That reminds me Pat of one time I was driving down thru Illinois on I 55 or 57, and there had been a blizzard...
In weather like that, I use to be able to do 45 mph relatively safely in my old Volvo 240 Wagon, when the snow plows had sorta been out.... hydrophilic snows on the back of it..
heading toward St Louis, I got passed by some Afro Ghetto Guys in a Beat Up Buick Electra, semi bald tires on it... 4 of them, barreling along, shucking and jiving, getting stoned ( you could see them passing the joint around)...
the storm had been bad enough, the highway didn't have many cars out on it...
but these guys passed me, and ended up buried out in the median down the road...
FOUR TIMES before I made it to St Louis...
have driven many a long trip on winter Midwest Interstates...being a salesman covering 5 to 7 states...
in non metro areas, the same thing would repeat itself all the time... I'd be going down the interstate doing 40 to 45 mph in my trusty Volvo...I'd be passing most of the cars on the road..
a string of traffic would be following me...
then someone in a heavy loaded semi or a 4WD big vehicle like a full sized pick up or Suburban would pass me and everyone would start following them... and pass me...
Down the highway, the lead vehicle and several following him would end up off the road... and then everyone would slow down to a crawl again.. and I'd pass them again, doing my 40 to 45 mph...
and that would be the scenario 500 to 700 miles home...
even in snow country, people tend to have no confidence so they end up following someone else, instead of setting their own safe speed on their vehicle...and tend to want to follow the person making the best time, until that vehicle loses control, and then they are back at a crawl again...
