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Originally Posted by ZED SLED
If this were a reality and extended to semis going 62 in a 70 while passing semis going 61 in a 70, my recent 9 hour road trip would have taken just 4 hours.
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Ironically, with semis (which I drove for ten years), this effect is often due to governed speeds on the rigs, coupled with the driver in the RIGHT hand lane being a jerk.
A few years ago, I was driving a governed (62 MPH) rig, when I came to a truck doing 45 MPH in the right lane. As soon as traffic was clear, I went for the pass, and that dick sped up to match my speed. I could not get past him. I'd slow, and he would slow... we got down to 25 MPH on I- 5. I would try to speed up, but couldn't get it above 62 MPH. The driver simply stared at me, laughing his ass off at the way he was able to toy with me. He'd laugh, point, flip me off... he was simply getting his rocks off by screwing with a random person. I couldn't even "stand on the brakes" because of the nineteen- mile- long string of cars behind me, pissed as hell, and, not knowing the circumstance, pissed off at ME.
I seriously considered simply ramming that futher mucker.
Eventually (20 minutes?), I was able to drop behind him again. Of course, he dropped it back down to 40 MPH, but since he "owned" me, I had no choice but to stay there.
I'll never understand random jerks.
Anyway... when one truck is passing another, trucker courtesy dictates that the truck being passed "back out of it a little," in order to give the passing truck a sooner opportunity to get back into the lane. Most truckers observe this code... some do not.