We might be talking about different things, lol… What truckers do is not to look out for the workers or LEO, its so that 100 cars don’t pass them and they are in the back of the line waiting to merge. Kind of like this
one lane ahead, merge left ahead
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^ \ <— merge point
^ X
^ X
^ X
^ X
^ X
^ X
X X
X X
T T <— these trucks going 1mph not letting anyone go through)
^ ^ *(if im this car, im blowing off the side of the road to pass him)
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^=car
T=your asshole friends 
X=empty road
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