is that a "69" on the train?

meanwhile in sweden: "sorry folks we have to wait for the express train to pass us"

I LOVE TURNING EVERY SINGLE RAILWAY INTO A HIGH SPEED RAILWAY AND LEAVING LOCAL SERVICES TO ROT, YAAAAAAY

If you're barely able/willing to travel faster than the other truck, why pass in the first place? You're both traveling nearly the same speed. Just ride behind the other guy. The only time you need to pass is if you want to cruise substantially faster than the person you're passing.

I bet you didn't misjudge. People have a bad habit of speeding up when someone tries to pass them. I've been stuck at 60 behind a driver in a 70 zone and as soon as I start passing the asshat speeds up to 75 in the cruising lane.

When I see this happening I try to leave enough space behind so the trucker feels like they can slow down safely, and most of them do.

Increase the gap.

Depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany, you must not overtake anyone unless you are "driving with significantly higher speed".

This is basically unenforced though.

You are absolutely wrong in the American state of Georgia and can be ticketed for it.

Passing at 1mph faster is extremely obnoxious still

To answer the question you posed in your comment, the common term in English for a car following extremely close to another car is usually "tailgating". This refers to the "tail gate" that is on a the beds of flat bed trucks. So if you are following very close, you are nearly touching the tailgate.

for a truck to pass another truck, it has to be in the left lane for at least 3 truck-lengths, which is roughly 65 meters. 1kph is 10m/36s, so 65m is 36s×6.5 = 3.9minutes

The rounding caused by the 2 digit speed labels hide the actual problem. Blue is actually going 80.45 km/h and red is going 80.55 km/h.

You're poo-pooing the impatience of the car drivers but ignoring the impatience of the truck driver.

Why the hell is the truck passing another truck to begin with? You're talking a measly 1 km/hr difference! For a trip of 100 km, that measly 1 km/hr difference means the truck driver is passing another truck to save a measly 36 seconds. (And that's the ideal case, assuming the speed difference is maintained the whole time.) And by doing so they create a massive traffic jam that causes dozens of drivers to be delayed by minutes.

There's a reason many states ban trucks from passing other trucks. It's an extremely selfish and asshole thing to do. One truck driver saves 30 seconds or so on their trip. In exchange, dozens of drivers lose minutes. The truck driver is stealing an hour of time from the rest of society to give himself 30 seconds. You should not be defending such selfish bastards.

The math changes a bit if you assume a longer trip, but the conclusion won't. Inevitably the time the truck driver steals from others will be vastly more than the time they save. It's dangerous asocial behavior.

You forget the other vehicle is also moving and is really long, it takes almost 3 minutes for one to pass the other and a distance of over 2000m. And just bumper to bumper, that doesn’t include safe lane changing distances either.

If you’re talking two cars, than yes.

Yeah but the red truck isnt letting me burn up all my gas. Its also making me wear out my break pads because i need to stay exactly 6 feet behind it until it finally moves over. At least I get a free lunch of rocks that my cars windshield gets to eat as I sit behind it.

It is in Germany. Here overtaking may not take longer than 45s, so a truck can't do it unless the other one is driving 10 km/h below the speed limit.
If they get caught they are 1/8 of their way to a suspended license (requiring a 6 month wait and a psychological review and the normal exam to reacquire) .

In a lot of countries it is illegal.

France:

• vehicles above 3.5 tons longer than 7m: 50 metres distance minimum outside towns if cruising at the same speed (Code de la route R412-12 II)
• it's illegal to attempt overtaking if it would impede the flow of traffic and the relative speeds do not allow for overtaking within a sufficiently short time (Code de la route R414-4 II)
• a lot of busy roads have a sign forbidding overtaking for heavy vehicles, sometimes with specific times listed.

None of it is enforced so you should always expect to be cut off.

Also of note: whenever there are random checks of trucks by police they find around 50% in violation of important regulations like rest times and the administrative situation of a work vehicle. They willfully avoid checking too much because it would mean the means of transport for 85% of freight suddenly becomes way more expensive.

People get car sick in EVs more because there’s no audible cue when the car is accelerating, though exposure can train their brains enough to prevent it.