Why do you tailgate 4 wheelers?

I think some people may have a misunderstanding of "law" and "guideline".

Passing on the right is a "guideline"
moving over to the right except to pass is a "guideline" (a few states have passed a law called impeding traffic)

Bottom line,

Although I disagree with tailgating a person who is not passing (going the speed limit or not) should move over to the right soon as possible and allow traffic behind them to pass.
I am sure you follow that and you will find yourself being tailgated by a big truck a lot less then you currently claim..

 

I see it so much, some car in the middle just going along maybe trying to keep from having another accident with expensive insurance, who knows. Truck comes up probably going over the speed limit, gets on the cars tail to scare them into moving. That's the one you are talking about. Sometimes a truck going the speed limit will catch up to a car going slower, you might not notice those as much because they are moving at a speed where they have more time to find a way around you or may keep a safe distance and see if you realize they are there.
But the tailgaters, I've seen too many times where the habit has caused traffic backups even in slow congestion because the truck is not allowing a good stopping distance so he doesn't have to slam on his brakes. The accident? The car behind him tailgating him, not the one he is following and focusing on. Who's fault? It's his any way you slice it even though with cars it's whoever hits the other. If he had been going slower, he would've been able to slow down in more time gradually, allowing the traffic behind him to react. But when you drive a truck like a car, you end up with a car under your trailer. I can't believe how it is exactly the same picture every time. Car stuck under rear trailer, sometimes a minor bump on the vehicle in front. But ALWAYS the car behind the truck that takes damage.
Now do everyone a favor and don't tailgate, especially in a car behind a truck at any speed!

 

Should but 99% of the time will not because Americans has lost one thing, common sense, and kindness to or fellow man.

 

I've been tailgated a number of times in my pickup truck, until this FedEx Double got behind me one night. He was so close i couldn't see the lights on the ###### Volvo because they were under the truck gate...so I slowed down to about 41 when he passes me on US 62 in Northwest Arkansas.....in a No-Passing Zone....in front of the Policeman who was coming the other direction....Needless to say, he got pulled over, and probably no longer works for FedEx.

 

Because unlike you,we have somewhere we need to be.You may have all day to window shop and joy ride.We have a job to do and don't need your ******* ******* in our way holding up traffic BS'ing on the celphone.Speed up or move over.Or better yet "Stay home".

 

Boy. Anti-motoring public much, are we?