Back when I was 17 or 18, I was cruising down the PA turnpike at speeds my 89 Dodge Colt probably shouldn't have been doing, when I came across two trucks taking up both lanes, driving exactly 55mph, staying in that formation for a minute or two. It was frustrating at first, but when we passed the state trooper and his radar gun, it was like a revelation. Since that time, I've always paid a lot more attention (and respect) to how truckers drive.
Awesome! I had a similar experience several years ago doing a late night bombing run up I85 on my R1. It was 3:00 AM so it was just me and the trucks on the highway.
I struck up a conversation with a trucker at a rest stop. We chatted for a while and then I went to put my helmet on and take off. Before I did I asked him if he'd put the word out that I was on my way through and to have the other truckers keep an eye out for me. He agreed, so I got back out on the highway doing a modest 10 over.
The first semi I encountered flashed his trailer lights at me indicating all clear, at which point I dialed it up to 150mph and held it there for the better part of an hour and a half. I must have passed 20 trucks on this run and 7 out of 10 gave me the high sign on my way through.
Just outside Petersburg VA two of them where blocking both lanes, so I slowed way down just in time to zip past a state trooper at a stately 3mph over the speed limit.
Yep...sometimes they have had CB warning of speed traps (or truck stop word of mouth) for many miles before you get there...call it an old school radar detector.
