It would take 10 columns just to summarize all the feedback I heard from readers last month. But here’s a single stab at the September reader mailbag.

One column that generated many responses was the Sept. 16 column on “there ought to be a law.”

I’ll delve into the many reader proposals sometime in the future. But Herb Grisso of Blue Ridge objected to my characterization of truckers on Interstate 81 as “slobs.” He’s been a trucker for 33 years.

That term was aimed at the truck drivers who hog the left lane at 50 mph on upgrades. Grisso and a few others said I didn’t aim well enough. They took it as a broad brush.

He said car drivers who cut off truckers are the real slobs.

“If you have a problem with the trucks on the Interstate take your complaining to VDOT. This road is 25 years outdated,” he wrote. He’s certainly right about that.

Grisso added his own tongue-in-cheek solution: “Take some of the [cars] off I-81 and put them on railcars so trucks have more lanes to use so we can deliver the goods that the stores wanted yesterday.”

I also heard from a retired state police captain who used to work out of the Salem barracks. Donald Staton wrote that we don’t need a law prohibiting truckers from hogging the left lane on upgrades.

It’s already illegal, noted Staton, of Virginia Beach. Here’s what the law says:

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