TheBanyanTree: What's the Speed Limit?

[Mike Pingleton]

On Saturday 10 July 2004 21:06, Spoonoid at cs.com wrote:
>  I think that truck driver did us all a favor, at least for all the cars
> in line in front of him. And probably for the people behind him as well. It
> made the traffic flow more orderly, and we probably all made it through the
> jam more quickly than we would have otherwise.
>
>     Does anybody know if truck drivers normally exercise this type of
> traffic control, or was my man independently inspired?

I've seen truckers do this on numerous occasions.  I always appreciate it, 
since I'm sure some lives are being saved in the process.  The type-A idiots 
are forced to crawl along with everyone else, the purple veins in their 
foreheads throbbing with frustration...

Mike, chillin'