"Use Both Lanes Until Merge Point"

fj12ryder wrote:

TurnThePage wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
When people have opportunities to move over and they don’t and speed past to the end THAT is the problem. When I pulled in like most have and are in the thru lane we are bumper to bumper near the end. Why should I hit my brakes to let someone in that clearly does not think they should wait like everyone else???

You are bumper to bumper backed up potentially for miles, blocking offramps behind you. All while a perfectly open lane is sitting there empty.

If it's bumper to bumper, where, exactly, are all those people going to go in that "open lane"? It ends up ahead and the other lane is bumper to bumper, i.e. no place for those people to go once they reach the end. That's why you're merging in the first place.

I've seen it (very recently) where people were trying to merge in the stopped lane, thus backing up the lane they're in, when there's literally over a mile of open lane ahead of them. When people are "zipping" by, I think they're usually going 20 - 25 mph in an open lane. A lane that could have been occupied by people in the backed up lane. In heavier traffic both lanes will be backed up. That's how it is. Don't make it worse by lining up miles before the merge, then forcing your perceived slight on others. This really shouldn't even be an RV issue, but last time it happened to me, a AW used his fiver to block both lanes about a half mile before the merge. LAME.