Driving tip

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Lucky me, I get to go over accident reports all day.  There is one scenario that has come up twice and is totally avoidable.  This is where your driving "tip of the week" comes from.

3 lane hwy.

Right lane is the "exiting and entering traffic" lane

Middle lane is the TRAVEL lane

Left lane is the PASSING lane.

Do not "travel" in the right or left lane unless you apply to their names!!

i.e.- Driving in the right lane is NOT the "safest" place to be as many seem to think.  It is NOT the "slower traffic" lane.

-and as always, If the wheels are moving, the belt is on.  

[FishingBuds]

Donations need to be made for a 18 foot public sign with your post smack dab in the middle 8-)

The right lane kills me to see how others react in it.

Lets ask something here LBH-do you approach the on ramp into traffic at the same legal speed of the highway or do you yield to enter. I have a habit of trying to keep speed with the moving traffic, my Pops has always said I should be yielding to enter :-?

[Siebert Outdoors]

THANK YOU LBH

Slow traffic, please stay out of the far left lane.

In Missouri it is illegal to drive in the far left lane slow and impeed the flow of traffic.

This is a subject that gets me aggrivated very quick.

[Tin]

I used to never have to drive in rush hour but now I do and I have noticed some weird things now that I do. For example the speed limit is 55. Everyone in the left and right lanes does 70 and the people in the middle do 40-50. Then when one of the people tries to take an exit or entry they get rear ended and this is how most of the accidents seem to happen. Its a little crazy and the cops should do something about people driving too slow and too fast.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Lets ask something here LBH-do you approach the on ramp into traffic at the same legal speed of the highway or do you yield to enter.

If there is no yield sign (there are a few on ramps in RI with them) then you do not yield.  You should be building speed to easily enter the flow of traffic.

[Troutfisher]

We were driving home last night, and there was a four lane road, two lanes going one way and two going the other.  Well, what do you know, two older drivers pull onto the road and go the WRONG way into oncoming traffic.  Thank God nothing was coming or they would have been history.  Well, we keep blowing our horn and flashing our lights to try and get them to go over, and they ALMOST go onto the wrong way onto the interstate.    We finally got their attention and got them to pull over.  They got their bearings and got in the right lane.

[=Matt 5.0=]

Remember, following distance 30 mph and slower = 3-6 seconds. 30mph and faster = 6-8 seconds.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Good boy

[tyrius.]

Remember, following distance 30 mph and slower = 3-6 seconds. 30mph and faster = 6-8 seconds.

Shouldn't those seconds be changed to feet?   ;D

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

no, he is referring to the "space cushion" between the 2 vehicles.

The way it is taught is that you mark when the vehicle in front of you passes an object on the side of the road (hydrant, for example).  If you are going less than 30 mph, you want to have a count of 3-6 seconds before you pass the same object.  This creates your "space cushion"

[CGH]

That all good and dandy if people would travel in the appropriate lanes, it don't matter what lane you are in sooner or later some goof ball on a cell or someone with 10 people in a car built for 4 is gonna cause you trouble!

[Tin]

Posted by: Low_Budget_Hookers Posted on: Today at 10:29pm

no, he is referring to the "space cushion" between the 2 vehicles.

You mean a brush guard?  

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

I will be going back to "on road" training, giving safety rides, in January.   I got some tricks up my sleeve this time.  Gonna make 'em think!

[KYbass1276]

Your post has brougt back a memory to me.  I used to work at a fire dept and we had this one ambulance that was set up for city driveing it was governed at 60mph which in the city thats plenty because your not going to be doing or shouldn't be doing 60mph in city driveing with all the lights and intercections.  It had power for the slowing down for a intercection and then speeding backup when through.   But were we was, was a mix of city and rural district.  In the city it was fine but the quickest way to the hospital was the expressway from just about any point in our area.  The hospitals was 15 to 20 miles away depending on which one you needed.  Any way I used to hate getting on the expressway with that thing at a max speed of 60mph and the speed limit 65mph and everyone on the expressway doing 70 plus it was like riding a moped.   I can remember hating to have to turn the lights and sirens on because hell no one was in my way they just passed us and looked at us funny.  I mean you now its sad when a school bus passes you and kids are waving at you, oh I used to hate it.  But fortunitly that unit was turned into a back up unit and not used very much just for that reason and eventually got sold and we got a new one that would suit our needs better.   It's not that we needed to go 100mph but 70 to 75 mph is enough speed to get the job done and it just wouldn't do it.   Anyway I know it's of topic but just wanted to share a memory this thread brought back

[Jake P]

Donations need to be made for a 18 foot public sign with your post smack dab in the middle 8-)

The right lane kills me to see how others react in it.

Lets ask something here LBH-do you approach the on ramp into traffic at the same legal speed of the highway or do you yield to enter. I have a habit of trying to keep speed with the moving traffic, my Pops has always said I should be yielding to enter :-?

lol i do the same thing. Sometimes il speed up on the ramp and look and try and find a spot where i can slide in without having to yield, i know its probly not the safest thing to do though so i dont do it as much as i used to.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

That's how you are supposed to do it

If there is NO yield sign, DON'T YIELD

[Guest avid]

I always thought,

right lane.................granny's

middle lane..............got no sense of adventure

left lane...................speed limit and common sense do not apply.

I find myself in the middle lane alot these days.  

[Hookemdown.]

Posted by: Low_Budget_Hookers Posted on: Today at 10:29pm

no, he is referring to the "space cushion" between the 2 vehicles.

You mean a brush guard?  

"Bump Drafting"

[tyrius.]

no, he is referring to the "space cushion" between the 2 vehicles.

Exactly, on the Chicago "expressways" anything more than 6 feet means someone is sliding in front of you, but then when you're only going about 10 miles an hour 6 feet is a pretty good cushion.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

At UPS, there are maybe 30-40 things that are continually pounded into the drivers.  Matt's answer was one of them  It refers to 3-6 "seconds of travel"