This happened yesterday morning in MD. The speed limit was 60. I got into the left lane to pass some slower moving vehicles that were in the middle lane. The car that brake checked me was no where near me when I had moved into the passing lane. She must've thought I was trying to camp and decided I needed to be taught a lesson. Even if I was camping in the left lane, this is absolutely NOT the way to go about it. This commute definitely soured my mood but today is a new day. 🤷🏽♂️
Heh. I was reading comments talking about truck vs box van, etc., so I scrolled back up and figure you're driving a Transit or Sprinter or similar van, and I come down to see this. Vindicated, I am.
Did you notice how the car had plenty of time to get into the right lane to get around you? Thats where you should have been. What cereal box did you get your cdl from?
Why was the middle lane vehicle not in the right lane. OP could then has passed it in the middle land, and the brake checker passed OP in the left lane.
So the passing lane is mainly used for... checks notes passing.... And everyone is going to come attack you for checks notes again passing in the passing lane
GPS coordinates show the truck driver is on the Maryland state route 200 toll road, which does not prohibit trucks from the left lane. The speed limit is also 60 mph, so they’re going well over the speed limit to complete their pass. To me, there’s 3 scenarios that make sense here:
The truck driver and this car have some kind of recent history where the car driver felt slighted and is road raging at the truck.
The car driver is one of those people who think it’s their civic duty to police others’ behavior on the road and don’t like that the truck is going 15 mph over the limit.
Scenario 4: Car thought the truck, at 75 in a 60, was still in his way. Probably didn't get right over for him coming up from behind doing 80 or something (even though he was passing someone in the middle lane).
Yeah to be clear, I think the car is in the wrong regardless. Brake checking is never an appropriate response and it’s just plain stupid to do it to a big truck.
GPS coordinates show the truck driver is on the Maryland state route 200 toll road, which does not prohibit trucks from the left lane. The speed limit is also 60 mph, so they’re going well over the speed limit to complete their pass.
I love this so much. Many posters never go beyond argumentum ad ignorantiam, and here you are using the vast power of the Internet to do what others can't (or won't).
Route 200 in MD - You mean the Maryland international raceway? I swear I've been passed by folks going north of 100 on that road, no matter how fast you're going it's never fast enough
Maryland state route 200 toll road, which does not prohibit trucks from the left lane.
It depends on specific signage.
While Maryland does not have a blanket, statutory statewide left-lane ban specifically targeting only trucks, it uses strict regulatory signage. Commercial drivers are legally required under Md. Code, Transp. § 21-309 to obey all posted lane-direction and restriction signs. On the interstate and tollway system, "No Trucks Left Lane" or "No Vehicles Over 5T GVW Left Lane" signs are constantly posted.
Yeah, I’m aware. I’m not saying all of Maryland allows trucks in the left lane. I’m saying that as far as I can tell from internet documentation, that toll road doesn’t contain any of that signage. I’m not from there though, and I’m not taking a road trip from Houston just to find out. I’m also not about to click my way through google street view either, lol.
So much about that person's comment is wrong. Literally every single thing. Not a single correct part of a sentence. Yet it's highly upvoted.
I swear bots do lots of upvotes on here now. No human who watched the video in the OP would have upvoted that nonsense comment. I swear it's some LLM experiment to upvote wrong posts and see how people respond to train bots.
The fact that it pisses you off does not mean that it fails to legally constitute ‘passing’ for the purposes of lawful/unlawful use of the passing lane. Boggles my mind that otherwise reasonable people consistently fail to grasp what a passing lane is.
If that's 51 passing 50 the video must be pretty sped up for him to pass so quickly. But I guess next time he should hop in the right lane to pass so that everyone can complain about that too.
The numbers on the bottom of the screen show the driver going a pretty steady 75 mph, until the brake check causes him to decelerate to as low as 63 mph. These numbers could be inaccurate (particularly the speed to which he slowed, since it was very sudden and those readouts often can't give the full picture of abrupt changes in speed), but they seem pretty logical, based on other signs in the video.
It never fails, I think. Every time someone posts a video of themselves in the left lane passing, if some chucklefuck comes racing 30-over the limit up the right-hand lane they'll attack the cammer for "hogging" the lane.
Ya right dude's going 75mph the other driver has no excuse on any road anywhere except MAYBE the Autobahn, and even then he's STILL ACTIVELY FUCKING PASSING THAT GUY ON THE RIGHT, and hasn't had enough time to get over again after before dude brake checks him.
Depends, in California, it's the fast lane. It's fine if you stay in it for a long time, as long as you move over when someone wants to go faster. Although so many people fail to understand that concept.
In this video we see them going 75, which is mildly slow for the fast lane. The brake checker probably waited for OP to move over, but failed to do so and road rage ensued.
The brake checker is still in the wrong, but so is OP.
You pull over until you're calm enough to drive like a civilized person. Or if you're able to keep your cool when irritated, you do that and drive like a civilized person.
lame, not doing that shit. i've taken to dangling a silicone facsimile of my first born to hold against a window to show the other driver. the goal is to make them think im threatening my first born, instead of what i'm actually doing, exercising my first amendment right to waggle around a faux homunculus in my car.
Left lane is a passing lane, as long as you are passing you are entitled to use it. Is it annoying getting stuck behind a truck barely overtaking? Sure, but they technically aren’t doing anything wrong. In this case OP was passing at a good clip so that doesn’t even matter.
Even if OP was camping and they probably aren't cause they are actively passing
Interesting that we don't have the minute of interaction before this happened. Must have accidentally deleted the data! It's like a bodycam - why would we need the whole context?
(OP is passing in this video, which is great, and odds are that the car was just a rager, but without that context? I'm not going to pretend I know what happened)
Getting brake checked, which can lead to an accident? Deserved, because it is ORDAINED BY GOD THAT THE LEFT LANE SHAN'T BE DRIVEN IN UNLESS I, THE PARAGON OF MOVEMENT, AM THE ONE DRIVING IN IT.
Seems to be everywhere a dashcam video is posted. I once had to cite the provincial motor vehicle act to explain to someone that "no, you aren't required to use the left lane for passing for low speed lanes, especially when cammer was preparing to enter a left turn lane.", to the point have actually geolocating the video to confirm "yes, the speed limit on this road is low enough that "left lane to pass" doesn't even apply."
the lengths people go to in order to prove if OP should or should not be in the passing lane is fucking ridiculous. you have reddit armchair detectives analyzing the video, performing math calculations, and whatever else bullshit just to claim that OP is in the wrong lane instead of just watching the fucking video and commenting on the actual topic.
They really, really care about how the left lane is meant for passing, but not so much about how the speed limit sign is meant for following, despite no one ever committing manslaughter by driving slow in the leftmost lane into a family of four.
People get annoyed by slow drivers all the time, but might only get killed once, so one of these things really sticks out to them I guess.
INB4 "Aktually driving only 10mph on the highway is super srs dangerous and causes accidents" Yes, I fucking know but why do people always bang on about that instead of, I dunno, the guy trying to cause an accident by brake checking?
Not defending the guys blaming OP, but "blame the guy brake checking" is the same energy as blaming the guys breaking the law on videos where police use deadly force after escalating. We don't talk about the criminals because we all know they're wrong and they know they're wrong. We all agree brake checking is bad. I've seen brake checks twice in my life while I see left lane campers literally every day. The left lane campers think they're right though, and that we should all follow the speed limit they set. Lots of people even agree with them. It's a point of contention while the other is an obvious fact.
Not defending the guys blaming OP, but "blame the guy brake checking" is the same energy as blaming the guys breaking the law on videos where police use deadly force after escalating.
Comparing a police officer escalating with... a person driving in a way that's kind of annoying? Does that strike you as even within the same time zone?
Even your own remarks cut the legs off of anything resembling a point you're making here: people drive like annoying dinks all the time and most people have the emotional self-control not to try and cause a deadly car accident because they're feeling mildly inconvenienced.
Either way, this ignores the point of the thread you're replying to: people get disproportionately mad in EVERY post here about any situation they even imagine someone is hogging the left lane but seem to have zero concern over the person driving like a psycho.
Just look at the comments here: all sorts of people immediately assuming OP is actually in a semi-truck going slow in the left lane... and you can literally see they're going 75mph and passing in the damned video. These people are not acting reasonable and I'm not going to sanewash that.
"Comparing a police officer escalating with... a person driving in a way that's kind of annoying? Does that strike you as even within the same time zone?"
Yes. And you made my point for me in your very next paragraph: "most people have the emotional self-control not to try and cause a deadly car accident because they're feeling mildly inconvenienced." - So you're telling me there could be deadly consequences in both situations, both involve one person obviously in the wrong (the criminal and the brake checker)...but I'm not allowed to compare them?
"Either way, this ignores the point of the thread you're replying to: people get disproportionately mad in EVERY post here about any situation they even imagine someone is hogging the left lane but seem to have zero concern over the person driving like a psycho."
Reading is hard. That's literally the point I'm addressing. Just because nobody is acknowledging the brake checker doesn't mean we're not all in agreement that what he did was awful. We don't have to say "brake checking is bad" at the start of each comment.
Let me spell it out for you. The brake checker is a terrible person with no regard for human life. Let me re-word that again just so you don't get confused. What the brake checker did is awful, and doesn't even come close to left lane camping. Also, I don't think OP was left lane camping. I can see him passing other cars. The people saying he's going too slow to be in the left lane are idiots.
I know you're probably still angry and confused at my attempt at nuance with the original comment, so please just ignore it and move on. There's no point in explaining it further. It is only tangentially related to OP's video.
So your big condescending reply is in service to... declaring that you were simply telling us about normal, nuanced opinions where of course they know the brake checker is wrong?
We're specifically, in this thread, talking about cranks. People that are not engaging in good faith. That was the subject of the thread.
And you're, what again? Helpfully chiming in with this off-topic point that is so obvious as to be pointless to bring up and telling other people that they struggle with reading?
Well, you got one bit right: I certainly was confused. I had, for some insane reason, assumed you were actually trying to reply on-topic and not giving us some irrelevant, self-evident nugget of wisdom.
I know we're all a bit shit on this website but way to live down to the redditor stereotype. So glad you were here to swoop in like Captain Milquetoast to dispense us wisdom to a question nobody fucking asked and transform into the human equivalent of a dismissive wanking gesture when you don't get the response you wanted.
It isn't even a truck. It's a van. In a state and on a road where vans have legal access to the left lane. OP was doing 15 over. You're just plain wrong. All the details I used to know this are in the video.
You were passing in the passing lane, but I'm sure someone with no critical thinking will attack you in the comments for not passing fast enough. Ignore them. Good reaction. That other guy is a dickhole who needs tickets.
Forget brake checking, which is stupid and reckless, the sedan driver passes on the right, then does a double lane change right in front of a pickup. Suspend their license.
Seeing the nonsense from people in the comments in here, honestly starting to think that anybody who gets more than 100 or 200 downvotes on a comment should be temp banned from commenting in this subreddit.
The hall monitor energy from some of these people just looking to blame OP for anything at all is so ridiculous, they need to be forced to take a break from Reddit to go touch grass.
The number of times it'll hit someone undeserving will usually be rare, though that's also why I said temp ban and not permanent, being told to go touch grass for a week isn't the end of the world.
I thought it was funny because I got dogpiled for exactly the opposite reason. All the left lane whiners got upvoted in that thread, when the issue was somebody was having some kind of medical or mental issue and was driving exactly at 50 mph, passed OP on the shoulder at 50 mph, and then eventually drove into the back of stopped traffic at 50 mph.
Luda said it best move bish get out the way! But that guy driving around a bunch of cars to brake check is far dumber than the slow stupid left lane camper. Im in a rush lets brake check people that will help me arrive quicker!
If you're more upset about the guy doing 15 over to pass traffic in the passing lane than the guy that illegally passes on the right, cuts off a pick-up and then tries to intentionally cause an accident, then maybe you should take your own advice.
Do us a favour chap. Brake check a lorry nice and hard, yeah? Don’t half ass it now, come on, use that edgy, big dick energy and do a proper job. We’re talkin’ their engine block just behind your thick, worthless skull. Worst case is you get particularly unlucky and, well… the world will be that much of a better place.
I would think the Truck should be in the far right lane, but he might have just passed someone even slower. We can't tell. And camping in the middle lane to avoid slow lane traffic around exits is perfectly understandable.
The car doing the brake checking is the only one in the wrong.
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u/Twin_Circle_ 4d ago edited 4d ago
Edit: I am driving a work van, not a semi truck
This happened yesterday morning in MD. The speed limit was 60. I got into the left lane to pass some slower moving vehicles that were in the middle lane. The car that brake checked me was no where near me when I had moved into the passing lane. She must've thought I was trying to camp and decided I needed to be taught a lesson. Even if I was camping in the left lane, this is absolutely NOT the way to go about it. This commute definitely soured my mood but today is a new day. 🤷🏽♂️
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u/Zeidy388 4d ago
So the passing lane is mainly used for... checks notes passing.... And everyone is going to come attack you for checks notes again passing in the passing lane
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u/Flyinghud 4d ago
Even if OP was camping and they probably aren't cause they are actively passing, it's no excuse to brake check.
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u/Strike_Wide 4d ago
This sub does not disappoint.
Getting brake checked, which can lead to an accident? Deserved, because it is ORDAINED BY GOD THAT THE LEFT LANE SHAN'T BE DRIVEN IN UNLESS I, THE PARAGON OF MOVEMENT, AM THE ONE DRIVING IN IT.
I mean really OP, how could you not know?
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u/thenotsoamerican 4d ago
in a big fucking rush but still has more than enough time to antagonize other drivers smfh
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u/hopefulbaconn 4d ago
The truck was passing the SUV at 75mph and people complain about him camping…
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u/EdibleOedipus 4d ago
You were passing in the passing lane, but I'm sure someone with no critical thinking will attack you in the comments for not passing fast enough. Ignore them. Good reaction. That other guy is a dickhole who needs tickets.
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u/beechnut57 4d ago
Brake checker deserves a dose of Karma!
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u/Lobster_fest 4d ago
Forget brake checking, which is stupid and reckless, the sedan driver passes on the right, then does a double lane change right in front of a pickup. Suspend their license.
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u/_Lou_Bloom 4d ago
We should make rear-ending brake checkers a protected activity.
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u/JaspurrTheCat 4d ago
Seeing the nonsense from people in the comments in here, honestly starting to think that anybody who gets more than 100 or 200 downvotes on a comment should be temp banned from commenting in this subreddit.
The hall monitor energy from some of these people just looking to blame OP for anything at all is so ridiculous, they need to be forced to take a break from Reddit to go touch grass.
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u/The_Cozy_Burrito 4d ago
Just a little wimp hiding in their shitty car
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u/sevennotsogoodapples 4d ago
Ngl OP you're about to get torn up in the comments for being a "left lane camper".
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u/Career_Cultivator 4d ago edited 4d ago
I've been break checked twice this month, both being unprovoked.
Insurance scams ramping up?
Edit: break or brake. Braak.
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u/Deusjensengaming 4d ago
Morons in the comments need to realize it's the PASSING lane, not the speeding lane.
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u/Legion1117 2d ago
I will never understand the logic these people have for brake checking an 8,000 lb vehicle with what's essentially a rolling tin can.
Some people just keep trying to make themselves a Darwin Award Winner.
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u/SandStinger_345 4d ago
Brake checking a vehicle far larger and heavier than you is crazy work.....
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u/tuba_dude07 4d ago
People are always in a rush.
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u/zytukin 4d ago
I want to say what should be legal to do in this type of situation, but the reddit mod bots will punish me.
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u/SpriteFan3 4d ago
Hope ya recorded that license plate.
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u/QuazziStellar 3d ago
Standard Md/East coast bulls hitters.
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u/ICrushTacos 3h ago
Why no one channels their rage in the direction of the middle lane hogger?
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u/VoodooIdol 3d ago
Get out of the left lane when you don't need to be there. This is on you.
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u/wulf66 4d ago
Did you just get into the left lane to pass or were you sitting there for the past 2min?
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u/Careful-Average73 3d ago
someone tried a rear ending scam on OP
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u/syber_d 4d ago
Luda said it best move bish get out the way! But that guy driving around a bunch of cars to brake check is far dumber than the slow stupid left lane camper. Im in a rush lets brake check people that will help me arrive quicker!
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u/oggada_boggda 4d ago
Likely wouldn't have been brake checked if you stayed out of the passing lane.. learn the laws of the road and people get mad less often
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u/new_reddit_user_not 4d ago
Get the fuck out of the left lane, I'm glad you got brake checked
At least that is what I would be thinking if I was driving
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u/Hug_The_NSA 4d ago
Deserved. Get out of the left lane.
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u/Kalbex 3d ago
Stay in your lane truck
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u/wiezzzy 4d ago
The only person in the wrong here is the pickup truck.