"JJ" wrote in message
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Kim W5TIT wrote:


Simple 'nuff, find a *LAW* and I'll accept that it is illegal to drive
in
left lanes, otherwise, you're allowing yourself to be impressioned for
the
benefit of winning a side to an argument--which, of course, I am also.
Seems I'm winning, though...

Not so fast tits.

Law, JJ, not suggestions, not a manual, not
someone's (as in the circumstance with your submitted commentary)
interpretation, but law.

Here is the response I received from Bud Kennedy, the author of the
article.

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your note.

Your friend obviously thinks she knows everything, so she probably will
think she knows more than the law or the DPS. - (boy does he have you
pegged - jj)

I quoted the law in the column. It's from 545.051 --

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statu...tr0054500.html

+(b) An operator of a vehicle on a roadway moving more slowly than the
normal speed of other vehicles at the time and place under the existing
conditions shall drive in the right-hand lane available for vehicles, or
as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway,
unless the operator is:

+(1) passing another vehicle; or
+(2) preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road
or driveway.

This law is not defined by the speed limit. It is defined by the "normal
speed of other vehicles."

In other words, if you're driving slower than other drivers, you "shall"
move over.

Write again or anytime

--Bud


Well Kim has several times stated that she was driving at the normal speed
of the other drivers in the lane. So your quotation makes Kim correct.
That a single individual wants to drive much faster than the rest of the
traffic does not make Kim wrong for not moving. She may or may not be
unwise depending on the overall circumstances but from this quotation is not
doing anything illegal.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE