Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[joecoin]

I understand your complaint but often the spots are so shallow if you pull in with your front bumper up to the edge of the sidewalk your bed is in the travel lane and if you have a hitch is even further out in the lane. While I understand it is not great for people walking it seems safer to overhang the sidewalk some and lessen the chance of someone looking for a parking spot while texting taking the back end off the truck off.

Until you are confined to a wheelchair and can't get around the hitch hanging over the sidewalk.

 

[woody]

The only thing missing was strapping the 4x4 cross braces to the trailer. If the pipe got slightly loose, they could slide off to the side. But not that likely if the trip wasn't far & the pipe was cranked down hard.

While hauling this way before I screwed a block of wood to the underside of the 4x4 to keep them from sliding from side to side, I have not done that since getting my trailer with a flat bed though.

 

[KennyG]

Never figured this out, but if you are driving between Seattle and Tacoma in Washington State the rules are reversed. The fast lane is the Right lane and the slow lane is the Left lane. It is the only place in the US, I've ever seen this as a common convention. Every time I get past Olympia, I have to remind myself that the driving rules are going to get flipped.

Do they have left hand exits? In the Chicago area some of the expressways have left hand exits but the left lane is still the fast lane. A disaster of a design.

 

[kenmbz]

On 295 in NJ the police sit in the middle of the highway.
Very normal to see speeding and passing on the right.

 

[steve tym]

Sure, passing on the right because people won't get out of the left. It's a ticketable offense in NH now.

 

[two_bit_score]

Never figured this out, but if you are driving between Seattle and Tacoma in Washington State the rules are reversed. The fast lane is the Right lane and the slow lane is the Left lane. It is the only place in the US, I've ever seen this as a common convention. Every time I get past Olympia, I have to remind myself that the driving rules are going to get flipped.

We made that drive a few times. Noticed something def different about traffic there. Couldn’t tell exactly what.

Most noted was how people could drive in the rain and cloudy conditions but when the sun came out the wrecks started happening. It seemed they were blinded by the sun and couldn’t drive in it.

 

[Captain Dirty]

. . . If you are driving between Seattle and Tacoma in Washington State the rules are reversed. The fast lane is the Right lane and the slow lane is the Left lane. . .

In Boston, where one always tailgates because not to do so would result in so many people cutting one off that one would be going backwards, the rush hour lanes are also reversed. Timid souls and those who put their brain in neutral to decompress on the way home move to the left lane because they only have to worry about being cut off from one side, the right. The brake-down lane is where the daredevils run the grand prix de commute.

 

[redman135]

Page 1848. People speeding up when being over taken.
There are studies that show this is a real effect, not just disgruntled overtakers venting. Slow vehicles really do speed up when they have someone to follow.

The other complaint of speeding up on the passing lanes and slowing down at the end is also a measured effect. The road opens up so they feel safe to speed up, when the lane ends the road narrows so they feel hemmed in and slow down. When they get pulled up about this they deny it as it is all done SUBconsiously. They then act all rightous about the dangerous overtaking oblivious to the fact that THEY are the cause.

There was a european tourist in new zealand who would slow down to 80km on single lane sections and speed up to 110km on the passing lanes. This resulted in a lot of furious truck drivers. The car drivers were also complaining. The police pulled them over and they denied they were obstructive, even with the amount of traffic stacked up behind them.
It turned out they were used to european multi lane motorways. New Zealand roads were a shock to the system.

 

[JasperFrank]

I have had many hours to contemplate the reasons for the shift in passing lanes. One is the traffic cops are ALWAYS in the medium strip. Its near impossible for them to radar cars on the right hand side of traffic. So cars form one great big long, left lane line, at precisely the posted speed, barely one car lengh apart. There are also a great number of dedicated exit lanes. That go on for great distances before the exits. These are relatively clear of traffic for most of the day. So the mid-lane, "Weavers," jump into exit lanes, do what passing they can, and then jump back into the mid-lane just before the exit turns off. These weavers don't use indicators aside from a solitary blink. And so often, these lane changes mean nothing overall, as I see that they end up near exactly where I am, having stayed in the far left lane, down the road, 50 miles later.

 

[Jstpssng]

Until you are confined to a wheelchair and can't get around the hitch hanging over the sidewalk.

Again; if you are 7 inches from my truck you are too close.

Especially in a wheelchair.