WASHINGTON — Maybe you're a bit of a lead-foot. Maybe you don't like driving behind trucks. Or maybe you just really like the view from the left lane. Well, Oklahoma is among an increasing number of states that have a message for you: Get over. Or pay up.

Oklahoma, Oregon and Virginia are racing to become the latest in a wave of states that have imposed higher fines and more restrictions on driving in the left lane of multilane highways. The crackdown is an attempt to enforce what legislators say drivers should already know: the far left lane of a highway is for passing, and only passing.

Since 2013, at least five other states — Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey and Tennessee — have also stiffened penalties for "slowpoke" driving or "left-lane camping." While all states require slow vehicles to keep right, they do not all specifically require drivers to get out of the left lane after overtaking another motorist or set penalties for failing to do so.

"Left-lane cruisers, besides being dangerously oblivious to the other drivers around them, are annoying as heck," said Kaye Kory, the Democratic Virginia state delegate who co-sponsored the legislation in her state.