Why do people speed up when you try to pass them?

If I effortlessly catch you from behind and can see I'm doing 72 and you're doing 65, the pass should be quick. If it's not, it ain't wind resistance causing the problem.

Like I said in the OP, I'm not talking about terrain causing issues. But if I catch you from behind so quickly I don't even have time to read the name on your back doors or notice that you obviously don't know how to tarp well, it shouldn't take 5 minutes to complete the pass. I always say if I catch you from behind I should be able to pass you unless YOU do something to alter that ability.

Because they might not be against the governor. I travel a lot of 55mph roads. Some are 4 lanes. I pass trucks doing 52 and when I do they speed up to 65, their governed max. I'm not going to get a ticket racing an idiot in a JB Hunt truck in a 55 zone.

I've also had numerous big rigs pass me, some blow my doors off only for me to pass them 5 miles later lollygagging along in the right lane. I don't understand it. Nobody pays attention to their speed anymore?

Oh yea, that chaps my goat. I had one little girl in a 4 wheeler do that 5 times between Westlake and Jennings on I-10. We both pulled into the Loves in Duson and I walked right past her. She was on the phone the ENTIRE time she drove. She would slow down to 69, I would pass her, usually 3 or so minutes later she'd pass me and the process repeated 5 times in 30 miles. By the time I got to Duson I think they could hear me cursing in the building before I got parked. It took EVERYTHING I had not to confront that little #####. God and God alone gave me the strength to walk past her and not say something. Oh yea, in Loves, she was STILL gabbering on her phone. She was young, like barely college age.

 

How many of ya'll have seen governed megas out on the open roads lollygagging along and when they come to a construction zone blow through against the governor, not even slowing down? I see that ALL THE TIME. The biggest offenders are the LTL carriers pulling doubles.

Or the same thing when coming to a city where the speed limit drops like through Birmingham and it's 50, I'm doing 53, they're doing 65. On the interstate where it's 70, they do 65.