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JB3 · #31 02-14-2013, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

Passing in a double yellow line area is very bad medicine. The other vehicle would have to be driving very, very slow - say 15 mph, in a highway situation for me to ever consider it. I'd much rather pull off the roadway for a short period of time than to be guilty of doing it, or much less causing a head-on collision by doing it. I see drivers disregard the double yellow line quite frequently when on-the-road. It doesn't seem to matter where, or how fast the speed limits are. They may not even be aware of it being patently illegal, and how potentially deadly that behavior is while doing it.

so are you saying you have never done it?

I do it almost every time I make a left turn on a two lane road.

elchivito · #32 02-14-2013, 12:27 PM

Double yellows in AZ are apparently just suggestions.
Silly me, who knew?

Ara T. · #33 02-14-2013, 04:19 PM

I bet theres a smug post somewhere, on some other car forum, about some douchebag crazy driver who was tailgating for miles, passed on a double yellow, and miraculously got pulled over and justice served

spdrun · #34 02-14-2013, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by JB3

hahaha what?

Every time I drive in NYC, my impression is that lines of any type have minimal meaning to anyone, especially cabs.

They are more like diffident suggestions that are easily ignored

Thankfully. I didn't mean NYC, more like NJ or upstate.

I was in a long line of cars behind a slow-moving truck on 28 coming out of the Catskills. In most Western states, the truck would have either pulled over at a turnout, or traffic would have flowed past given the opportunity and no oncoming.

I had to pass about 10 cars, one at a time (240d doesn't exactly pass quickly!), to finally get around the bozo.

t walgamuth · #35 02-14-2013, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ara T.

I bet theres a smug post somewhere, on some other car forum, about some douchebag crazy driver who was tailgating for miles, passed on a double yellow, and miraculously got pulled over and justice served

Yeah, but I was not tailgating.

mgburg · #36 02-14-2013, 08:28 PM

When "GREEEN GAINT" and their combines/pickers are doing a caravan...that's on a double-yellow roadway...that's the definition of PENDING road-rage!!

Since '72, I've been caught in just two. I feel for those that have been caught in more.

One thing we've been able to do (I've done it a few times traveling ol' 93 between La Crosse and Eau Claire) is if push-comes-to-shove and you really don't want to continue sucking fumes from Farmer Fred and his poorly-tuned '53 IH Stake-bed with 600#s of pea-vines dribbling off the back of his heap...you flash the lights a few times while tapping the horn and WATCHING LIKE HELL as you pass the bugger.

Any officer would understand...and all do.

Otherwise, I stay behind the lopers and hope that someone else has less patience than I'm growing into.

Them folks attract LEOs better than June-bugs to a white light at 10PM.

Tom, if you got around ol' pokey-pants and nobody got hurt or scared witless, then all's forgiven.

Skid Row Joe · #37 02-15-2013, 12:59 AM

Because of 10 mph under the limit, it becomes lawful and safe to pass? Where it is marked as a no passing zone? IMO, there's not a court in the country that would uphold that behavior, ignoring/breaking the law. As Tom learned and was pulled over by LEO for it. The "doof" @ 10 mph under the speed limit, apparently wasn't the one breaking the law, unless the LEO also went after him?

As far as farm vehicles go, of course some ppl choose to just slam into the farm vehicle, double yellow lines or not, as my cousin's husband was killed when not one, but two speeding pickups slammed into his tractor and his body after being flung off the tractor by the first speeding truck, on a county road last 2011 near New Ulm, Minn.

When elcherrito wrote that; "he believes double yellow lines are only suggestions" - not to be followed as law. Cars I've witnessed that pass in no passing yellow-lined zones that I've witnessed, bear this fact out.

What is often the case is that one car will pass multiple vehicles in a no passing zone. These drivers seem to be making their own rules to suit them. Sometimes it costs ppl their lives. All because someone either doesn't know they are breaking the law, or, they are making their own rules on the road. It would be better to bring to the attention of the jurisdiction to change the road markings, rather than risk passing in these no passing zones.

t walgamuth · #38 02-15-2013, 06:43 AM

I believe it is legal to pass farm equipment on the yellow.