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It doesn't sound like she was fined for going to slow. Sounds like she was fined for driving in the left lane when she wasn't passing. Stay Right, Pass Left.
I know people who have gotten tickets for driving in the left lane when no one was around. The speed doesn't apply.

Good for the cop. It's not a non-speeding ticket, it's a failure to yield in the passing lane ticket. On I-95? Going slower than the speed limit? Are you kidding me?

A woman getting a ticket? She must have been ugly, pug ugly, fugly, pug fugly, or ugly ugly.

One of my kids attended MIzzou. After his graduation, we were driving his car back to Michigan on I-70 between Columbia, MO and St. Louis. Relatively light traffic and my son was driving 3 mph below speed limit and had just passed a semi. So we were in the left lane just below the speed limit (no cars behind him) as he was approaching another semi to pass a few minutes ahead. A Missouri state cop with lights a-flashing started coming up to us and my son pulled into the right lane to let him pass. He pulled behind us and then it became apparent he was pulling us over.

We pulled over and the VERY YOUNG officer said he was travelling too slow for the left lane. When I asked if he was impeding traffic, the officer said NO, but still should be in the right lane. I said I agreed, but if not impediing traffic and a semi imminently ahead to be passed, wasn't it safer to stay in the same lane. And wasn't it safer to travel at or slightly below the speed limit? And that if people in the left lane were above the speed limit and those in the right lane at or slightly below, aren't those in the left lane in violation of the speed limit?? And since it we were driving above the legal minimum, AND THAT HE JUST ADMITTED WE WERE NOT IMPEDING TRAFFIC, that there was no violation here? Amazingly, my son got off with no warning or ticket!!!

My son wanted to KILL me as he for sure thought the cop would bust us big time, but I was very calm and asked my questions is a very innocent tone and we moved on without incident. But did stay in the right lane much more thru Missouri after that!!

I see the uniform vehicle code applies to the rate of traffic vs. the posted speed limit. Makes a lot more sense when putting that into context.

The Uniform Vehicle Code states:

Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic ...

Note that this law refers to the "normal" speed of traffic, not the "legal" speed of traffic. The 60 MPH driver in a 55 MPH zone where everybody else is going 65 MPH must move right. Contrast Alaska's rule, 13 AAC 002.50, allowing vehicles driving at the speed limit to use the left lane, and Colorado rev. stat. 42-4-1103, prohibiting blocking the "normal and reasonable" movement of traffic.

And yet gHost drives 2mph and goes unpunished.

Yes! Who are these fuckers joy-riding on the highway? Do that in the backwoods.

The problem with these truckers is that most of the fleet trucks have a governor that limits their ability to "put the hammer down" for a quick pass. Thus, if the truck they are passing is going 59 mph and the second one wants to pass, he can only pass at 62 mph (assuming that is what his truck is governed at). Makes for a very long pass and it pisses everyone off in back.

It is those dickhead truckers who should just fall in line between the slower trucker when there is a lot of traffic.

Somebody give that cop an award!!

1) He was kind and let the slow-poke go -- which is more or less good since the slow driver was being an a-hole, but not harming anybody

2) He did a public service to everyone else on the road by getting that slow-as-molasses driver the hell out of the left lane

3) Even though the people filming it didn't seem to understand what that was all about, hopefully he educated a few others on correct lane usage, and hopefully the message sticks!

good

Four lanes on this road each way. I commute this route. She should have been fined more. Speed limit is 55 an traffic moves at 70 in the slow lanes.

except truckers on I75 don't seem to have a problem going 75