Posted by Goose on August 12, 2012 at 07:27:29 from (70.198.5.191):
In Reply to: OT Hwy Laws posted by IndianaRed on August 12, 2012 at 05:03:17:
On the flip side, I've seen State Troopers ticket 18 wheelers for not moving into the left lane for ramp traffic when they clearly could have. It's called "Failure to Yield".
It's not uncommon for me to run several hundred miles a day on the job and on my own part, when I'm coming down an on-ramp I look for a hole in the traffic and hit the bottom of the ramp with my speed matched to the existing traffic so all I have to do is ease over into the gap I've spotted ahead of time. Works every time and doesn't disrupt anyone else.
What really riles me is when the speed limit is 75 and there's a truck in the right lane going 66 mph and another in the left lane going 66.1 mph trying to pass. They run that way side by side for miles with other traffic backed up for several miles behind them.
A classic example of that was a few years ago when two Omaha city police cars full of policemen were on their way to Grand Island for a training session at the State Law Enforcement Academy in GI. Somewhere around York, where the speed limit was 75, these boneheads thought it was hilarious to drive the two Omaha police cruisers side by side at 55 mph.
They were laughing about all the traffic they had backed up behind them until a State Trooper appeared on the scene and the Omaha cops found out quickly that outside the city limits of Omaha a State Trooper outranks them like a General outranks a Buck Private.
I've found out there are just as many idiots in trucks as there are in passenger cars, and the least stressful way of surviving is to just float along with it.
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