Do you really need to pass?

Guilty as charged.

 

At all times my priority is to maintain as much space around me as I can. Sometimes that means exceeding the posted limit, sometimes it means going below the limit. I rarely run at my max governed speed though.

While you're driving along beside the princess passer as you call them you run the risk of traffic building up behind you. I don't like being in a pack like that. Come around a bend and there's a tow truck, disabled truck, cop etc. on the shoulder and you're now boxed in. Debris in your lane and you're in a pickle.

Come around that bend just after that princess passer has move over ahead of you and is obstructing your view and you can be in a pickle and not know it until it's too late.

How fast or slow others drive isn't a big concern to me. Maintaining space is.

If only everyone would get by as quick as this guy.

 

Points for honesty, id probably piss ya off.... i have a bad habit of doing the limit in more than just the granny lane....

 

Luckily, my truck is governed to 65 - so the only place you'll get a chance to piss me off is Cali and maybe that weird part of I-40 in Tennesee where it's 55 for trucks but everyone goes 70 anyway. When I buy my own truck though - get out of my way!

 

Hey me too! Well i have 3 i drive, one is 65, one is 70, and one is governed by the laws of age to about 74... i use the 65 most days... i like it

 

Frankly speaking, in the video you posted there was only one princess, and it wasn't the guy passing you.

 

^^^ THIS ^^^

If completing a pass quickly to avoid getting traffic bunched up behind me means throttling up over the speed limit, I certainly do that. Speeding up becomes the safer and courteous option. You will never see me taking the fender off the truck I passed, because I am accelerating away.

Throttling up over the speed limit is also the far safer option if I see the truck I am passing is going to have to get over, for thick merging traffic, a hazard in his lane, or his lane becomes an exit only lane. That's NO time to be self righteous and say "I'm driving the legal speed limit" and camp out and pin a fellow trucker. If you are going to pass, then either #### or get off the pot.

Now that I drive an ungoverned truck I have the option to get busy and pull away. When I drove a 62 mph governed truck the best option to maintain safe space FOR EVERYBODY AROUND ME was to kick out of cruise control and slow down.

If another driver wants to go faster than the speed limit, let them. It's no skin off your nose. If another truck that is faster than you, even by 1 mph, wants to pass, then get off the throttle and facilitate the pass. The sooner you do that the quicker the pass, I do it as soon as they move over. The quicker the pass the safer for everyone.

 

This is gonna go on forever. My truck is not governed, this mega company passing happens everyday. Does it get annoying? Absolutely, but I can only drive my truck and I have yet to see someone driving 2 at the same time.

 

Drivers who take all day to pass feel they are entitled to get in front therefore those they want to pass must slow down for them. You see this stuff all the time, the same type who wants free health care, free money from the government, don't want to work etc.