Another Chicago area driver here. Yesterday on the way to work on the Kennedy somebody in a small SUV was passing people by driving down the left shoulder at 50+ mph. I watched them go for over a mile or so that way and then lost track of them. No it didn't seem like a cop SUV either. That behavior is pretty normal for motorcycles in good weather, not cars/SUVs/trucks.
Going 10 over the limit is not fast enough to justify sitting in the passing lane.
Of course, I'm not sure if OP was in the passing lane as he did not say, but if he wasn't I assume the other driver would have simply passed him rather than tailgate.
Except that they can't... which is probably why the first vehicles you'll see in a ditch when the white stuff starts falling is usually a 4x4.
I'm starting to see more and more of these types of drivers.
I was driving home from work on US 19 here one day and a biker was actually going up the middle of traffic that was stopped, and rolled up on a County Sheriff that was right in front of me stopped.Ignorant idiots, gotta love em. I saw something similar this morning on the Kennedy too. It was a shitty little Maxima with a busted windshield. Dumbass was flying down the shoulder. Then, the greatest of all things happened.... a marked CPD squad coming down the on ramp saw him and nailed his ass.
If I wasn't in my work truck with manual windows, I would've rolled them down to point and laugh at that idiot.
or does it seem like every asshole with a full size pickup truck thinks its the fucking Daytona 500.
this goes double if said truck happens to be a diesel or happens to be some sort of work truck.
it happens all of the time. If I am doing 10 over then they are riding my ass trying to do 20.
There is this landscaping truck with a trailer full of shit that passes me every day on my morning commute. the other day I decided to keep pace with him. He was going 90+ trailer and all. Rakes shovels buckets mowers and all sorts of shit just waiting to come flying off at mach speed!
seriously what the hell is it with people driving full size trucks? particularly diesel owners and construction workers?
Yield to faster traffic, not that hard. I don't drive a truck but if I'm driving 80 on the the freeway and see someone coming fast behind me, I change lanes as soon as possible. I don't understand why people think they need to police everyone on the road.
Working roadside today and traffic wouldn't slow down for construction area for nothing of course. We yelled and motion for someone in a truck to slow down as he was way beyond the speed limit and in closest lane towards us and had the nerve to turn around and come back to say something asking who flipped him off. Like what the heck was he gonna do about it against 6 large construction guys anyway lol.
Its funny how mad some people get at the response from others because of their own lack of common sense. Slow down or get in the other lane, construction on side of road is dangerous enough regardless of how bad ass driver you think you are.
Probably because everyone is not you and they don't care how fast someone else wants to go beyond the legal passing limit. Driving is a privilege, the least any driver could do is show some respect for the safety of others. Maybe slowing someone down a bit may save someone's life further down the road. Even outside of driving, police can't do it all, that's why they always appreciate help from citizens.
Going 10 over the limit is not fast enough to justify sitting in the passing lane.
Of course, I'm not sure if OP was in the passing lane as he did not say, but if he wasn't I assume the other driver would have simply passed him rather than tailgate.
Yield to faster traffic, not that hard. I don't drive a truck but if I'm driving 80 on the the freeway and see someone coming fast behind me, I change lanes as soon as possible. I don't understand why people think they need to police everyone on the road.
Going 10 over the limit is not fast enough to justify sitting in the passing lane.
Of course, I'm not sure if OP was in the passing lane as he did not say, but if he wasn't I assume the other driver would have simply passed him rather than tailgate.
Except that they can't... which is probably why the first vehicles you'll see in a ditch when the white stuff starts falling is usually a 4x4.
I half a half ton and I actually drive much slower in it than I do in my other car.
And you create a safety problem by you thinking you can force them to stay behind you.
The real assholes are the ones driving under the speed limit in the left lane.
Sense of speed sitting up higher in a truck is different. Feels like you are going slower. I'm guilty of this on occasion, but I've seen plenty of sedans do it as well.