So, is it true?

Pretty effectively turns a three lane rural highway into a two lane rural highway, being that most states prohibit passing on the right in non-urban areas.

 

My response in that thread:

After seeing the screen shot, I believe this is a reuse of an old video. Either way it's part of Schneider's "Guide to Changing Lanes", which you can find in your Highway to Success book, page 212.

It's not 'policy', per se. It's more of a best practice. The section starts with "It is impossible to address every situation a driver will need to decide about changing lanes. However, through the application of a "Safety First and Always" mindset and the following guiding principles, drivers will be able to make correct lane change choices."

If any Safety Critter starts giving you the business about running in lane 2, quote the above. Followed by "I'm the driver making the safest, most legal choices I can in the situations I'm facing. A s Captain of My Ship, I am heeding point 1 which says "it's better to adjust speed than make extra lane changes". If you'd like to penalize me in any form or manner, please put it in writing and give me a copy". They will never do that. But this will also never become a sticking point, because no Safety Critter is going to make it an issue.

More largely, the idea is to avoid unnecessary lane changes. IE, you make a safe change from lane 1 to lane 2 to allow heavy merge traffic. Once traffic clears, it may not make sense to move back to lane 1 right away if there is another merge point coming up. Say you're traveling south/east bound on I-94 just south of the WI border. You move over at Grand Avenue to allow traffic to merge. In a mile you have the exit for IL 21 (no on ramp), then in a half mile the exit and entrance for IL 120. I'm probably not going to try and move back until I'm past Highway 120. Depending on how heavy traffic is, not until past Buckley Road. The reasoning is by the time I move back into lane 1, I'm likely to need to hop back out, and hopping back and forth is going to screw up traffic for everyone and increase your chances of being involved in an incident.

Or you're reading the signs for a major interchange and you notice traffic starting to stack up in lane 1. Then it's a good idea to move to lane 2 until you're past the interchange.

It does not mean running in lane 2 from Oshkosh to Green Bay. In the first two scenarios, it is likely that you'll be able to keep pace with traffic. Running I-41 in WI, you won't be.

My rule of thumb - if you're keeping up with traffic, run where you want to run. The moment traffic starts to out pace you - get to the right hand lane.
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So not policy, but an over simplification which was condensed to bullet point fit within a 10 minute video that generally has 3 topics and is narrated as you might speak to a young child. Or a golden retriever.

To me it is akin to "drinking red wine is good for your heart". In some circumstances, yes, a glass or two a couple of nights a week is good for you, when combined with a balanced diet and an active lifestyle. Even a SINGLE glass every night, again combined with a balanced diet and an active lifestyle, is probably going to do as much good as harm. However, drinking a bottle a night with a pound of dark chocolate is a bad idea. But that's the message after you take a scientific study, summarize it by pop science reporters, then dilute it through main stream media, then have it get picked up by content creators strip mining for subject matter.

As to why this topic hasn't shown up in the dedicated forums - to my knowledge there are only two active TTR members who are employed by Schneider, both of whom have less than a year's experience.