Here are today’s Clovers!
The first one is the long-following-distance Clover. This Clover makes it harder to pass the Clover ahead of him, by leaving a 5-6 car length distance between himself and the Clover ahead:
The second Clover is another Truck Bro Clover. And some theorizing on why truck drivers are driving like Prius drivers:
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Bonus clover move in video one. Can’t maintain the lane. Driving over the center line a bit, then over the shoulder line a bit later. Back and forth.
Been noticing the can’t stay in the lane bit a lot lately. Even on straight roads. On four lane roads they look at me crazy when I honk when they touch the middle line (me worried they are changing lanes right into me).
I’d just like to take a moment to say … aren’t the dictators (of every country on Earth) doing such a great job? Gosh, our leaders are just so great — endless wars, more wars, murder shots, poison food, astronomical massive money scams, high taxes, 1000000% corrupt money system, most peoples’ lives suck, destroying survival infrastructure, NO FUTURE, no sustainability whatsoever, death-bomb EV mobiles, massive election fraud everywhere … wow all of these leaders are just doing such a great job!!!
Hmm. Gosh, I wonder if maybe we people should , hmm, IDK, maybe we should start organizing and actually vote on everything (in honest elections). Maybe the founders of America were not so smart afterall, maybe it was not such a great idea to have “lawmakers” and “representatives” that make all the laws and have 100% control over everything. HMMMMM. I’m starting to wonder.
Almost 40 years ago when I moved to Texas the first time, I I was astonished at the number of pickup drivers would be blocking the left hand lane at 55 mph. They were slow. They were awful. Coming from the Eastern Seaboard, I thought Texas was about the wild west, fast driving, independence, etc. Not so. They were molasses slow lemmings driving long beds in the wrong lane. Car drivers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area were about the same.
When the speed limit was lifted to 65 mph on rural interstates it got slightly better as the slow dum dumbs were kind of forced to move right.
Fast forward about 8 years, and the limits reverted back to the Pre 1974 levels immediately. Things got even better and now, the two lanes were 70 mph.
Texans on two lane roads were far more courteous. Regardless of the limit they would move over in the brekdown lane to pass. Raising limits to 70 on the two lanes made it a lot better.
Nothing better than 70 and 75 mph texas. Pickups drive a hellovalot faster now than they did in 1987. It’s better now. Speed limits are not particularly enforced.
It’s time to demand that other states be more like Texas
Your recollection is accurate. Don’t know why, but when I was growing up in Texas, there was no concept of slower vehicles having to keep to the right lane.
Four-lane and divided highways were viewed as extensions of multi-lane city streets, where everyone was entitled to use the lane of their choice, according to their whim or preference.
It was a surprise upon moving to the East coast that they actually had laws requiring drivers to stay in the right lane except when passing. A girlfriend pointed out my offense while I was complacently cruising the left lane of the Garden State Parkway all the way to Cape May. I had no clue I was doing anything wrong. My bad! 🙁
My wife never understands why I get so frustrated behind the wheel, but it seems to be multiplying. The interstate is filled with clovers and truckers, who were once the bastions of safe driving, they’re now a lot of low-IQ foreigners who operate their giant trucks very unsafely and are discourteous behind the wheel to boot.
And as a pickup man as the late, great Joe Diffie sang about, I don’t drive like a clover. I have Borlas and I love to hear the Toyota iForce V-8 roar, even if it hits my wallet. I recently hauled a trailer full of aggregate limestone to finish my lake’s dam and people have no idea what they’re missing when they don’t use these working dogs for their true purpose. That truck road rode like a dream hauling that big trailer full of stones.
Got stuck behind a long line of vehicles stuck behind a clover on a two lane road. Sure enough when the road opened up to four lanes, clover won’t get out of the left lane. To make things worse, one of the other people in the line became a clover and wouldn’t pass. So now both lanes are effectively blocked. Pretty quickly a road rager began weaving through the gaps until finally the second clover got past the initial clover.
Got a look at the clovers on the way past. “Consuela Maria Lupe De Jesus” led the pack, probably concerned that she didn’t have her current license. Octogenarian “Marylee Fussybottom” blocked the right lane, because you can’t pass on the right, right?
As to why truck drivers are becoming clovers, it’s pretty simple. Old folks have a lot of cashflow thanks to all their investments paying out. They have to spend it or get taxed at obscene levels, so they go out and buy some Detroit iron, needed or not.
It’s just going to get worse.
‘It’s just going to get worse.’ — RK
Yeah, ol’ Fyodor Dostoevsky used to say that. Not without reason, mind you.
Remember those old guys in powdered wigs in Philadelphia in 1787, scribbling with quill pens that ‘nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb’?
Now double jeopardy is just a casual enhancement for any notorious defendant, as in the case of the Minnesota political assassin: ‘Vance Boelter is being charged under a state criminal warrant. State officials are discussing with the F.B.I. and the U.S. State Attorney’s office whether to also bring charges at the federal level.’ — NYT
‘Rule of law’ — what a sick joke. L’etat, c’est moi. — Louis XIV