So they really aren’t taking two lanes, but you’re trying to enforce a law that doesn’t exist by doing something that’s not safe.
So they really aren’t taking two lanes, but you’re trying to enforce a law that doesn’t exist by doing something that’s not safe.
What I’m doing is obeying the law in a way that truck drivers don’t like. It’s a psychology thing. If a truck driver hates getting passed on the right, and keeps getting passed on the right, he subconsciously will start trying to stay in the right lane if it is empty and there is not an on-ramp.
I’ve had truck drivers pull into my lane FAST at the last second. I do a lot of long distance freeway driving and have methodologies I use to prevent getting stuck behind a truck slowly passing another truck. I’ve had to pass on the shoulder 7 or 8 times in my life. I’ve got dash cam footage of cars getting cut off by trucks and literally pushed into the left shoulder, as well as ones that result in minor road rage.
Bottom line is I see drivers as drivers, regardless of what they drive. There are good and bad drivers, be they operating a car, a truck or a motorcycle. I avoid the bad ones and drive extremely assertively to the point that it occasionally becomes aggressive. But only occasionally.
One fun thing is that during bad show and salt days I leave the sports car at home and drive a first generation Scion xB that I nailed a deer with about three years ago. I’ve got one good headlight and an LED light setup on the other side. People noticeably don’t like me being behind them because the damage suggests that I rear-end people. It’s almost like driving a cop car. People get out of your way even more than with a sports car.