We live in the center of Oregon where we have to travel two lane US highways and the nearest Interstate is 140 miles away .
Interstates have more straights than 2 lane US highways .
This is further complicated because we have to climb over the mighty Cascade Mountain Range to get to the population centers which are along Interstate 5 .
The most frequent problem is that 15 % of the people that live along Interstate 5 automatically slow down when they get onto the two lane US Highways such as US 26 , US 22 , US 20 and US 97 .
Those folks impede the progress of the Central Oregon residents by travelling under the 55 mph basic speed in Oregon .
The problem is that the folks that crash are not the folks impeding the flow of traffic .
Instead , the folks that crash are those that have to pass those impedants on the 2 lane highways that we have .
Life is not fair .
The impedants take the high road in their argument , saying the other guy was going too fast .
The other guy was content going 60-62 which is the normal speed on US Highways in Oregon .
The other guy only had to go 75+ in order to pass the impedants .
The wrong guy crashes because the impedant chose to be the lowest common denominator driving our 2 lane highways .
A slow moving vehicle sign will not help .
Pulling over when a line forms behind you will .
That actually will happen on occasion .
It is refreshing when it does .