"Brent P" wrote
Just for *trivia's* sake I thought I'd post the origin of the golden rule. It fits perfectly here. It's actually Hebrew and the inverse of what it is now. "Don't do anything to others that you don't want done to you."
My "little' brother is a truck driver.... you sound just like him!
no wonder I like you JD :)
Kate
Ummmm.... it's still like that here in the South sugar.....
Kate
| Oh man, if the public only knew how bad some of these so-called | 'professionals' really are, they'd never venture out on the road again. I've | seen some that even I didn't want to be anywhere NEAR. Maybe 30% are truly | professional. The rest couldn't drive their way out of a paper bag. |
Ohhhh some of the stories my brother tells about his fellow drivers. He drives up and down the valley too. I think you two would get a good laugh together.
Kate
"Carl Saiyed" wrote
| People wont even be patient with me when I am backing up or turning..
Which reminds me... WHY IN THE HELL do people walk behind a moving vehicle of ANY size when they can clearly see that it is moving ?????
Every single time I back out of a parking space, either in the truck or in my car some idiot nearly gets creamed because I cannot see him until my view is cleared by getting back far enough to see around the cars next to me.
I take it slow and steady, but man these people are just ASKING for it.
Kate
| > When I need to change lanes, I normally wait until there is enough space | to | > slide my fat-ass'ed rig over. Sometimes, traffic is so heavy that I begin | > signaling the *need* to move over, (in effect, 'asking' those already | there | > for permission to move) and I wait until the lane next to me is clear. | >
| > The problem: after signaling, and the lane next to me is clear, aggressive | > morons come racing up next to my truck, then just sit there, blocking the | lane | > so that I cannot move over. | >
| > The question: WHY do people do this? I wish to understand why people | would | > purposely block a Semi from changing lanes, endangering their lives in the | > process. | >
| > The end result: Normally, I give it 3-4 TS 'blinks' before I start over. | In | > heavy traffic, I wait until the people next to me either pass or change | lanes, | > and there is plenty of room for me. They have the right-of-way after all, | and | > I try to be as polite as I can, but sometimes I have no choice: I *must* | > change lanes. It is not an option for me. | >
| > However, it seems lately that there is always some JERK that races into | that | > space I so desperately need, in order to keep me from changing lanes. | When I | > recognize this kind of shitty behavior, said JERK has 2 options when I | start | > over: brake hard and/or change lanes quickly, because once I start over, | it's | > a done deal. Challenge me, and you will be chewing my tires. I don't | back | > down, and it ain't MY funeral, pal. | >
| > I know most people hate trucks and truck drivers. They can't see around | the | > trucks, they're filthy, big and disgusting-looking, they smell and they're | > noisy, and they're just plain intimidating when you're near one. I | understand | > this, and I TRY to be as patient as I can be, on the road. | >
| > Unfortunately, my good intentions seem lost on the motoring public. | >
| > Early last year, I was on a 4-lane highway with a 'female' in an SUV next | to | > me. No one else was on this road for miles in every direction. She was | on | > the left, I on the right. My turn was quickly approaching, so I signaled | a | > left turn. She just sat there, right next to me. I slowed. She slowed. | I | > sped up. She sped up. I slowed again, and she matched me, move for move. | I | > finally gave up and began to move over. She wouldn't budge ONE INCH. She | > ended up being pushed over into oncoming traffic, where she angrily drove | for | > over 1/2 mile, right next to me, as she ran cars off the road, their horns | > blaring and brights flashing. I still don't understand what her problem | was. | >
| > People like this need a serious reality check. This is how I earn my | living, | > and I will thank everyone on the road to PLEASE show a modicum of maturity | and | > curtesy when sharing the road with others. If you had to drive a damned | truck | > 12 hours a day, you'd get weary of stinky behavior like this too. Give | those | > poor, tired old Truckers a break, would ya? | >
| > And ladies, we DO appreciate a wink and a nod when you're sitting next to | us | > in traffic. Yes, we take a peek downward and check y'all out, even though | you | > don't normally notice. A fine 'seat cover' is our only reward in life, | and we | > appreciate you all, bless you're hearts. | >
| >
| >
| > -JD | >
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Ever stop to think that most of those may be privately owned rigs?
Bwahahaha....now I know you're a troll....and ignorant. Please do explain how your right to expect common courtesy expires when surpassing an arbitrary number posted on the side of the road. This ought to be good....
Well gee, CJ, we should not have any respect or common courtesy when someone is driving over the speed limit....you said so yourself.
I've noticed this a lot more in the last couple of years. Usually it seems to be out of sheer stupidity rather than attitude. If you look out the window and tell some woman to "GTH offa my ass!" she usually gets this total look of horror and "I couldn't possibly have done something wrong." There is a law on our books and a story on the news talking about how tailgating has become an epidemic, especially in line at traffic lights.
LOL! Point taken. Back when Motor Movies were in style, I was one of the very few who sat quietly and watched a few mins. of the film again, while everyone raced like MADMEN to get to that tiny exit first. In fact, I often purposely parked right next to the exit, so that Wife #1 and I could laugh in hysterics at some of the antics people pulled.
The funniest had to be the brand new, black Caddie. These folks managed to race fast enough to be first to the exit, but the big El Dorado was so long that it wouldn't quite fit through the exit's tight turn. He tried to back up and straighten it out to no avail: 500+ cars were right on his bumper, and no one would cut him any slack. Retards began flashing lights and honking. He finally just floored it out of sheer frustration. The white, steel poles crushed the entire side of his car as he burned rubber, leaving most of his right-side trim and a smashed taillight laying on the ground. I could not believe that I had just witnessed $10,000 worth of damage, just so that he could be the first to get out. Un....believable.
-JD
Time to get his MC number off the door and make a phone call. I'm sure his boss would very much like to hear from you. (Yeah, even I do this on occasion.)
-JD
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I-10 into AZ is a special case; commercial traffic is allowed (last time I was that way) to do 70 mph, and few rigs are speed-governed in that part of CA. Anywhere north of LA, most company-owned trucks are choked-downt to 62 mph, which makes passing a bitch, especially if the guy you want to pass is an assbite and speeds up on you.
** Sometimes I don't know about you, JD. You seem like a fairly ** paranoid person.Your impression is inaccurate. I merely denouce the hypocracy of our times, and articulate my rage when I have the time.
-JD
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I figured one or two here would resort to name-calling and offensive sidelining without a valid point, and it looks like you're one of them. Bob gets the distinction of being #2. You both are rude, and don't contribute anything to this discussion, so there is no point to ever reading anything you post again.
I've kill-filed you both. Be nice, and someone else here might talk to you.
-JD
Well, I figured that much out on my own. I thought that perhaps I was missing something not so obvious? Most folks tailgate these days, and tailgating a big truck is the PITTS. Sorta takes the wind out of their sails, doesn't it?
-JD
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Oh Man, I should hang my head in shame! I must wonder if she was related to the lady who threw a cup of coffee at me one morning? For some reason, I tend to attract ill-tempered women these days.
Just ask Kate. :)
-JD
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When this problem arises, I'm never in the slow lane: I'm usually in lane #2 next to the slow lane, trying to move back over. I normally run in the slow lane, and don't venture out of it very often.
I can easily tell when someone is a 'blinker blocker.' They always speed up from WAY behind me, race up right next to me, then just sit there. During the daytime, I can see their face very clearly. I have 20-10 vision, and you'd be VERY surprised at what I can see out of those big-assed mirrors. (They're tilted downward so that we can see you folks better.) Some laugh and flip me off. Some actually stick their tongue out or make moronic gestures. Some even faux-dance in their seat while proferring the finger. Sometimes it's pretty amusing, to be honest.
I'll put up with it for a bit, but when I need over, it isn't up for a debate. Sometimes 'dipping' into the lane I need will do the trick. If this doesn't work, I will slowly start over, giving them plenty of time to go bother someone else. This always works. Then I have to start sweating bullets trying to make that 20-mph. exit without going airborne. Not good.
Keep in mind, this becomes important only when someone actually RACES UP right next to me when I kick the TS on. Otherwise, I wait until the lane is clear, then move. It's all a part of 'playing nice' as Dwight puts it.
** ** It also could be that your wanting in the fast lane will interfer with ** *their* plans! And this, sounds like it has all the makings for *road ** rage*. ** ** Drive safely out there! Arrive alive! Sometimes this means you have to ** slow down.-JD
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Ahhh, great minds think alike. Hopefully he enjoys it more than I do. I'm deathly bored with it all. Once in a while, something makes it interesting, like the guy in the '97 GT who cut in front of me so closely today, that I ended up leaving 50-feet of charred rubber in my wake to avoid him. He was weaving in-and-out of traffic, tailgating, you know, the works. I think some people just go NUTS in heavy traffic like caged rodents, and think they can just drive their way out of it.
-JD
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I've got a problem with that: Your "rights" don't expire just because you're speeding, and the car driver has every right to bitch about being cut off at any speed.
In most states "Keep right except to pass" and "Slower traffic keep right" don't have exemptions for those exceeding the speed limit, which means that even if you are speeding yourself, you still need to yield right for faster traffic. This includes trucks.
My respect is not easily or automatically earned. I start with the assumption that every driver (trucks and cars alike) is a moron or a scumbag as you said, and work from there. If they drive like they care about both what they're doing and others around them, they just might get some respect. In any case, I lead by example: I stay the heck out of their way as I would hope they'd stay out of mine.
He sounds just like the guy that was calling GW a terrorist baby murderer. The world is full of morons and the more protection laws that Libs make, the more prolific they'll get.
I don't suppose you have video of that? ROFL! Please tell the story....
It wasn't that huge a deal, but it was funny to me. I tapped the brakes on an angry, ugly woman one morning, who insisted on tailgating me for over 5 miles on the freeway.
The good news: it dislodged her nose from my anal cleft.
The bad news: she pulls up alongside me, actually GROWLS showing what appeared to be fangs, then heaves a near-full cup of Starbucks coffee at me. It thwaked the windsheld, splattering into a greasy, sticky mess. Since my windows were up and wipers/washer operational, it just struck me as funny that she spent $4.75 on a Latte to throw at a total stranger. And that I thought it was funny, made it even funnier.
I'm sure she proferred the finger and choice prose as she sped off, but I was laughing too hard to notice.
-JD
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Hmmm, I think my reflexes may have caused me to SLAM into her from the sheer terror of the incident. =p
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