“Am I wrong?”
Depends.
I’ve done a lot of long runs on the highway and run into this a lot.
I’ve gotten pretty good at judging about how fast the one behind me is going in relation to my gain on the one in the right.
If it looks like I will get stuck behind the guy on the right because they won’t pass me all the way by the time we get there, I don’t move.
If I think they will, I do.
MANY times in the circumstance I don’t move, they try to pass on the right and they are unable to pass because we both caught up to the guy on the right. Note, I’m exceptionally careful to ensure I don’t change my speed during this time.
I’m not a dick that gets offended that someone is driving faster than me and try to block. I’ve just gotten stuck one too many times on the right when the guy I thought was going to pass didn’t.
So, it depends on how well you can judge the high seas action of 1MPH differentials.
If you can’t, move until you learn how to. Just takes practice.
On the flip side, if I judge wrong, they wind up passing on the right, usually because they sped up (which I do when I pass on right to avoid those dick-types). Again, I am careful not to change my speed when they’re passing.
If they pass me like that and then slow down enough for me to catch up to them, I consider them inattentive and eventually pass them and WILL block if they try to pass me again.
Note, this is only for long runs with consistent speed. You can’t expect consistent speed from folks in local or heavy traffic so should forgive when someone passes and then slows, after all, they could be looking for a turn.
For the case you present literally, a 10mph string behind, I’d move over. You won’t have to wait long behind the guy on the right as they go by.
And, keep in mind, if you notice a 1/4 mile string of cars behind you with no one in front, YOU are the reason these laws are coming on the books!
Everything I do above, I’d be willing to take to court.
I’ve done a lot of long runs on the highway and run into this a lot.
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Likewise...
On Interstates I try to stay in far right doing about 5 under speed limit...You will spend a lot of time alone as you aren’t going slow enough to weewee people off but they will go by you...Notice...cars tend to run in packs.
A lot of the right lane problem is Laws and left hand exits.
Remember the day when the old folks (guess who is an old folk now <:) would stay to the right and people would go around them.
Along comes the Fed and starts banning trucks in the left lanes so they ‘naturally’ think they ‘own’ the right lanes so the normal slow lane people move over to get out of the way of those ‘monster trucks’ and while doing so, end up impeding the traffic in the left lanes so now you have the people that ‘belong’ in the left lanes having to manuever around the trucks to the right and the ‘slowpokes’ to the left.
Then again, the Interstates were NEVER meant to be a ‘shortcut’ home or a way to avoid lights while going from home to the market.