Wide Load 6 O'clock

Stay right. Give as much room as you safely can. Straddle the fog line if possible

 

To this I would only add that if you have a CB try to communicate if there is any traffic. Once the wide load is completely in the passing lane and you are well over to the right, slow down a notch to help the pass go quicker.

 

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Passing is on him. When I hual wide loads I don't rush. Just stay in the right hand lane and go with the flow. I can't stand oversized drivers who want to drive like jerks. They know they can't make as good of time if they're really wide yet still want to pass in traffic jams. So in short I stay in my lane and if they want to pass that's on them to do so safely.

 

Passing in heavy traffic with HWH is one thing, but I have no problem getting passed in light or no traffic if they are OD and light. The OP had a 62 mph governed truck, so I wouldn't expect the guy hauling the light but wide load to dawdle.

Some things about etiquette and safety around OD or HWH loads, if YOU are going to pass make SURE you don't pass in lane restricted areas, like narrow bridges or construction zones. DON'T get in between the pilot cars and the big load, as in if you are making a pass don't just pass the rear pilot car and then get back over behind the big load. Don't block the pilot car's view of the load.

Help out big loads if you can. A couple years ago I was on a three lane interstate with construction going on for 20 miles. With concrete barriers on both outside lanes a wide load had to take all of the right lane and half the middle lane. Cars AND trucks were constantly jockeying in position to get into the hammer lane to pass, getting between the load and the pilot cars and sometimes trying to squeeze two abreast on the pass. I was in the right lane, biding my time behind, but when I realized the idiocy going on I pulled up to a trucker biding his time in the middle lane. We hand signaled to let each other know the plan, we set up a rolling road block in the right two lanes to stop cars and trucks trying to use all three lanes in and around the rear pilot car for the last 10 miles.

 

Ive done that several times to block 4 wheelers in construction zone acting like idiots