Tailgaters

ECones wrote:

Naio wrote:

rjxj wrote:
I rode a motorcycle into town yesterday and had several tailgaters but the most amazing one was a F250 pulling a big FW. I usually do 5 over but this idiot must have wanted more. Why would someone who is operating a rig that cant stop good be tailgating anyone and go over the speed limit? This was in a 55 zone in deer country.

Yipes! I would have been scared, and pulled over til they went on by.

Edit: Would have given them the slow headshake, too, the one that says, 'I cannot believe how dumb you are.'

Same here. I just completed a 6000-mile trip on my motorcycle and on a couple of occasions I checked my mirrors to find cars so close I could see one headlight in each mirror in road construction. It was clear to anyone with a modicum of sense that there was traffic in front of me as far as we could see and I had nowhere to go.

I increase my following distance to the vehicle in front of me so it's less likely I'll have to stop quickly. That seems to irritate them worse. It's like it's absolutely critical they not lose the 5 seconds I'm costing them by opening the gap.

Why do they do it? I think it's a mental deficiency -- as in, they're blithering idiots.

I get them in the RV on two lane roads all the time. What really bugs me is that they'll tailgate ridiculously close as if they can't wait to get by. Then, give them a nice, long, legal passing lane without another car in sight, and they won't pass. What's up with that? :?