jcroy
Senior HTF Member
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2011
- Messages
- 7,916
- Real Name
- jr
- People who think rap is music.
My father is still baffled about:
- People who think rock is music.
(He was a classical music snob).
- People who think rap is music.
Yes it’s always a potential problem about the yield, and who has the right of way. I drive a big rig, and when I see someone on a get-on ramp, I will always try to move over for them (I think people don’t know how to merge onto a highway). The motorists doing the wrong speed in the wrong lane I see every day. Very frustrating.Here are a few things that baffle me:
- Drivers who stop at yield signs and yield at stop signs.
- Drivers who remain in the passing lane despite cars passing them on the right.
- People who think rap is music.
Yep. From what I recall my cousin telling me, you pass on the left then immediately move back to the right. You don’t really have a chance to pass on the right because in Germany, they’re much more intolerant of imbeciles who camp out in the left lane.I don't remember which country/region this is from, but iirc it might be germany?
Something about if you want to pass someone on a multilane autobahn, you have to pass on the left ?
(I don't know how they would handle a scenario where it is forbidden/illegal to pass a slow car on the right).
Most tractor trailers (except cattle haulers and wood chip trucks) running on a three lane interstate here tend to hang out in the center lane running 60-65, which is below the posted speed limit and is usually slower than both the right and left lanes. The cattle haulers and chip trucks are usually wound up to 90+ and stay in the left lane. I don’t understand why the slow trucks don’t just move to the right then they don’t have to worry about being passed on the right by passenger cars going the speed limit.A safety tip (I’m pretty sure most people know this already)- refrain from passing a tractor trailer on the right. That’s an accident waiting to happen.
Yes trucks running in the wrong lanes is dangerous (not all of us are great drivers, unfortunately). In Ohio, we have a problem where cars and trucks run side by side, which clogs up both lanes. I’ll wink at a truck to get back in the right lane, especially if there are cars behind him in the hammerMost tractor trailers (except cattle haulers and wood chip trucks) running on a three lane interstate here tend to hang out in the center lane running 60-65, which is below the posted speed limit and is usually slower than both the right and left lanes. The cattle haulers and chip trucks are usually wound up to 90+ and stay in the left lane. I don’t understand why the slow trucks don’t just move to the right then they don’t have to worry about being passed on the right by passenger cars going the speed limit.
Yours has 485 hp, right?
Yes it’s always a potential problem about the yield, and who has the right of way. I drive a big rig, and when I see someone on a get-on ramp, I will always try to move over for them (I think people don’t know how to merge onto a highway). The motorists doing the wrong speed in the wrong lane I see every day. Very frustrating.
That's what's *supposed* to happen everywhere.I don't know if it's common practice in other areas of USA, but where I live, it's definitely common practice for drivers to move into the left lane to allow cars to merge from the on-ramp. Despite this, I still see drivers stop when they should have accelerated and merged. Hence, things that baffle me.
The law actually states that traffic in the right lane should maintain speed and not move over if it’s not safe to do so. It is the responsibility of the vehicle merging onto the interstate to speed up or slow down appropriately to merge onto the interstate.That's what's *supposed* to happen everywhere.
While there are exceptions, around here most people seemingly have no clue, often actively blocking someone merging from an on ramp by never pulling over or slowing/accelerating as needed to provide a gap if the left lane is blocked. They also don't know how to properly use on/off ramps, rarely accelerating to highway speed to merge and often beginning to slow 1/2 mile or more away from the off ramp causing traffic back ups.
I agree, but the drivers in the right lane could behave as if they didn’t own the road.The law actually states that traffic in the right lane should maintain speed and not move over if it’s not safe to do so. It is the responsibility of the vehicle merging onto the interstate to speed up or slow down appropriately to merge onto the interstate.
Blasphemy!How anyone can drink coffee. My sister and I grew up with parents who chugged the stuff like it was the greatest thing ever. "You'll like it when you get older!" we were told. At 64 and 70, I don't think so..it's just gross. And we both hate the smell of it, too. Any amount of coffee in something ruins it.
I like coffee but as a kid I didn’t it. When I started to drink it regularly, it wasn’t love at first taste. I was also determined to drink it black, I didn’t want to add a lifetime of sugar and cream calories. That’s how I still drink it.Blasphemy!
I like coffee but as a kid I didn’t it. When I started to drink it regularly, it wasn’t love at first taste. I was also determined to drink it black, I didn’t want to add a lifetime of sugar and cream calories. That’s how I still drink it.