1997 GMC Jimmy Owner's Manual - Page 198

Freeway Driving The most important advice on freeway driving is: Keep up with traffic and keep to the right. Drive at the same speed most of the other drivers are driving. Too-fast or traffic flow. Treat the too-slow driving breaks a smooth left laneon a freeway as a passing lane. At the entrance, there is usually a ramp leads to the that freeway. If you have a clearview of the freeway asyou drive along the entrance ramp, should begin to you check traffic.Try to determine where you expect to blend with the flow.Try to merge into the gap at close to the prevailing speed. Switch on your signal, check turn your mirrors and glance over your shoulder as often as necessary. Try to blend smoothlywith the traffic flow. Once you are on the freeway, adjust your speed to the posted limit or to the prevailing rate it's slower. Stay if in the right lane unless want to pass. you Before changing lanes, check your mirrors. Then use your turn signal. Mile for mile, freeways (also called thruways, parkways, Just beforeyou leave the lane, glance quickly over your expressways, turnpikes or superhighways) are the safest shoulder to make sure there another vehicle in your isn't of all roads. But they have their own special rules. "blind" spot. 4-33