Need your advice about cars merging

Long answer is short, If you have space to jump in left lane without slowing down traffic in the left lane - free space for merging traffic.
If you don't feel like switching lanes back and forth- stay in your lane.
For God sake 90% of cars have more then 200+ HP engine, not to mention electric cars aka 0-60 in 5 seconda...if some duchebag don't know what is a gas pedal - it's not your problem

 

Traffic in North East corridor way more congested then anywhere else.
LA with their wide open interstate and 5 lanes one way its a relaxing peaceful place (even when traffic is a 5 mph speed)
North - East - war zone. Everyone on your own. You either eat someone, or will be eaten.

 

it's all situational. i always maintain speed if i can

i get over for rigs most of the time i was only talking 4 wheelers

 

Just keep the hammer down if they don’t have the common sense to keep moving that’s the cars problem when merging

 

This question brings back a memory from a few years back. Once I was heading Westbound through Jackson MS in the late afternoon and driving into a brutal glaring sunset, well I was passing an onramp and stuck in the right lane, pinned in on three sides by moderate to heavy traffic as I watched this woman coming up the onramp to my right and parallel to my truck. We were all doing around 40-45mph but I couldn't get over, so I did the correct thing and decided the onus was on her to merge in either behind me or speed up, but to my disbelief, I watched in my rearview mirror as she continued to pace my truck, neither speeding up nor slowing down, until she ran out of onramp and straight into the light pole at the end of the merge lane. So after pulling over we thankfully found her to be ok, wearing her seatbelt and a little bruised up and disoriented she said she never saw the pole due to the glare from the setting sun.
I remember another driver somewhere behind me on the CB immediately blaming me for her accident, but the state patrol who eventually showed up told me to ease on down the road and that I was not at fault in any way, she was responsible to properly merge with traffic. Although I still felt bad for her I didn't feel guilty as it was ingrained to us in our driver training of proper merging laws even back then.
I do almost always try to be courteous to merging traffic if it is safe to move over, but sometimes you just got to hold your lane!

 

Better yet those that have a yield and stop at the back of the acceleration lane looking at traffic like they expect the entire highway to stop and let them join in...

30 years ago I tried to calm down the motorist who insisted our driver was an ###### for not letting him get onto the expressway. Exclaimed how he road along for the entire ramp looking at our fuel tank...

Last year lady trying to enter I-280 from a ramp saying she expected a 'one for one merge like every morning"...WTF was she smoking...

This won't change until the auto's are all driven by computers....

Traffic jams are the worst, Karen, already in the RH blind spot in stopped traffic, sees all that space in front of your bumper and pulls in. After getting smacked by your bumper she tells the cop, I pulled up and was stopped....

 

State laws say person on the highway has right of way.

It is courtesy to move over or let people merge but never go out of your way stressing about a 4 wheeler trying to merge or even a disabled vehicle on the side of the road....get over if you can but use common sense.

Just maintain your pace and line. I see waaaaayyy too many people disrupting traffic flow in the name of courtesy.

If they need to ride a little breakdown lane to merge then so be it.

 

I only get over for trucks anymore or if I’m not going to impede anyone by getting over. To many people will get on the road and then match your speed leaving you stranded in the hammer lane, making you look like an ###. Plus I find it interesting to see how far these idiots will run themselves off the road before they decide to merge.

 

Every time you change lanes you increase the likelihood of a "situation". Reduce lane changes, you reduce risk. And that's especially true in a tanker.

I hold my lane. And when that sob comes flying up along my left side to flip me off I keep my eyes focused down the road. Simple eye contact with these knuckleheads seems to trigger some sort of rabid response from them. You're the professional so de-escalate any time there's the opportunity to do so.