Tickets In Slow Lane

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Curtis and I are on board with this
new law they have put into place in Louisiana. Sally
doesn't really affect her. She doesn't drive a speed limit
or you drive the speed limit, not really over the
speed limit.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Right, not not too much. I mean I might go
five five on the situation.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
So in Louisiana, a new law just went into effect
that bans people from driving below the speed limit in
the left lane on highways. So the most common speed
limit there is sixty five miles per hour on multi
lane divided highways. So you can be sighted for being
just one mile per hour under the sixty five mile

(00:36):
per hour speed limit. So if you're doing sixty four,
they can pull you over.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Lane.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
But you're talking about that particular lane, the left lane.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Drivers will face a one hundred and fifty dollars fine
on their first offense of driving too slow, two hundred
and fifty dollars on their second, and three hundred and
fifty dollars on their third, and at that point you
could also face jail time.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
My goodness, what state is wow?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
So can you imagine being locked up and telling your
cell mate that you're behind bars for driving sixty four
and a sixty five miles per hour.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I would lie and make up something else.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Get out that left lane. I'm kind of on board
with that one as much as Sally is. Like after
speeders and stuff, I'm after the slow people in the
left lane. I don't like that.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I agree with you, Curtis. I totally don't agree with
people who get in that left lane and drive slop
and drive too snow because I don't do that. I mean,
you guys think that I, you know, block up traffic.
I'm in the right lane.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Sally will not drive in that left lane if you will,
even so she's not the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
But no, there's plenty of people I've had when I
take these drives to Orlando and stuff, and I use
the turnpike. Oh and you know the turnpike at a
certain point it's only two lanes, yes, And you know
the left lane is supposed to be for passing. There
are people in the left lane going below the speed
limit and blocking up everything, and then at one point
you can't pass. Like that's a whole thing, that's right. Yeah,

(01:57):
they need to implement that rule over there.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think so too. Now. Yeah, clearly, Louisiana. They want
to enable law enforcement to stop people from hanging out
in the left lane, especially if they're disrupting the flow
of traffic and creating safety risk. And one of the
reasons I bring this up is because I never will
forget this. Back in my younger days, I was in
my twenties, I got a speeding ticket and I had

(02:20):
to go to what do they call that track?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, the school, the school of traffic.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
School where so you wouldn't get points on against you
and all that stuff. So I went to traffic school
and one of the questions they asked was can you
get a ticket for going too slow? And everybody was like, no, no,
and I was. I raised my hand and I said yes,
And they were like, you're absolutely right. You're impeding the
flow of traffic. And I think you and I had

(02:47):
that argument one time on the radio.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
See I was right one time, and I still remember
two years old. I'll never forget it.