"JJ" wrote

Both chronic slowpokes and self-appointed speed-limit vigilantes were
stung by transportation writer Gordon Dickson's report. He told how
habitual left-lane drivers are "despised" and how some traffic engineers
believe they cause wrecks.

I don't know about Texas law, but I spent part of the spring and early
summer in Germany. Over there you ABSOLUTELY stay out of the left lane
unless you in the act of overtaking and passing. If you dilly-dally around
in that lane and hold up traffic overtaking you from the rear, you'll be
cited and the fine is of some consequence (250 Euro's if I recall
correctly.) Traffic in Germany is SO much better, because everyone moves
crisply in and out of the 'passing lanes', rather than the buttheads here
who take their sweet leisurely time about overtaking and passing, often just
1 or 2 MPH faster than the right hand traffic lane is moving.

73, de Hans, K0HB