[xrmusn]

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.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

Another side effect of this is that the right lane in two-lane freeways (for instance the I-5 in California) is usually in much worse shape than the left lane - constant use by heavy trucks is hard on road surfaces. So more people who have no intention of hurrying for anyone move into the left lane and pace the semis right next to them for miles on end while traffic piles up behind them.