are impeding traffic.
there are execptions to that. some roads would be unsafe to run the speed limit. and there are no places to get off the road safely.
Speed limits have been on the rise nation wide for the past 30 years denying revenue to enforcers.
Since I pay for my own fuel I don't travel any faster than I have to.
terrylamar
Well-Known Member
What a concept!
Duck
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You know what's the worst?
How many million miles of roads do we have in this country? Why is it that every state expects us to "know" what their secret restrictions are on every mile of highway when they don't bother, or flat out REFUSE to post a sign?
http://www.truckersforum.net/forum/...us-highway-68147/?highlight=foot+length+limit
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
Funny that you mention that Duck , I was listening to a radio show and they were talking about how the laws very from State to State and they were just talking about a trip from Mass (I think) to Florida (That i'm sure of). Can they not have uniform rules across the board ? I mean after all it is an Interstate system and IMO should be govorned federaly .
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