Do you pass trucks governed 1mph less than you?

I couldn't agree with you more, and I also drive with the mindset of helping other drivers out. If everyone did this, it would be a much safer world, and we could all get where we are going faster and with less stress.

But when you raise kids to believe the world revolves around them, that they get a trophy whether they do well or not, and that nothing they do will ever cause them to get a spanking, that mindset carries over to adult life as well. It's all about "me me me", I don't care what anyone else needs, and there will be no punishment for me being selfish.

 

How often is remedial driving lessons the answer?

 

Far far too often.

 

I understand that it would be bad manners to match speeds with him, but if you are that much faster, does it really matter if you get out of his way forwards or backwards (hope that makes sense) as long as he can get back over as soon as possible? Why not pull ahead if you're going to end up passing him anyway?

 

Not to speak for Lepton, but the problem as I see it with speeding up, is that traffic behind the hammer lane truck may jump to the right lane and follow the faster truck and now the slow truck is stranded on the left lane.

 

KMac nailed exactly the point I would make. Never leave a courteous trucker pinned in the hammer lane like that. I'll even deliberately hang back at 50 mph or so to let that Prime truck rub the potential right lane passers and get back safely.

Sure at times it may take a while for the Choo Choo train to get through and I can make my pass, but everybody gets through safely and there weren't any surprises. A few minutes later I can pick a nice open spot in the lane and be on my way.

 

Good points, thanks. The reason I was asking is that sometimes when I move left because I see another truck coming up an on-ramp ahead of me, he turns out to be empty or just a lot faster than me and he will be up to speed and pulling away before I even catch up to him. Fast enough that I didn't even really need to move over to let him on. I just move back over when I can. I don't find this objectionable. If some idiot tries to pass me on the right, I don't blame the other truck.

I guess it is just a matter of how close you get to the merging truck.

Been on the job a year now and still learning. Always concerned about unknowingly committing some breach of etiquette which is why I asked the original question. Thanks for your responses.

 

The fact that you are concerned about the possibility of etiquette breaches puts you MILES ahead of the vast majority of new and veteran drivers.

Yes, I often will get over only to find that the merging truck or car is faster than anticipated. Better to do the right thing and get over than to create issues for merging traffic when you can safely do so.

 

What a classy guy. Exactly why people hate truckers.

 

I hate when I move left to let a truck on, I know the truck can out run me, but since I got over for them, they run 60 so I can pass and get back over, STEP ON IT AND GO!! I'll pull in behind you, but they never do, then they follow me for 30 to 100 miles and finally pass me l