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Salam Dahbour wrote:
> 
> 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.

That's a very keen observation, I made a similar trip to Oklahoma in
the beginning of July and saw much the same thing.
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