Trucks use left lane in construction?

Put in the construction contract the requirement for pilot pickups in enough quantity to have two run side by side thru the construction zone at the set speed limit. As the two get to the end and flip to go the other way, two more enter the speed zone, and so on. Lots of pi$$ed off drivers, but they will be doing the speed limit.

 

In the texas construction zones . Traffic will be backed up into Arizona if they did that ..

 

I went through that exact scenario today on I-10 in Baton Rouge. I love getting everyone in a tissy because I'm following the law!

 

It depends on the road been in road construction and if they gotta make it need a pilot car means it can't work without it normally because the people are stupid and don't do the speed limit flying by. so then they get the pilot car gotten so bad before had trucker run through the stop area for one side to try go other side only realize there was no where to go short of ramming other cars when he reached the other side a nice sheriff handcuffed him and towed his truck dude was found in possession of meth. another time in garden city,tx he drove over every single cone on purpose same thing was arrested idk for but literally two days later every single piece of equipment was shot up when we showed up one in morning the motor grader ,the water trucks the front end loader,rollers everything they never did tell us if it was him but we all suspected.

 

Exactly. Most times the shoulder is not designed to carry the weight of a big truck, except for parking when in an emergency breakdown issue.

 

They're the same inconsiderate losers that block everything up after the work zone with their underpowered plastic governed POS trucks. I've had several mirror smacks from them over the years.

 

You want narrow? Remember I65 between about Horse Cave on in to near the then SB scales near ETown. Barriers and lines were tight. Similar when they finished it on past the BG Parkway. Even the boldest cut it down a little, thin wiggle room and unlevel pavement lurched you.

 

Yep, this is exactly what goes on and in addition to that you get the people flying by you on the right lane looking over at you giving you dirty looks sticking their hands up in the air like, “what are you doing riding in the left lane” because they don’t read English or their head is up their phone or somewhere else and they have no clue they’ve driven by 20 signs telling them as a trucker to stay in the left lane. Happens every time. I even had someone cut back in front of me and brake Check me because they thought I was riding in the left lane even though that’s what the sign said to do. I’ve seen some increase in enforcement out here, but it still needs about ten times more.

Almost nobody slows down in construction zones. Truckers will come flying through there right on the edge of being out of control in those little narrow lanes and drive all over the road. I will have zero pity on any of them if I ever get sideswiped. I will own their firstborn child if it happens to me because I’m sick of it.

 

I have no problem obeying the law in a construction zone.
If the speed limit is 45 I do around 42.
I could care less what everyone thinks.
In 2018 I witnessed two construction workers get killed by a speeder.