Crazy driving

Experienced a wide variety of ignert or dangerous driving, like most of us old geezers.
Five or six years ago we were headed south on I69. Traffic was heavy.
We saw a F350 with a bass boat, in tow, going north it a bit of bad pavement, the only kind there is on I69 and both truck and boat cleared the road by a coupe feet for two or three lengths. He was perhaps doing about 90 to 100. The rig stayed straight and landed perfectly but I bet everyone had a soft drink or something all over the and if not strapped in banged their heads.
Those little four bangers with big wheels and loud exhaust, from the factory must be the hottest performers made, and the drivers hopped up on something.
People will call Hp if the AMG goes five over, but these people weave through traffic at well over a hundred.
People seem to be mad today at someone or everyone.
They cut us off even in the slow lane in the Edge.
They don't do it as much in the AMG, except to try to get us to boil the tires.
In the MH we flow with the traffic and stay in the right lane mostly.
Oklahoma has signs saying something along the line that it is illegal to restrict traffic flow in the left lane.
Something like that should be law everywhere. It would stop a lot of the wrecks and road rage from the massive Semi Traffic on I24 and I40 and the games they play with cars.

I always wonder when I'm doing the speed limit, and folks pulling trailers too big for the truck, pass me like I was in park.

Of course occasionally you meet 'em down the road (in the ditch).. I've managed to avoid that myself save for one time and I got out as fast as I got in.. Long story, But I either got lucky or skillful.. Wound up with the rubber on the road again and no damage.

There is no "flow of traffic". Not with speed-governed big trucks where their limit is anywhere from equal, to as much as 20-mph below the road limit. While a few firms have their trucks at 62-mph, most are at 65-mph. And only a few above that.

And the four-wheelers jammed together at the limit for the road.

Granted, not all trucks are governed. It the above should be a guideline to Interstate speed. Run 62-mph and there'll be no lane changes or last moment braking. Peripheral vision is still quite good, and just maybe a well-maintained rig can stop reasonably well.

Running above the limit of the trucks is illusion of speed. A great deal more effort and constant problems with maintaining a 700' space ahead. Even 300'. Reward doesn't equal risk.

Know how to identify a stupid RV'er? He's the one surrounded by other vehicles. Lacks the minimal mental horsepower to back out of these situations.

Do the math. Engine run time per hour meter divided into miles. The difference between the 62-mph and 68-mph is negligible. But all other factors (economy, tire and brake life, diminished driver skill) are better.

A solo pickup can't brake worth beans above 65. And given the possibility of jackknife, towing this fast isn't the mark of intelligence. Quite the opposite.

I run over 10,000-miles monthly. It's only about every couple of months I see a solo vehicle operated without mistake. Anyone care to guess how many thousands of vehicles that comprises?

Plan the trip by planning the stops. And their duration. Run the trip as a series of legs. This is how to "save time". It isn't done by increasing risk for no gain.

About the only way to make a high AVERAGE mph is to both leave and stop early. All over the country traffic ramps up by noon and does not dissipate by midnight.

Dark o'clock early departure works. Ironically (yet logically) a slower travel speed with this approach trumps a higher one late in the day.

2016 2500 hd. 6 ltr gas pullin a 25ft wildcat 5th and have to hit 70 or can't run in top gear-it will down shift to 5th around 68. get 9mpg on level,never heard about tires havein a 65 top speed??Been around the usa and to Alaska,probably 40,000 miles.Wore out 4tires and have had 2 blowouts,Consider that normal since I'm within 100lbs of full load weight.People HATE IT When a 5th is in front of them,will pass me ,JAM ON the brakes and exit or Worse yet Slowdown and make me dog it up a hill in 3rd gear.

Veebyes wrote:
I'd like to know where these 55-60mph RVers are? I have not seen any.

I am not the fastest dog on the race track but I am not the slowest either. At 63-65mph, where the truck seems happy in top gear & at about 1900RPM, many more pass me than I go by. Seen my share of crazy people. Much prefer to have them whiz by & be gone & hope that they don't crash & hold me up further down the road.

Travel with the flow of snowbirds on the SC/GA/FL portion of I-95. I guarantee that you will see at least one RV at a CRAWL, at least once an hour. I have ever watched traffic scatter like roaches, up ahead, as cars smoke to a stop, cars and trucks dive into the shoulder,and I tell the wife a wreck must of just happened up there! Nope, just a ancient one driving a motorhome at 50, or 55, and everybody was asleep as the pack closed in on the old guy.

I agree that it's something you don't every really see in other parts of the highway system, but that stretch is a special ring of hell. Not an hour passes in that mess where I'm not shouting to my wife, "holy sheet, did you see THAT!" Seen everything from a Corolla heading back to Canada with a big Fiberglas "egg" trailer behind it. The car was on all the bump stops, not only because it was pulling well over a ton of camper,but the interior of the car was hoarder full, with just enough room for the driver, and going less than 50. I have observed countless, Junkyard grade, Class A craptastic rigs that should of been off the road, years ago, and struggle to maintain a safe speed. It's really an amazing experience, every time, not pleasant, or relaxing, but always memorable.

Poor people drive old rigs. As long as they are within the speed limit and otherwise driving legally, they have as much rights to the road as the guy running above the speed limit in a million-dollar land-yacht; actually, the poor guy following the law by definition is more in the right than the rich guy who's breaking the law by speeding.

Airstreamer67 wrote:
Poor people drive old rigs. As long as they are within the speed limit and otherwise driving legally, they have as much rights to the road as the guy running above the speed limit in a million-dollar land-yacht; actually, the poor guy following the law by definition is more in the right than the rich guy who's breaking the law by speeding.

I couldn't care how rich anybody is, it has nothing to do with the conversation here. I drive an eleven year old gasser that I got one heck of a deal on, but it is also safe and well maintained. Am I poor or rich? Who cares. I'm talking about some of the slow crawling, rolling wrecks we see every year on that stretch of road. Missing cargo doors, beat up bodies, no bumpers, old pushers running with the engine cover propped half way open to help cool the motor, big hole where the generator was.

I could give a rat's butt hair if the operators of these slow rolling traffic hazards are European royals, or dead broke. They are a physical hazard, and your turning this into some silly discussion of class, is just weird. BTW, the question was, where are all these slow RV drivers at, not about poor people driving the speed limit in rough rigs.