🚀 go-pugleaf

I recently did an 1800 mile drive from Denver to New York.  It really hurt
because the speed limit in Colorado is 75, and I was in a 24' Ryder truck
with a car attached to the back and a governor that wouldn't let us get over
around 65mph!!!  So we were driving around 10mph under the speed limit
through that state. The amazing part is that we were passing people!!!  In
the MD/DC/VA area, the general rule seems to be to drive around 10-20mph
over the speed limit (I think 75 is a very reasonable speed).  But in
Colorado, people were routinely going 10-15mph UNDER the speed limit.  I
made the same observation in Iowa and Indiana where the speed limit was 65
and people were driving around 55-60.  In Ohio, people did the speed limit.
It wasn't until New Jersey that traffic started moving at about 10-20 over
the speed limit.

Why do people go so slow out there?  Is this typical of states in the middle
of the country?  I have to say that EVERYONE in Colorado drove in the right
lane and passed in the left.  Almost nobody ever stayed in the left lane
when they weren't passing.