Well am on holiday at the moment in Florida
Hired a car and yesterday drove down from Kissimmee to Clearwater just past Tampa on the coast about 2 hrs away, on the way back it absolutely threw it down worst rain I have ever driven in wipers on full speed but still couldn’t see properly.
I was on interstate 4 a 3 lane highway 70 speed limit inside lane cruise control set at 55 a good safe distance from car in front ( before the going to fast brigade jump on me) when this artic comes up behind me gets himself boxed in through ■■■■ driving and not reading the road and is literally a foot of my bumper for a good mile 
When the ■■■■ eventually passes me imagine my shock to see he is pulling a fuel tanker and tailgating some other poor sod
Trucks over here can do 70 overtake in any lane it’s just a free for all and this action seems to be the norm
I’m afraid to say there standard of driving here is awfull talking on the mobile is ok here driving in heavy rain with hazard lights on illegal but they all do it
America for me nice shinny trucks with ■■■■ gearboxes …no thanks
Rant over
I’ll agree their standard of driving is bad but for some reason it all seems to work. I been on 2 Road Trips, one down the East Coast and one across California both times despite driving through some of the most congested areas in America we didn’t hit a single traffic jam other than one caused by an SUV ramming someone else on the Freeway in Los Angeles, everywhere the traffic flowed well, the lack of indication, tailgating etc was rife but people weren’t jumping on their brakes or pootling along at 48 trying to save fuel.
Give me American roads anyday
The new breed of driver over here in the US think they are still behind the wheel of a car when driving an artic.
My pet peeve is someone tailgating me plus the ar**hole that doesn’t know their truck has turn signals as a standard item on it.
Over here if you drive a truck and your talking on the mobile phone without a hands free headset it’s a $2700 fine, but that still doesn’t stop them yapping on the phone without the headset.
It certainly is a different driving over here than the UK or Europe. I started driving in 1978 in the UK and moved over here in 83, back then I couldn’t believe it , I took my class 1 HGV equivalent in a station wagon. I looked at examiner and asked him , " now I am legal to drive a semi ? ". Not like that anymore though they have truck driving school’s churning out a new bunch of driver’s every 2 weeks. What the hell can you learn in 2 weeks ?
Anyhoo enjoy your holiday in Florida, and not all driver’s over here are a bunch of cowboy’s.
Regards.
The standard of driving in the US is atrocious. I see actions like you’ve described every 5 mintues of every day. Always disconcerting to see such reckless driving from a tanker with those lovely “UN1203” plates on. Equally as bizarre are the wide loads with escorts and the lot who are dodging from lane to lane, overtaking, undertaking and whatever else at 75mph. Then we come to the car drivers who have to be the most brain dead oxygen thieves I’ve ever come across. You might as well remove all mirrors from American cars and black out the wind screen so that they can only see the 2 metres infront of the hood because they do not look at anything else, ever. The problem is a complete lack of driver training, automatic cars which being basically push and go, that any one can drive, involves no forward thinking so they just drive along in cloud cuckoo land. Then there is the obsession with merging from the slip road doing 35mph without signalling, totally ignoring the “Yield” sign and causing every one else to slam on, before they move to the middle lane, perhaps speed up to 55mph in a 65 or 70 zone and sit there for 20 miles until they want to exit, by which time they’ll perform another cloud cuckoo land suicide swerving maneuver at the last second, across lane 1 and over the hatch markings, almost rolling their car as they corner way too hard.
Florida is a particularly bad state for driving standards and is one of the main reasons I hate going there, but for an even worse experience you’ve really got to head north to the likes of New Jersey and New York (state) around NYC and especially the states of Connecticut and Massachusetts. They make Florida look almost (but not quite) civilised.
nickyboy:
I’ll agree their standard of driving is bad but for some reason it all seems to work. I been on 2 Road Trips, one down the East Coast and one across California both times despite driving through some of the most congested areas in America we didn’t hit a single traffic jam other than one caused by an SUV ramming someone else on the Freeway in Los Angeles, everywhere the traffic flowed well, the lack of indication, tailgating etc was rife but people weren’t jumping on their brakes or pootling along at 48 trying to save fuel.Give me American roads anyday
I travel down I95 every week and hit chronic traffic every week in several spots, lasting for several hours each trip. You must have being exceptionally lucky or the road trip was back in the 60s!?! 
The roads are good ,the direction signs not to good,the drivers rubbish&don’t mess with the “State Troopers” robocop in a crap Chevy!