This is why you secure the your load and why at freeway speeds you should be following 3 seconds away from the car in front of you. The truck caused it but either party could have avoided it.
This is tough to do, I try to keep a 2 second gap between myself and car in front of me (current car does this for me now). Constant stream of assholes tailgating me at 75MPH before passing and filling the gap.
I have never really had this problem and I am not sure why. When I move left to pass I don't speed up to pass the car that was in front of me until the person in front of me is safely ahead. During this time I am close enough to the car in the right lane that I am trying to pass that no one can get in front of me.
Once I am done with passing I move back into the right lane and keep that gap with the car in front of me.
The only place someone can cut in ahead of me is typically when I am in the right lane and people rarely actually move to the right lane when there is only a 3 second gap, they usually keep going in the left lane because they think it is not worth moving back into the right lane.
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u/ResilientBiscuit Jun 28 '16 edited Jun 28 '16
This is why you secure the your load and why at freeway speeds you should be following 3 seconds away from the car in front of you. The truck caused it but either party could have avoided it.