Please Be Careful !

In my experience around the Phoenix area, my normal tow speed of +/-60 means that I =have= to drive in the right-most lane. If I were to try and drive that even one lane over, I'd likely get rear-ended. I =can't= safely go > 65 because of the ST tires I have and I simply prefer to drive right at 60. I do try and schedule my tows in non-rush-hour traffic because of this. In rush hour, =nobody's= going much > 35 anyway, so it's a moot point. Speeds are posted 55 and 65 in the metro core area but the average is =at least= 10 over that, with some doing 30-40 over. I've had a couple instances with the idiots that don't decide to merge from the accel lane until nearly the far gore point. In one, the person simply ran through the gore point and pulled in in front of me, despite having > 1/2 mile of lane to figure out where they wanted to merge into, then gave =me= the finger. In another instance, they tried the same thing, then ended up swerving back onto the off-ramp, nearly hitting another car and going up through the intersection at the top of the ramp. I've also dialed 911 to report drivers a few times over the years, once when I saw a guy drinking a Coors Light as he was driving next to me, but a couple times when I was towing, to report erratic drivers, swerving in and out of traffic and cutting people off.

Lyle