Originally Posted by PatrickGSR94

My state is actually MS, but I'm originally from Memphis and had the driver handbook in TN when I was 16, and I do remember something in it about being considered a slow-moving vehicle if a certain number of cars are behind. I checked the state codes for both MS and TN on Lexis Nexis. MS has no such minimum speed laws except on interstate highways, that I can find. TN code 55-8-154 says: "No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law." The way I read it, that provision does not apply to non-motorized vehicles like bicycles, horses and horse-drawn carriages and the like.

If I'm on a 2-lane road with no shoulders and ditches on both sides (which are many, many roads in my area, especially those between municipalities), huffing and puffing uphill at 10 mph, I will NOT be hugging the right side. I have done so in the past and ALWAYS got buzzed. Now I remain farther out in the lane. I may pull off at the top of the hill if I need to take a breather, but I will not get off in the ditch just so a few cars can pass me before I crest the hill. That's not safe for me, and I have no such obligation to do so.