In NJ, ALL government vehicles pay tolls, EZ Pass, shifting of funds from 1 dept to another, MONEY SHUFFLE for "budget" increases
When the slower lanes are blocked with under the speed limit cars. nobody has the right to insist another break the speed limit while doing a legal pass.You don’t do ‘the speed limit’ in the left lane, that’s what the middle and right lanes are for. Left lane drivers are inherently selfish bums, it’s my right!
I never got around to printing My personal favorite bumper sticker that applies here rather well:This is a law that was not needed. We already have, nation wide, failure to yield laws, impeding traffic laws, and a slug of others.
I posted this elsewhere, but making a law, unless it is VERY specific, opens the door to enforcement abuse.
On the one hand, this will not help anything. Everyone is still going to be pissed, because if law enforcement wanted to they could be pulling people over for the last 50 years for failure to yield or impeding traffic.
They didn;t.
So they still won't.
but now, guess what? You are driving along by your lonesome at 2:30a.m. and it is pooring rain. you decide, after bouncing through the potholes and hydroplaning your car in the right lane, you will move to the left lane where condition is better and it has less pooled water.
OOPS!
now you are pulled over for breaking the left lane pass law just enacted, despite being all alone on the road and having a sound, logical reason to be in the left side.
BS you say?
In upper Michigan this was going rampant until finally a couple court cases got thrown out. I know this because my brother in law was fined despite being the only car on a 4 lane road. The cop had him there for 35 minutes, and still not one car showed going either way.
We do not need more laws all the time. More laws destroy our freedom and lead to abuse. If law enforcement monitored traffic flow and even if all they did was pull over one of the self absorbed types and had a chat for a while(no ticket, no warning, just impede their travel to let them know they were being a public danger/nuisance) then people would change. Another law isn't needed. Officers should be there for public safety. Too often they are there with a radar gun to make money. That is the issue, and this new law passed isn;t going to do anything but give them an alternative to the radar gun at the end of the month.
That's the way things are supposed to work, yep - but for some reason these days (and I'm imagining it has"ACCELERAYE, MOVE OVER, COMPLETE PASS, MOVE BACK TO ORIGINAL LANE & RESUME YOUR SPEED" 1981 DL test
This is the law in WI as well.A law in SC, you can’t go faster than speed limit to PASS a car. I got pulled for going 65 on two lane road to pass the car, what I was taught a long time ago, get around before a head on. So if they’re doing speed limit in any lane park behind them
Not really safe, but if you draft him your fuel economy increases, very little wind noise. Even worked with a 4Runner pulling an utility trailer.I do the same. On a long trip I generally try to find a sailing semi to get behind. I followed one from Camden SC to Richmond VA once mostly at 80mph and had no problems.. He slowed down and so did I. He returned to speed and I followed him. At a respectful distance of course. Mostly the slow downs were traffic or cops. I stay just far enough back to escape the rocking cross winds...one of the reasons I like traveling the highways after 6pm and on into the night. Truckers are sailing..
Agreed. High flyers also not likely to cut in not wanting to follow the rig. With adequate distance, not unsafe.I do the same. On a long trip I generally try to find a sailing semi to get behind. I followed one from Camden SC to Richmond VA once mostly at 80mph and had no problems.. He slowed down and so did I. He returned to speed and I followed him. At a respectful distance of course. Mostly the slow downs were traffic or cops. I stay just far enough back to escape the rocking cross winds...one of the reasons I like traveling the highways after 6pm and on into the night. Truckers are sailing..
Relying on driver courtesy usually doesn’t work. But the dips that will stay in the closed lane until the barrels are in the way get let in one way or the other. Seems once some get behind the wheel, their temper fuse gets real short, lol.As to the lane closures. Sometimes I wonder if asking traffic to assemble in 1 lane to soon is more of a bottleneck than just letting them merge at the closed point? I do get peeved when every one is in single file and that guy does drive past 100 cars and cuts in. Nope not between me and the car infront of me!