Ural Mountains
If you go through the Ural mountains on any of the highways, you will be stuck behind slow trucks most of the time. Overtaking lanes are few. There as many speed restrictions and there is no overtaking for the majority of the way between Ufa and Chelyabinsk. Its very easy to get frustrated and try and zip past some trucks in a no overtaking zone there.
Either set yourself to relax mode and take it particularly easy crossing the Urals, or try and choose some quiet backroads. ... or else have your wallet ready.
Its a common trip up point crossing Russia. But the speed restrictions and no overtaking zones are there because there are a lot of accidents there - precisely by drivers who zoom past trucks in no overtaking zones. In fact you will see them zooming at you from the opposite direction and pulling back into their lanes just before they hit you. And you will curse them for overtaking in no overtaking zones and their unsafe driving. When you see all of that, you understand why they have no overtaking there and you see why the police are all over that section of road trying to enforce it.
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