I had the same issue the last time I was in I-5 through the Stockton area of CA a few years ago. The right lane was mostly unusable in this motorhome.
The highway tax receipts per mile driven have fallen for most vehicles due to the increase in mpg and such things as hybrids and electric vehicles. With toll roads, the people who use it pay for it and it varies by the miles it is driven. Probably the most fail way to pay for them.
I can't remember driving on any interstate highway that was not that way in the past several years. Since toll rates are based on the number of axles, that goes a long way toward leveling the field of cost. My first car got about 12 mpg on a good day of open road. The first economical car I owned got an amazing 23 mpg highway and 18 city. Today I drive a VW Jetta that gets 40+ mpg on interstates and the lowest I have ever had was 36 mpg. Thus, I am paying the least tax per mile in my life.
Here in Ontario it really depends on the highway you're driving and on the cop who's around.
I wondered what those blinking lights were. If we get slow enough, just stop and I'll put on the coffee so we can discuss politics and the world in general. A lot of nice people in the right lane are right neighborly by waving a finger as they go by.
I get the Peace sign all the time, well, 1/2 of one.
I some areas, I wish they would repave the right lane so there will be little need to avoid all the potholes by driving in the left lane.
Yeah, gotta agree with you on that, Don. One of the worst highways I've ever driven on back in 2022.
It seems Indiana doesn't spend money on their highways. I find it ironic that, when driving I-80 through Indiana, and right past the RV Hall of Fame, how pitiful that highway is. Talking about not getting enough fuel tax monies to keep up the road, maybe if 80 wasn't a toll road, you could have Love's, Pilot, Flying J's, and other huge fuel stations along the route, where personal vehicles and truckers would stop to fuel up. Too bad, Indiana, as soon as you cross into Ohio, going East, and Illinois West, several truck plazas are packed. All poor old Indiana has is their rest stops and their contracted fuel supplier that doesn't take Open Roads diesel fuel cards, and because they are state-controlled rest stops, you pay a higher amount per gallon. Funny, you don't even see any giant 100ft McDonald's or Wendy's type signs either. Paying the toll is supposed to pay for the upkeep of the roads, but like most cash-greedy states, who knows where the money actually goes? I live in NY State, and the NY Thruway isn't any better; only New Yorkers know all the money goes downstate to the NY City area bridges and subway system.
Years ago I was traveling in the right lane about the same speed as a car in the left lane that was severalcar lengths in front of me. A car came up behind the left lane car and gave him a flash of high beams to signal that he wanted to get by. Left lane car brake-checked instead and gave him the one-finger salute out the drivers window. The unmarked police car promptly lit him up and pulled him over. Made my day.
And we wonder why we have road rage. They are wrong but so are you. Not to mention you are creating even a bigger hazard slowing the left lane even more.
