needtono wrote: Thanks for all the input. At least I don't feel all alone. I started staying in the right lane, because (as many have said) it's hard to get back into the right lane if you use the left lane to let them on. And to the professional truck drivers (GOD bless them) I say thank you. Gypsy truckers think they own the road and purposely harass us. I have never encountered such heavy traffic were I couldn't get in the left lane to allow oncoming traffic. People just don't give you a break and a turn signal is ignored. Two lanes of bumper to bumper traffic is not very common on a Sunday afternoon. Maybe the people who drive 322/22 in the Harrisburg area are more familiar with this than I. Now, lets hear some more pet peeves on driving an RV. Oh! and do air horns really help?
I hope they do cause I'm buying the biggest baddest ones I can find.
About the BIGGEST pet peeve that I have is comes after you have to move to the center or left hand lane for traffic. Here I am running with my turn signal on trying to move to the right and what do these idiots behind me do? They rush and try to pass me on the right and then cut right back in front of me. I have had a clear lane to the right and just as I begin to make my move here they come!!
I remember way back when while learning to drive in the Northern New Jersey area, My father used to say never use your turn signal as it gives them time to plot against you. This was about the only way to deal with the drag race that happened every time when leaving the Toll Booth and heading into one of the Tunnels into N.Y.C. LOL
There have been many times lately where I have just sat back and thought oh well I am heavily insured for a reason.
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Jayco-noslide wrote: This is one of my pet peaves. The driver on the on ramp is legally required to yield and it is his responsibility to merge with and yield to traffic and you are not required to pull into the left lane or slow down to "let him in". However, the reality is that the merging driver often just merges anyway no matter what so to protect myself I assume that he may not yield to me and I try to avoid the situation by moving over or slowing down.
It is just the opposite here in California. Traffic must yield and the driver merging onto the freeway/highway has the right of way.
In other words - you better make room for entering traffic.
I might not always like it but even as a driver in my passenger car; I have always thought this is the way is should be.
The driver merging onto the freeway usually doesn't have an option, however, with an additional lane or two available to me - I usually have an option.
Jayco-noslide wrote: This is one of my pet peaves. The driver on the on ramp is legally required to yield and it is his responsibility to merge with and yield to traffic and you are not required to pull into the left lane or slow down to "let him in". However, the reality is that the merging driver often just merges anyway no matter what so to protect myself I assume that he may not yield to me and I try to avoid the situation by moving over or slowing down.
It is just the opposite here in California. Traffic must yield and the driver merging onto the freeway/highway has the right of way.
In other words - you better make room for entering traffic.
I might not always like it but even as a driver in my passenger car; I have always thought this is the way is should be.
The driver merging onto the freeway usually doesn't have an option, however, with an additional lane or two available to me - I usually have an option.
I just returned from 9 days on the road, and this is what I thought as well. I thought we had to yield to those coming off the ramp and onto the interstate. Do states have different rules on this? I'm glad I happened upon this thread, as I was flipped the bird by a Corvette driver because I moved over in front of him to allow a car onto the lane from the ramp. I was blasted with a horn, too, in GA because I didn't move over...but I couldn't. There just wasn't room. I had to decide whether it was best to speed up or slow down in order to let him in.
Also, what do you all do when you have an exit to take that sits very close to an on-ramp with a line of cars merging into your lane? I needed to get over for my exit, but I also needed to on-coming traffice merge in. I was in Nashville, and came very close to missing my exit because they were flying down that ramp and wouldn't let me in. Suggestions?
Jayco-noslide wrote: This is one of my pet peaves. The driver on the on ramp is legally required to yield and it is his responsibility to merge with and yield to traffic and you are not required to pull into the left lane or slow down to "let him in". However, the reality is that the merging driver often just merges anyway no matter what so to protect myself I assume that he may not yield to me and I try to avoid the situation by moving over or slowing down.
It is just the opposite here in California. Traffic must yield and the driver merging onto the freeway/highway has the right of way.
In other words - you better make room for entering traffic.
I might not always like it but even as a driver in my passenger car; I have always thought this is the way is should be.
The driver merging onto the freeway usually doesn't have an option, however, with an additional lane or two available to me - I usually have an option.
Saugus, you are wrong. I couldn't believe your post, so just went to the California DMV drivers handbook at:
http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/dl600.pdf
And on page 53 it says on the topic of "Merging in and out of Traffic".
"Freeway traffic has the right-of-way."
I don't believe that there is any state in the US that is counter to this.
Jayco-noslide wrote: This is one of my pet peaves. The driver on the on ramp is legally required to yield and it is his responsibility to merge with and yield to traffic and you are not required to pull into the left lane or slow down to "let him in". However, the reality is that the merging driver often just merges anyway no matter what so to protect myself I assume that he may not yield to me and I try to avoid the situation by moving over or slowing down.
It is just the opposite here in California. Traffic must yield and the driver merging onto the freeway/highway has the right of way.
In other words - you better make room for entering traffic.
I might not always like it but even as a driver in my passenger car; I have always thought this is the way is should be.
The driver merging onto the freeway usually doesn't have an option, however, with an additional lane or two available to me - I usually have an option.
Saugus, you are wrong. I couldn't believe your post, so just went to the California DMV drivers handbook at:
http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/dl600.pdf
And on page 53 it says on the topic of "Merging in and out of Traffic".
"Freeway traffic has the right-of-way."
I don't believe that there is any state in the US that is counter to this.
Larry
X2! That would be insanity if the traffic at highway speed had to yield to traffic coming on from a ramp.
Jayco-noslide wrote: I was in Nashville, and came very close to missing my exit because they were flying down that ramp and wouldn't let me in. Suggestions?
I've had this happen. There seems to be a lot of those types of onramp/offramps on 95, which I travel on frequently. I usually just put my right turn signal on plenty early and ride the stripes on the right side. The combination of riding way right (staying in my lane of course) and the blinker on the trailer, truck and right side mirror usually makes folks slow down or speed up and let me in...but sometimes you have to do the juke/fake move to get some space. Failing all of that, I just go up to the next offramp. My wife and I have actually found some pretty neat places by taking the next offramp.
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Jayco-noslide wrote: I was in Nashville, and came very close to missing my exit because they were flying down that ramp and wouldn't let me in. Suggestions?
I've had this happen. There seems to be a lot of those types of onramp/offramps on 95, which I travel on frequently. I usually just put my right turn signal on plenty early and ride the stripes on the right side. The combination of riding way right (staying in my lane of course) and the blinker on the trailer, truck and right side mirror usually makes folks slow down or speed up and let me in...but sometimes you have to do the juke/fake move to get some space. Failing all of that, I just go up to the next offramp. My wife and I have actually found some pretty neat places by taking the next offramp.
Ditto on both counts. Ride the edge of the lane with the line of lights down the side of the truck and trailer blinking, give a little waggle of the trailer to make your intention known and see if the law of tonnage holds against the little rice rocket trying to get by you. If you just can't get over, don't let it frazzle you, and absolutely don't stand on the brakes in an attempt to make it happen. Cancel the signal and continue up to the next exit, and head back the way you wanted to go. If it delays you 10 minutes, so be it. Sit back, enjoy the ride, and don't sweat the small stuff!
I had a woman do that right in front of me on a rainy freeway last October en route to a campground... Traffic on the ramp backed up about a mile and she didn't get over early enough, so she stopped in the right lane rather than continuing an extra three miles to the next exit. It was a wonder I didn't hit her, and there's no way in hell she didn't know I was there... Had my high beams, 150-watt (each) driving lights, and was laying on the horn steady with no place to go.
Jayco-noslide wrote: This is one of my pet peaves. The driver on the on ramp is legally required to yield and it is his responsibility to merge with and yield to traffic and you are not required to pull into the left lane or slow down to "let him in". However, the reality is that the merging driver often just merges anyway no matter what so to protect myself I assume that he may not yield to me and I try to avoid the situation by moving over or slowing down.
It is just the opposite here in California. Traffic must yield and the driver merging onto the freeway/highway has the right of way.
In other words - you better make room for entering traffic.
I might not always like it but even as a driver in my passenger car; I have always thought this is the way is should be.
The driver merging onto the freeway usually doesn't have an option, however, with an additional lane or two available to me - I usually have an option.
Saugus, you are wrong. I couldn't believe your post, so just went to the California DMV drivers handbook at:
http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/dl600.pdf
And on page 53 it says on the topic of "Merging in and out of Traffic".
"Freeway traffic has the right-of-way."
I don't believe that there is any state in the US that is counter to this.
Larry
X2! That would be insanity if the traffic at highway speed had to yield to traffic coming on from a ramp.
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