Why do people do this?

You have no right to another lane at the expense of someone else's life; you're nothing more than a cheap killer. I guess you'd murder your own mother for that lane, though, wouldn't you?

Of course, you'd go to HER funeral, wouldn't you, punk?

I may miss something because I stopped here to answer. Because they don't want the big truck in fornt of *them*. Get behind *me* and block off the next guy but not *me* because I'm in a hurry and my goal is far more important the yours or anyone elses on the road today. This is kind of an educated guess, but I'm pretty sure I'm correct.

She was DRUNK, And YOU- you MOVED her only point of reference on the road! You rude bass-turd!!

No, but lets hope YOU'RE the guy that rushes up and blocks a diagonally moving truck next time...

Hey, I started driving (full time) in 1972, when only the really well-to-do had more than one car in the family. Perhaps my failing memory is hazing over with time, but I seem to recall nothing but open roads and driving just for the sake of driving. Fewer cars, fewer people, and lots of Sunday drivers (which quickly became a derogatory term for slowpokes).

This 4th of July, my wife and I drove down to Havre de Grace, Maryland, just for the hell of it. Beautiful day, all back roads, top down. Took in the local parade, then headed back a different route. Followed some "scenic tour" signs for an hour or so, meandering through the Susquehannah valley. We had a great time.

I could have taken I-95 or Route 1, but neither appealed to me. I just wasn't in the mood to mess with the road warriors.

Wanna know what happened to waving or nodding at your fellow motorists? Watch a church parking lot empty out on a Sunday. These people have just sat through a sermon, but can't wait to cut each other off so they can be first to get out.

dwight

Maybe 30% are truly

We've noticed.

Well, I hope it did. Their life/limb was not in danger - like mine was. I did not cut him off - like he did to me. He did not have to make an emergency manouver - like I did. But, he learned (I hope) that when he's a rude, obnoxious, dangerous driver somebody just might make him pay for it. There were only 3 of us in that 100 yard stretch of road. The polite and intelligent move would have been to wait another 10 seconds, then make a safe lane change and pass. But no. It's me first, screw you, I'm more important than everyone else. Well, sometimes you have to pay for that attitude. If his momma isn't going to teach him some manners, somebody has to.

Who the f*ck are you? I was talking to a big, brave truck driver who thinks that throttling into another lane and causing funerals is AOK.

And then there's you, a wimpy little pissant who can't even pull his diaper up after mommy says to stay away from the big boys.

Listen to mommy from now on.

You must be new here.

Here, yeah. Dealing with cowards like WindsorFox, no.

Well, I have a little problem with this paragraph, as I have made night runs back and forth between Phoenix and L.A. on I-10 many times over the years. Ain't a damn rig I've ever seen running under 62 mph. If that were the case, they could never pass another one. Most of the time I pace them at 75 to 80, 'cept in known speed traps. And the only way you are going to clear another truck in 10 seconds is if he's doing

Sometimes I don't know about you, JD. You seem like a fairly paranoid person.

In any case, I've never had any problems with any truck drivers on the open road. Other posters in this thread mentioned getting cut off when one truck passes another. My opinion is this: if the trucks are already exceeding the speed limit (which they do most of the time by at least a few mph), and a passenger car is jetting along faster than that, said car driver has no right to bitch about being cut off. In facts, all "rights" expire above the posted limit, and you are now on your own with your knack for defensive survival.

The public needs to remind themselves that a majority of the food and products that we purchase daily arrives at our stores via truck. Thus, whether or not the truck driver is a scumbag or true pro, respect is deserved for that reason, and not because we can get flattened out in a collision. After all, there are a lot of better targets for our angst.

CobraJet

JD,

How do you determine, from your cab, that the driver, in the other car, is purposely trying to hold you in the slow lane? They simply may not have noticed your signal.

It also could be that your wanting in the fast lane will interfer with

Drive safely out there! Arrive alive! Sometimes this means you have to slow down.

"Rights" have little to do with it (driving isn't a right now is it?). It's a lack of common courtesy and respect that leads to road battles, etc., IMO. Like any other driver, a trucker is typically trying to switch lanes for his own personal reasons. If a trucker decides his personal needs trump the needs of another driver, he is wrong to think so.

Heard this many times, and unusually often from truckers. Nope, doesn't make sense. Almost everyone on the road is trying to get to their job, or perform their function in the system. There would be no food for the trucker to haul if not for the farmer driving to the bank to finance his farm, or the engineer trying to get to work to design trucks.

It's the truckers who should feel lucky, for this reason: 99.9% of all highway wear is caused by truck axles. In fact, in pavement design, the expected lifetime of a given pavement is measured in number of truck axles. We all pay for them, but they transportation industry gets the most benefit.

Truckers deserver respect regardless, because they are human beings. But not because their need of the road is more important than mine.

Used to be, when you saw a big rig on the road you felt pretty safe. These guys were sort of the 'Big Brothers" of drivers. Never did anything stupid, always were watching out for other drivers not matter how crazy the other drivers were. Times changed. I still let them in when they need to change lanes and I never intentionally give them a hard time, but I want to be as far away from them as possible. I have seen big rig drivers do some really bone headed things. Logging truck drivers are the absolute worst. They don't always have the right of way, but they always have the "big" of way, Any confrontation with them is short, and exciting, and seldom goes well for the guy driving the car. You are dead a LONG time.

Someone who has been a regular in this group for about 9 years and who thinks you're a dick and obviously have no clue who you are replying to.

I'm in Baton Rouge. Care to see just how whimpy a pissant I am? Catch me anytime on Sturdays at Miss Goldies Car Show. I predict you are a loudmouthed mammas boy who can make plenty of threats over the Internet, which all of us in this group know is like winning the Special Olympics. Now move along where someone cares about your opinion other than yourself....

That proves you are new here. Cowardice is provoking over the Internet. Come get me hot shot ROFL!!!

Had a large box truck just a couple of feet from my rear bumper today. As if intimidating me was any good since I was trapped behind slow drivers. Accelerating away from him didn't prove the point, next time I was trapped he was there on my ass again.

Sometimes it does when that 'wrong' is mirroring that person's own behavior back at them.

That's total bullshit. The speed limits are not in any reflective of reality in much of this country. Just because someone is closer to it doesn't give them any moral superiority what so ever. If that were true, anyone driving the legal minimum on the interstates would have the right to cut anyone off they wished.

You don't lose any rights exceeding some number that was pulled out of somebody's ass and plastered on a sign next to the road. If you think that's the case I invite you to drive chicago area expressways like the dan ryan at the posted 45-50mph speed limit. I double dog dare you to do that in anything smaller than a large box truck or semi. Yeah, that's right, a 14 lane interstate with a 45 local / 50 express posted speed limit.

The golden rule IMO is don't make anyone else use the brakes needlessly. Which is really my verison of 'I'll stay out of your way as I would have you stay out of mine'

Yet, we could do long distance freight other ways. It's just that the economically trucking has the advantage right now due to artifically created circumstances of taxes, subsidizes, labor rules, mismanagement,etc.