Missouri bill would repeal truck lane restrictions

But I'm not driving slow, you both bring that fact up repeatedly. I'm running the speed limit. If I can manage the right lane, I will do it. When there are four lanes, I stay in the 3rd lane. Is this a problem too? I've been on 4 lanes where it says "Trucks use right two lanes."

The funny thing is, once you pass me, which I have no problem if you want to, you get stuck behind someone else and only get a marginal distance ahead. They should repeal the law, so you can go around. It's not just me, this goes on for miles at a time and it's not going to change.

This whole thread is being blown way out of proportion. The right lane will usually end of be exit only, so there really is no point in stay there unless I'm getting off, OR if traffic is decent enough I will just stay in it. I don't see why you just don't back off and set the cruise, because that's exactly what I do. It's clear I'm not going to please or satisfy you, so next time you're out there, relax, set the cruise and maintain a good distance or go around.

In fact, they should come up with a new law when three lanes are present. "No trucks right lane unless exiting." PLUS, trucks would be allowed to use the left lane This seems to be most logical. Problem solved.

 

And, what do you "want"?
Does it matter to you how your "wants" affect your fellow drivers?

Seems that what you call "middle lane syndrome" is contagious.
Combined with a power trip, that makes the "big deal" even bigger.

With all due respect, exactly who is it that makes you have to pass in the right lane,
thereby creating a potential hazard?
Unnecessarily, I might add.
Wouldn't that be a matter of choice?
Your choice?
Your decision?
Your "want"?

Maybe.
Maybe not.
If people are passing on the left as well as the right, why would you choose to pass on the right?
Because you "want" to?
You certainly don't have to.
Fact is, you don't have to pass at all.
NObody is making you do so.

Please get out of my way,
I "want" to go faster and you're holding Doe, Ray me, me, me up? :smt034
Or, you don't "want" to be patient?

Oh!
Now I understand.
It's better if another Big truck truck driver takes the risk of an incident in the right lane
so you can get what you "want".
Doe, Ray, "Me, Me, Me"? :smt034

"Guess" again.
You shouldn't "have to" do that, and you don't "have to" do that.
It's a choice, --- YOUR choice.
Besides, didn't you just tell us that you're "Not gonna risk an accident", .......... yada, yada, yada?
By your own admittance, you're willing to take the "risk of an accident" because of what you "want".
If, by chance, you become a crash statistic while passing on the right, who would you blame?
Will the (ALL accidents are preventable) D.O.T. understand that another Big truck truck driver "made" you do it?
You didn't "want" to do it, --- you "had" to do it.
Just explain that you're not an "entitlement trucker".
I'm thinkin' that'll help 'em understand your situation.
Safer/Slower drivers make you resort to bein' unsafe.

Courteous, as defined, is: marked by respect for others: CIVIL, POLITE.

Courteous is a two way street regardless of the number of lanes.

"Common courtesy" thrown out the window?
Hmmmmm -----
So the answer is to do the same?
Can't beat 'em, so join 'em?
Did you roll your window down first?

An (imaginary?) isolated incident gets portrayed as the norm because you "want"
every "entitlement trucker" to get out of your way?
Sound reasonable?

Don't look now but the more that you attempt to defend your opinion,
the more credence you provide to the opinion of your adversaries.
Sir, you are what you complain about others being.
Possibly worse.
But you won't change, and neither will others.
Can you deal with that?
Others have to.

 

The problem is the left lane restrictions repeal that law and things would be better but i see it all the time trucks clogging up the middle lane doing 60 in a 65 holding a line of trucks up behind him all he cares about is himself for example pa turnpike where there isnt many merges they could easily move to the right lane and let trucks pass.

 

So glad you are ok with this kind of behavior of these steering wheel holders who just stay in the way and not worry about anyone else. Guess you can add your name to that list.

 

A lot of animosity towards 'new drivers' being deemed 'steering wheel' holders. Talk about prejudice...

 

There ya go assumin' again, Joe.
I don't recall mentioning what I are okay with, --- one way or the other.
*more on that later*

"Guess"?
Hmmmmmm ------ :smt017
Add my name?
To, ...........
That list?
Hmmmmm ---- :smt017
Wouldn't that be sorta, kinda like tryin' to pin a tail on a donkey
without knowin' which donkey to pin it on?
Guess I gotta guess.
Hmmmmm -----
The list, ............
I guess,.......

..... If it's the list of posters participating here in this debate who present points of interest to consider, including, but not necessarily limited to, clarifications and/or explanations, of which it seems you continually neglect to respond, --- often blowin' non-existent things outta proportion and/or exaggerating and/or assumin' things to make your point, .........................
..... My guess is that you've already added my name to the list of those who you think disagree with your take on the way things are and/or oughta be, --- accordin' to you, and, seemingly insinuate that those who you feel disagree with your assessments are "steerin' wheel holders".

* here's the "later" I mentioned above,.... remember?*
For what it's worth, fact is, I'm undecided as to which side of the fence I favor. I wonder what potential impact(s) would be created should a Missouri bill repealin' Big truck truck lane restrictions be implemented, good or bad. Who better to predict the outcome than the professional Big truck truck drivers with acute road savvy?
I think I've gleaned from the discussions herein, that there are those who foresee the creation of "middle lane syndrome" if the Mo-bill passes, which I understand would allow Big trucks to operate legally in the far left lane. I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind that prediction.

From personal Big truck truckin' experience, I recall Reno, Nevada on 395 there were signs advising "Through Traffic Use Left Lane", which also included the Big trucks. Big trucks unable or unwillin' to run out there with the Big Dawgs, remained on the porch to the right of left. Seemed to work well there, so I'm thinkin' that reducin' the number of vehicles travelin' in the far right lane has, at least, some merit.
In congested traffic conditions, movin' through traffic to the (far) left lane, for those who choose to and can keep up to speed, seems to make sense. Why think it won't have like results in Missouri?