The fact is this kind of traffic stop is extremely rare and will usually be dismissed in court unless the driver was driving way under the speed limit in the left lane in light traffic.
@@williardbillmore5713 He doesn't need to go way under the speed limit for a traffic violation. Left lane is for passing only in most states and also impeding the flow of traffic is a violation.
@@safeandeffectivelol impeding the flow of *legal traffic* is a violation. Impeding the flow of speeders however is not illegal. Cops never ticket cars driving the exact speed limit in ANY lane.
When I feel like cruising I put the cruise control on the speed limit and travel in the slow lane . Let everyone go by who wants to travel faster . It’s not my place/job to travel in the left lanes making everyone else slow down . It just invites road rage doing that.........but that’s just me.........
right, even when I’m flying I stick to the right as much as possible cause the cops hangout in the middle median typically and expect speeders in the left lane so they get clocked before the right lane and I’m slowed way down by the time they do radar me.
I was driving a semi in New York and vehicles were merging onto the freeway. There are signs that show they need to give space for other vehicles/trucks to prevent what was happening. Cars were merging in front of me, giving no space and too many at a time. It's not often I look forward to see a hwy patrol, but then I saw the HWY patrol, point at each of the three cars that pulled in front of me, one by one, waving them to the side of the road.
too much traffic nowadays man. if people are forced to 1 lane theres always gonna be someone who wanted to go faster lol the way i drive i hate when people are to the left or right of me on a open straight away so ill speed up or slow down to give them options.
We need this in VA. I see people I'm behind do 30 in a 45 but do 60 or 70 as soon as they hit the 30 mph sign. I still can't understand y?! The no reason for it. Just get out the way if u wanna chill on the road and not pay attention
@@balakays550 It's not that people would be restricted to one lane, it's that people shouldn't be in the passing lane if they're going to hold up traffic. If there is heavy traffic, the people who actually will be passing should be using the passing lane, not those who will drive at the speed limit and hold everyone up.
@@justinmilby4552 Virginia does have a left lane law. It's $100 fine. But like most states, it is not as routinely enforced as are most other vehicle laws.
I disagree with many comments saying that these left lane hogs are "oblivious." My impression is that they do it 100% on purpose. Did you ever notice how quickly they scoot over to the right when a cop suddenly appears behind them?
TGarzarel Yes. Just like they suddenly go ninety mph if you try to pass them on the right, then slow down to 55 when you give up trying to pass and fall in behind them. It's so obviously deliberate.
PogChamp when the speed limit is 65 but all traffic is going 83 miles an hour and there's someone in the left lane or even the middle lane going 70. This is some more realistic situation that people run into that the people that are being slow and in the way are technically speeding but are going significantly slower then the grand mass of traffic. The slower traffic is still speeding and therefor feels justified in not getting out of the way.
If everyone followed the maximum speed rule the highways would be much safer. Speeders weaving in between law abiding drivers are dangerous. Just sayin.
@@williardbillmore5713 That’s my point exactly. Speeders wouldn’t be weaving between other drivers, if they could simply PASS them in the, (get this), PASSING LANE. An idiot could see this. Just sayin.
@@williardbillmore5713 The MD State Police, in their infinite idiotic wisdom, initiated rolling road blocks on I95. They drove the speed limit and blocked all three lanes. There was traffic backed up for miles. Frustrated pissed of drivers who promptly contacted their state reps wondering WTF the police were doing. They stopped. Weaving is stupid. As is driving the speed limit or less in the number one lane, not passing. You have no problem driving next to a semi cause some dumbass in the left is doing the speed limit and refuses to pass or get behind the truck? Morons do this in the left lane because they are lazy and don't want to have to merge for cars entering the roadway or get behind a truck.
@@sleazybtd I just came back from a six hour round trip drive within my state through both city and rural areas. If everyone traveling in the left lane were pulled over, literally half the cars on the highway would have to be stopped. Stupid rule. There were just as many cars traveling in the left lane, maybe more, than the right lane and not necessarily going any faster. Passing only in the left lane doesn't work ANYWHERE except maybe late at night when the traffic is really sparse.
@@mrobvious5892 I bet you and your brother go 20 miles an hour over the limit in the fast lane all the time, nearly causing wrecks in the process. If I were in front of the two of you, I would go as slow as I possibly could😁.
It's been on the books for years but it's very hard to prove. With speeding you have a radar that says you're going 82 in a 60 Zone. What following too closely you have a distance that people know X number of car lengths and with failure to use a signal that's pretty clear as well whereas somebody saying that they are passing in the passing lane but they're only going 1 mile an hour faster than the car they're passing would reasonably be determined by law enforcement to be not passing while the driver of the car that's passing is trying hard not to break the speed limit. People don't realize because they don't read the law they don't realize that you're supposed to speed up all your pass. And it's not speeding if it's temporary for safety sake and if it's a situation where it would be determined speeding then you don't need to be passing there
Paco Vasda pretty much. The cops have never given me a hard time speeding so long as I got out of their way, was actually passing someone, and continued to the speed limit in the travel lane.
The left lane for passing laws need to be enforced more - not for revenue to the state, but to keep those left lane hogs from clogging up traffic on the highways.
In the Colorado mountains we have the slow truck lane where semis go slow climbing in low gear, and the car lane for cars that can climb the hills and still do the maximum. Drivers that want to speed are shit out of luck and need to risk their lives trying to pass in the right lane. Reckless speeders are given no special rights in my state.
And when they get to their exit, Look Out! Here they come, flying across every traffic lane at the very last second. Looks like they're practicing their best James Bond move, trying to shake the car tailing them! (And Man, don't they get mad if you block them from getting to that exit?!😉)
BuckGreywolfe some people call it the fast lane, some people call it the passing Lane. But it's never the "block all the traffic because I'm the law of the land" Lane.
dean gordon IT'S THE PASSING LANE, not the FAST LANE. Saw a defendant in court get their ass handed to them for calling it the FAST LANE to a judge. He threw the book at her
Florida? You have far more and bigger problems in that garbage heap of an anti-democratic, anti-Constitution state than slow drivers in the passing lane.
doug112244 truck? He was traveling the same speed as traffic next to him causing what we call gridlock which is not the condition of traffic being stopped but a condition of traffic traveling at matched speeds. The new slow poke law says no no to that. It's always been illegal but Slowpoke laws allows for aggressive enforcement. You'll see more of this in the near future.
If you go to traffic court you'll see that there are more tickets for blocking than people ignorantly assume that every time they see blue lights must be for a speeder.
Poor logic, the road rager is still at fault for not controlling their emotions... plus speeding causes many more accidents. More incidents + more accidents = more tickets in general You're biased. Speeding kills. Slow driving is frustrating, but as long as people are not illegally in the left lane they are free (and in the 'right' ayy lmao) to do so.
I've lived in Ohio, Penn, Maine, New Hampshire and Oregon and I've been driving for almost 60 years, but I've never seen anybody pulled over for squatting in the left lane and causing traffic backups. In Oregon now, I don't think they've ever even heard of the left lane being for passing only. It's the worst state I've ever lived in for that. Angry drivers will resort to passing on the right and then cutting back into the left lane right in front of the offender but it doesn't phase them at all. They just sit right where they're at. I think they're a bigger cause of accidents than speeders but I've never seen the state police do anything about it.
Oregon has a lane hogging law. If you are holding up traffic in the left lane you can get ticketed. Even if you are going the posted speed limit. Left lane is for faster moving traffic. If left lanes are only for passing then paint yellow lines across them. waste of tax payer money. Lanes are added as congestion becomes an issue. not to allow people to go around slow moving traffic.
@@viperbroncoalmasty My point remains ... traffic backups on I-5 due to drivers squatting in the left lane are common, but I've never seen anyone pulled over by the state police for it ... not once. You can get technical about yellow lines, but the point still stands. The practice is dangerous.
One of the worst left lane hogs I've ever encountered was on I5 south of Portland; it was a VW bus going exactly 55 in the left lane, with car after car after car passing him on the right. That driver knew exactly what they were doing - I can only suppose that they get some sort of enjoyment out of their self righteous douchebaggery.
I never noticed it as a problem on the PA Turnpike, but I also drive the Garden State Parkway on a daily basis where the "keep right pass left" signs go seemingly unnoticed. Makes for especially dangerous conditions when the road is four or five lanes in each direction.
@@michaelneilson5544 traffic volumes on the GSP most days from AM to PM are such that all the lanes are loaded. It would be madness to expect everyone to line up in the right lane at that point.
@@victorpradha9946 I hear ya, but I think that with a robust public campaign, like what they did with driving and texting, could at least decrease the amount of people that do it. Don't crush my dreams, Victor haha
I think what happens is the dashcam probably saves an entire loop at whatever length they selected. Mine does 5 minute loops so I have less files to deal with so when I hit my save button it saves the entire 5 minute loop. However, I suppose if your capable of posting videos on YT you can probably edit them down to the juicy parts.
I recall being told of a car driving well below the posted 55mph limit on MD 27 through Mt. Airy, in the morning rush, leading to a 1/4 mi long line behind them. That continued until the day a cop got caught in the line, then put his lights on and worked his way up the line until he got the slowpoke. 2 lane road, infrequent passing lanes in the hilly piedmont terrain of interior Maryland.
In Australia, its the right lane hog, but here the police love them as it slows traffic down, and will be glad to fine the poor driver that gets frustrated by these inconsiderate fools
It can only lead to reduction in design road capacity and anger and frustration among drivers able to do the speed limit on the multi-lane roads. Outer lane hoggers, especially those going slow up hills, should be pulled for holding up the rest of the road.
Woodstock. Man I see this everyday here in Atlanta - well the left lane hogs anyway. I drove in Germany last year and people know how to drive there keeping the fast lane clear.
I imagine trying to keep the left lane clear may be difficult. It seems like every time I'm in Atlanta traffic is always busy and packed. It seems to have gotten worst over the past few years.
Not here in the UK unfortunately. We have these arseholes everywhere and because the traffic police have been mainly replaced by speed cameras now (budget cuts) they get away with it.
@Dave it also depends on where you are from, here in Florida, at least to my knowledge, we do not have this law. If you are traveling under the posted speed limit you can get pulled for driving in the fast lane, but we don't have a "pass lane" as you put it. I am glad I saw this as I do drive in GA every now and then.
Driving truck over 20 years it's countless times daily we encounter this & the determination of some to stay out there is purely just to be an asshole!!!
With all due respect, car drivers often encounter semi drivers who force their way into the left lane. While most of them eventually work their way back to the right lane, it takes a lot of time for them to maneuver there, and it puts a negative drain on overall traffic.
@@thomasmint1761 trucks have just as much right to pass as smaller vehicles, although it might take longer. If you truly understood what it takes to become a professional driver, what they put up with, what driving a truck is really like-- You would understand and have much more patience and respect for the drivers and what they do.
@@thomasmint1761 but, bad drivers come in all manner of vehicles. -Takes much less $, time and training to drive a straight truck like the one seen in video.
I'm so glad to see the truck get pulled over! In WA state, there's a statute that apparently talks about how much you're impeding traffic. A WSP trooper I talked to said that if 5 people pass you on the right and you're in the left lane, he's gonna light (and write) you up. He says he gives those tickets several times a day. In WA state, people drive whatever speed they want in whatever lane they want. Yeah, it happens elsewhere, but I've driven in all 50 states and I've never seen it as bad as I have in WA...
The you haven't driven on the L.I.E on Long Island in NY. The rudest assholes in the country. Some parts of the L.I.E are 5 lanes each way and STILL there are assholes in the left lane who wont pull over.
If the driver is doing the speed limit , (the ticket has to note the speed) The driver can beat that ticket in court EVERY TIME! Impeding speeders isn't a crime ANYWHERE!
@@williardbillmore5713 Impeding speeders isn't a crime or even a traffic infraction and but traveling in the left lane is a traffic infraction punishable with a fine and you're completely wrong. When it's posted that the left lane is for passing only and a cop makes the judgement that your impeding traffic in the left lane, he can give you a ticket for a moving violation and you wont beat it in court "EVERY TIME" as you say.
@@mrfester42 If you are clocked doing exactly the speed limit the only people you could possibly impede are people who are criminally speeding. No speeders. No impeding. No impeding. No ticket... You can't argue against me without arguing FOR criminal speeding. You are kind of hooked on the horns of a dilemma, eh? Same dilemma cops find.
@@williardbillmore5713 I'm not arguing for speeding you idiot PLUS, going over the speed limit is NOT a criminal defense. You're hooked on the horns of blind stupidity
I was stationed in Germany and they'll tap peoples' bumpers to get them to move over. You just don't do that over there. It was a big adjustment being back in the states
They never will, if the driver that is blocking the speeders is going close to the maximum posted limit, the driver can beat the ticket in court every time. The ticket only stands if they are going well under the limit, which is quite rare. All traffic tickets have to note the speed of the offender. Cops know this all too well. They are not really interested in wasting resources and their time , just so YOU can speed.
My favorite is when someone just has to pass someone who's doing 55 because they have their cruise set at 56 so it takes them 10 minutes to get past the person
PogChamp California Vehicle Code 21654 (a) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, any vehicle proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at such time shall be driven in the right-hand lane for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand edge or curb, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
Highway 99 in the Central Valley of California is the deadliest major highway in the country according to an analysis from Value Penguin, a private consumer research organization. Those signs sound like they are doing a great job. lol Bottomline, if you are in the left lane and someone wants to drive faster than you, move the fuck over.
Jaycob Arbogast Those signs are usually yellow and are recommendations and hold no legal weight. I think you're talking about Chico, and those signs are NOT accurate.
Yes that was truely beautiful, I would love to witness something like that here in Florida......you would not believe how many people stay in the left lane-to the point where the right is almost empty....so you end up passing on the right- which is also illegal in many states.
Yes sadly here in Florida most people immediately move to the left lane and the right lanes are kept empty yes that's true and some people try to get in the Middle Lane and stay there insisting the somehow it's not bad to completely waste all of our tax dollars on every single right hand lane due to non-use
They're most likely using the middle lane to make it easier for the on-ramp to merge... For Three-Lane Roads, if they sat in the right lane, then sometimes it's very hard to move over for merging traffic or emergency vehicles... because you have those idiots that like to ride in your blind spot or ride right next to you. And then sometimes the stars will align against you and you'll also have the idiot on the on-ramp who doesn't know how to merge... or didn't know he was supposed to use the on-ramp to accelerate to traffic speed... which case, you'll be fucked into slamming on your brakes because he just cut you off. So for three & four lane roads... yeah, left lanes for passing, middle for large trucks, right for merging and slow people. For two lanes roads, we don't have the same luxury... so yeah, left-lane is still passing only... gotta stay right. For people merging... you just have to hope they know how to merge or move left if possible.. pass the merge, then move right again.
Nikolai Kalashnikov I've looked for years and cannot find any law that says or suggest the left lane is for passing the laws actually read you drive in the right-most lane and pass to the left meaning on a five-lane road lane number 1 is for traveling and lanes number two and three and four and five are for passing. It's always a relief to see words like yours that are based on someone (you) thinking and driving consciously, so for that I want to shake your hand and say thank you. I'm also hoping that because you think, that you will hear me and understand that we cannot consider changing driving habits because of the amount of lanes on a given roadway. I very much appreciate and respect your thoughtfully being conscious of your driving and about appropriate lane usage and traffic and ramps etc. but in between where the ramps are, you cannot allow yourself to justify such difficulty changing lanes. Did it could cause inappropriate lane usage. (which I've been ticketed for twice) yes it is difficult sometimes but the only real difficulty in changing lanes exist when you travel the same speed as traffic next to you. As a safe and conscious driver this should be your number one priority, among all of the rules of the rules of the road, you must for safety most adamantly fight against traveling the same speed as any traffic next to you and to not allow conditions to exist where the right lane becomes perpetually and repeatedly empty and unused but from a safety standpoint and as the tax dollars cost us into the tens of billions per lane when you look at that right lane nationally. and how many people refuse to use it and keep making excuses to avoid using it. If you start looking into the rules of the road you will find it 80% let me repeat that number 80% of the rules on the road or to reinforce drive to the right-most Lane and passed to the left and we spend millions of dollars every year making new laws to reiterate this most Bass driving law of all of our laws, drive on the right, pass to the left. We cannot allow the difficulty of driving to allow us to do things like getting in a lane and stay there. We must above all else drive with due diligence. Regarding the specific video this is not a three lane road it's a two-lane road at has no middle lane that you spoke of and the reference to possibly being in the left lane to avoid on ramp traffic also does not apply as there are no on ramps anywhere in the area yes there is one coming up on the horizon but he was already in the left lane way too soon for that to be a factor as well as he needs to be out of the way of faster traffic until he gets to that ramp area and not cause people to pass them on the ride or cause them to be in the right lane that he himself feel this need for traffic to avoid. That said, more people need to have your attitude of driving without being unnecessarily pushy to other drivers and make merging room where it's obviously needed but we still must find a way to get back into that right lane and not allow ourselves to ignorantly try to get in some lane and stay there or ever avoid using appropriate lanes. Once again I must say that you deserve commendation for appropriately and properly respecting on ramp merging and thinking about all such things in general and I wish more drivers on the road had your type of attitude. Thank you for being a conscious driver my friend.
I've heard all kinds of excuses for cruising in the passing lane from; That lane isn't as rough as the cruising lane to; "I'm driving the speed limit so I can cruise there." Drives me nuts.
In PA, people drive in the left lane because there is so much heavy traffic entering on the on-ramps, and you constantly have to move over anyway. That being said. left lane drivers are pressured to MOVE FAST, or get in the right lane.
All left lane drivers who do this are guilty. To impede the left lane is evil . It only causes car accidents and those idiots who practice it need to be arrested. And all who tailgate need their driver's license revoked and lose the privilege of driving a car . Be fined and forced to take drivers educated all over again . In texas it is against the law to impede the left lane . And possibly Oklahoma ?
Same here in SA. Clueless. Younger drivers are generally much worse in this way than older ones, but many older ones don't get it either. I wonder what learner drivers are taught.
@@XMysticHerox There’s no “keep right except to pass” law in California. The law, CA Vehicle Code 21654 CVC, states that vehicles driving slower than the normal speed of traffic must yield right. The legislature cannot “normalize” unlawful behavior, thus the normal speed of traffic is, at most, the lawful limit. Therefore normal speed of traffic is the speed limit. Therefore in California, as long as you’re going the speed limit you may travel in whatever lane you wish.
I have been in California for 3 months. Lots of drivers using left lane especially if they are going with highest speed limit. In Europe , left lane is only using for passing, whatever your speed, you can only use for passing other cars, even in Turkey :)
FYI this is just normal in Germany. The autobahn is only 2 lanes and EVERYONE hugs the right. The lambos only use the left to pass and then immediately get back into single file in the left. It's incredible.
@@robjames3864 I will never be considerate of drivers who want to break the maximum speed limit. You can pass me in the breakdown lane if you must. I drive the speed limit.
@@williardbillmore5713 I drive with the flow of traffic. If everyone is driving 70 mph the most dangerous driver can be the one driving 55 who jams traffic up. They may be within the speed limits but they are a hazard.
@@robjames3864 Drivers that want to go 70 are not the problem. The guy who comes up on your bumper and flashes his lights at you wants to go 90. THEY are dangerous.
"Failure to keep left except when passing" is still a law in many states. Unfortunately, it's rarely enforced these days, but it should be. The left lane hogs are either ignorant or inconsiderate. Possibly both. But I see it more and more lately.
Yes. If people knew not to pass on the wrong side the truck and the cop would have moved off to the right and stopped there, with no chance of a collision in doing so.
Just FYI, a Prius still gets about 40-45 miles per gallon at 85 MPH, and can cruise at 100 MPH with no difficulty. Just because they sip gas doesn't mean you can't drive them as fast as traffic.
The only time I feel like left lane hogging is ok is when the right lane of the road is actually bad enough to actually cause damage to your car. Even then try to stay on the right lane tho.
We used to do that on I-80 over the Sierra Nevada mountains before Caltrans finally spent close to a billion rebuilding the freeway with new concrete. Most folks would shift over to the left lane and ride it, due to the severe wheel dip in the right lane from nearly 50 years of the original concrete not ever having been resurfaced or repaved. Was super annoying to deal with but thankfully, that situation no longer exists.
In the Colorado mountains the truck lane is always in crappy condition and every hill has a line of slow moving trucks climbing in low gear. I obey the law and drive the speed limit in the left lane. Anyone who wants me to get behind the slow trucks in the crappy bumpy lane so they can speed, can kiss my ass.
Once more trucks passing it should be a law they have one mile to pass and trucks being overtaken. Mandatory they let off until the faster truck pulls back into the slow lane.
unfortunately this happens everywhere I've seen in the states lol I've lived in New Jersey and as someone who tries to enjoy driving and the rules, these people ruin your day..nice to see someone hearing about it
It blows my mind how many people do this on the thruway. Just poking along the passing lane, meanwhile cars are zooming by in the slow lane. Beautiful to finally see someone get pulled over for it. This isn't the worst I've seen of it either.
Drivers who drive slower than the flow of traffic are as dangerous as extreme speeders, because everyone else has to merge and move around around at close distances.
I drive a truck and what happens most of the time is when you move into the left lane, the car you’re trying to pass speeds up so you can’t get around them. Then before you know it, you’re stuck there because everyone is passing on the right and you can’t get back over.
@@TheAmericanCatholic As far a the cause of accidents? No not at all, left lane driving is not even in the top 20 causes of highway accidents...You know what is the number one cause of highway accidents according to the NTSB? SPEEDING IS... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Catholics make terrible liars.
In the very beginning of my driving career, I used to do that because I thought I was being courteous by staying out of the way of all the weaving and entering/exiting traffic taking place on the right. It didn't take me too long to realize I was a moron, thinking all the traffic behind me was normal rather than being held back by my ignorance, and ever since then, I started avoiding the passing lane unless I need to pass. I'd give anything for other people to realize and respect it as well.
JUST KEEP OUT OF THE INSIDE LANE, people who drive in this lane genuinely speed, tailgate and swerve all over the road, these people are usually aggressive, intimidating, threatening and completely unhinged. So keep out of there lane or they will run you off the road with there trucks. If you want drive safely and at the speed limit then don't drive in that lane
One of the worst crimes on the road and what enforcement is trying to enforce is to keep people from trying to get into a lane and "stay there" the term driving with due diligence means driving with due diligence it means not allowing yourself getting a line and stay there but rather to pay attention to ever-evolving conditions. If you get a ticket for failure to drive the due diligence it's because you allowed yourself to slow down when you catch up to slower traffic rather than following a reasonable distance where you can signal and go around when you see them slowing down. Once you get around them you need to move back to the far-right the law does not mention left lanes the law mentions the rightmost lane and passing to the left. Keep right except to pass has the word KEEP in it which means stay all the way right unless you are passing and the word EXCEPT to pass means "except to pass" THE LEFT lane has nothing to do with anything. Any and every lane to the left of the right-most lane is a left lane. further left lanes are for faster passing. Most states laws will clarify the only temporary reasons for temporarily being out of the right-most lane but the law does not allow for traveling in the middle or left lanes. the law says travel in the right-most lane pass to the left and return to the right so be aware on a four-lane Interstate you can be arrested for traveling in the second, third or 4th lane even if there's no other traffic on the road at all. And if you don't believe me just ask TH-cam You'll see videos on that as well.
thersten do you say that just because it's easy for me to tap a button and make a reply when I'm in the office? Come on let's be realistic here. this is one place where all of our lives are actually being threatened daily yet we can have more control over it. I mean you're here participating in the conversation. Don't you think your participation should at least want to be in a productive direction? To be able to have any positive change we have to be able to discuss what direction that change should be in. I don't think it should hurt to point out to all of these people that are screaming about the law that the laws already there they're just ignoring all of them except for one of them. You lose as many friends and family members this me and you might have an attitude like mine as it should be a bigger priority for more people.
This shit should be enacted in Ohio too. Some people are assholes in principle, but there are some decent people who just happen to horrible drivers that could use a wakeup call.
Do you know how to get a Maryland left lane driver to speed up? Try to pass him on the right…….seems like once Maryland drivers get their license, they think the left lane is for a funeral procession…..I can’t understand the lack of courtesy……
YAY!!! Got one! Yet, there are people on here that get very angry if you tell them not to do this. They say, If you tailgate me to move over, I will slow right on down!
@@williardbillmore5713 Left lane hogs create traffic and collisions. A left lane hog is more likely to cause a collision when trying to merge all the way to the right when they want to exit. They also cause collisions because other drivers have to pass them on the right and this can cause collisions from other drivers trying to merge from the far right lanes.
requemao No, some places are different from others. Some are "Slower Traffic Keep Right", which means you can drive in the left lane as long as you want as long as you are not impeding anyone behind you, and some places it's "Keep Right Except To Pass", which is obviously self explanatory.
What they don't understand about that: I think they interpret the sign to mean, traffic driving under the speed limit, to keep right. I think they also wrongly assume if they are at the speed limit, they are just fine to hang out in the fast (passing) lane! (Just my two cents about Tucson AZ drivers)
People are stupid enough to think that if there's not a sign that slower traffic keep right doesn't apply. People are stupid enough to think that there's a difference between keep right except to pass and slower traffic keep right. People are stupid enough to need any kind of sign whatsoever about which side to pass on or VAUSE OTHERS to pass on. You do know??? that Traffic Engineers & law enforcement officers refer to them as "idiot signs" because people are crazy enough to interpret them in different ways rather than just know that you always drive faster than traffic you're right and slower than traffic to your left. Because people ignore what they are taught about driving, we have to post signs. To think that there are people that think there are roads or jurisdictions where this doesn't apply means we have to remind the idiots by using idiot signs but they're very very expensive and we just can't afford to put him down every little stretch of road that has a problem so they go on stretch of road where people call law enforcement and whine about being blocked.
Additionally, I had a Virginia trooper, which I hadn't seen in the right lane... pull me over because I was "tailgating" the infernal mutt in front of me. The person was doing 58-60 in a 65, for "several" miles and simply refused to move over. If he (trooper) was behind/beside me long enough to pull me over, and let the bubble-head go on his merry way, he had no intension of enforcing that law... The troop began to tell me why he pulled me over and I asked him if he was aware that Virginia had a traffic law on the books that prevented people like that clown to hang out in the hammer lane & lane hog, preventing others from doing the posted... he explained that if he began to cite those drivers with any regularity it would impede him from attending to more serious infractions... in addition to tying up the flow of traffic. He sat in his cruiser maybe 10-12 min, came back and handed my license back and said "I see your point of view, but I can't follow to closely or flash lights to pass a slower vehicle", then let me off with a warning... so I guess we're stuck with these self righteous mellon-heads who've escaped the asylum and drive.... what a crock
Hmmm, wonder how the cop would have handled it if he wanted to get by this jerk on his way home.... I really hate it when dumb ass troopers just sit on one of the lanes going the exact speed limit, just daring you to pass them...Any idiot realizes this impedes the normal flow of traffic and will actually cause an accident. I reported the last trooper I saw pulling this crap, but I'm sure nothing became of it. The police are supposed to set an example, instead I see the morons on their phones, turning on lights/siren to blow through lights, etc....
WOW 👍👍 I’ve never seen that done, so many times I’ve been in long lines because of “Left Lane Hogs” usually doing just the speed limit, or slightly under. It’s the law but nobody pays attention to Laws anymore ☹️
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This kind of traffic stop needs to be much more widespread
That's just control freak bullshit.
Yes it dose.
The fact is this kind of traffic stop is extremely rare and will usually be dismissed in court unless the driver was driving way under the speed limit in the left lane in light traffic.
@@williardbillmore5713 He doesn't need to go way under the speed limit for a traffic violation. Left lane is for passing only in most states and also impeding the flow of traffic is a violation.
@@safeandeffectivelol impeding the flow of *legal traffic* is a violation.
Impeding the flow of speeders however is not illegal.
Cops never ticket cars driving the exact speed limit in ANY lane.
When I feel like cruising I put the cruise control on the speed limit and travel in the slow lane . Let everyone go by who wants to travel faster . It’s not my place/job to travel in the left lanes making everyone else slow down . It just invites road rage doing that.........but that’s just me.........
Amen and god bless you 🙌🏽
It's not you, it is the proper way to drive, who knew?
I do speed limit..maybe 3 over..always right lane..with old age comes wisdom ..lol
right, even when I’m flying I stick to the right as much as possible cause the cops hangout in the middle median typically and expect speeders in the left lane so they get clocked before the right lane and I’m slowed way down by the time they do radar me.
You’re a goddamn hero.
That is the most conscientious cop I have ever seen , someone should give him a raise.
I was driving a semi in New York and vehicles were merging onto the freeway. There are signs that show they need to give space for other vehicles/trucks to prevent what was happening. Cars were merging in front of me, giving no space and too many at a time. It's not often I look forward to see a hwy patrol, but then I saw the HWY patrol, point at each of the three cars that pulled in front of me, one by one, waving them to the side of the road.
@@calvinzhobbes1977 the bad thing is a lot of them are not going any where important yet they desperately need the passing lane.
Then you have not been around a lot of officers.
He gets a raise in his Levis each time he pulls over idiots like this.
The left lane law and its enforcement should be that way everywhere.
Americus Patrioticus IT IS LIKE THAT MOST EVERYWHERE, BUT NOT ENFORCED
too much traffic nowadays man. if people are forced to 1 lane theres always gonna be someone who wanted to go faster lol the way i drive i hate when people are to the left or right of me on a open straight away so ill speed up or slow down to give them options.
We need this in VA. I see people I'm behind do 30 in a 45 but do 60 or 70 as soon as they hit the 30 mph sign. I still can't understand y?! The no reason for it. Just get out the way if u wanna chill on the road and not pay attention
@@balakays550 It's not that people would be restricted to one lane, it's that people shouldn't be in the passing lane if they're going to hold up traffic. If there is heavy traffic, the people who actually will be passing should be using the passing lane, not those who will drive at the speed limit and hold everyone up.
@@justinmilby4552 Virginia does have a left lane law. It's $100 fine. But like most states, it is not as routinely enforced as are most other vehicle laws.
As long as we're driving there's going to be someone willing to camp in left lane while millions pass on right.
I disagree with many comments saying that these left lane hogs are "oblivious." My impression is that they do it 100% on purpose. Did you ever notice how quickly they scoot over to the right when a cop suddenly appears behind them?
TGarzarel bec there fucking pos humans. They just care about themselves
TGarzarel Yes. Just like they suddenly go ninety mph if you try to pass them on the right, then slow down to 55 when you give up trying to pass and fall in behind them. It's so obviously deliberate.
Paco Vasda your mom is an idiot.
PogChamp when the speed limit is 65 but all traffic is going 83 miles an hour and there's someone in the left lane or even the middle lane going 70.
This is some more realistic situation that people run into that the people that are being slow and in the way are technically speeding but are going significantly slower then the grand mass of traffic. The slower traffic is still speeding and therefor feels justified in not getting out of the way.
Paco Vasda Well in the state I reside in, a driver must keep up with the flow of the traffic, even if it is exceeding the speed limit.
The left lane is for PASSING. If everyone followed this rule, traffic would move MUCH faster.
Just sayin.
If everyone followed the maximum speed rule the highways would be much safer. Speeders weaving in between law abiding drivers are dangerous.
Just sayin.
@@williardbillmore5713 That’s my point exactly. Speeders wouldn’t be weaving between other drivers, if they could simply PASS them in the, (get this), PASSING LANE.
An idiot could see this.
Just sayin.
@@williardbillmore5713 The MD State Police, in their infinite idiotic wisdom, initiated rolling road blocks on I95. They drove the speed limit and blocked all three lanes. There was traffic backed up for miles. Frustrated pissed of drivers who promptly contacted their state reps wondering WTF the police were doing. They stopped. Weaving is stupid. As is driving the speed limit or less in the number one lane, not passing. You have no problem driving next to a semi cause some dumbass in the left is doing the speed limit and refuses to pass or get behind the truck? Morons do this in the left lane because they are lazy and don't want to have to merge for cars entering the roadway or get behind a truck.
Left lane for passing only doesn't work in the big cities.
@@sleazybtd I just came back from a six hour round trip drive within my state through both city and rural areas. If everyone traveling in the left lane were pulled over, literally half the cars on the highway would have to be stopped. Stupid rule.
There were just as many cars traveling in the left lane, maybe more, than the right lane and not necessarily going any faster.
Passing only in the left lane doesn't work ANYWHERE except maybe late at night when the traffic is really sparse.
That's the first time I've ever seen that happen. Needs to happen more.
Agree 100%
@@mrobvious5892 I bet you and your brother go 20 miles an hour over the limit in the fast lane all the time, nearly causing wrecks in the process. If I were in front of the two of you, I would go as slow as I possibly could😁.
Drivers in NC are really bad for that
I have never seen that,ever.
A lot more!
If this would be enforced more, imagine the revenue they would rake in.
Michael VILLAFRANCO Exactly, the state I reside in one must keep up with the traffic flow in the left lane, even if it is exceeding the posted limit.
It's been on the books for years but it's very hard to prove.
With speeding you have a radar that says you're going 82 in a 60 Zone.
What following too closely you have a distance that people know X number of car lengths and with failure to use a signal that's pretty clear as well whereas somebody saying that they are passing in the passing lane but they're only going 1 mile an hour faster than the car they're passing would reasonably be determined by law enforcement to be not passing while the driver of the car that's passing is trying hard not to break the speed limit.
People don't realize because they don't read the law they don't realize that you're supposed to speed up all your pass. And it's not speeding if it's temporary for safety sake and if it's a situation where it would be determined speeding then you don't need to be passing there
Paco Vasda pretty much. The cops have never given me a hard time speeding so long as I got out of their way, was actually passing someone, and continued to the speed limit in the travel lane.
The left lane for passing laws need to be enforced more - not for revenue to the state, but to keep those left lane hogs from clogging up traffic on the highways.
Fines are not supposed to be used for profit to the cities. Read the 8th Amendment.
A lot less road rage if people would just follow the rules of the road.
And it is a shame too. Others not involved sometimes get injured or killed
But they're special or have an excuse/story.
A little bit of consideration and common sense is all that is needed
@@catlikepizzagaming8280 Unfortunately common sense is becoming more and more uncommon.
@@BPzeropoint I know it’s on the endangered list
I learned in Driver's Ed in 1967 the left lane is a passing, not a driving, lane. Some things don't change.
and when there is a lot of traffic the left lane is full of vehicles no matter what the law says, because the right lane is filled with vehicles. Duh.
In the Colorado mountains we have the slow truck lane where semis go slow climbing in low gear, and the car lane for cars that can climb the hills and still do the maximum.
Drivers that want to speed are shit out of luck and need to risk their lives trying to pass in the right lane.
Reckless speeders are given no special rights in my state.
That’s not true everywhere
Dealt with one of those today. He couldn't have cared less. 30 cars passed him on the right and he just stayed right there.
And when they get to their exit, Look Out! Here they come, flying across every traffic lane at the very last second. Looks like they're practicing their best James Bond move, trying to shake the car tailing them!
(And Man, don't they get mad if you block them from getting to that exit?!😉)
@@jeffhale2278 yes, favorite maneuver to do--nicely block them from their last second exit!!
Why on earth would someone do that?
@@jackbarlow4104 because certain selfish self-centered queenie idiots need to learn the reaction to blocking traffic, for their own selfish self!!
If he was driving the speed limit, YOU are the criminal.
Beautiful. Left lane hogs cause so much angst on the roads.
Just pass them on the inside.
@@smedleyfarnsworth263 stfu it is the law
@@nadirba9 Just climb into the boxcars now.
That's rare and should occur more. I live in NJ and people do this all the time and the police almost never enforce it. So aggravating
Im from NJ too and it absolutely sucks. Especially with all the trucks that make driving hard enough as is.
Love this. Wish they did this in Florida. It's ok to go slow, just don't do it in the fast lane
Its NOT ok to go slow. Minimum speeds should be enforced.
BuckGreywolfe some people call it the fast lane, some people call it the passing Lane. But it's never the "block all the traffic because I'm the law of the land" Lane.
dean gordon IT'S THE PASSING LANE, not the FAST LANE.
Saw a defendant in court get their ass handed to them for calling it the FAST LANE to a judge. He threw the book at her
This is in Florida bro. Didn't you see the license plates?
Florida? You have far more and bigger problems in that garbage heap of an anti-democratic, anti-Constitution state than slow drivers in the passing lane.
It’s called the passing lane for a reason
I’ve never seen anyone pulled for this yet.
ATL Designs I haven't either. I loaned my car to my dad and he caught this not me.
th-cam.com/video/3Bw7tydAYY4/w-d-xo.html Check out my personal dash cam video of somebody getting pulled over in Florida's Turnpike.
dont worry..they get you soon enuff
My guess was that he was pulled over because he was a truck.
doug112244 truck? He was traveling the same speed as traffic next to him causing what we call gridlock which is not the condition of traffic being stopped but a condition of traffic traveling at matched speeds.
The new slow poke law says no no to that. It's always been illegal but Slowpoke laws allows for aggressive enforcement. You'll see more of this in the near future.
I think slow pokes should be getting more tickets than speeders. The road rage they cause is far more dangerous than some one going 10-15 over.
If you go to traffic court you'll see that there are more tickets for blocking than people ignorantly assume that every time they see blue lights must be for a speeder.
I drive at least 10 mph over the speed limit in any lane, if traffic allows.
No. There are still more speeders and textera than slow drivers
exactly
Poor logic, the road rager is still at fault for not controlling their emotions... plus speeding causes many more accidents.
More incidents + more accidents = more tickets in general
You're biased. Speeding kills. Slow driving is frustrating, but as long as people are not illegally in the left lane they are free (and in the 'right' ayy lmao) to do so.
That’s nice to see!! This is a hazardous habit and they really need to crack down on this rude behavior!!
I've lived in Ohio, Penn, Maine, New Hampshire and Oregon and I've been driving for almost 60 years, but I've never seen anybody pulled over for squatting in the left lane and causing traffic backups. In Oregon now, I don't think they've ever even heard of the left lane being for passing only. It's the worst state I've ever lived in for that. Angry drivers will resort to passing on the right and then cutting back into the left lane right in front of the offender but it doesn't phase them at all. They just sit right where they're at. I think they're a bigger cause of accidents than speeders but I've never seen the state police do anything about it.
Oregon has a lane hogging law. If you are holding up traffic in the left lane you can get ticketed. Even if you are going the posted speed limit. Left lane is for faster moving traffic. If left lanes are only for passing then paint yellow lines across them. waste of tax payer money. Lanes are added as congestion becomes an issue. not to allow people to go around slow moving traffic.
@@viperbroncoalmasty My point remains ... traffic backups on I-5 due to drivers squatting in the left lane are common, but I've never seen anyone pulled over by the state police for it ... not once. You can get technical about yellow lines, but the point still stands. The practice is dangerous.
Look, example scenario is the speed limit is 60 mph. Go 45 if you want in the right lane but please keep the left lane going at least 65
It's a west coast thing, all full of degenerates, lived in 5he northeast, now wa state, people completely opposite out here
One of the worst left lane hogs I've ever encountered was on I5 south of Portland; it was a VW bus going exactly 55 in the left lane, with car after car after car passing him on the right. That driver knew exactly what they were doing - I can only suppose that they get some sort of enjoyment out of their self righteous douchebaggery.
I wish they would start doing on the Pa turnpike, it even says "left lane for passing only" and still ride in it.
I never noticed it as a problem on the PA Turnpike, but I also drive the Garden State Parkway on a daily basis where the "keep right pass left" signs go seemingly unnoticed. Makes for especially dangerous conditions when the road is four or five lanes in each direction.
@@michaelneilson5544 traffic volumes on the GSP most days from AM to PM are such that all the lanes are loaded. It would be madness to expect everyone to line up in the right lane at that point.
@@victorpradha9946 I hear ya, but I think that with a robust public campaign, like what they did with driving and texting, could at least decrease the amount of people that do it. Don't crush my dreams, Victor haha
Love that these videos are always 10 times longer than the actual interesting part of the clip.
I think what happens is the dashcam probably saves an entire loop at whatever length they selected. Mine does 5 minute loops so I have less files to deal with so when I hit my save button it saves the entire 5 minute loop. However, I suppose if your capable of posting videos on YT you can probably edit them down to the juicy parts.
EXCELLENT !!!!!
We need cops that patrol for that SPECIFICALLY!!!!!
I recall being told of a car driving well below the posted 55mph limit on MD 27 through Mt. Airy, in the morning rush, leading to a 1/4 mi long line behind them. That continued until the day a cop got caught in the line, then put his lights on and worked his way up the line until he got the slowpoke. 2 lane road, infrequent passing lanes in the hilly piedmont terrain of interior Maryland.
Yes! Should enforce this EVERYWHERE!!
I drive this road almost every day. Happens almost every day. Except the justice part. Would love to see more of that.
That was beautiful, man. I need a tissue. :)
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I thought the black Tahoe was the problem 😂 didn't even see the box truck.
How could the Tahoe be the issue? They were following 3 or 4 other vehicles.
In Australia, its the right lane hog, but here the police love them as it slows traffic down, and will be glad to fine the poor driver that gets frustrated by these inconsiderate fools
It can only lead to reduction in design road capacity and anger and frustration among drivers able to do the speed limit on the multi-lane roads. Outer lane hoggers, especially those going slow up hills, should be pulled for holding up the rest of the road.
the most ignored sign in the world "Slower Traffic Keep Right"
Woodstock. Man I see this everyday here in Atlanta - well the left lane hogs anyway. I drove in Germany last year and people know how to drive there keeping the fast lane clear.
BrickTsar Yup. Left lane hoggers is a problem here in Norway too.
240kph in left lane, 45kph MINIMUM in right lane.
I imagine trying to keep the left lane clear may be difficult. It seems like every time I'm in Atlanta traffic is always busy and packed. It seems to have gotten worst over the past few years.
Not here in the UK unfortunately. We have these arseholes everywhere and because the traffic police have been mainly replaced by speed cameras now (budget cuts) they get away with it.
@Dave it also depends on where you are from, here in Florida, at least to my knowledge, we do not have this law. If you are traveling under the posted speed limit you can get pulled for driving in the fast lane, but we don't have a "pass lane" as you put it. I am glad I saw this as I do drive in GA every now and then.
Use the left lane for passing and get back in the middle or right most lane afterwards. If you can't keep up with the flow of traffic, move over.
Wisconsin has "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs about every two miles. Too many people in WI cannot read!
In Australia we have large signs saying "KEEP LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING" but the morons still don't.
Good for you, don't like it when people get in the "PASSING LANE" & just ass around.
That carries with it sooooo much satisfaction! Some folks just don’t get it.
Driving truck over 20 years it's countless times daily we encounter this & the determination of some to stay out there is purely just to be an asshole!!!
With all due respect, car drivers often encounter semi drivers who force their way into the left lane. While most of them eventually work their way back to the right lane, it takes a lot of time for them to maneuver there, and it puts a negative drain on overall traffic.
@@thomasmint1761 trucks have just as much right to pass as smaller vehicles, although it might take longer. If you truly understood what it takes to become a professional driver, what they put up with, what driving a truck is really like-- You would understand and have much more patience and respect for the drivers and what they do.
@@thomasmint1761 but, bad drivers come in all manner of vehicles. -Takes much less $, time and training to drive a straight truck like the one seen in video.
I'm so glad to see the truck get pulled over! In WA state, there's a statute that apparently talks about how much you're impeding traffic. A WSP trooper I talked to said that if 5 people pass you on the right and you're in the left lane, he's gonna light (and write) you up. He says he gives those tickets several times a day. In WA state, people drive whatever speed they want in whatever lane they want. Yeah, it happens elsewhere, but I've driven in all 50 states and I've never seen it as bad as I have in WA...
The you haven't driven on the L.I.E on Long Island in NY. The rudest assholes in the country. Some parts of the L.I.E are 5 lanes each way and STILL there are assholes in the left lane who wont pull over.
If the driver is doing the speed limit , (the ticket has to note the speed) The driver can beat that ticket in court EVERY TIME!
Impeding speeders isn't a crime ANYWHERE!
@@williardbillmore5713 Impeding speeders isn't a crime or even a traffic infraction and but traveling in the left lane is a traffic infraction punishable with a fine and you're completely wrong. When it's posted that the left lane is for passing only and a cop makes the judgement that your impeding traffic in the left lane, he can give you a ticket for a moving violation and you wont beat it in court "EVERY TIME" as you say.
@@mrfester42 If you are clocked doing exactly the speed limit the only people you could possibly impede are people who are criminally speeding.
No speeders.
No impeding.
No impeding.
No ticket...
You can't argue against me without arguing FOR criminal speeding.
You are kind of hooked on the horns of a dilemma, eh?
Same dilemma cops find.
@@williardbillmore5713 I'm not arguing for speeding you idiot PLUS, going over the speed limit is NOT a criminal defense.
You're hooked on the horns of blind stupidity
I yelled out loud “YESSSSS!!” Need to see this more often.
If you are camped in the left lane, you need to get a $1,000 fine.
This needs to be the norm.
Speeding needs to be made a secondary offense, and cops need to start enforcing this.
I was stationed in Germany and they'll tap peoples' bumpers to get them to move over. You just don't do that over there. It was a big adjustment being back in the states
Oh yeah THAT sounds like a safe practice, Tyler.
@@williardbillmore5713 Most of the Autobahn has speed limits. It has nothing to do with that.
Here in Oregon, it's the Prius/minivan/cute ute drivers or the elderly who lock up the left lane. I would love to see our police take up the cause.
painmagnet1 yeah, and then they come to AZ in the winter and hold up traffic here!!
It has become a major problem in Western Canada. They are pulling over and fining people now.
You got bigger problems than bad drivers in Oregon...
Same thing in North Carolina. Someone's old granny will sit in the left lane for miles and miles, going 10 under the speed limit.
They never will, if the driver that is blocking the speeders is going close to the maximum posted limit, the driver can beat the ticket in court every time.
The ticket only stands if they are going well under the limit, which is quite rare.
All traffic tickets have to note the speed of the offender.
Cops know this all too well. They are not really interested in wasting resources and their time , just so YOU can speed.
This needs to happen more often to this drivers.
This needs to happen a lot more!!!!!!
My favorite is when someone just has to pass someone who's doing 55 because they have their cruise set at 56 so it takes them 10 minutes to get past the person
California CHP, please watch this video and get on the bandwagon!
I live in CA, but it's not as bad here, not in my experience. It is pretty annoying when someone does it, though.
They are busy giving tickets for tinted windows. Worthless assholes.
PogChamp California Vehicle Code 21654
(a) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, any vehicle proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at such time shall be driven in the right-hand lane for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand edge or curb, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
Highway 99 in the Central Valley of California is the deadliest major highway in the country according to an analysis from Value Penguin, a private consumer research organization.
Those signs sound like they are doing a great job. lol
Bottomline, if you are in the left lane and someone wants to drive faster than you, move the fuck over.
Jaycob Arbogast Those signs are usually yellow and are recommendations and hold no legal weight. I think you're talking about Chico, and those signs are NOT accurate.
Yes that was truely beautiful, I would love to witness something like that here in Florida......you would not believe how many people stay in the left lane-to the point where the right is almost empty....so you end up passing on the right- which is also illegal in many states.
Yes sadly here in Florida most people immediately move to the left lane and the right lanes are kept empty yes that's true and some people try to get in the Middle Lane and stay there insisting the somehow it's not bad to completely waste all of our tax dollars on every single right hand lane due to non-use
They're most likely using the middle lane to make it easier for the on-ramp to merge...
For Three-Lane Roads, if they sat in the right lane, then sometimes it's very hard to move over for merging traffic or emergency vehicles... because you have those idiots that like to ride in your blind spot or ride right next to you. And then sometimes the stars will align against you and you'll also have the idiot on the on-ramp who doesn't know how to merge... or didn't know he was supposed to use the on-ramp to accelerate to traffic speed... which case, you'll be fucked into slamming on your brakes because he just cut you off.
So for three & four lane roads... yeah, left lanes for passing, middle for large trucks, right for merging and slow people.
For two lanes roads, we don't have the same luxury... so yeah, left-lane is still passing only... gotta stay right. For people merging... you just have to hope they know how to merge or move left if possible.. pass the merge, then move right again.
Nikolai Kalashnikov I've looked for years and cannot find any law that says or suggest the left lane is for passing the laws actually read you drive in the right-most lane and pass to the left meaning on a five-lane road lane number 1 is for traveling and lanes number two and three and four and five are for passing.
It's always a relief to see words like yours that are based on someone (you) thinking and driving consciously, so for that I want to shake your hand and say thank you.
I'm also hoping that because you think, that you will hear me and understand that we cannot consider changing driving habits because of the amount of lanes on a given roadway. I very much appreciate and respect your thoughtfully being conscious of your driving and about appropriate lane usage and traffic and ramps etc. but in between where the ramps are, you cannot allow yourself to justify such difficulty changing lanes. Did it could cause inappropriate lane usage. (which I've been ticketed for twice)
yes it is difficult sometimes but the only real difficulty in changing lanes exist when you travel the same speed as traffic next to you.
As a safe and conscious driver this should be your number one priority, among all of the rules of the rules of the road, you must for safety most adamantly fight against traveling the same speed as any traffic next to you and to not allow conditions to exist where the right lane becomes perpetually and repeatedly empty and unused but from a safety standpoint and as the tax dollars cost us into the tens of billions per lane when you look at that right lane nationally.
and how many people refuse to use it and keep making excuses to avoid using it.
If you start looking into the rules of the road you will find it 80% let me repeat that number 80% of the rules on the road or to reinforce drive to the right-most Lane and passed to the left and we spend millions of dollars every year making new laws to reiterate this most Bass driving law of all of our laws, drive on the right, pass to the left.
We cannot allow the difficulty of driving to allow us to do things like getting in a lane and stay there.
We must above all else drive with due diligence.
Regarding the specific video this is not a three lane road it's a two-lane road at has no middle lane that you spoke of and the reference to possibly being in the left lane to avoid on ramp traffic also does not apply as there are no on ramps anywhere in the area yes there is one coming up on the horizon but he was already in the left lane way too soon for that to be a factor as well as he needs to be out of the way of faster traffic until he gets to that ramp area and not cause people to pass them on the ride or cause them to be in the right lane that he himself feel this need for traffic to avoid.
That said, more people need to have your attitude of driving without being unnecessarily pushy to other drivers and make merging room where it's obviously needed but we still must find a way to get back into that right lane and not allow ourselves to ignorantly try to get in some lane and stay there or ever avoid using appropriate lanes.
Once again I must say that you deserve commendation for appropriately and properly respecting on ramp merging and thinking about all such things in general and I wish more drivers on the road had your type of attitude.
Thank you for being a conscious driver my friend.
Yep...and if you drive US 19...may the force be with you ;)
jennti U.S. 19? that goes from FL to the great lakes?
Are portions of that two-lane?
That would be hideous on a long trip.
My belief was this , left lane is for passing. Also nice Back ground music, the Who.
Who????
@@dennisrardin3519 Yes
It’s one thing to hang in the left lane when there’s a merge coming from the right. But once you’re past the merge, get back in the right lane.
I've heard all kinds of excuses for cruising in the passing lane from; That lane isn't as rough as the cruising lane to; "I'm driving the speed limit so I can cruise there." Drives me nuts.
I LOVE it. Hope that hog gets a fine for sitting in the passing lane.
They should enforce this hardcore!
Great video. Should be like this in every state. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.
In PA, people drive in the left lane because there is so much heavy traffic entering on the on-ramps, and you constantly have to move over anyway. That being said. left lane drivers are pressured to MOVE FAST, or get in the right lane.
When someone catches you from behind in the left lane...
(They are going faster)
Get the hell over
dam straight
Hell yes!! If the road is wide open in front of you and there is a train of vehicles behind, time to move over to the right!
Floyd Zepplin NO
Or just go around them on the right
@00justSomeAccount00 the law is VERY clear. You. Get. Over.
It's not your job to pace traffic, you are a civilian, not a cop.
All left lane drivers who do this are guilty.
To impede the left lane is evil .
It only causes car accidents and those idiots who practice it need to be arrested.
And all who tailgate need their driver's license revoked and lose the privilege of driving a car .
Be fined and forced to take drivers educated all over again .
In texas it is against the law to impede the left lane .
And possibly Oklahoma ?
Wish they'd do that in Australia, especially Queensland. They have serious difficulty understanding what "keep left unless overtaking" means.
Same here in SA. Clueless. Younger drivers are generally much worse in this way than older ones, but many older ones don't get it either. I wonder what learner drivers are taught.
This law needs to be passed in Wisconsin ASAP
It's always an idiot with Minnesota plates going 63 in the left lane. Almost every time
@@tyleryoung9638 Here in Oregon it's always British Columbia or California plates.
@@hollowaang5284 Thats because iys noy a law in california
@@ianparks2653 It is actually. People just don't care and police does not enforce it.
@@XMysticHerox There’s no “keep right except to pass” law in California. The law, CA Vehicle Code 21654 CVC, states that vehicles driving slower than the normal speed of traffic must yield right. The legislature cannot “normalize” unlawful behavior, thus the normal speed of traffic is, at most, the lawful limit. Therefore normal speed of traffic is the speed limit. Therefore in California, as long as you’re going the speed limit you may travel in whatever lane you wish.
I have been in California for 3 months. Lots of drivers using left lane especially if they are going with highest speed limit. In Europe , left lane is only using for passing, whatever your speed, you can only use for passing other cars, even in Turkey :)
FYI this is just normal in Germany. The autobahn is only 2 lanes and EVERYONE hugs the right. The lambos only use the left to pass and then immediately get back into single file in the left. It's incredible.
Yes,slow moving traffic should stay to the right. But when traffic gets heavy you can't expect the left lane to be left open for just passing.
Agreed, but drivers should keep up with flow of traffic.
@@pcm7315There`s always some dummy day dreaming on the road or worse yet inconsiderate of other drivers.
@@robjames3864 I will never be considerate of drivers who want to break the maximum speed limit. You can pass me in the breakdown lane if you must.
I drive the speed limit.
@@williardbillmore5713 I drive with the flow of traffic. If everyone is driving 70 mph the most dangerous driver can be the one driving 55 who jams traffic up. They may be within the speed limits but they are a hazard.
@@robjames3864 Drivers that want to go 70 are not the problem. The guy who comes up on your bumper and flashes his lights at you wants to go 90.
THEY are dangerous.
"Failure to keep left except when passing" is still a law in many states. Unfortunately, it's rarely enforced these days, but it should be. The left lane hogs are either ignorant or inconsiderate. Possibly both. But I see it more and more lately.
Failure to keep left except when passing?
Yes. At least that is how it is formally written on a traffic ticket in Missouri. My wife received that ticket from the MO. State Highway Patrol.
Little side note: When you pull off to the left like that, you are breaking the law again.
Yes. If people knew not to pass on the wrong side the truck and the cop would have moved off to the right and stopped there, with no chance of a collision in doing so.
Just FYI, a Prius still gets about 40-45 miles per gallon at 85 MPH, and can cruise at 100 MPH with no difficulty. Just because they sip gas doesn't mean you can't drive them as fast as traffic.
The only time I feel like left lane hogging is ok is when the right lane of the road is actually bad enough to actually cause damage to your car. Even then try to stay on the right lane tho.
We used to do that on I-80 over the Sierra Nevada mountains before Caltrans finally spent close to a billion rebuilding the freeway with new concrete. Most folks would shift over to the left lane and ride it, due to the severe wheel dip in the right lane from nearly 50 years of the original concrete not ever having been resurfaced or repaved. Was super annoying to deal with but thankfully, that situation no longer exists.
In the Colorado mountains the truck lane is always in crappy condition and every hill has a line of slow moving trucks climbing in low gear.
I obey the law and drive the speed limit in the left lane. Anyone who wants me to get behind the slow trucks in the crappy bumpy lane so they can speed, can kiss my ass.
The Who - Baba O'Riley
They're all wasted !!!!
We need this to be enforced in Washington state!
I wish they did that more here in Oklahoma
Once more trucks passing it should be a law they have one mile to pass and trucks being overtaken. Mandatory they let off until the faster truck pulls back into the slow lane.
In some areas, it's also illegal to block traffic, even if you're doing the limit.
Awesome. I wish that would happen at least once a day everyday here in California.
unfortunately this happens everywhere I've seen in the states lol I've lived in New Jersey and as someone who tries to enjoy driving and the rules, these people ruin your day..nice to see someone hearing about it
then they come to Florida and do the same s***
Awesome!!! I am glad to see they actually enforce that law sometimes! Unfortunately not often enough.
Another issue is two turcks running side by side, mile after mile, obstructing traffic from behind.
It blows my mind how many people do this on the thruway. Just poking along the passing lane, meanwhile cars are zooming by in the slow lane. Beautiful to finally see someone get pulled over for it. This isn't the worst I've seen of it either.
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I have a special disdain for jerks who just hang out in the left lane like they own it.
Drivers who drive slower than the flow of traffic are as dangerous as extreme speeders, because everyone else has to merge and move around around at close distances.
I drive a truck and what happens most of the time is when you move into the left lane, the car you’re trying to pass speeds up so you can’t get around them. Then before you know it, you’re stuck there because everyone is passing on the right and you can’t get back over.
Speeders cause accidents and want to blame everyone else.
@@williardbillmore5713 left lane hogs are worse than speeders.
@@TheAmericanCatholic As far a the cause of accidents? No not at all, left lane driving is not even in the top 20 causes of highway accidents...You know what is the number one cause of highway accidents according to the NTSB? SPEEDING IS... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Catholics make terrible liars.
As satisfying as that was to see, listening to The Who at such a pitiful level is inexcusable. 1 star.
I think that was "White Bird" by It's A Beautiful Day, c.1969.
Edit: Uhh, no maybe not.
daamn i forgot about the old youtube rating system
One in a billion - this should be enforced more often.
In the EARLY AM I see guys enter a 4-lane and immediately get in the left-most passing lane and stay there til they get off 25 miles later.
In the very beginning of my driving career, I used to do that because I thought I was being courteous by staying out of the way of all the weaving and entering/exiting traffic taking place on the right. It didn't take me too long to realize I was a moron, thinking all the traffic behind me was normal rather than being held back by my ignorance, and ever since then, I started avoiding the passing lane unless I need to pass. I'd give anything for other people to realize and respect it as well.
@@southpaw117 Thank You - you are doing as common sense dictates.
That's the worst. When someone is going slow in the left lane right next to a car in the right lane creating a road block. So rude n inconsiderate.
Come to Michigan nobody uses the left lane just to pass. It’s the camping lane.
Name me a state where this isn't an common occurrence and I might consider moving there! Certainly not here in the Land of Lincoln!
JUST KEEP OUT OF THE INSIDE LANE, people who drive in this lane genuinely speed, tailgate and swerve all over the road, these people are usually aggressive, intimidating, threatening and completely unhinged. So keep out of there lane or they will run you off the road with there trucks. If you want drive safely and at the speed limit then don't drive in that lane
One of the worst crimes on the road and what enforcement is trying to enforce is to keep people from trying to get into a lane and "stay there" the term driving with due diligence means driving with due diligence it means not allowing yourself getting a line and stay there but rather to pay attention to ever-evolving conditions. If you get a ticket for failure to drive the due diligence it's because you allowed yourself to slow down when you catch up to slower traffic rather than following a reasonable distance where you can signal and go around when you see them slowing down. Once you get around them you need to move back to the far-right the law does not mention left lanes the law mentions the rightmost lane and passing to the left.
Keep right except to pass has the word KEEP in it which means stay all the way right unless you are passing and the word EXCEPT to pass means "except to pass"
THE LEFT lane has nothing to do with anything.
Any and every lane to the left of the right-most lane is a left lane. further left lanes are for faster passing.
Most states laws will clarify the only temporary reasons for temporarily being out of the right-most lane but the law does not allow for traveling in the middle or left lanes.
the law says travel in the right-most lane pass to the left and return to the right so be aware on a four-lane Interstate you can be arrested for traveling in the second, third or 4th lane even if there's no other traffic on the road at all. And if you don't believe me just ask TH-cam You'll see videos on that as well.
Paco Vasda wow. you need to get a life.
thersten do you say that just because it's easy for me to tap a button and make a reply when I'm in the office? Come on let's be realistic here. this is one place where all of our lives are actually being threatened daily yet we can have more control over it.
I mean you're here participating in the conversation. Don't you think your participation should at least want to be in a productive direction? To be able to have any positive change we have to be able to discuss what direction that change should be in. I don't think it should hurt to point out to all of these people that are screaming about the law that the laws already there they're just ignoring all of them except for one of them.
You lose as many friends and family members this me and you might have an attitude like mine as it should be a bigger priority for more people.
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Paco Vasda I’ve seen you comment on other videos. Keep fighting, brother
GSP deserves a medal for that one
What does George saint Pierre have to do with this?
That is the new Slowpoke law being enforced in Georgia.
That is the Slowpoke law being enforced in GA.
yay Georgia.
Paco Vasda wait... what law is it? And where?
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Paco Vasda what IS the slow poke law though?
Paco Vasda ...Is that three lanes total, or three lanes each way, making a total of six lanes?
This shit should be enacted in Ohio too. Some people are assholes in principle, but there are some decent people who just happen to horrible drivers that could use a wakeup call.
This should be the law in every state... Nothing worse than left lane hogs.... They piss people off and then they start driving angry.
It is. Left lane is for passing not to be used as your main lane of travel
If only this happened more often. If you are in the left lane with cars behind you and no one in front of you you HAVE to move to the right, period.
Do you know how to get a Maryland left lane driver to speed up? Try to pass him on the right…….seems like once Maryland drivers get their license, they think the left lane is for a funeral procession…..I can’t understand the lack of courtesy……
More of this, please. If anyone can ID the cop I’ll send him a card.
and a gift card for a free dinner for his/her family!!
Petition to make all of our tax money go to cops who specifically pull over lane hoggers instead of the government
@@french1362 they would be richer then the government!!!!!
YAY!!! Got one! Yet, there are people on here that get very angry if you tell them not to do this. They say, If you tailgate me to move over, I will slow right on down!
That needs to happen more often. Amazing how some people can have a driver's license. No one cares anymore about their fellow man, only themselves.
Speeders don't care about anyone's life, as long as they can go faster than everyone else.
@@williardbillmore5713 Left lane hogs create traffic and collisions. A left lane hog is more likely to cause a collision when trying to merge all the way to the right when they want to exit. They also cause collisions because other drivers have to pass them on the right and this can cause collisions from other drivers trying to merge from the far right lanes.
This happens all the time in California and nobody gets pulled over for it.
It causes traffic too
Aren't they supposed to change lanes and pull over to the right on the shoulder ?
Slower traffic keep right! What do people not understand about that???
troym33 TRUTH!!
Not slower traffic, but anyone who is not passing someone else.
requemao No, some places are different from others. Some are "Slower Traffic Keep Right", which means you can drive in the left lane as long as you want as long as you are not impeding anyone behind you, and some places it's "Keep Right Except To Pass", which is obviously self explanatory.
What they don't understand about that: I think they interpret the sign to mean, traffic driving under the speed limit, to keep right. I think they also wrongly assume if they are at the speed limit, they are just fine to hang out in the fast (passing) lane! (Just my two cents about Tucson AZ drivers)
People are stupid enough to think that if there's not a sign that slower traffic keep right doesn't apply.
People are stupid enough to think that there's a difference between keep right except to pass and slower traffic keep right.
People are stupid enough to need any kind of sign whatsoever about which side to pass on or VAUSE OTHERS to pass on.
You do know??? that Traffic Engineers & law enforcement officers refer to them as "idiot signs" because people are crazy enough to interpret them in different ways rather than just know that you always drive faster than traffic you're right and slower than traffic to your left.
Because people ignore what they are taught about driving, we have to post signs. To think that there are people that think there are roads or jurisdictions where this doesn't apply means we have to remind the idiots by using idiot signs but they're very very expensive and we just can't afford to put him down every little stretch of road that has a problem so they go on stretch of road where people call law enforcement and whine about being blocked.
Additionally, I had a Virginia trooper, which I hadn't seen in the right lane... pull me over because I was "tailgating" the infernal mutt in front of me. The person was doing 58-60 in a 65, for "several" miles and simply refused to move over. If he (trooper) was behind/beside me long enough to pull me over, and let the bubble-head go on his merry way, he had no intension of enforcing that law... The troop began to tell me why he pulled me over and I asked him if he was aware that Virginia had a traffic law on the books that prevented people like that clown to hang out in the hammer lane & lane hog, preventing others from doing the posted... he explained that if he began to cite those drivers with any regularity it would impede him from attending to more serious infractions... in addition to tying up the flow of traffic. He sat in his cruiser maybe 10-12 min, came back and handed my license back and said "I see your point of view, but I can't follow to closely or flash lights to pass a slower vehicle", then let me off with a warning... so I guess we're stuck with these self righteous mellon-heads who've escaped the asylum and drive.... what a crock
Hmmm, wonder how the cop would have handled it if he wanted to get by this jerk on his way home.... I really hate it when dumb ass troopers just sit on one of the lanes going the exact speed limit, just daring you to pass them...Any idiot realizes this impedes the normal flow of traffic and will actually cause an accident. I reported the last trooper I saw pulling this crap, but I'm sure nothing became of it. The police are supposed to set an example, instead I see the morons on their phones, turning on lights/siren to blow through lights, etc....
WOW 👍👍 I’ve never seen that done, so many times I’ve been in long lines because of “Left Lane Hogs” usually doing just the speed limit, or slightly under. It’s the law but nobody pays attention to Laws anymore ☹️
In Florida, you get a ticket for blocking traffic.
Blocking speeders you mean...
@@williardbillmore5713 You’re the idiot that appoints himself the traffic god and intentionally slows down traffic in the fast lane, aren’t ya?