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At least in my area, it feels unsafe to drive the speed limit on the interstate because you will be run off the road by impatient truck drivers.

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In MA area I almost never see cars going at speed limit (65) in Mass Turnpike. Most cars average 75, leftmost lane goes at 80.

Was once pulled over for doing 65mph in the left lane of a two lane stretch of the Mass Pike, creating a minor traffic bottleneck in the process. (I was 17 and didn't know any better.)

I received my first ever ticket last year because everyone on the freeway was driving 80+ during Covid lockdown and I had to accelerate past that to be able to safely change lanes for an upcoming exit.

Completely clean record. Cop didn’t care. Quotas are gonna quota.

It’s similar in my area, but not just limited to truck drivers. It’s amazing to me how angry people appear to be when I drive exactly at the speed limit and refuse to tailgate the car in front of me.

They seem to think that I’m the one in the wrong for treating speeding hunks of metal that weigh thousands of pounds as dangerous things that can and do kill people.

If you aren't in the right-most lane, then yes, you are wrong. See, e.g., Ind. Code § 35-44.1-2-13; Virg. Code § 46.2-842.1.

Typically I am in the right-most lane. I was taught during drivers education that the left lane is for passing and that you should move back over to the right-most lane whenever possible, especially if you’re a “slow moving” vehicle.

But there are drivers who weave through traffic whenever they see an opening and those are the ones who appear to be angriest when they’re behind me in the right-most lane because they were impatient in the other lanes.

I am an impatient driver, but I think you're in the right and the other driver is in the wrong. Right lane is slow traffic/merge. Middle lane is travel. Left lane is fast/passing lane.

I don't think every state has this law.

Unless you’re in the right lane, you are the one in the wrong. You can be pulled over in most US states for driving slower than surrounding traffic.

Usually I am in the right lane. My area has laws where “slow moving” traffic should stay to the right, so I use the left lane for passing and move back over whenever possible.

Respectfully, I don't think this is the right mentality. These laws give the idiots cause to be jerks. The guys speeding 80+ bullying people over to the right lane do not make our roads a better place.

the person hogging the left lane does not make our roads better, instead they make them slower and less enjoyable. If you're in the left lane and somebody's behind you, just be decent and go to the right once it's clear to do so. Then you can go back into the left lane

I am not much for speeding but I try to keep in the appropriate lane. I understand Someone going at speed limit in the left lane if there are just two and the right is full of trucks. I see people doing it on sparsely used 4 lane highways too and I think that is just stupid. Why would you make traffic more dangerous for yourself?

if you're in the left lane and people are behind you, that means you need to go faster, period. It doesn't make traffic any less safe if you go faster. Going slow pisses people off and makes them do risky moves.

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