re: Interstate lane for 18 Wheelers

The interstates were built for inter-state commerce.

Tractor trailers belong there. Cars are just tourists.

Where I live, if an interstate is three or more lanes there *are* semi restrictions.

Also, there is a minimum posted speed on the interstates... most of what I travel is 70/45.

I like food and two day shipping, so I'll happily share the roads with semis.

Why not an interstate lane for just cars then? What happens when one truck is going slow, the others cannot pass? You do realize everything you buy in a store comes from an 18 wheeler, right?

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Semis are about 5% of all registered vehicles in the US and they generally already avoid major cities during rush hour because it adds time to their trip. So if you can't understand how stupid it would be to add a lane just for them to the roughly 50,000 miles of interstate in this country, you're beyond help.

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You clearly don't drive on the interstate every day. I'm on the road everyday from fort collins to denver and they are more than 5%

While you're at it, please give percentages of accidents with trucks involved

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They camp because they were never taught the actual reason for the left lane in the first place.

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I thought those people did that to stick it to the white man. It's usually always dem who drive in the left lane like it's the slow lane.

We'll eventually get to a point when self-driving trucks carry the majority of the loads, can't get here soon enough.

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They don’t get to pass it. They can stay behind each other

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LMAO, tell me you don't know how traffic works without telling me you don't know how traffic works.

So you'd like to restrict trucks to the right lane only with no passing???

How do you expect to get onto and off the interstate when there's an endless line of trucks bumper to bumper????

It's the dipshits in commuter cars who cause the vast majority of the accidents and are truly the dangers on the roadway.

Yes the big trucks can cause more damage but the small cars causing the wrecks are the true issue.

Didn't see as many issues when cars were off the road during covid, funny how that works. You'd think the trucks would have been playing bumper cars with each other considering they are so dangerous.

Didn’t they create the interstate system for big trucks?