How Do You Deal With Tailgaters?

[RB5]

Just finished 1800 miles mostly at night and big pickups were the only tailgaters and most had piercing headlights enhanced by lift kits.

If someone wants to pass it’s the sooner the better… always say to myself maybe a medical emergency?

The extremely bright headlights on many newer vehicles are a hazard in my book…

I read some OEM may actually be too bright.

Don't forget some now have auto dimming headlights that are supposed to dim when another car approaches. It's pretty dark where we live and I suspect that doesn't always work. Seems to me some of the city folks that move out here are used to having lights everywhere and think they need brights even when someone is coming towards them. It got much worse after everyone moved out here during COVID.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

That means when I get to the front of the line of cars, just as I always do. Pretty simple.

Exactly. I'm not going to move over and get behind people doing 50 over and over just so some rude and dangerous person who wants to do 90 instead of 85 can have his way.

 

[Torvy]

That means when I get to the front of the line of cars, just as I always do. Pretty simple.

If that is the case for me, I take the first gap. If no gaps and I'm not waiting on somone else to move their tail, I speed up to get to the front sooner.

Camping in the left lane is no more legal than speeding. People getting on their high horse need to realize they don't have the moral high ground and do the civil thing and move out of the way as soon as possible.

Either they have a reason to be going fast, or maybe their are a hot-head. Not worth the accident or worse because you thin you're the rule enforcer. (Generic you)

 

[Torvy]

Don't forget some now have auto dimming headlights that are supposed to dim when another car approaches. It's pretty dark where we live and I suspect that doesn't always work. Seems to me some of the city folks that move out here are used to having lights everywhere and think they need brights even when someone is coming towards them. It got much worse after everyone moved out here during COVID.

My auto-dimming lights have the opposite problem. They tend to dim when I drive past a homestead with a light on, or my headlights light up a reflector. They dim more quickly than I would manually.

I'm very rural now and grew up in an even more remote part of the country. I don't even like the yard lights many rural people put on their power poles.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

It's not about being a rule enforcer. it's about not having to weave in and out for hours to help immature people.

 

[Torvy]

It's not about being a rule enforcer. it's about not having to weave in and out for hours to help immature people.

If you're doing it over and over, it's a you problem. Either drive with the flow of traffic or choose a route better suited to your style. What you are doing is as dangerous as what they are doing.

 

[Renze]

Do smokestacks in the bed help?

My coworker had a red Dodge Cummins witg 6 inch stacks in the bed. I always call him Luigi, the Supermario plumber who keeps spare ducting in the bed

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Hmm, never seen anywhere that had two different speed limits, but also I have never been out there

Much of the Interstate Highway System in the West has truck speeds of 65 or 70-mph, and vehicle speeds of 75 or 80-mph.

 

[Renze]

It's not about being a rule enforcer. it's about not having to weave in and out for hours to help immature people.

Sorry, but saying this is a clear sign of immaturity.

If keeping up with modern traffic is too much for you, you're free to stay in the slow lane.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Folks, a safe driver is a courteous driver, and a courteous driver is a safe driver.

Skill sets you should have learned as a toddler, and kindergartener apply for the rest of your life.