Sometimes the guy blocking traffic is going over the limit. Just not as much as those behind him want to. Sometimes the guy in front is me. I’ll be doing 68 in a 60 and some guy in a souped up Honda or a BMW M3 approaches fairly quickly. I immediately get out of the way and then follow at a relative distance and use them as a radar screen. I’ve seen several guys in front of me get tickets. One was doing over 90 in a 70 (and so was I) but by the time I passed the cop, who was coming out to get him, I had dropped my speed back to 75.
It is all a game, in the long run. I’ve passed many blockers on the shoulder. You want to do it safely though.
You said — “It is all a game, in the long run. I’ve passed many blockers on the shoulder. You want to do it safely though.”
Yeah, it’s a game, all right. You can tell “what kind of game” the driver ahead of you is going to play, and if you figure it right, then you can “head him off at the pass...” You’ve got to think ahead to do that, though.
I can usually see someone speeding up, when I come up behind them, and attempting to cut me off with a line of cars that are on the right side — but up ahead for a ways. Usually they’ll try to do it slyly and just gradually speed up.
I know they’re trying to trap me behind them, by the time we get up to the line of cars on the right, so he won’t have to pull over to the right....
So, I usually *gun it* and pass him on the right, before he even knows I’m passing, and then I’m around him... LOL... You can see what these guys are going to do before they do it... :-)
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However, I remember one time an old couple were driving in the left lane of a three-lane freeway and they weren’t going that slow, but they were impeding traffic in the passing lane. So, a pick-up truck came up behind them and honked and blinked the lights (I was in one of the right lanes), but the old couple wouldn’t budge or move out of the lane, and the truck couldn’t pass on the right, because it was full of traffic.
So, I saw the truck edge up closer and closer to their rear bumper and then finally, he slightly bumped and tapped them. When he had made contact, he gunned it and he *actually pushed them out of the way*.... LOL...
When they felt themselves being pushed from behind, they pulled over quickly then... :-)
LOL!