"driving" in the left lane. YES it's illegal.
FL law will now ticket you for not getting out of the left lane.
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It's been my experience that it's not just the 'stay right' that causes the problem, it's that coupled with a very aggressive speed limit enforcement.
What ends up happening is someone is cruising along with the cruise control set to 65 mph, they then come up on someone doing 64.996 mph and move into the left lane to "pass" them, at 0.004 mph faster than the other car.
In the end they are in the left lane for 20 minutes trying to pass a single car.
If there was some common sense used in enforcement of the speed limit there would be some tolerance for over-taking a slower vehicle.
Thankfully up here in Canuckistan the LEO's are very tolerant of excesses in speed, provided the offender isn't driving like a madman or in an unsafe manner.
A few years back the head of the Province of Ontario's police force (our version of State Troopers) made a public statement that his officers wouldn't enforce the speed limit as long as drivers were 'moving with other traffic and not driving aggresively'.
It's not unusual to be traveling a major highway with all the cars doings 80 even though the speed limit is 60.
What ends up happening is someone is cruising along with the cruise control set to 65 mph, they then come up on someone doing 64.996 mph and move into the left lane to "pass" them, at 0.004 mph faster than the other car.
In the end they are in the left lane for 20 minutes trying to pass a single car.
If there was some common sense used in enforcement of the speed limit there would be some tolerance for over-taking a slower vehicle.
Thankfully up here in Canuckistan the LEO's are very tolerant of excesses in speed, provided the offender isn't driving like a madman or in an unsafe manner.
A few years back the head of the Province of Ontario's police force (our version of State Troopers) made a public statement that his officers wouldn't enforce the speed limit as long as drivers were 'moving with other traffic and not driving aggresively'.
It's not unusual to be traveling a major highway with all the cars doings 80 even though the speed limit is 60.
