Lane Trouble!?

Take your time, leave room for them and none of them are a problem. I was born and raised here in SoCal, Handling traffic is not about them. Its about you stay cool in the stool, dont let them ruin your day.

Following distance is everything, and dont fall for the ignorate ideas that you can not leave a good distance between you and the guy ahead of you. Your life and someone elses may depend on it.

 

I have trouble with using fuel taxes to build HOV lanes that no one uses so they turn them into toll lanes.

 

Your in California. Trucks must use the right lane. You may use the second lane to pass, but must return to the right lane after passing. IF the roadway has 4 or more lanes, then you may use either of the right two lanes, but if you are blocking the flow of traffic in the second lane, you can be cited.
In California, if you just drive the speed limit, everyone will be passing you, so you will be able to maintain space in front of you. Merging traffic is SUPPOSED to yield to main lane traffic, but we all know it's every man for him/herself, so just let them go. You don't need to constantly watch your right mirror, just concentrate on what's ahead of you.

 

And you will have a lot of unhappy drivers around you as you wobble along at 55mph... Just be aware of your surroundings at all times.

 

Yours is good advice, but it's important to understand in some states, including CA, being on a limited access highway does not provide absolute ROW over merging traffic.

OTOH, in OH for example, traffic code does grant absolute ROW to traffic on limited access highways. If traffic is crawling at 0.25 mph you don't have to allow any traffic to merge from an entrance ramp, because those who write OH traffic code are apparently complete and utter morons who think this is still 1964.

 

Since you'll be working foe swift, your truck will be governed at 62 mph. Stay in the right lane at all times so those of us going the speed limit can pass.

 

We, in Wisconsin, as other places, I'm sure, don't have the luxury of 4 or 5 lane, in one direction, highways.( not that we couldn't use them) Our bigger cities have 3 lanes, which, I'd always stay in the middle lane, regardless of which is moving the fastest. ( we don't have a left lane law for trucks) and stayed in the right lane on our 2 lane in one direction, highways. I refuse to move over to the left lane(except for trucks) when cars are merging from ramps. Despite horns and "I'm # 1 gestures", it's just better that way.