How Do You Deal With Tailgaters?

[MossRoad]

What really annoys me, running 66, maybe 68 in a 65 mph, divided road, you passing some people, you're in the left lane, but the right lane has lots of 60-65 mph folks. Guy gets right up on your butt for a few minutes, and you get around the right lane, and move over, all in crusie control running a consistent 68 mph. The guy goes past you, moves right, and starts running slower than you where in left lane. Just trying to hop right to the front, and actually reduce speed.... No logical reason. If you wanted to run 72 or 75, fine, keep on that that speed, in whichever lane you want, but dont run 72, up on the guys butt, then when clear run 64

Yes, that's annoying as heck. Happens quite a bit in our travels.

 

[Jstpssng]

In those cases, I often speed up to pass quicker and get over. If I am running the cruise control, it just reverts to my set speed when i let off the gas. I try to keep things flowing the best I can within reason

So do I. There's nothing worse than somebody driving 1.5 mph faster than I am, taking miles to go by me.

To say nothing about getting run over by that guy who's in even more of a hurry.

 

[MossRoad]

We get this situation quite a bit in our travels.....

You set the cruise and off you go. Eventually you come up on another car. Common sense says you're probably going faster than that car, since you caught up to it, eh? So you pull out to pass it, and right when your right rear fender gets by their front left fender you somehow, magically, are going exactly the same speed. They'll sit next to you like that for a bit, then they'll either accelerate and pass you on the right, or all of a sudden quickly drop back....

Usually, if they sit there for more than 10 seconds, I'll just hit the gas, get ahead of them, signal and pull in then let off the gas to resume cruise. Most times that just ends it, but maybe 1 in 10 will then pull out and pass us and take off down the road. And almost to a T, we'll catch up to them again within 10 minutes.