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My solution? back off the accelerator a little bit and let the clump pass.....its a lot easier to hang out at a slower speed and stay that way except for a little passing than to try to compete with the rude ones.
An example of driving skill.
Using the mirrors is a requirement under law, but few have ever learned the habit. The packs of morons (or, is it cretins? Maybe just retards) who drive along in the left lane, bumper-to-bumper, are the worst feature of the modern Interstate. Luckily, managing them isn't so hard.
I was en-route to New Orleans last week, solo, at my usual 59-mph (and above a corrected 28 mpg in my 3.5T pickup truck due to a mild wind) and spied a Class 8 Volvo three miles back being passed by another Volvo. That steering wheel holder in my lane drove right up my bumper and complained over the CB about me . . so I called him on it -- not being smart enough to let the overtaking truck get around him (maybe had another 2-mph on governor; believe me, it can take miles to pass) -- and then he wouldn't have been trapped behind all the cars that had jammed up behind them both.
The problem of Keep Right Except to Pass is that overtaking is not passing . . wish the cops would write tickets on it.
As to those who avoid the right lane, well, they also forfeit the greatest amount of maneuvering room due to a paved HD shoulder. Not smart.
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