While driving home from Baltimore today, I was as usual doing about 75 in the middle lane... Generally I don't do much over that as my truck really isn't intended for that kind of performance... Usually I actually keep it around 70, but all conditions were excellent, so 75 was fine... At 75 on the I-95 corridor you are usually keeping with the bulk of traffic. You pass some folks in the right lanes, and the insane speeders go blowing by on the left... Well someone clearly didn't read my previous post... They came screaming up behind me some place in Maryland, and didn't disappear until I got off on I-295 in Delaware... During the ensuing time, I couldn't see their hood over my tailgate... I can't even tell you what make the car was as I could see so little of it... Clearly they must have been drafting... Hell, if they had asked nicely, I could have towed them, and we both would have had a more pleasant trip...
Usually someone will do that, get frustrated, and go zooming around in the left lane after a short period... That's what the left lane is there for... Other people in the front might get intimidated and more right, but that wasn't happening... If I had been holding up traffic, I'd move, but traffic was light, and the left lane was pretty open...
I was good, I never once tapped my brakes... I wasn't a saint, I did flip on my lights so the tail lights came on, and watched the guy nosedive a bit... Amazingly, he was right on my bumper again in a few minutes...
I was happy when I hit 295... While I wasn't moving right for the asshole, I didn't really enjoy the drive with him basically in my back seat...
I think I need some of those James Bond gizmos like oil slick, or smoke screen, just to make my drive more enjoyable... Though I would have liked to find a chunk of truck re-tread to run over and kick up, I sadly seemed to be on a very clean stretch of highway today... Just my luck...