Ota discovered that she enjoyed leading the convoy. Her reasoning was that she would be less likely to get pulled over for a ticket. Reisner also believes people joined convoys to avoid getting a ticket or to feel safe. In any case, to him, convoys are inevitable and there is no escape. In all the references used, a belief that convoys are almost unavoidable was unanimous.
People usually do it for safety reasons or to avoid being pulled over.
Tallman was the only one who actually defined the different types of convoys that exist. Most of the reports see convoys as either something that happens in the fast lane or the slow lane. Convoys are significant to traffic psychology because of the way we tend to be able to rationalize our involvement. For many of us, involvement in a convoy usually means breaking the law by exceeding the speed limit. We seem to think that when other people do it, we can also.