OH NO

[turnkey4099]

I'm in front, I'm going the maximum speed allowed by law, I will be in the right lane if there is one, if not and you are tailgating me I will slow down, If you continue to tailgate me you you will be reported as a reckless possible drunk driver. The last one I reported was, and spent the night in jail. Make my day. (Note this is in a rural area.)

It's known as common courtesy. If you set it ast the posted and everyone else is trying to do 4 or 5 over it is common courtesy not to impede them, you are not a cop. But you can be sure that you know what everyone who passes you are calling you.

Anti social behavior has its own rewards.

My goal on any trip, short or long, is not to cause a problem for others, fortunately that is also the pracitce of all provessional drivers (I am not a professopma; but have a lot of miles under my belt). That usually involves cruising a bit above the posted but still below the ticket zone.

Harry K


Harry K

 

[txdon]

Harry K. On the Texas Highways where the speed limit is 85mph, exactly how fast will you be going?


...and here's another tailgating thread......where I would speed up......
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/related-topics/261773-how-much-closer-do-you.html

 

[techwrtr2]

I was once taught in a defensive driver course that you should not speed up in response to a tailgater. Slowing down (not to obnoxious levels) will make it easier and safer for that person to pass you.

I confess that if I'm cruising above the limit on a 4 lane and am passing traffic, I don't speed up just because another car came up behind me. I do take the earliest and safest opportunity to move to the right. If I'm driving at the limit, I make it a point to stay right. On 2 lanes, I do similar. I will not exceed the limit because somebody is behind me. I do not expect other motorists to do so if I'm impatient either.

 

[DT86]

I was once taught in a defensive driver course that you should not speed up in response to a tailgater. Slowing down (not to obnoxious levels) will make it easier and safer for that person to pass you.

I confess that if I'm cruising above the limit on a 4 lane and am passing traffic, I don't speed up just because another car came up behind me. I do take the earliest and safest opportunity to move to the right. If I'm driving at the limit, I make it a point to stay right. On 2 lanes, I do similar. I will not exceed the limit because somebody is behind me. I do not expect other motorists to do so if I'm impatient either.

This has to be the most reasonable thing I've read in this post so far. I feel the same way.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

This discussion reminds me of the time I was flying down the freeway about 15 over the limit with an old gal in a tuna clipper 8' off my rear bumper. An unmarked cop car tried to pull me over, but couldn't fit between the tuna clipper and me, so he dropped back and pulled her over instead. Sometimes you just luck out.

 

[The kid]

A few years ago I built a "fabulous tailgate slimer" out of a windshield washer pump, a gallon milk jug some plastic tubing and a nozzle. When tailgaters would get one car length off my bumper, I would wash their windows for them.

I've washed my windshield many times and usually the fool behind me backs off. Or after a good rain and the fool is tailgating I drift over into the right line and cover him with dirt. They quickly back off. Tailgating has it's disadvantages too. Especially on freshly wet salted roads. I try to play by the rules especially on the interstate. I'll pass quickly and resume my previous speed. I try to stay out of the way of fools who think they own the road. I have been passed while being in the left lane on the interstate going above the limit. I usually catch up to that fool while he's getting a ticket. Too many people with cells phones that want these hazzards off the road. My car can easily go over a 100mhp. I love it when the computer says I'm achieving over 32mpg at a speed limit drive.

 

[cqaigy2]

If im in the left lane passing somebody, and somebody was coming up on me in the same left lane, i'd probably speed up some to get by the person i was passing then get over to let the person behind me get by.

I do, faintly, remember in drivers ed they said to slow down some so as to make it safer to pass for the person that maybe traveling a little too close to your rear bumper.

I had a co-worker that used to love sitting in the left lane waiting for somebody to come up behind them, and then slow down to tick off the driver. I suggested such behavior was illegal and may have dire consequences. Not everybody driving a vehicle is sane.

 

[JDgreen227]

I just completed 8 years of retirement. It you see a big silver and white motorhome running less than 60 mph. It's me. Give me push if you need me to go faster. Please do not scratch it though.

Ever see that joke with the sign on the back of a car being towed behind a MH: "Yes, I am going too slow, but please don't honk, I'm having a hard time pushing that big motorhome in front of me..."

BTW, I drove for a living for 31 years, and in all those years and miles, in addition to driving since 1968 I have never been stopped, let alone cited for speeding. I might be as much as 5 mph over the limit, but never more than that.

 

[Piston]

BTW, I drove for a living for 31 years, and in all those years and miles, in addition to driving since 1968 I have never been stopped, let alone cited for speeding. I might be as much as 5 mph over the limit, but never more than that.

A friend of my grandfathers was in the same situation as you. She was 83 yes old at the time she was pulled over for the first time in her life. The cop gave her a ticket!

 

[chad22]

Ever see that joke with the sign on the back of a car being towed behind a MH: "Yes, I am going too slow, but please don't honk, I'm having a hard time pushing that big motorhome in front of me..."

I've seen that sign before when I was driving my truck from Arkansas to Kansas around 3 years ago. I think it was somewhere around Ponca City Oklahoma where I saw it.

It's Hilarious.

Chad

 

[300UGUY]

This discussion reminds me of the time I was flying down the freeway about 15 over the limit with an old gal in a tuna clipper 8' off my rear bumper. An unmarked cop car tried to pull me over, but couldn't fit between the tuna clipper and me, so he dropped back and pulled her over instead. Sometimes you just luck out.

Tuna clipper? ?????

 

[Gator6x4]

Like CBW1999 said, nothing wrong w/that. Since I've got all kinds of time now I'm never in a big hurry anymore. But the downside of retirement is you never get a day off either.

I can live with the "No Days Off", but when I lost "Holidays and Sick Days" I thought that sucked. After all when one is retired and gets older they have medical problems and need "Sick Days".

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Tuna clipper? ?????

Nautical joke. A clipper ship was sleek and fast. Fishing boats were fat and slow. A tuna clipper is fat and fast, usually 20 feet long, 7 feet wide, with a big V8 engine.

 

[JDgreen227]

Nautical joke. A clipper ship was sleek and fast. Fishing boats were fat and slow. A tuna clipper is fat and fast, usually 20 feet long, 7 feet wide, with a big V8 engine.

You could be describing my '85 Crown Vic or my Y2K Yukon XL....but I was thinking maybe "Tuna clipper" meant a tin can car....

 

[turnkey4099]

Exactly as I have said several times - whatever the 'flow' is.

Harry K

 

[dmccarty]

This discussion reminds me of the time I was flying down the freeway about 15 over the limit with an old gal in a tuna clipper 8' off my rear bumper. An unmarked cop car tried to pull me over, but couldn't fit between the tuna clipper and me, so he dropped back and pulled her over instead. Sometimes you just luck out.

MANY years ago, well, ok, over two decades ago I was driving south on the FLA Turnpike in a Camaro z28. Believe it or not, I was doing the speed limit. :laughing: Even though the speed limit was 55 and that road is long, with few exits and BORING! :shocked: I am put putting along and a pack of cars goes whizzing buy at least 20 mph over the limit. They were a book'n down the road.

Just as they past me, we were driving best a group of trees in the median. The FLA Turnpike in that part of the road has quite a bit of space between the north and south bound lanes. As I passed the trees, there was a FHP trooper sitting in the median. He had a good hidey hole behind the trees. By the time a radar detector pick up his signal it was too late. Anywho, the hidey hole did not do him any good. There must have been 10 cars in the pack of vehicles that went zooming passed him. As I passed him, I saw him just shaking his head back and forth at what just happened! :laughing::laughing::laughing: He let them go. I figured he would take off after them and at least pick off the tail end charlie. But nope, he let them go.

On my way to and from work I drive the speed limit which is mostly 55 mph. Of course this is not fast enough for some people and they will pass me. 90% of the time I catch them at the light a few miles up the road. :laughing: Not real funny the danger expose other cars too in their passing on double lines and such... This morning I figured there must be some TBNers on the road I was driving. It is four lane and I was put putting at 55mph as usual. What was unusual is that I had to pass not one, but two cars, going slower than me! :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: Not even an RV. Or a hill!

I thought of this thread as I passed them at 55 mph. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[podagrower]

MANY years ago, well, ok, over two decades ago I was driving south on the FLA Turnpike in a Camaro z28. Believe it or not, I was doing the speed limit. :laughing: Even though the speed limit was 55 and that road is long, with few exits and BORING! :shocked: I am put putting along and a pack of cars goes whizzing buy at least 20 mph over the limit. They were a book'n down the road.

Just as they past me, we were driving best a group of trees in the median. The FLA Turnpike in that part of the road has quite a bit of space between the north and south bound lanes. As I passed the trees, there was a FHP trooper sitting in the median. He had a good hidey hole behind the trees. By the time a radar detector pick up his signal it was too late. Anywho, the hidey hole did not do him any good. There must have been 10 cars in the pack of vehicles that went zooming passed him. As I passed him, I saw him just shaking his head back and forth at what just happened! :laughing::laughing::laughing: He let them go. I figured he would take off after them and at least pick off the tail end charlie. But nope, he let them go.

On my way to and from work I drive the speed limit which is mostly 55 mph. Of course this is not fast enough for some people and they will pass me. 90% of the time I catch them at the light a few miles up the road. :laughing: Not real funny the danger expose other cars too in their passing on double lines and such... This morning I figured there must be some TBNers on the road I was driving. It is four lane and I was put putting at 55mph as usual. What was unusual is that I had to pass not one, but two cars, going slower than me! :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: Not even an RV. Or a hill!

I thought of this thread as I passed them at 55 mph. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

There are 2 spots on the Turnpike north of Yeehaw Junction (yes, it's real) that fit that description perfectly. Thankfully the speed limit is now 70 there. I was working on a job 4 hours from home and had to make that drive every Monday morning and Friday night for about 6 weeks. The FHP never pulled me over at 85 thru there, but pretty much everybody who passed me I would see again, with a set of flashing blue lights behind them.

And there was that one day...I may or may not have been in excess of 90 when I saw a state trooper going in the opposite direction on the turnpike. He jumped on the brakes, turned into the median (and I knew it was going to be expensive), (did I mention it was the rainy season) it was like a scene out of a movie, he hit the standing water in the median, water shot everywhere, out the grill, out the cowl, out the hood, and there stopped that car. In my defense, he never hit the blue lights so I don't think I was technically eluding, but I got off at the very next exit just in case he had a different view of things.

 

[dmccarty]

There are 2 spots on the Turnpike north of Yeehaw Junction (yes, it's real) that fit that description perfectly. Thankfully the speed limit is now 70 there. I was working on a job 4 hours from home and had to make that drive every Monday morning and Friday night for about 6 weeks. The FHP never pulled me over at 85 thru there, but pretty much everybody who passed me I would see again, with a set of flashing blue lights behind them.

I have driven through Yeehaw Junction many a time. :laughing::laughing::laughing: I always wondered if the place was named after a mule that would not yee or haw.

The incident I described happened south of YeeHaw Junction. Out in the middle of no where. Can you imagine driving 55 mph on that section of road? LORDY it took forever and you were bored out of your mind. The only thing I ever saw interesting out there was wild turkeys, hogs, and A10s "attacking" a Cypress head. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan