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Originally Posted by Scoe
Pull into the POI Coop at Ashland northbound and ask them to show you the written legality.
Here's what I know, I've been driving for 32 years now and everyone does it in Oregon yet No one does it in California...that might tell me that it's legal in Oregon but not in California.
If you feel it's not safe then by all means don't do it. However, don't gawk at me when I pass you doing 55mph going up the Siskiyou pass and want back over ASAP because I'm also trying to be courteous to the 4 wheelers.
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I don't mind at all being passed on the left and the truck returning to the slow lane as soon as it is safe(I will even signal when clear). But don't pass on the right using the shoulder like a driver did yesterday. He nearly collided with the truck that was passing me legally(and driver had quite the CB rant to the idiot passing on the shoulder).
As can be gather from this thread, I don't encourage those drivers that crawl the shoulder; I will, if your CB on and tuned to Channel 17, warn of stopped vehicles blocking the emergency breakdown lane which is often the case at I-5 Southbound between Milemarkers 9 and 8(I believe this is the place on Siskiyou Pass that kills trucks with poorly maintained coolant/oil pressure systems).
Again yesterday, I was traveling I-5 Northbound Milemarker 3 passing a truck crawling the shoulder. There was a disabled motorcycle(rider was no where in sight) on the shoulder. I warned the other truck then moved over to the fast lane only after several cars cleared, and the other driver missed the disabled motorcycle by a couple truck lengths. What is going to happen to a driver who hits a disable vehicle in the emergency breakdown lane? Is he going to be sighted for "Improper Lane Usage"?
BTW, most here will be happy to know that I drive Oregon Hwy 58 and US97 from Eugene to Weed as often as I can. One of the reasons is because of this issue of the lack of truck climbing lanes on I-5 in Southern Oregon.