while I definitely agree, some states can't because they have exits on the left side of the highway. New York has a ton of these so that's why you see so many bad New York drivers out of state. they don't know you're supposed to stay right
@@infernodotdash2203 it’s a law in NY. People actually think the middle lane is a cruising lane so they think they are following the law. Same with the scum in Ohio. They think the middle lane is their own little highway.
All states do. Whether they choose to enforce it or not, is different. I live in GA, and it's a law. Impeding the flow of traffic, is a traffic violation.
Fun fact, West Virginia broke off it's crappy neighbor because it wanted to do better, be better. You guys LOVE fines. Honestly I think ya'll should just move back to England lol.
Unfortunately this specifically is only the law in Washington, Montana, New Jersey, Maine, and Massachusetts. All other states have laws about yielding the left lane but only those 5 say to keep all the way right.
They wanted us to get all on board with the “move over, slow down “for LEO’s and highway workers. They could return the courtesy by getting those dadgum , head in their aas, talking or texting, belligerent left lane campers to just move the frick over!
@@BrownsDubsif you can't control your emotions while driving, to the point you're throwing a 2 ton pile of metal around in a way that endangers the people around you, you shouldn't be driving. Left lane camping is a frustrating and disruptive behavior, but it in no way justifies road rage.
Totally agree. This is the #1 cause of traffic congestion. I see traffic jams in the middle of the night because a handful of slow drivers have decided to drive side by side blocking the entire flow of traffic, totally oblivious to the backup behind them. They truly should be disqualified from driving.
Back in 1968 I was taught in Driver's Ed the left lane on any highway was for passing only. This was for the prevention of obstruction of emergency vehicles.
I lknew this rule when i took my driving test at 16 yrs old in 1987. I always pass, then get over to the right. Usually much less traffic in the far right "slow" lane anyway.
Thank you for your service and willingness to take time to educate people about passing I drive truck for a living and it is frustrating when you have another vehicle going slower than you are and you have nowhere to go, but to stay behind them
Thank you! If you’re gonna drive like a grandma, do it in the RIGHT lane. If you’re creating a train of cars behind you, YOU are a problem. You’re an an even BIGGER problem if you don’t notice.
We need this in California. People here think "I was here first" and "If you want to go faster, GO AROUND!" Meanwhile there is no way to go around. I've spoken to drivers like this while chatting with classmates, etc, and the topic of traffic comes up. I still remember someone angry "Why don't those people go around?!" Because they CAN'T!!! lol Good grief. Years ago, there was a PSA about road rage demonstrated in a grocery store. A person leisurely shopping and an angry man "tailgating" the shopper with his own cart. Every time the front shopper moved, the vessel bursting guy stayed hot on their trail. The announcer asked (paraphrased) "You wouldn't shop like this. So why drive like this?" The number of people with such poor critical thinking skills... No one shops like that because it's a store, you can go around, there are no cart laws preventing you from shopping in "oncoming cart traffic". I can't take the dumb anymore. Educated dumb experts everywhere.
Why did that idiot park on the left shoulder next to the center divider. You're told to pull over into the right shoulder regardless of if he knew about the passing lane stuff
Yeah, why not just issue warnings to educate people on speeding? Ignorance of the law is not a defense. Me, I would charge these drivers with careless driving and let them go through the hassle of trying to plead it out.
1- disrupts the flow of traffic 2- safer to pass on the left 3- impeding traffic 4- its the law camping in the left lane is a sure sign of a driver not paying attention.
@@robertpopa2628 It's not the left most lane, it is all lanes left of the rightmost lane. Calling the leftmost lane the passing lane is a misnomer and causes people to think they are ok just travelling in the middle lanes, leaving right lane(s) vacant. That is just as much an offense as travelling in the left most lane when the lane to your right is vacant. In Arizona, as well as most states except for I believe South Dakota.
I can agree with that. The way I was taught is that if you aren't actively passing someone, you should move to the right. When I say actively, it means that you are going to pass them in one or two miles, not fifteen. If you are slower traffic, you should be to the right (note, if there's no one ahead of you for more then a quater mile, you are, by default, the slower traffic, so move to the right hand lane.)
it's idiots like these who causes people to get speeding tickets. so by the time I get a space to go around the idiot I am so mad by the time I get around him I'm doing 90 to 105 without realizing it . 105 you ask my Lincoln has a limeter on it from the factory and they won't disable it
@mikegeee3319 as long as you aren't camping on the left lane I don't care what speed you are going. If you are you are the most dangerous non distracted driver on the road and will cause an accident.
I'm glad the officer mention the impeded view when passing on the right in a left-hand drive country. Likewise countries like England that drive on the right hand side is the opposite, they pass on the right because their view is impeded on the left.
Which is why it is also illegal to travel in middle lanes if a lane to your right is open. Keep right except to pass is the only way to prevent underpassing.
This (no camping in left lane) was in the state study guide for new drivers way back in the 1970s in Indiana. And it was on the written test. It ought to be on every state’s driver’s license study guide and test in the US. I think most campers literally don’t know they’re not supposed to be driving in the left lane.
I think South Dakota is the only state without some law prohibiting left lane camping. I know a few states make exceptions for when there are three or more lanes in same direction, and I think Ohio allows you to stay in left lane if you're traveling speed limit, and same in Ontario. I think that's dangerous - all left lane travel should be for overtaking regardless of speed, in preparation for turning left, or to utilise all available lanes in heavy traffic/construction zones. My other pet peeve involves the idiots who can't comprehend the "zipper method" of using all lanes all the way to their end and, at that point, merge every other vehicle. It's faster and safer for everyone yet there's always somebody who thinks it's there job to block a lane so nobody passes. A pickup was doing exactly this on I-94 between Chicago and Detroit in Michigan when a blue state trooper lit him up and used loudspeaker to threaten a hefty fine if he didn't stop blocking traffic.
Well, one thing i have to say is he was trying to educate instead of just ticketing. Of course on a city road where you will be making a left hand turn into a business...that lane needs travelled. Kudos for him.
It's simple" If there are cars passiing you on your right side, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG FUCKING LANE! GET OVER YOUR SELF ENTITLMENT AND GET OVER TO THE RIGHT LANES!!
A ticket educates a hell of a lot faster than a warning. Write a ticket and they'll go back and educate all their friends and family. This problem needs to be solved fast. We are wasting money adding lanes to highways that just need people to understand that they are supposed to stay in the right most lane other than for overtaking.
I always hated every left lane camper this would be wonderful as long as they don't take advantage of the high speed flow and start giving more speeding tickets. I found the 80 mph speed limit on open highways a great place to drive 90. It's always the slow pokes causing the congestion. When I drive the flow and someone passes me not flying by I think they are going to clog the flow and be in my way soon!
Road rage incidents would drop 50% or more if this one single traffic law was ACTUALLY ENFORCED. And they could easily pay a cop's salary for enforcing it (for at least the 12 months or so it takes for the word to get out about the tickets) so it's a win win all around.
Some states don’t have a left lane camping law. Many people willfully ignore the law in the majority of states that do, creating a very dangerous environment on our nation’s highways.
Someone should educate Utahns about this. They camp in left lane all across the country. It's like they were all taught wrong in driver's education or something. I'm not even sure they know how to drive in the right lane.
I don’t see any officer ever pull anyone over for this. I saw a Louisiana cop pull a young woman over for texting while zipping in and out of a congested I-10
well someone has to - sky daddy seems to always be napping during the holocaust, or while children are being raped, or dying of parasites and so on - seems like the only time he can be bothered is when kathy needs a promotion at work or brad can't find his car keys.
I hear ya. !! I have one 'occasional' exception: In some areas of Ok and AZ the right lane is in very poor quality. I pulled a trailer through these places and stayed mostly in the right lane because of my reduced speed. When it was clear of traffic, i would shift to the left lane to get a little peace of mind. Some of the right lane stretches, especially in Arizona, were like driving on everlasting cattle guards. Not a fan of beating my car and trailer to pieces.
The driver could have a left turn to make, if the maxed speed limit is 55,65 or 70mph there's a 3 to 5mph lower cousin speed that the driver is aloud to travel before switching to the far right lane. Which would be held legal and reasonable in all 50 states. Also those speeds are for both lanes,which indicates you people speeding. Anyway if you time one driver traveling 70mph and another traveling at 60mph to the same destination there's than 40 seconds arrival time difference. Resulting in the question being asked to any of these drivers what's the Rush? Regardless of the driving conditions the goal is to arrive safely.
Speeding is a fact of life, there will always be people that speed. If the speed limit is 70 and you are going 72 in the left lane, and someone behind you is going 75, you are making the road less safe by not moving over to the right and letting them pass.
@DaneRates that's why it's not illegal to "be" in the left lane, only to "stay" in the left lane when you have no lawful purpose for doing so. The validity of one law is not eliminated when the other laws are not followed. The laws around use of left lanes do not become irrelevant once people exceed the speed limit. The laws clearly make a provision for some measure of speeding, as they are tied to "normal and reasonable flow of traffic" and not to the speed limit. Not tying this law to the speed limit is not an oversight; it is very clearly intentional in the legislation
I'd be more interested in seeing enforcement on things that are actual safety issues not just slightly annoying. I don't like getting stuck behind someone going slow on the left anymore then anyone else does but I am far more concerned with people not signaling, not stopping at stop signs (slow and go as I call it), not paying attention to the road hitting animals, pedestrians and cyclists. You've got pedophiles on the lose, rapists all around, muderers more then we can count and you're pulling people over for driving in the road but not fast enough.
What if you're in the left lane and you're still passing cars in the right lane, but you're passing those right lane cars slower than most people would like and you have a line of cars behind you? Is that still not ok? I'm only curious because Ive been behind a car that is passing people in the left lane slowly and there is a line of cars behind them, me included.
Use some common courtesy. Pretend you're in a stairwell or in a narrow corridor and people come up behind you. What would you do? Be decisive one way or another. If you can't pass a vehicle in about 15-20 seconds, then pull in behind it and wait for faster traffic to pass you, then continue your passing maneuver when you can take the time you need to do so.
Generally speaking, there is no time limit specified in the traffic laws for how quickly you must finish your passing. If you’re behind someone not passing as quickly as you’d like, you are required by law to keep a full legal, safe following distance and patiently wait your turn. I understand Alabama does have a requirement that the pass must be completed in 1.5 miles.
@@jbm71 I often flash my lights to notify my intent. I don't ride up their behind. I keep a safe distance. I think signaling intent is helpful in order to let others know you are waiting. Many times I have moved over into a small gap only for the vehicle behind me not to make a move and they sit in the same spot. I would prefer if they indicate whether they are wanting to pass, or just happy sitting behind me as I pass. In most jurisdictions there is no time limit as you say; one must pass within a reasonable amount of time. That is why an officer will usually wait a couple of minutes to pull someone over for this infraction, so that there can be no ambiguity about whether they were in the act of passing or not.
@@jasonrekker4328 Your very presence in a passing lane is by itself sufficient (by definition) to indicate to the driver in front of you that you intend to pass one or more vehicles to your immediate right once you have an opportunity to do so, that is, once the driver in front of you has finished his own passing maneuver. There’s no such thing as being “happy sitting behind the driver in front”. (The law requires you to wait patiently, whether you’re “happy” about it or not.) If you’re in a passing lane, by definition you ARE intending to pass (when the opportunity presents itself). When you add the action of flashing your lights, even if it is supposedly only to “get the attention” of the driver in front of you, it can mean only one thing that the driver in front of you doesn’t already know: that you are now “encouraging” him to finish his pass sooner so you can get on with your own pass. That flashing of lights is, in my view, a somewhat unnecessary, discourteous, impatient, aggressive act, and an inappropriate use of attempting to signal another driver. If you flash your lights, you are signaling the other driver, implicitly asking him to do something he’s not currently doing: to speed up his own pass. It is never appropriate to signal another driver to do something he isn’t already doing. It essentially implies you either think he’s doing something wrong (which is something only the police can judge), or you are asking him to do something “for you”. In neither case is it appropriate to signal the other driver. The only appropriate uses of signaling another driver are either to warn him of an action that YOU are about to take, to tell him that you see him and acknowledge what he is doing, or to warn him of a potentially hazardous condition. It can be illegal to flash your lights at another driver. It is in some traffic law definitions one of the multiple criteria that can characterize “aggressive driving”. (So is tailgating, but it’s very good that at least you don’t do that.) Obviously if you flash too much or for too long, especially at night, it can blind him temporarily. BTW, I have heard that it is considered “standard practice” in Germany on the Autobahns to flash your lights at the driver in front of you to tell him to “get out of your way”, but that’s Germany. I consider it to be a discourteous, aggressive action.
"As long as I am doing the speed limit, I can stay in the left lane as long as I want to!!!". What's even more annoying are those left lane bandits who stay in the left lane until the last possible moment and then scurry across five lanes to make the exit.....
it is a law in georgia. In georgia the law even states if you block the fast lane "EVEN IF YOU ARE SPEEDING OR NOT" you are in the wrong. That means if the speed limit is 60, and you go 200 miles per hour on the left lane, if you still somehow still blocking faster cars, you can still get a ticket. Now the law is barely enforced, but its there.
Imagine fining someone for going the speed limit. It is illegal to go above the speed limit regardless of the lane, therefore nobody is being impeded by a car going the speed limit.
-it's the law -obstructing people from being able to pass -can't change lanes because you are blocking -safer to pass on the left -impeding traffic -causing traffic jams -pay attention - how it is designed : camping in the left lane is a sure sign of someone not paying attention.
Yes I drive on the right lane. But half a mile away when I am ready to take a left turn , on giving a signal nobody let's me in. So I slow down a lot to let a train of cars pass before I can turn left. People don't even give turn signals. Officer ivthink you need to make sure they are following all the rules of the book strictly. This means giving turn signal warning not at the last second , or people following to close.
For once the law and the police are doing something we all agree with. I once was riding with a friend in his car as a passenger and we were in the left lane of a interstate type of road. I said to him, its clear here(right side), why dont you get over? He said, oh no, Im fine here, Im doing the speed limit, not speeding and the other drivers bunched up behind me can just pound salt. I kind of lost a lot of respect for him right then and there, and the friend ship degraded over the following years. I havent spoken to him in 30 years, turns out he had a falling out with many other friends in the circle as well. It makes you wonder what type of people are out there, just a holes( ah hem I mean Republicans).
1:04 " making it illegal to drive UNDER the speed limit in the left hand lane" That is who they go after...not me. I drive in the left hand lane all the time and I drive the EXACT maximum speed limit. I have never been pulled over for left lane driving because I do not impede anyone who is obeying the speed limit laws. Impeding speeders doesn't count so the cops never bother me.
No. It’s a safety issue. Passing on the right is dangerous. People who drive in the passing lane slower than the traffic flow, is jeopardizing everyone’s life around them.
If only police departments all over the country would enforce this, traffic would reduce by 50%.
I’ll ask you the same thing that the Colorado State Patrolman said in a similar video (“Left Lane Law!”): “What makes you think we don’t enforce it?”
@jkirk1626I enforce it.
@@jbm71 For the most part, they don't.
@@safeandeffectivelol You don’t know that.
Traffic will not be “reduced”….you’ll still have the same number of cars on the road
If i could be assigned to only stop these kinds of drivers, i would totally become a highway patrol officer.
I've often thought, "I'd PAY THEM" to be allowed to do this job!
I always wanted to be assigned as the pool boy at the women's prison.
@@tomlord4469 I guess you like obese trailer park, barrio, and ghetto trash. That's 95% of the women's prison population
Lol, you and me both. What is going on in the minds of those camping in the far left lane? Something is wrong with their medulla oblongata.
Thank you for this. I wish the highway patrol would do this on the turnpike.
Who can afford to drive on the turnpike! 😂
All states need this law
They do..
while I definitely agree, some states can't because they have exits on the left side of the highway. New York has a ton of these so that's why you see so many bad New York drivers out of state. they don't know you're supposed to stay right
@@infernodotdash2203 it’s a law in NY. People actually think the middle lane is a cruising lane so they think they are following the law. Same with the scum in Ohio. They think the middle lane is their own little highway.
It’s been like that sense the driving laws were made.
All states do. Whether they choose to enforce it or not, is different. I live in GA, and it's a law. Impeding the flow of traffic, is a traffic violation.
$200? Make this a $1000 fine. You'll see how fast this catches on. I'm in VA btw. This problem is nationwide.
$5000 fine and have to retake drivers course
@@perfectgematriadecodesabc4259death penalty
I'm in Va too. Nothing really more to say about that.
Fun fact, West Virginia broke off it's crappy neighbor because it wanted to do better, be better. You guys LOVE fines. Honestly I think ya'll should just move back to England lol.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Virginia does love its laws and overbearing policing
Daily reminder anything left of the rightmost lane is a passing lane
Thank you - finally someone who understands the actual law!
THANK YOU!!!!
Unfortunately this specifically is only the law in Washington, Montana, New Jersey, Maine, and Massachusetts. All other states have laws about yielding the left lane but only those 5 say to keep all the way right.
Speeders don’t concern me, because they aren’t impeding my progress. Write all the left lane tickets you want.
The "Keep Right Except to Pass" signs and all it's variants need to be surrounded by bright flashing LEDs.
Not enough enforcement is done with this rule. I've seen accidents occur because of this
They wanted us to get all on board with the “move over, slow down “for LEO’s and highway workers. They could return the courtesy by getting those dadgum , head in their aas, talking or texting, belligerent left lane campers to just move the frick over!
left lane camping is worse than speeding in my opinion. It causes drivers to be very aggressive and causes road rage more than speeding does
@@BrownsDubsif you can't control your emotions while driving, to the point you're throwing a 2 ton pile of metal around in a way that endangers the people around you, you shouldn't be driving.
Left lane camping is a frustrating and disruptive behavior, but it in no way justifies road rage.
If I were a HP officer, my entire citation book would be used for left lane violators.
Thank you. This is the number 1 issues with the roads.
Totally agree. This is the #1 cause of traffic congestion. I see traffic jams in the middle of the night because a handful of slow drivers have decided to drive side by side blocking the entire flow of traffic, totally oblivious to the backup behind them. They truly should be disqualified from driving.
Back in 1968 I was taught in Driver's Ed the left lane on any highway was for passing only. This was for the prevention of obstruction of emergency vehicles.
I lknew this rule when i took my driving test at 16 yrs old in 1987. I always pass, then get over to the right. Usually much less traffic in the far right "slow" lane anyway.
Almost all states in the U.S. have a similar policy in effect, but see virtually no actual enforcement of it. What a shame.
I wish more people would realize the importance of this...Thank you!
Thank you for your service and willingness to take time to educate people about passing I drive truck for a living and it is frustrating when you have another vehicle going slower than you are and you have nowhere to go, but to stay behind them
Thank you! If you’re gonna drive like a grandma, do it in the RIGHT lane. If you’re creating a train of cars behind you, YOU are a problem. You’re an an even BIGGER problem if you don’t notice.
They notice, but they don't care which is even worse.
We need this in California. People here think "I was here first" and "If you want to go faster, GO AROUND!" Meanwhile there is no way to go around. I've spoken to drivers like this while chatting with classmates, etc, and the topic of traffic comes up. I still remember someone angry "Why don't those people go around?!" Because they CAN'T!!! lol Good grief.
Years ago, there was a PSA about road rage demonstrated in a grocery store. A person leisurely shopping and an angry man "tailgating" the shopper with his own cart. Every time the front shopper moved, the vessel bursting guy stayed hot on their trail. The announcer asked (paraphrased) "You wouldn't shop like this. So why drive like this?" The number of people with such poor critical thinking skills... No one shops like that because it's a store, you can go around, there are no cart laws preventing you from shopping in "oncoming cart traffic".
I can't take the dumb anymore. Educated dumb experts everywhere.
in California, its called the fast lane
Why did that idiot park on the left shoulder next to the center divider. You're told to pull over into the right shoulder regardless of if he knew about the passing lane stuff
Good job officer. Left lane campers need to learn their lesson. They think they’re so entitled. They deserve a huge ticket not a warning
They deserve to lose their license for life.
Verbal warnings mean nothing! Do you job, write a ticket for this!
Yeah, why not just issue warnings to educate people on speeding? Ignorance of the law is not a defense. Me, I would charge these drivers with careless driving and let them go through the hassle of trying to plead it out.
@@jasonrekker4328
Cry us a river, move your ass over.
If I was an officer, I would stack these tickets
Thanks for this dude. We need more of you.
I really don't think a verbal warning is near enough I guarantee 9 out of 10 getting a verbal warning will continue until they have to pay for this
1- disrupts the flow of traffic
2- safer to pass on the left
3- impeding traffic
4- its the law
camping in the left lane is a sure sign of a driver not paying attention.
2 In Belgium (and most EU countries I guess) it's actually forbidden to pass on the right.
@@flitsertheoThank god it became legal in Poland recently, provided there are at least 2 lanes in one direction
I don't actually know if it's a ticketable offence to needlessly drive in the left lane here in Sweden, because no one ever does it.
Yall taking in immigrants from Canada? I think I want to move now 😂
California desperately needs this policy harshly enforced.
It's a policy that is signed all over the state, but I have never heard or seen it ever be enforced.
This has been the law in most other countries for about the last fifty years. 😂👍
It's the passing lane, not the passing through lane, not the handicapped lane, not the texting lane, not the phone lane. It's for passing.
which lane?
The left most lane of the interstate, at least in the US.
@@robertpopa2628 It's not the left most lane, it is all lanes left of the rightmost lane. Calling the leftmost lane the passing lane is a misnomer and causes people to think they are ok just travelling in the middle lanes, leaving right lane(s) vacant. That is just as much an offense as travelling in the left most lane when the lane to your right is vacant. In Arizona, as well as most states except for I believe South Dakota.
I can agree with that. The way I was taught is that if you aren't actively passing someone, you should move to the right. When I say actively, it means that you are going to pass them in one or two miles, not fifteen. If you are slower traffic, you should be to the right (note, if there's no one ahead of you for more then a quater mile, you are, by default, the slower traffic, so move to the right hand lane.)
Does this also apply when you're driving in the city? I always drive in the left in the city because my destination is on the left.
Oh please, more of this! The last 2 speeding tickets were when I was passing a slow car.
I've gotten 1 myself for this reason. Having to pass on the right and the car on the left sped up on me.
it's idiots like these who causes people to get speeding tickets. so by the time I get a space to go around the idiot I am so mad by the time I get around him I'm doing 90 to 105 without realizing it . 105 you ask my Lincoln has a limeter on it from the factory and they won't disable it
Because 75 in a 70 isn't fast enough right? All you speeders need to SLOW DOWN
@mikegeee3319 as long as you aren't camping on the left lane I don't care what speed you are going. If you are you are the most dangerous non distracted driver on the road and will cause an accident.
@@mikegeee3319 no, 75 in a 70 isn't fast enough. It should be raised to 85 minimum in most places.
I'm glad the officer mention the impeded view when passing on the right in a left-hand drive country. Likewise countries like England that drive on the right hand side is the opposite, they pass on the right because their view is impeded on the left.
Which is why it is also illegal to travel in middle lanes if a lane to your right is open. Keep right except to pass is the only way to prevent underpassing.
This (no camping in left lane) was in the state study guide for new drivers way back in the 1970s in Indiana. And it was on the written test. It ought to be on every state’s driver’s license study guide and test in the US. I think most campers literally don’t know they’re not supposed to be driving in the left lane.
Thank you!
I think South Dakota is the only state without some law prohibiting left lane camping. I know a few states make exceptions for when there are three or more lanes in same direction, and I think Ohio allows you to stay in left lane if you're traveling speed limit, and same in Ontario. I think that's dangerous - all left lane travel should be for overtaking regardless of speed, in preparation for turning left, or to utilise all available lanes in heavy traffic/construction zones.
My other pet peeve involves the idiots who can't comprehend the "zipper method" of using all lanes all the way to their end and, at that point, merge every other vehicle. It's faster and safer for everyone yet there's always somebody who thinks it's there job to block a lane so nobody passes. A pickup was doing exactly this on I-94 between Chicago and Detroit in Michigan when a blue state trooper lit him up and used loudspeaker to threaten a hefty fine if he didn't stop blocking traffic.
Well, one thing i have to say is he was trying to educate instead of just ticketing.
Of course on a city road where you will be making a left hand turn into a business...that lane needs travelled.
Kudos for him.
FLORIDA!!! IF LAW ENFORCEMENT WOULD ENFORCE THIS
It's simple" If there are cars passiing you on your right side, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG FUCKING LANE! GET OVER YOUR SELF ENTITLMENT AND GET OVER TO THE RIGHT LANES!!
A ticket educates a hell of a lot faster than a warning. Write a ticket and they'll go back and educate all their friends and family. This problem needs to be solved fast. We are wasting money adding lanes to highways that just need people to understand that they are supposed to stay in the right most lane other than for overtaking.
Send em straight to jail
nah they should just get a huge fine
They need this law in Georgia
Appreciate law enforcement enforcing this law. I
Keep right except to pass, has been on Kentucky road sign FOREVER........
I always hated every left lane camper this would be wonderful as long as they don't take advantage of the high speed flow and start giving more speeding tickets. I found the 80 mph speed limit on open highways a great place to drive 90. It's always the slow pokes causing the congestion. When I drive the flow and someone passes me not flying by I think they are going to clog the flow and be in my way soon!
I LOVE THIS! Thank you Sir!
Love this! Enact it nationwide!
Road rage incidents would drop 50% or more if this one single traffic law was ACTUALLY ENFORCED. And they could easily pay a cop's salary for enforcing it (for at least the 12 months or so it takes for the word to get out about the tickets) so it's a win win all around.
Many states don’t have this left lane camping law. So sometimes people just pass through without knowing
Some states don’t have a left lane camping law. Many people willfully ignore the law in the majority of states that do, creating a very dangerous environment on our nation’s highways.
@richard-mai almost every state has this law. Unless you are from South Dakota, you have no excuse.
Wrong and you should feel bad
Please enforce this even more. It's so bad in tulsa
You should charge them 2000 dollars and take there car to to junk yard and have crushed.
We need more of this
Thank you Sir!
Cops always give warnings for this. Never actually give tickets.
Its about time
Maybe the cop should wear his seatbelt.
Tickets everything single one of them. No warnings. These clowns create som many issues.
Someone should educate Utahns about this. They camp in left lane all across the country. It's like they were all taught wrong in driver's education or something. I'm not even sure they know how to drive in the right lane.
I love it love it love it. all cops need to give tickets to these idiots . keep up the good work .
you travel in the left lane depends on traffic density.
Wait....where are all of you on 169? This is all for show. It's a damn free for all before 5 pm even hits.
I don’t see any officer ever pull anyone over for this. I saw a Louisiana cop pull a young woman over for texting while zipping in and out of a congested I-10
Love it. Safety first ❤
Tulsa doing the lord's work
well someone has to - sky daddy seems to always be napping during the holocaust, or while children are being raped, or dying of parasites and so on - seems like the only time he can be bothered is when kathy needs a promotion at work or brad can't find his car keys.
We already have TOO MANY IGNORANT LAWS..
Never seen this law put to use ever since it was implemented.
No warnings!!! Give them tickets. Big tickets.
Move over I'm going 113 your only going 81
Get tf outta the left lane period!
Move over, you're not passing anyone- and I'm trying passing you. This is how it works in civilized countries.
Know what? That’s STILL safer than passing on the right.
I love that I could outrun this whole department purely based on weight 😭
Sure.
I love that nobody thinks you're funny for that. Support the police.
This is why there are more high speed chases than foot chases in the TPD.
I bet you're the same person in real life who runs much faster than him but in the opposite direction of danger.
Settle down bud.
Keep up the great work!
I hear ya. !! I have one 'occasional' exception: In some areas of Ok and AZ the right lane is in very poor quality. I pulled a trailer through these places and stayed mostly in the right lane because of my reduced speed. When it was clear of traffic, i would shift to the left lane to get a little peace of mind. Some of the right lane stretches, especially in Arizona, were like driving on everlasting cattle guards. Not a fan of beating my car and trailer to pieces.
Thank you officer Madden!!!
I think the citation should be higher...I mean, its the leading cause of road rage.
Out there doing the lords work! lol. Love it, I hate left lane campers
Vehicles are capable of never obstructing freedom.Humans are not.
You need to come to PA!!!!
Just give them tickets, and post signs.
The left lane is the passing lane. Period.
The driver could have a left turn to make, if the maxed speed limit is 55,65 or 70mph there's a 3 to 5mph lower cousin speed that the driver is aloud to travel before switching to the far right lane. Which would be held legal and reasonable in all 50 states. Also those speeds are for both lanes,which indicates you people speeding.
Anyway if you time one driver traveling 70mph and another traveling at 60mph to the same destination there's than 40 seconds arrival time difference.
Resulting in the question being asked to any of these drivers what's the Rush? Regardless of the driving conditions the goal is to arrive safely.
Speeding is a fact of life, there will always be people that speed. If the speed limit is 70 and you are going 72 in the left lane, and someone behind you is going 75, you are making the road less safe by not moving over to the right and letting them pass.
@DaneRates that's why it's not illegal to "be" in the left lane, only to "stay" in the left lane when you have no lawful purpose for doing so.
The validity of one law is not eliminated when the other laws are not followed. The laws around use of left lanes do not become irrelevant once people exceed the speed limit. The laws clearly make a provision for some measure of speeding, as they are tied to "normal and reasonable flow of traffic" and not to the speed limit. Not tying this law to the speed limit is not an oversight; it is very clearly intentional in the legislation
it doesn't take 5 miles to turn left
you trying to do it your way
everyone else trying to do it the right way
If you don´t them pay they will never learn....
I'd be more interested in seeing enforcement on things that are actual safety issues not just slightly annoying. I don't like getting stuck behind someone going slow on the left anymore then anyone else does but I am far more concerned with people not signaling, not stopping at stop signs (slow and go as I call it), not paying attention to the road hitting animals, pedestrians and cyclists.
You've got pedophiles on the lose, rapists all around, muderers more then we can count and you're pulling people over for driving in the road but not fast enough.
"Making it illegal to drive UNDER the speed limit in the left hand lanes"
Wait it did what now? You have a secret "must speed" law?
I wish Utah did this
What if you're in the left lane and you're still passing cars in the right lane, but you're passing those right lane cars slower than most people would like and you have a line of cars behind you? Is that still not ok? I'm only curious because Ive been behind a car that is passing people in the left lane slowly and there is a line of cars behind them, me included.
Use some common courtesy. Pretend you're in a stairwell or in a narrow corridor and people come up behind you. What would you do?
Be decisive one way or another. If you can't pass a vehicle in about 15-20 seconds, then pull in behind it and wait for faster traffic to pass you, then continue your passing maneuver when you can take the time you need to do so.
Generally speaking, there is no time limit specified in the traffic laws for how quickly you must finish your passing. If you’re behind someone not passing as quickly as you’d like, you are required by law to keep a full legal, safe following distance and patiently wait your turn. I understand Alabama does have a requirement that the pass must be completed in 1.5 miles.
@@jbm71 I often flash my lights to notify my intent. I don't ride up their behind. I keep a safe distance. I think signaling intent is helpful in order to let others know you are waiting. Many times I have moved over into a small gap only for the vehicle behind me not to make a move and they sit in the same spot. I would prefer if they indicate whether they are wanting to pass, or just happy sitting behind me as I pass.
In most jurisdictions there is no time limit as you say; one must pass within a reasonable amount of time. That is why an officer will usually wait a couple of minutes to pull someone over for this infraction, so that there can be no ambiguity about whether they were in the act of passing or not.
@@jasonrekker4328 Your very presence in a passing lane is by itself sufficient (by definition) to indicate to the driver in front of you that you intend to pass one or more vehicles to your immediate right once you have an opportunity to do so, that is, once the driver in front of you has finished his own passing maneuver.
There’s no such thing as being “happy sitting behind the driver in front”. (The law requires you to wait patiently, whether you’re “happy” about it or not.) If you’re in a passing lane, by definition you ARE intending to pass (when the opportunity presents itself).
When you add the action of flashing your lights, even if it is supposedly only to “get the attention” of the driver in front of you, it can mean only one thing that the driver in front of you doesn’t already know: that you are now “encouraging” him to finish his pass sooner so you can get on with your own pass. That flashing of lights is, in my view, a somewhat unnecessary, discourteous, impatient, aggressive act, and an inappropriate use of attempting to signal another driver.
If you flash your lights, you are signaling the other driver, implicitly asking him to do something he’s not currently doing: to speed up his own pass. It is never appropriate to signal another driver to do something he isn’t already doing. It essentially implies you either think he’s doing something wrong (which is something only the police can judge), or you are asking him to do something “for you”. In neither case is it appropriate to signal the other driver. The only appropriate uses of signaling another driver are either to warn him of an action that YOU are about to take, to tell him that you see him and acknowledge what he is doing, or to warn him of a potentially hazardous condition.
It can be illegal to flash your lights at another driver. It is in some traffic law definitions one of the multiple criteria that can characterize “aggressive driving”. (So is tailgating, but it’s very good that at least you don’t do that.) Obviously if you flash too much or for too long, especially at night, it can blind him temporarily.
BTW, I have heard that it is considered “standard practice” in Germany on the Autobahns to flash your lights at the driver in front of you to tell him to “get out of your way”, but that’s Germany. I consider it to be a discourteous, aggressive action.
please all 50 states
Well done gentlemen! Need more enforcement of this law especially in Utah.
I DISAGREE, I say ESPECIALLY in Georgia! No way in hell people are worse than Georgians about this!!
"As long as I am doing the speed limit, I can stay in the left lane as long as I want to!!!". What's even more annoying are those left lane bandits who stay in the left lane until the last possible moment and then scurry across five lanes to make the exit.....
But why would you stay in front of people who need to pass? That sounds so childish. Just move over. 🤷♀️
lol yeah that's nuts...I dont get that
Have fun paying tickets 😂😂😂😂
no, the left lane is for passing
he explains it pretty clearly in a short video
Need this is GA
it is a law in georgia. In georgia the law even states if you block the fast lane "EVEN IF YOU ARE SPEEDING OR NOT" you are in the wrong. That means if the speed limit is 60, and you go 200 miles per hour on the left lane, if you still somehow still blocking faster cars, you can still get a ticket. Now the law is barely enforced, but its there.
@@kouvue7843 damn I didn't even know that
Nothing worse than a left lane camper!!
This department is doing the Lord's work
If he created the entire universe in 6 days, why would he need any help?
@@lamarw7757 It's not help if it's all part of his creation
Imagine fining someone for going the speed limit. It is illegal to go above the speed limit regardless of the lane, therefore nobody is being impeded by a car going the speed limit.
-it's the law
-obstructing people from being able to pass
-can't change lanes because you are blocking
-safer to pass on the left
-impeding traffic
-causing traffic jams
-pay attention
- how it is designed
: camping in the left lane is a sure sign of someone not paying attention.
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Yes I drive on the right lane. But half a mile away when I am ready to take a left turn , on giving a signal nobody let's me in. So I slow down a lot to let a train of cars pass before I can turn left.
People don't even give turn signals. Officer ivthink you need to make sure they are following all the rules of the book strictly. This means giving turn signal warning not at the last second , or people following to close.
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For once the law and the police are doing something we all agree with. I once was riding with a friend in his car as a passenger and we were in the left lane of a interstate type of road. I said to him, its clear here(right side), why dont you get over? He said, oh no, Im fine here, Im doing the speed limit, not speeding and the other drivers bunched up behind me can just pound salt. I kind of lost a lot of respect for him right then and there, and the friend ship degraded over the following years. I havent spoken to him in 30 years, turns out he had a falling out with many other friends in the circle as well. It makes you wonder what type of people are out there, just a holes( ah hem I mean Republicans).
He doesn't miss you
Everyone riding in right lane makes no sense. Money scam
No camping or speeding uless you're a blue line sovereign citizen.
1:04 " making it illegal to drive UNDER the speed limit in the left hand lane"
That is who they go after...not me.
I drive in the left hand lane all the time and I drive the EXACT maximum speed limit. I have never been pulled over for left lane driving because I do not impede anyone who is obeying the speed limit laws. Impeding speeders doesn't count so the cops never bother me.
Doing the good lords work
Stop with the BS and write the ticket
So basically speed in the left lane... what a dumb law
Tell that to every other country in the world. It's only Americans that struggle with this. I wonder why.
No. It’s a safety issue. Passing on the right is dangerous. People who drive in the passing lane slower than the traffic flow, is jeopardizing everyone’s life around them.
doing the lords work