I am not the LLB!!

! > wrote in
ups.com:

> On Jun 19, 7:47 am, (Brent P)
> wrote:
>> In article .com>,
>> wrote:
>>
>> > while I'm maintaining a few car lengths behind an LLB. This is a
>> > favorite of people that drive large pickups and SUVs to compensate
>> > for part of their anatomy. As soon as the LLB changes lanes, I
>> > drive off and leave them sitting back there, never to be seen
>> > again, until I get hung up behind another LLB.
>> > Why is this?
>>
>> Because you are not doing anything about the LLB I'll guess or they
>> are just morons. Since you are refering to tailgating to pressure you
>> I'll go with the later, but if you are so far behind the LLB that
>> someone can comfortably change lanes into that gap you're at the very
>> least magnifying the problem the LLB is creating.
>
> But that's the problem, they're not comfortably changing lanes. I've
> got 6-7 car lengths tops. They'll nearly take my right front fender
> off, then accelerate up to the tail of the LLB, then brake.
>
> And what can I do to the LLB besides tailgate? It's been my experience
> that if you tailgate someone, they'll deliberately drive slower out of
> spite, or even hit the brakes. And if you do tailgate, the secondary
> LLB that would have jumped between you just pulls up on your tail,
> boxing you in in the middle of a three car draft train, which is a
> situation I don't want to be in.
>
>
>

However,if you just stay behind the LLB,you also become one.
Since you elected to stay 6-7 lengths behind him,he has no idea you want
him to move over. To him,you are just another guy LIKE HIM.(a LLB...)

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:14:19 -0000, ! > wrote:

>I hate this more than anything.
>
>Two, maybe three lanes of freeway. Doing about 75, 77 or so in a 65,
>roughly at or slightly above the 85th percentile speed. I get into the
>left lane to pass some slower traffic, and lo and behold, there's
>mister LLB, poking along at 65. I creep in behind him, s.l.o.w.l.y.
>passing the other traffic. Another car slowly catches up to us over
>the course of a couple of miles.
>
>Then the insane but predictable, the car starts darting in and out of
>lanes until he squeezes into the 6 or 7 car length gap between me and
>the LLB. He pulls up to the tail of the LLB. Finally, the LLB moves
>out of the way, and the guy pushing him??
>
>He becomes a slightly faster LLB. Instead of being stuck behind an LLB
>doing 65, I'm now behind one doing 69.
>
>Similarly, there's the people that pull up almost to the rear bumper
>while I'm maintaining a few car lengths behind an LLB. This is a
>favorite of people that drive large pickups and SUVs to compensate
>for part of their anatomy. As soon as the LLB changes lanes, I drive
>off and leave them sitting back there, never to be seen again, until I
>get hung up behind another LLB.
>
>Why is this?

The guy got in front of you because he knew he had to tailgate the LLB if the
LLB was ever going to move over. By following the LLB at 6 - 7 car lengths,
you're telling the LLB that you're comfortable following him at that speed, so
he never has a reason to move over. And 6-7 car lengths is plenty of room (for
him) to comfortably move over into your lane. Hell, in 1970, I did it with 1
1/2 car lengths driving an MG Midget, when someone thought he was going to
block me out of the right lane so I couldn't exit. No, _that_ wasn't
comfortable, but just necessary if I didn't want to be late for work.

If you don't want to 'push' the LLB, don't expect very many of 'em to get over.

Dave Head