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Originally Posted by Theunz
It doesn't have anything to do with who's working or not, or even who's in a hurry or not. When you impede the flow of traffic it causes other drivers to drive in an unsafe manor. Right or wrong, it's just human nature! Speed up and move over.
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Worst driver of the day award.
When you fail to maintain adequate space around your vehicle, you failed in a basic manner.
Pay attention to this:
Jammed up behind someone slower? Vehicles just ahead and behind? Next to you.? You’ve screwed up.
Polish the mantel and showcase your award.
Classic “too fast for conditions “.
Here’s your pro training in a nutshell: Traffic volume dictates average speed (engine hours divided into distance). Vehicle spacing is the control.
Repeat that until it’s learned.
What the speed limit is or isn’t is only a guideline. Only potential.
Don’t worry. On today’s highway, you’re typical.
But you’ll never, ever, carry a member of my family with you. You couldn’t be trusted with a firearm, either. Same principle applies.
Pay attention to the patterns. With a big truck or an RV ahead the morons twill pass and slow. And others will join them. A pack. Both lanes.
Watch for it. Your future is behind you. In your mirrors.
One manages this problem by cancelling cruise and dropping off by 10-mph. Not 5. Takes too damn long.
Until that pack is MORE than 700-feet ahead of you - and visibly accelerating away — pace them from back there, and then re-engage Cruise.
Cancelling cruise is your new good habit to learn.
A day of cancelling cruise is the norm.
You’ll find a large gap normally behind you. If you’re doing this well. But the morons can’t collect video game points if they don’t pass you. And, if no one is out ahead of you, they’ll slow.
Don’t try arguing. Prove it to yourself. Average mph on that trip is the thing. It won’t be any where near your cruise control set speed unless you are on the pretty much non-existent deserted Interstate.
Second proof is total braking distance of your rig. Full stop, from highway speed. What’s that number?
Third proof is emergency slalom speed. What’s the highest and your rig stays upright? Double lane change around a stopped vehicle?
Get back to us afterwards.
Other traffic is a fact. Not a hindrance.
And when you pass the slower vehicle, keep more than five mph above their speed even if that means you’re “speeding” until you’ve opened a gap of a quarter-mile or better.
Oh, but you might be caught for speeding?
Negates that pass, doesn’t it, junior?
If you want “common sense” (reasoning) that’s how it works.
Space first. Always.
Leaving a small town on a four lane US or state highway? The morons are all champing at the bit to hit 70 again. A pack that will stay together thirty miles or more.
Just ease along below the limit until they’re out of sight.
Re-engage cruise.