Worst/best drivers by state

Zeldman said:
I don't have any problem with the roundabout, it's the landing that give me a little trouble....

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A local trash hauler did that in a 18-wheeler. They had snuck a roundabout into an intersection he was used to just barrel through. Ran his tractor into a kids bedroom.
 
Memphis has the most entertaining gray haired grannies who dwell in the mansions of the 240 race track. The grannies can be seen coming to a complete stop on every on ramp.....looking both ways and then creeping into traffic.......LOL.......worked a temp back there and every day on the way to the airport there were cars wrapped around trees in front yards from the night before......good times
 
Wish I had a dash cam/rear window cam. I’m backing into an empty parallel parking space. Hear horn blow. There is an ****ole in a Stingray that pulled front-first into the space... his rear end is still in the street. He’s not budging.... I cancel my parking there, and find spot a block away.

Overentitled jerk.

Not worth a road-rage incident.
 
RJM62 said:
Another money grab that proves that state governments place revenue above all else these days.

Rich
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That’s been the law in Virginia for at least 4 decades.
 
I always seem to get behind the people who stop adjacent to the "Keep Moving" sign where the DOT has conveniently provided a lane to use after they make a right turn onto an on-ramp or another street.

I'm not sure they will ever figure it out.
 
Maybe it’s because I grew up in the area, but I’d vote the NY metro area as best drivers. They’re predictable which isn’t true of drivers in many other parts of the country.

I hate driving in upstate NY. Those folks need to learn to merge. And learn not to drive slowly in the left lane.

Driving in CT you can be the fastest one on the road doing 75mph and then 20 minutes later heading the other direction be the slowest one on the road while still doing 75. My experience is that CT drivers while not the fastest probably drive higher over the speed-limit than any other drivers. It’s a weird.

I will say west Texas and the DFW part of Texas are both relaxing to drive in. It’s just easy driving.

The Midwest is generally fine. Though it can be aggravating when all 3 lanes of traffic are doing to same speed (below the speed limit).
 
kyleb said:
I always seem to get behind the people who stop adjacent to the "Keep Moving" sign where the DOT has conveniently provided a lane to use after they make a right turn onto an on-ramp or another street.

I'm not sure they will ever figure it out.
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they won’t. I got behind a guy last night and as he approached the roundabout, that didn’t have a soul around, he came to a complete stop for a few seconds. I laid my horn on for a few seconds before he decided to find the gas pedal once again. Amazing how stupid people are!
 
kyleb said:
I always seem to get behind the people who stop adjacent to the "Keep Moving" sign where the DOT has conveniently provided a lane to use after they make a right turn onto an on-ramp or another street.

I'm not sure they will ever figure it out.
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I've sort of thought freeway on-ramps should have the opposite of those speed reporting speed limit signs: "Your Speed: X" "Freeway Speed: Y" SPEED UP NOW with a blinking green light. But obviously it wouldn't make any difference.
 
Florida drivers are the worst, with the absolute worst being concentrated in Broward County.

MA/Boston drivers are actually pretty good, you just gotta pay attention and adapt to their ways.

jordane93 said:
Anyone in a BMW!
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Generally it is people NOT in the BMW's that are the worst.
 
skier said:
Maybe it’s because I grew up in the area, but I’d vote the NY metro area as best drivers. They’re predictable which isn’t true of drivers in many other parts of the country.

I hate driving in upstate NY. Those folks need to learn to merge. And learn not to drive slowly in the left lane.

Driving in CT you can be the fastest one on the road doing 75mph and then 20 minutes later heading the other direction be the slowest one on the road while still doing 75. My experience is that CT drivers while not the fastest probably drive higher over the speed-limit than any other drivers. It’s a weird.

I will say west Texas and the DFW part of Texas are both relaxing to drive in. It’s just easy driving.

The Midwest is generally fine. Though it can be aggravating when all 3 lanes of traffic are doing to same speed (below the speed limit).
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I rarely observe left-lane squatters here except on NY17 / I86 in Sullivan County, on US 6 between the PIP and NY17 / I86, on the PIP itself pretty much anywhere, and on secondary roads when people (usually tourists) are looking for something on the left. You get a lot of that on 28 between Hurley and Kingston during the tourist invasions.

Rich
 
asicer said:
Best: Hamburg

Oh wait, you meant American states?:)
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You clearly haven't met the taxi-driver-from-hell-in-Hamburg who cursed me ferociously. I was his paying passenger, and what I did that upset him so much was this: I asked to be driven to a hotel about two blocks from the airport, instead of schlepping a suitcase that far. He had waited in a queue for a couple of hours, and when his turn came up, he was of course hoping for a fare to downtown, and then came along an American wanting to ride two blocks. I've never been cursed so fiercely in my life.
 
NoHeat said:
You clearly haven't met the taxi-driver-from-hell-in-Hamburg who cursed me ferociously. I was his paying passenger, and what I did that upset him so much was this: I asked to be driven to a hotel about two blocks from the airport, instead of schlepping a suitcase that far. He had waited in a queue for a couple of hours, and when his turn came up, he was of course hoping for a fare to downtown, and then came along an American wanting to ride two blocks. I've never been cursed so fiercely in my life.
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I thought we were talking about driving ability, not customer service.
 
Groundpounder said:
Florida drivers are the worst, with the absolute worst being concentrated in Broward County.

MA/Boston drivers are actually pretty good, you just gotta pay attention and adapt to their ways.
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Sorry, I cannot adapt to stupid. I was walking down Commonwealth Ave last winter; two lanes of traffic each direction with the nice park down the center and no shoulders. Ambulance with siren on comes down the street. The car in the load cannot decide which lane to be in, so stops in between the two lanes. Traffic comes to a complete halt. It takes a good 30 seconds to a minute before the driver realizes that hey, I need to get the f*** out of the way.
I have seen this type of dumb behavior too many times to count since moving here. I used to believe Northern VA drivers were the worst in the USA. However, every friend/family member I have invited to Boston has changed their tune. N. VA is now second worst in the country, and by a large margin. No area has as many bad drivers as Boston. I just did not think it was possible to have such a density of bad drivers until I moved here.

Tim
 
Boston has the worst, by far no contest. In order to drive safely in Boston and get where you need to go you have the have the mindset that it’s ok to hit someone else with your car and I fact it is your goal. If you show weakness the will slaughter you. Have to be completely ok with mutually assured destruction. Drive like you rented it.
I Was in the middle “straight” lane, there was a Left turn only lane on my left and a right turn only lane on the right. It was really backed up. I watched this guy ride up the the right side of the line and as soon as light went green cut across the two lanes to turn left. Hilarious.
 
Sunday afternoon, the parking garage at JFKls terminal 4 combines the driving styles from Tell Aviv and Cairo. Boston, you got nothing .
 
RudyP said:
The Swiss government?
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Supposedly, yeah. Good gub’mint jobs, or more accurately, keeping a business alive or something. Heck if I know.

FORANE said:
Did someone mention graft and uninsured motorists?
https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/#uninsured_fee.asp
The Virginia Uninsured Motor Vehicle (UMV) fee allows a motor vehicle owner to register an uninsured motor vehicle. At the time of registration, the motor vehicle owner must certify whether the vehicle is insured or uninsured.

If the vehicle is uninsured, the motor vehicle owner is required to pay to DMV a $500 uninsured motor vehicle fee in addition to normal registration fees. Payment of the $500 fee does not provide the motorist with any insurance coverage. If involved in an accident, the uninsured motorist remains personally liable. This fee is valid for twelve months but may be prorated for a shorter amount of time.
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Seems like something you’d do expecting a lot of folks are self-insuring. But a big problem if not. Weird. I mean I’m kinda okay with “take your chances” but the problem is that would really drive up the uninsured thing.

Seems fine if you also say, make them sign that the vehicle is not being driven on public roads.

wsuffa said:
That’s been the law in Virginia for at least 4 decades.
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Seems bad for everyone but the person paying $500 who has no assets and no way to squeeze money out of them.

Also would be easier to pay a month and then cancel like many do around here — rather than pay the $500 if you’re really broke.

Or course for the states that have minimum liability requirements, they’re nowhere near high enough for the amount of monetary damages someone can do with a motor vehicle if they disable someone for life, so I guess if VA just wants to let them essentially walk, it’s about the same as here with tiny liability requirements.

After the lawyers are paid, you don’t get much out of a driver who bought the low end limit. Probably won’t even pay for your wheelchair van.

Heck allowing them to split that into different pools wasn’t appropriate in the first place. But people would screech if they knew what uninsured motorists cost them. It’s hidden because many opt out of the coverage with it split. They don’t know until they’re hit, they’re getting nothing whatsoever. Glad you paid all those premiums, those were for if YOU hit someone. You got hit by a broke person. Good luck collecting anything.
 
denverpilot said:
Supposedly, yeah. Good gub’mint jobs, or more accurately, keeping a business alive or something. Heck if I know.



Seems like something you’d do expecting a lot of folks are self-insuring. But a big problem if not. Weird. I mean I’m kinda okay with “take your chances” but the problem is that would really drive up the uninsured thing.

Seems fine if you also say, make them sign that the vehicle is not being driven on public roads.



Seems bad for everyone but the person paying $500 who has no assets and no way to squeeze money out of them.

Also would be easier to pay a month and then cancel like many do around here — rather than pay the $500 if you’re really broke.

Or course for the states that have minimum liability requirements, they’re nowhere near high enough for the amount of monetary damages someone can do with a motor vehicle if they disable someone for life, so I guess if VA just wants to let them essentially walk, it’s about the same as here with tiny liability requirements.

After the lawyers are paid, you don’t get much out of a driver who bought the low end limit. Probably won’t even pay for your wheelchair van.

Heck allowing them to split that into different pools wasn’t appropriate in the first place. But people would screech if they knew what uninsured motorists cost them. It’s hidden because many opt out of the coverage with it split. They don’t know until they’re hit, they’re getting nothing whatsoever. Glad you paid all those premiums, those were for if YOU hit someone. You got hit by a broke person. Good luck collecting anything.
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Yeah, just allowing someone to pay $500.00 without verifying that they actually have the assets to self-insure seems irresponsible and a money grab to me.

Last time I checked, New York required a bond from those who wanted to self-insure, but few individuals actually utilized that option even if they were able to. It was more for fleets, and even they tended to have insurance that would cover them for catastrophic damages. But they were technically self-insured as far as DMV was concerned.

New York is a "no-fault" state, but only requires Personal Injury Protection of $50,000 and Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist coverage of $25,000/$50,000. Fortunately, unless one has a truly horrid driving record, those coverages can be increased quite inexpensively; and one would be foolish not to when you consider the cost of medical care nowadays. Going from the state minimums to the maximums that USAA will write for PIP, Medical Payments, and UM costs me about $50.00 / six months. It's kind of a no-brainer.

Rich
 
With over a million miles under my belt in 49 states, I feel qualified to answer this questions, and the answer is not...

Mtns2Skies said:
Who have you found to be the best/worst?

Worst: Wisconsin,
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...that. No way.

the drivers are all slow, camp in the left lane AND are not courteous.
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That's everywhere.

Worst runner up: Tennessee... They do the "Tennessee pullout" no, not that type of pullout. They turn right without looking left.
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I almost turned a woman in Utah into mush because she did this in front of my truck. No, not a pickup, a semi. Luckily I had already checked the left lane a couple seconds before and knew it was safe to swerve into.

Best: Michigan, Everyone seemed to mesh and work well together, fast drivers, slow drivers it all worked out okay. Everyone was able to accommodate difference in driving styles and it kept traffic flowing without any butthurt.
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Meh... Michigan drivers are average, IMO, but they have some of the worst roads in the country because of all the overweight trucks supporting the auto industry.

Now, here's my answers... And there's different kinds of "worst":

Worst (dumb) drivers: California. Nobody seems to know or care about the rules, and they just randomly do whatever.

Worst (ahole) drivers: Illinois. Too many examples to list... My favorite was the guy who had a cell phone in his left hand, a pen in his right writing on a legal pad with a newspaper draped over the steering wheel. Or maybe the guy that decided it was necessary to speed past me in the left lane of 294, cut less than 5 feet in front of me across all 5 lanes to hit an exit at 3 AM when all of those other lanes were empty.

Worst (unpredictable) drivers: Texas. Most states are at least predictably idiots/jerks. In Texas, you'll see people just pull off an Interstate and drive through someone's field if they missed their exit. And lots of other weird tricks.

Best drivers: Montana. When you live on a ranch that's 78 miles from even the nearest gas station, you learn to be patient and plan out your life, so you don't need to be in such a damn hurry as the rest of the world.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Worst (ahole) drivers: Illinois. Too many examples to list... My favorite was the guy who had a cell phone in his left hand, a pen in his right writing on a legal pad with a newspaper draped over the steering wheel.
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I can beat that. I thought the guy was an idiot, but maybe he could have been an ahole.

He was driving a minivan with handicap plates. The window on the driver's side was down. He had his left foot/leg out the window. His left hand was holding a ciggie out the window. In his right hand? A cell phone, up to his ear.

So, he was manipulating all of the controls of his minivan with his right leg. Amazing(ly stupid).
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Best drivers: Montana. When you live on a ranch that's 78 miles from even the nearest gas station, you learn to be patient and plan out your life, so you don't need to be in such a damn hurry as the rest of the world.
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I wondered when you were going to weigh in. LOL.

That rural thing is true. Once we did that I could care less about all the lame lane weavers in the rat colony. LOL.

I just drive the limit and listen to music or a podcast and laugh and wave when the lane weaver is beside me at the next stop light. Haha. Smile and wave.
 
When I arrived in New Jersey I immediately wondered how the hell those people got a driver license.

After being involved in a five car pileup because a drunk decided to come to a complete stop while entering the expressway, I sat through enough court sessions to learn that most of them had no license at all...

That poor judge needed three different translators to explain how the law works to illiterates from every U.S. state and South American country...
 
The Good: In general, I don't have any problem with drivers in the Plains States. We have wide open spaces, and a lot of ground to cover, so everybody is pretty good about keeping things moving, and although you will find left lane campers, they will usually get over if you get up close. I very rarely need to disengage the cruise in middle-America. In this part of the world, acceleration will get you out of a pickle more than the brakes. (OK, TX, KS, etc.)

The Bad: Arkansans drive slowwwww, and accelerate from stop signs and lights at a snails pace. To be fair, there are only two straight-ish roads in the state, and the speed limit is 55 almost everywhere, so they aren't used to moving very fast.

I will agree with whomever said Tennessee drivers suck. I've driven I-40 coast to coast, and the Tennessee stretch makes me want to commit murders.

I drove for the first time in Wisconsin this summer. Patience is most definitely required.
 
OkieFlyer said:
I will agree with whomever said Tennessee drivers suck. I've driven I-40 coast to coast, and the Tennessee stretch makes me want to commit murders.
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Hee hee! That brings back some memories! :D

I have driven every inch of Interstate 10 from Jacksonville to the Santa Monica tunnel and was fully prepared to ram any vehicle after that near-death experience!:incazzato:
 
What I am seeing here is.... anyone that drives faster than me is an idiot and anyone that drives slower than me is an a hole....:lol::lol:
 
IK04 said:
When I arrived in New Jersey I immediately wondered how the hell those people got a driver license.

After being involved in a five car pileup because a drunk decided to come to a complete stop while entering the expressway, I sat through enough court sessions to learn that most of them had no license at all...

That poor judge needed three different translators to explain how the law works to illiterates from every U.S. state and South American country...
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IBTL! LOL.

Already got someone here butthurt enough mentioning the underlying reasons for that in my local area, to lock one thread... Hahahaha.

I haven’t found an insurance company that’ll sell uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage without collision. I just want high liability limits on the beater for me AND them, I don’t want the car fixed or a check for it. It’s only worth $2000.

But you can’t get it. I’d like it in case one of them permanently disables someone in the family since squeezing blood from a turnip isn’t going to happen. Sigh.
 
Here in my part of the country, we have 'passive-aggresive' drivers. This is the natural state of a 'Seattle-socks-n-sandals-socialist' behind the wheel. You can spot them a mile away in their Subaru outbacks and Toyota Prii (plural for Prius, according to Google) with Bernie and rainbow stickers plastered on the rear bumbers. These are the folks that gang up on unsuspecting commuters to form the 'self-appointed-rolling-roadblock'.

They have several other key tactics to keep the heretics (like me) subdued. They include:

-The 'Schlump': a sudden lane change in front of an overtaking car, blocking said car behind traffic; often use in the initial formation of a self-appointed-rolling-roadblock

-The '3-lane Leap': This is a merge into traffic at warp speed from the on-ramp to the fast lane, whereupon the "leaper" blocks the heretic who "almost" managed to get
around the tandem log truck and a Chrysler minivan with a distracted mom and her 5 kids, struggling up the hill.

-The 'conga-line': This is the constant speeding-up and slowing-down while in road-block formation to ensure that a heretic's gas mileage is at its worst, thus proving
that non-believers drive gas gusslers.

-The 'Pass-me/Pass-you: Used when a heretic finally manages to safely overtake. The believer accelerates to warp speed to re-pass the heretic, then slows down. This
is repeated as many times as necessary.

If you're up in this neck of the woods, bring plenty of patience and try to avoid 'passive-aggresive' drivers. Non-passive-agressive forms of road-rage are frowned upon in this state. Who knew?
 
wilkersk said:
Here in my part of the country, we have 'passive-aggresive' drivers. This is the natural state of a 'Seattle-socks-n-sandals-socialist' behind the wheel. You can spot them a mile away in their Subaru outbacks and Toyota Prii (plural for Prius, according to Google) with Bernie and rainbow stickers plastered on the rear bumbers. These are the folks that gang up on unsuspecting commuters to form the 'self-appointed-rolling-roadblock'.

They have several other key tactics to keep the heretics (like me) subdued. They include:

-The 'Schlump': a sudden lane change in front of an overtaking car, blocking said car behind traffic; often use in the initial formation of a self-appointed-rolling-roadblock

-The '3-lane Leap': This is a merge into traffic at warp speed from the on-ramp to the fast lane, whereupon the "leaper" blocks the heretic who "almost" managed to get
around the tandem log truck and a Chrysler minivan with a distracted mom and her 5 kids, struggling up the hill.

-The 'conga-line': This is the constant speeding-up and slowing-down while in road-block formation to ensure that a heretic's gas mileage is at its worst, thus proving
that non-believers drive gas gusslers.

-The 'Pass-me/Pass-you: Used when a heretic finally manages to safely overtake. The believer accelerates to warp speed to re-pass the heretic, then slows down. This
is repeated as many times as necessary.

If you're up in this neck of the woods, bring plenty of patience and try to avoid 'passive-aggresive' drivers. Non-passive-agressive forms of road-rage are frowned upon in this state. Who knew?
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Had similar happen when driving the Vette. 3 lanes of traffic, rolling road block. The thing is, Prii don't accelerate very fast, and they didn't expect me to drop it into third, merge into the entrance ramp lane, pass them in the on ramp lane, take it into triple digits, merge back in, and keep the hammer down for about a mile so they wouldn't be able to catch me an pass me. I then went back to my normal cruising speed and continued happily on my way. The other place to pass is when you have an exit to another highway that feeds two exit ramps (one a simple merge, and one a clover leaf) and then joins back up with the highway about a mile down the road. Have used this a number of times to pass a few cars, and once during a construction project where I easily passed probably 500 cars because no one can figure out how to merge. I have also illegally used the shoulder to make a quick pass - full lane width shoulder.
 
EdFred said:
The thing is, Prii don't accelerate very fast, and they didn't expect me to drop it into third, merge into the entrance ramp lane, pass them in the on ramp lane, take it into triple digits, merge back in, and keep the hammer down for about a mile so they wouldn't be able to catch me an pass me.
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I've used entrance ramps as passing lanes many times over the years on the bike, it has the power to quickly get by and back into traffic. I'm sure officer Friendly would not be amused, though.
 
OK, based on my experiences over the past 50 years of driving...

Boston is easy. One hand on the wheel, one hand on the horn and one foot on the gas. Don't look when you are going to change lanes because if the other driver sees you look they know you know they're there and they'll cut you off. Lots of bashed fenders in Boston. Oh, and as probably the only 16 year old with a driver's license in Massachusetts back then (Spring 1968, the driving age in MA was 17, but I had a license from the state of Washington and they had to honor it), faking out taxis at intersections was easy. Cadillacs were a whole different ballgame. I got 2 in 5 months, and I was driving a tank, AKA Olds Vista Cruiser wagon. :D

I always wondered why Boston drivers were so bad and then one day back in 1992 while driving in Italy it came to me. They have lots of Italians in Boston. It must be hereditary. It you want a mess, drive in Rome (Italy). They only bothered to paint the lane lines at intersections. And even then they are widely ignored. Traffic lights? Advisory, only. Being a pedestrian in Rome is an experience. Unlike Hanoi, where if you know what you are doing crossing a busy street is easy. Just go. Keep a steady pace and the motorcycles will simply go around you. If you don't keep a steady pace they can't judge where you will be and you might get hit.

Silicon Valley. Look out for the Volvos with the Baby Inside signs. Driven by Silicon Valley Soccer Moms. Unpredictable as all get out. Just give them room, you have no idea what they'll do next.

Portland, Oregon. Just assume they're all Silicon Valley Soccer Moms. Yes, really.

Denver (and area) Colorado. When we lived there in the early 1980s I nearly rear ended more idiots while getting on the freeway. I'm looking over my shoulder for the hole I'm going to merge into with my foot buried in the gas and the local (I moved to there from California) has STOPPED at the end of the on-ramp looking for that same hole. He can go 0-60 instantaneously? Really? It's amazing that in the 4 years I lived there I never hit anyone.

All this and the one place I've ridden in a taxi and feared for my life was in Shanghai. Those drivers are crazy. And I have a week of meetings there next month. Barcelona (where I am right now) is quite civilized (from a pedestrian point of view). Even the taxi from the airport to our hotel was easy to ride.

Californians in general are fast, but competent. The incompetent get weeded out fairly quickly. And the CHP is far more professional than the WSP. I've dealt with the CHP over the decades in capacities ranging from motorist in distress to getting a speeding ticket (1980, haven't had one since) and they uniformly came across as courteous and professional. The WSP (Washington State Patrol) on the other hand must have a class at the academy on having a God Complex (or that's all they hire). Every one I've dealt with over the decades (from an assembly in high school, to needing them to investigate an accident where I got rear ended on the way to work, to getting a ticket years ago) has come across as God's gift to the motoring public. I haven't met one of their pilots personally yet, but at least on the radio they come across as professional, but the ones on the road? A pox on them all.

No real problems driving anywhere else in the country. Just major metropolitan areas. A word of advise when driving the Autobahn in Germany. Stay out of the left lane. Whatever you are driving, it isn't fast enough. It's amazing how fast those headlights a couple miles behind you become the grill of a very angry Mercedes Benz. Oh, and never pass on the right. It apparently is illegal. And the driver ahead of you in your lane will quickly move over to the right so you can pass. They are FAST in Germany, but they know what they are doing.
 
Ghery said:
Denver (and area) Colorado. When we lived there in the early 1980s I nearly rear ended more idiots while getting on the freeway. I'm looking over my shoulder for the hole I'm going to merge into with my foot buried in the gas and the local (I moved to there from California) has STOPPED at the end of the on-ramp looking for that same hole. He can go 0-60 instantaneously? Really? It's amazing that in the 4 years I lived there I never hit anyone.
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Can confirm. Still a problem. And I hate those mother-f***ers and have seen it my entire life here.

Colorado drivers do not know how to merge, and 3.5M more people here with the exact same roads and infrastructure as before they got here, hasn’t made this any better.

I DGAF anymore, I lay on my horn like a New Yorker when someone starts looking like they’re about to stop and they have a damn merge lane for a quarter mile right in front of them. I’ll scare their ass into putting the damn foot back on the accelerator.

Unrelated but I wish I could describe it without a drawing, but I’ll try. There’s a place where I-70 goes from 55 to 65 to 75 as your leaving the city to the east. Drivers are apparently hard pressed to read these very large and very standard interstate signs for whatever reason.

So at each speed change there’s always a mess of drivers doing the limit or trying to in the right lane, an even bigger mess of drivers who didn’t just speed up in the left lane and are now trapped at some speed they’re scared of, and everyone behind them guessing as to which lanes will open up first for safe, but ridiculous passing on both the left and right.... yeah... just to drive the speed limit or whatever who already either know the road or actually watch the signs.

Both of these happen within about a mile of each other, so it starts to get straightened out and then gets mangled again.

The other day coming home and knowing all of this, I see a pile of cars in both lanes all crowded around a semi that clearly had a 55 MPH governor on it. And two cars back from the semi, a State Trooper.

So now we have a massive rolling confused jam that started at the 55 to 65 jump and besides the normal mess, a third of the cars don’t want to pass a Trooper. Trooper is stuck behind the semi, and The whole thing has clearly been getting worse for two miles.

Trooper pulls an awesome move. He waits for the tiniest gap to swerve in front of the morons in the left lane and just got the timing perfect to have two CSR lengths to FLY up behind the idiot pacing the semi’s left front bumper in the left lane. This scares that guy so much he darts in front of the semi, who saw the whole thing coming in his mirrors and the Trooper come flying up, so he knew what was going to happen.

Trooper proceeds to scream up behind every car in the left lane until he cleared it, no lights, just the total paranoia of seeing a trooper on your bumper, and it was like someone had taken a plunger to the turd.

Everything and everyone sped up to whatever they wanted, and got in proper lanes and signaled and did everything perfect for a quarter mile or so, and the poor trucker with the 55 MPH governor was left in peace rolling along without a fifteen car jam pacing him in both lanes.

I just pushed the cruise up to 75 and passed the truck and the cars who didn’t want to do the limit yet and then back into the right lane. Hahaha.

Trooper was about two miles up. He had no desire to be the rolling roadblock or in a 15 car pileup of idiots who couldn’t pass him or a slow truck.

I’d thank him if I knew who he was. Nice job Trooper! I’ve seen the other type who’ll just sit there behind the truck and wait five miles for anybody to slowly pass them. Argh.
 
denverpilot said:
Trooper proceeds to scream up behind every car in the left lane until he cleared it, no lights, just the total paranoia of seeing a trooper on your bumper, and it was like someone had taken a plunger to the turd.
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In some ways, one of the most fun cars I've owned was 2002 a Crown Vic. Move fast up the left lane and that car parted traffic like Moses parting the Red Sea. Because everyone knows, civilian Vics were always owned by old folks who toddled along. Any fast moving Vic had to be a cop, right?
 
So, I think we've established that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a moron.
 
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