Left lane heros

Right, your job is to operate in a safe manner. Hanging out in a passing lane with people driving by you on both sides is unsafe on your part. You don't even leave yourself an out when you're in a middle lane like that.

 

middle lane of three is not a passing lane, middle lane of three leaves the most outs of anywhere you could be on the road, that's as bare bones driver's ed basics as it gets

 

Wrong on both counts, you leave yourself to potentially be hemmed in on both sides in the middle lane. You might have an out or you might not. You've always got the shoulder from the right lane. Middle lane is a passing lane for trucks.

 

All day every day and it rarely looks like that usually you have cars on both sides leaving you with no place to go! Unless your like the ###### today that just pushed the pick up truck he had pinned beside him onto the burm!

 

Yes if your going with the flow of traffic and not going slower I would tend to agree with you however I can under why some would still feel it would be best to keep as far to the right as possible, where that could be an issue though is if at some point you need to take an exit, so in heavy traffic it would be more preferable to be in the far right lane, if the traffic is moving freely then I don't see an issue with being in the second lane on say a 4 / 5 lane freeway.

 

Take a look into implied speed limits and impeding laws. If the absolute maximum is 55 mph, you're doing 60 mph in lane 2, but the rest of the road is doing 65 - you're the one whose supposed to get the ticket.

The reasoning is that you're the one screwing up traffic flow and encouraging others to make more lane changes, which slows down the road further and makes incidents more likely.

If you're keeping up with traffic, run where you want to run. If you're not, stay to the right.

 

Seeing drivers cruising in the middle lane, particularly when there are other trucks trying to get past them, is probably the most frustrating and discourteous things I see from other drivers. It’s usually young drivers and that special breed of oblivious idiot that doesn’t seem to realize the world extends past the realm of his cab or the screen of his phone. If the road is 3 lanes, trucks are pretty much relegated to the right two. Obviously sometimes it makes sense to be in the center lane. But don’t make it a rule to stay in the middle and clog everything up for everyone because you can’t handle merging and exiting traffic. That’s kinda the job. Being a relatively young driver myself, it sucks getting lumped in with these rocket surgeons that can’t be bothered to learn how to progressively improve at their job to the point of competency, so they essentially just do the highway equivalent of parking in the middle of the truck stop because it’s easier than learning to do their job.

 

if there's two open lanes on either side of me and you gonna take time out of your day to take pause and get mad at me for being there you didn't have anywhere important to be in the first place. cause anybody else with an actual destination sort of instinctually knows what to do given the context of two open lanes and a professional driver who's not about to block two of them for 10 seconds every 30 seconds

 

If a you’re going 56 in the middle lane without a care in the world and my choice is to either A) not be able to pass you on the right because there’s slower traffic entering/exiting the highway, or B) pass you on the left and make both of us the ######## that are holding up traffic, then I’m probably gonna take B. But you could have just not been an ####### in the first place and stayed right unless you were trying to pass. Then, voila, ain’t no problem

 

What a poor attempt at shifting the blame this is. A professional driver wouldn’t be cruising in the middle with “open lanes” especially on the right to begin with. Your implying that to be professional others must accept without question your unprofessional actions.