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I drive a lot. not a little. A Lot. from each corner of the State and sometimes in one day back and forth. If I work for an 8 hour day, there is days it will be a 6 hour drive day. On slow days I don't drive that far and do other things like training and be available to go somewhere on the fly and do something that is needed.
of late, really like the last few days and my wife who only drives about 10 miles to/from her office has noticed.
there is A LOT of people all of sudden trying to get hit in the rear of their cars. I don't know if this is a thing out of desperation or an organized thing. I experienced this about 20 plus years ago too... especially for those in work trucks that have branding on them.
one was slowly driving into my lane trying to get me to hit their bumper. I seen a rig pop a little car today. My wife had a car do the same thing. Another will slow down and if you try to go around them they will creep back in front of you.
for me in the past few days it has happened multiple times. I am not an aggressive driver. when they do that to me I will figure out how to get away and I am not a rushed driver so even if I pull of the interstate or a side street to go a different route. no biggie.
we will assume these people are on their phones but that assumption is incorrect.
only one thing I see that matches all the ones I have seen of late.. they are all most likely illegal.
another thought is today when the rig popped the car it stopped all the traffic and that might be a goal too.
This could also be butt hurt driver who took offense to something and trying to annoy you. If this is indeed intentional pay attention to the nationality of the drivers you might see a pattern, since they all tend to follow their local leaders.