'NO TRUCKS IN LEFT LANE'

[NJ]

How common are "NO TRUCKS IN LEFT LANE" in your area on multiple lane highways?

In New York/New Jersey, every highway I've traveled on always post signs indicating that trucks are forbidden from driving in left lane, and sometimes it includes buses/trailers as well especially in New York State. In Ontario and Quebec very common as well.

I like it for safety reason!

[1995hoo]

Quite common here if the road has more than two lanes per side. Also common are signs restricting hazmats to the two right lanes.

When I was growing up there weren't many left-lane truck restrictions and it caused problems when trucks overturned over the center barrier.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I can't remember seeing it anywhere in Minnesota or Wisconsin.

[Brandon]

Quite common on the Chicagoland expressways and tollways.  Usually on the Illinois side it's "TRUCKS USE 2 RIGHT LANES" or "TRUCKS USE 4 RIGHT LANES" (or similar).  There's also the rarer "NO TRUCKS IN 2 LEFT LANES".  Indiana uses "NO TRUCKS LEFT LANE" and this unique sign.  There's a two-lane version of it as well.  Michigan uses "ALL TRUCKS USE RIGHT 2 LANES".

[jeffandnicole]

Overall, it's a state law that prohibits trucks in the left lane, or requires truckers to use the right 2 lanes only.  Quickly glancing, I didn't see a list off hand that shows each state's laws governing this, although I believe more than half the states prohibits trucks in the left lane (other than for turning or exiting).

[cl94]

Overall, it's a state law that prohibits trucks in the left lane, or requires truckers to use the right 2 lanes only.  Quickly glancing, I didn't see a list off hand that shows each state's laws governing this, although I believe more than half the states prohibits trucks in the left lane (other than for turning or exiting).

New York usually does if there are more than 3 lanes, although this is not a guarantee. It always holds true on NYSTA-maintained highways.

[1995hoo]

A semi-related (no pun intended!) issue is how common it is, in left-hand-drive countries (so as to exclude the UK and the like), to have a restriction REQUIRING trucks to use the left lane. I know I've seen it a few times, though off the top of my head I can't say where.

[cbeach40]

How common are "NO TRUCKS IN LEFT LANE" in your area on multiple lane highways?
In Ontario and Quebec very common as well.

Only on sections of freeway with three or more lanes per direction. Some exceptions do apply where it makes operational sense not to restrict it.

[cl94]

How common are "NO TRUCKS IN LEFT LANE" in your area on multiple lane highways?
In Ontario and Quebec very common as well.

Only on sections of freeway with three or more lanes per direction. Some exceptions do apply where it makes operational sense not to restrict it.

Yes. On the QEW, they're mainly found on the two bridges. In the case of the Garden City Skyway, the restriction ends immediately after the bridge because there's a left exit a few kilometres away.

[Bitmapped]

West Virginia uses them on freeways and expressways where there are 3 lanes in a direction.

[swbrotha100]

Other than NJ/NY area, I've only seen this on I-35 in Texas (specifically the stretch between San Antonio and Austin).

[jp the roadgeek]

Always in CT on 3 lanes except within a couple of miles of a left hand exit.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.657336,-72.8516518,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scVK0UhBAHW1BsBEN8cz1iw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Just before the exits:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6926622,-72.8120433,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szvptwgMvP18s7BPhyo43Tg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[noelbotevera]

Nothing here from my travels in the Keystone State.

[GaryV]

Michigan uses "ALL TRUCKS USE RIGHT 2 LANES".

Michigan also has "End Truck Lane Restrictions" signs as you approach a left exit.

[74/171FAN]

Nothing here from my travels in the Keystone State.

US 15 in the Dillsburg area:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1383074,-77.0130495,3a,75y,216.6h,68.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srOnn2x0TvkJWzWNIz7kS3A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[xcellntbuy]

Common along Interstates in Georgia and Florida.

[jemacedo9]

In PA, freeways in the Philly area, including the PA Turnpike all have the restriction signed.

ALSO...there are several places in PA on 4-lane non-freeway roads where trucks are prohibited in the left lane.  US 11/15 in the Shamokin Dam/Sunbury area and US 15 near Lewisburg are two examples, and maybe PA 61 in one or two places in Schuylkill County?

[Buck87]

None in Ohio, though there was a bill introduced to the Ohio House last spring that would keep vehicles over 10k lbs in the right 2 lanes in 3 lane situations, which was referred to committee.

I know I've seen "No Trucks Left Lane" (in painted form) on the mountain section of I-40 going from TN into NC

[Brandon]

^^ Not quite true.  The Ohio Turnpike has such a restriction in its six lane sections.

An example: https://goo.gl/maps/RPEZUKpeVeP2

[kj3400]

Only place I can think of off the top of my head is I-695 between I-95 and I-70.

[Greybear]

"NO TRUCKS IN LEFT LANE" restrictions are in place on various parts of I-20, I-30 and I-635 in the Dallas area. Not entirely sure about the Fort Worth side of the Metroplex.

[hbelkins]

Kentucky's verbiage is "Trucks Use Right 2 Lanes." That restriction is not in place for the I-64/I-75 concurrency.

As Brian noted above, WV uses the restrictive "No Trucks Left Lane" rather than the permissive language Kentucky uses.

[peterj920]

I can't remember seeing it anywhere in Minnesota or Wisconsin.

I've seen them in construction zones in Wisconsin.  I-94 south of Milwaukee has had them during various construction projects.

[Kacie Jane]

I think in Washington, trucks are usually limited to the right two lanes of a 3 lane carriageway, or the right three lanes of a 4 or 5 lane carriageway.

[thenetwork]

Colorado pretty much limits the truck left-lane restrictions to the steep mountain stretches on I-70. 

Sometimes, they will not specifically say NO TRUCKS in the left lane, but they will have a minimum speed posted for the left lane that they know most truckers (or RV-ers) cannot reach -- either because they are going up a steep hill or have a low maximum truck speed downhill.