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by GrayWolfNOrlando from Orlando, FL

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Trucks Permitted In The Left Lane
Oct 14, 2007 | 8:21 PM
Category: Traffic
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i was on I-4 today for the first time in months and as I was jumped on I-4 West heading towards Tampa, I noticed a sign that stated  "No Trucks In Left Lane For The Next 60 Miles". Now, I was outside of Lakeland where the speed limit is 70mph and I got behind a car pulling a trailer doing 50mph in the left lane. The state of Florida should had gone a step further and prohibited vehicles with six wheels or more from using the left lane. This includes vehicles pulling trailers, boats and so on. I find it's not so much the 18 wheelers holding up traffic in the left lane it's cars and pickups pulling a trailer. If you're going to ban a large truck from using the left lane, then you ban all vehicles pulling trailers, boats and so on from using the left lane.
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Mater01 read my blog view my photos
Oct 15, 2007 | 10:37 PM

I can certainly under stand where you are coming from! That can be annoying! I also understand your point and they should ban trailers & boats so that the left lane is free for those who would like to pass the slow pokes as well. That should includes passing cars and big rigs.
Native_Floridian read my blog view my photos
Oct 22, 2007 | 4:30 PM

You know what's funny about this, when I was growing up there used to be signs on I-4 that LIMITED TRUCKS and VEHICLES WITH TRAILERS to no more than 60mph (daylight) and 55mph nighttime), there were also signs that said these same vehicles CAN NOT OCCUPY THE LEFT LANE EXCEPT TO PASS SLOWER TRAFFIC.

But when the speed limit dropped from 70mph to the "National 55mph limit", all the signs came down and all lanes became accessible to everyone,

Personally I'd prefer to see these signs and speed limits be reimposed on the vehicles pulling trailers. I've see far too many times someone speeding with a trailer attached to their vehicle and it would be "hopping" along the road because they were going to fast to be pulling a trailer behind. I always figured sooner or later that trailer would fall over or cause a wreck because it wasn't riding stable, but jumping all over the place - SCARY!
GrayWolfNOrlando read my blog view my photos
Nov 5, 2007 | 8:51 AM

I was in Kentucky for a couple of weeks & Kentucky has a law where all vehicles have to stay to the right except when passing & signs are posted up and down the expressways. As I jumped on I-65 heading south to come back here, traffic wasn't too bad. As I got closer to Bowling Green, KY traffic started to get congested, but the left lane was pretty much clear, six lane interstate, was able to pass from the left lane & doing the 70mph speed limit. But once I crossed over into Tennessee which is about 20 miles to the south of Bowling Green, the interstate became clogged because Tennessee doesn't have the law Kentucky has about using the left lane. There were semi's in the left lane, cars & pickups with trailers in the left lane. To bring up another point, as I was going up Lookout Mountain which is about 30 miles to the Northwest of Chattenooga, TN on I-24, traffic became congested in the left lane going up the mountain because there was a driver in a pickup pulling a boat & would you beleive it, the vehicle had Florida tags. Florida & other states should follow Kentucky's lead & have this law. This law apparently does work.
Be_Nice read my blog view my photos
Nov 6, 2007 | 7:04 PM

I moved to Florida about 3 1/2 years ago and I haven't been out of the state since, but I'm sure as I entered Florida on I-95 I saw a sign the read "Slower Traffic Keep Right", was I mistaken? About a year before Old Jeb left office he had the chance to sign a bill that would have made it illegal to ride the left lane for more than a given time. I don't remember what the given time was. He refused to sign it...Maybe we can get old Charley boy to sign it...LOL
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I moved here from Indianapolis in 93, but I'm originally from Elizabethtown, KY which is about 40 miles south of Louisville. I spent eight years in the Army as a Military Police Patrolman then went into investigations and eventually working undercover drugs for a couple of years leaving the military with a Honorable Discharge as a Sgt/E-5. I now live in the Dr. Phillips area of Southwest Orange County. I got tired of the cold, snow and the ice and 50 degrees does not qualify as cold. I'm an avid University of Kentucky Fan who likes the outdoors such as fishing, horseback riding and going to the beach. I love Florida and what it has to offer.

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