The transit-overtaking-mich syndrome…

Today I drove over the motorway at a relatively full motorway at 130km/h (set at cruise speed) and I noticed the “transit-overhaul-mich syndrome” clearly. What is it about? One approaches a usually moderately slower car, usually golf / polo class; hardly one sets one to overhaul “on” – in reality one just drives on with the set speed – the car to overhaul gives gas; one then has two possibilities: either one is If you have overtaken the vehicle – let’s say Seat Leon, Ford Fiesta, Audi A3 – or you slow down and classify yourself at 120km/h behind the vehicle. Hardly a second one is chosen, the vehicle slows you down because it falls back into its original driving speed. I can of course only make assumptions, but I think the behaviour of the drivers is the “transit-overhaul-mich syndrome”: the drivers see that a delivery car overtakes them, what n can’t be at all, because that means they drive too slowly (independent of your speed). So they speed up. If you break off the overtaking manoeuvre as a transit driver, the drivers fall back into their “natural” speed with the syndrome. Unfortunately, this can go so far as to overtake three or four times without really being able to overtake if you don’t speed up to significantly higher speeds. Is that possible for you? Your transit experiences I’d be interested!