ROTD: being too nice while driving - Page 2 - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Backbeach Jake · 12-16-2005, 07:01 PM

Pete G, i.ve noticed the afraid to pass trend myself . Especially if there is no one ahead of you for miles. They seem to want to be first but are afraid to lead and take responsibility as point man. Point man watches for Staties.

Karl F · 12-16-2005, 08:48 PM

I drive Highway at 75-85 depending on flow of traffic, truck just feels "right" at 80...I try to stay in center lane most of time. what really frosts my cookies is the guy who passes me, then pulls right in front of me... and dies down to 65.... OK.. left lane, go by, resume speed, return to center lane... here he comes again left lane, same chit, pulls in, cuts speed... WTF... is that his way of trying to slow me down?... Don't work, sorry... I play the game 2- 3 times, then it's left lane, Hi-Ho silver, away...blow the carbon out real good for a couple miles, than back to my usual pace. what really gets me, is dang if he don't show up again 40 miles down the road....
Staties.... last 6-7 days of the month, keep the eyes real wide, and the detectors on high... seems to be when they need to fill the quota, even though there "is no such thing"

Anybody sitting on my arse at 75-80 in the center lane... and the left, or right, lane is open and available... well, they get the Brake Test, Pronto.. not enuf to get them to hit me, just enuf to get their attention. I truly believe there is a special place in Hell for tailgaters.

hank8001 · 12-16-2005, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Karl F

I play the game 2- 3 times, then it's left lane, Hi-Ho silver, away...blow the carbon out real good for a couple miles, than back to my usual pace.

I used to take this proactive approach to annoying drivers too, until I went though a speed trap while "blowing the carbon out". This happened on RT24 in Portsmouth/Tiverton, which has to be the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway in the United States. Now I just let it go....just too many out there to avoid them.

Raven · 12-16-2005, 10:36 PM

on my old ford van so at night driving across country i could flip a switch....complete the ground and make my brake lights go on without slowing down....this usually drives em crazy...

but to totally avoid road rage....i simply tune into classical music

the music that calms the savage beast within (for me)
hard rock and roll and i wanna crawl up their tailpipe..revenge mode
and then i think of the finer things in life and rise above
the whole....... getting bent out of shape experience.

castn4bass · 12-17-2005, 11:05 AM

I used to have a hose running to the back bumper on my 66 lesabre that would shoot windshield wiper fluid at anyone that tried to climb up my Arse!! Worked great!!

Mike P · 12-17-2005, 11:35 AM

For future reference, Karl and Krispy---when and if I finally make it up to Mass, I do handle DMV matters

In these parts 75-85 is an impossible dream between say 5 in the morning and 10 at night.

Swimmer · 12-17-2005, 12:19 PM

This post is kind of funny in a way. Some of you guys are trying to straighten out krispy for driving 75 m.p.h. in the high speed, more appropriately known as the passing lane, when 75 m.p.h. is 10 m.p.h. over the maximum speed that your supposed to be traveling. The middle lane use to be referred to as the travel lane and the inside lane was where all the slow pokes should be. If someone wants to travel 75 m.p.h. in the passing lane and that person is in fact passing all the cars in the travel lane then whats wrong?

A friend of mine went to MIT and he and his civil engineering clasmates conducted a study of person driving from point A to point B. Some went the posted speed and sone drove as far as they could to point B. Result was that thier was no discernable difference in the time it took for everyone to arrive, none.

As far as driving to slow in the passing lane and getting a ticket. Thier is a minimum speed law in Mass. but it is not clearly defined and has never been used. Besides wtf, who drives belkow 65 m.p.h. in the outsidelane.

You could put your car in frieking nuetral and get dragged along at close to the speed limit anywhere in Mass.

What about yielding entering the highway? That sign is a farce. Yield means stop if traffic is coming. The most selfish driving behavior in the whole country happens at the end of the on-ramps with people cutting you off. What about the guy who not only cuts you off but ends up in the pasing lane so fast from entering at the on-ramp you dont know how he did it. Its almost like the car he was driving dematerializes and the rematializes in the passing lane. No offense everyone but I reading many posts here written by people who make up the rules as they drive along. And thats why we all pay so much in insurance.

Swimmer · 12-17-2005, 12:26 PM

One more thing. What about the trucks. Any commercially registered vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 lbs or more is always supposed to be in the inside, slowpoke lane, unless passing. Never are they supposed to be in the passing lane, unless exiting the highway from a high speed lane exit ramp. And when they are done passing in the travel lane the trucks are supposed to get back in the inside lane. You know how you are in the middle or travel lane and thier a tractor towing a 53' trailer and he is just staying even with other traffic, the truck driver is supposed to be staying even with traffic in the inside lane. In Mass. this includes trucks like F 350's or silverado 3500 that might be commercially registered.

Karl F · 12-17-2005, 01:46 PM

Thanks Mike

... no tickets (so far) mainly cause I'm always getting passed (!)... 495, 24, 93 north of Boston, and certain parts of 3, if you are Not doing 75 in the middle lane, they will push you off the road, as long as it is not rush hour, in that case it's a parking lot... yeah, it might be over the "limit", but if you travel mass roads, you realize that, that, is merely a suggestion.
RI... 95, well, from what I have seen, they have more of a "prescence" there, and I travel accordingly... and the few times I travel 95 thru CT, the state of my birth

, well, I think that is where aholes, learn how to drive, or what passes for it

, and I just pray that I make it thru the potholes alive, to get to the traffic jam in NY.

justplugit · 12-17-2005, 10:16 PM

Depending on the traffic flow, the safest lanes to drive are either the passing lane or slow lane. Center lane is suicide, as when a truck or car drifts from either side, you have no where to go. I'll take my chances getting a speeding ticket in the passing lane any day rather than getting the crushing squeeze.

Surfcastinglife · 12-18-2005, 01:13 AM

whenever someone is driving slow in the left lane i move to the right, and i switch back to the left lane with about 2 inches of clearance. they usually get the message and get the !@#$ out of the lane. and i like the ppl who put on their turn signal and just switch lanes regardless of how close you are to them. "but i had my turn signals on u knew i was switching lanes its ur fault u hit me"

Sea Dangles · 12-19-2005, 08:18 PM

2 words;RAMMING SPEED. WTF Pete,You move 2 miles away from work and NOW you bellyache about traffic?

striprman · 12-19-2005, 10:23 PM

I'm the guy in the old pickup truck doing 50 in the right lane.

Pete_G · 12-19-2005, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

2 words;RAMMING SPEED. WTF Pete,You move 2 miles away from work and NOW you bellyache about traffic?

Some days my 2 mile drive to work takes 15 minutes.

mrmacey · 12-20-2005, 12:24 PM

your sitting waiting to get out of the parking lot they pull in front of you instead of letting you out now the fifty other cars behind them wont let you out so you get a little aggressive and pull out and have to cut someone off to get in they beep and yell but I say wal mart will be there when you get there!

MAC · 12-21-2005, 06:21 PM

If I am in the left lane and going 75 MPH and passing everyone I stay there. If the middle lane opens up I'll get over. But if the middle lane is chock full and some one pulls up on my bumper expecting me to get over, tough cookies. My thoughts are that they should have left 10 minutes earlier. If you are late for work because you cut it too short timewise , oh well. Life is too short as it is to worry about somebody behind you. I used to get the road rage mindset but not anymore. Sometimes my wife even tells me I drive like an old man now.

steelhead · 12-21-2005, 07:50 PM

I've got an old Mercedes Turbo Diesel. 300 SD. When someone starts sniffing my tail pipe, I drop it a gear and floor it.... The black cloud that is produced is enough to scare the bejesus out of them! They always drop right back and give me plenty of room... :-) (Course, that means they have to be exceeding 85 to begin with....)