No, it happens all the time. Most people slow down when they pass. Try running 60 and watch what happens.
#### near every time I come up on someone thats running 55 it's hard to pass because the passing lane slows down to 56. 3 of 5 passers hover next to the truck waiting for a wave that it's ok to pass. Or they just sit there using the truck as a reference so they can diddle with thier phone.
It gets worse every year.
quit texting and driving
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Some carriers monitor your speed (badly), and penalize you for speeding. Since they often don't actually know where you are, they are often wrong about the speed limits, but it's done by a computer, and reviewed by someone who drives a desk, so it is presumed to be infallible. I used to drive for a postal contractor that was so bad about this, that I never met a driver, there, who wasn't in some degree of trouble for speeding.
The job paid by the hour, at a fixed number of hours per run, and you were assigned a daily or weekly route. You didn't make more money for getting it done faster or slower. It didn't free you up to get more miles, or anything. We had no incentive to speed. The only reasons for driving at even the speed limit, were safety and the schedule that the post office established.
They climbed so far up my backside with this obnoxious speeding thing, that it became my policy to never drive over 55mph, and always drive at least 10mph under the speed limit, just to silence the speeding complaints from the carrier. There was about 30-35 miles of construction, along I-80 in Indiana, with a single lane and a 45mph speed limit... I crawled through this at 35mph every day for weeks, praying that someone would call the carrier and complain.
I figured that, once I got that first write-up for driving too slow, that was going to be my golden ticket to go back to driving my own truck, instead if letting some computer and desk driver, drive it for me. Go ahead. Complain that I'm driving too slow. After that, I never want to hear about speeding, again.
So complain! Call his carrier, and wail like an infant! He needs the ammunition, to free that driver to drive his own way, and not the way that a snitchy computer and some fat sack at a desk, tell him to!
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On some highways, the speed limits change relatively frequently - especially curvy or hilly roads. If your speed is being monitored by a snitchy computer, you may have to adhere strictly to these limits, even where they make little practical sense. I find, for example, that I will often be coming down a hill at a reduced truck speed limit, reach the bottom, and the truck limit will end. At that point I can speed back up. Now, there is usually another hill in front of me, and that full tanker who wants to pass me, will find it very frustrating that me and my empty trailer are suddenly heading up that hill faster than we came down the last one, while he is struggling to pass me so that he can get over to the right, and become a barrier in front of me. I'm going to pass him, anyway, so if he hasn't got the juice to get ahead of me, he should just merge in, behind. I don't care about his OCD need to successfully complete each passing maneuver... We are all just trying to get our respective jobs done, and he'll still wind up in the granny lane in about the same small number of seconds.
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I read this post while driving my white Volvo, (which has my DOT# written in marker on the door) while wearing flip flops and Adidas pants. Am I in the middle lane doing 59mph... Why yes, yes I am!
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