I can’t pass you, so you’ll make room

If a truck can repeatedly catch up to you, do you really want to hold your speed and generate anger and frustration in that other driver? The slower vehicle can tap his brakes, or just kick off the cruise for 15 seconds and the problem is resolved. I understand the current "I'm more important than you" in the industry. This is also the psychology causing fuel pumps to be blocked forever, truck stops being plugged up with illegal parking while there are empty legal spots still open. The majority of truck drivers do not have CBs and so they can never even hear the feedback for their behavior and their helicopter parents have taught them they have no responsibility for anything, including their actions. IMO.

 

People like you are a very large part of what is wrong with the industry..

 

In the case of my Princess Passing video above, the driver trying to pass did not catch up to me because he was faster, he only caught up because the road grade was downhill and he was using gravity to get up to 72 in a 70 which is the cruise speed I was set at. Going uphill I would fade to 68 and he would fade to 65, so when we add all those numbers up and divide them, the other driver is overall slower than I am, hence why I did not yield my already speed limit set cruising speed to a slower truck who would just get in front of me and set he pace overall slower than when he was behind me.

 

Your post is a contradiction. People should take responsibility for themselves but I am the one causing their anger and frustration by minding my own business?

You don't have the speed to pass, thereby slowing traffic in the left lane, other driver should now brake and slow traffic in the right lane so you can get by? Who is really the one with the ""I'm more important than you" , more important then everyone on the roadway privileged attitude?

Slower traffic keep right. Driving in the right lane (exactly where you should be if you are maintaining a lower speed) is NOT like blocking a fuel pump (exactly where you should not be). You should not be in fuel lane unless you are fueling, you should not be in the passing lane unless you are passing, unless YOU can maintain a higher speed and complete a pass.

I can't drive my truck and your truck at the same time. Don't force me to become part of your poor decision making. Cause me to take actions with my truck based on what you did or in this case, failed to do. It is called a "pass" not a "force someone to slow down and bail you out because you made a bone head judgement in speed and distance". Take responsibility for your actions, complete YOUR pass that YOU decided to initiate or back off and clear the "passing" lane that you could not figure out how to use properly.

 

People like me? You mean the responsible ones who are maintaining their speed?? Or you mean the person who is a complete moron and has no business being in a truck impeding traffic because he can't use any of the 3 cells in his/her brain?

 

I'm gonna reply to this just so people can read this twice

 

Years ago the person in the right lane would back out of it and let the other truck over..
But courtesy is long gone and people like you are the norm.

Keep up the great work steering wheel holder.

 

Courtesy is not a reward for idiocy.