Idiot truck drivers on i-5?
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I give truck drivers plenty of respect, i dont cut them off, I use my blinker when I pass them, and if I can I give them room before i pass to move in my lane in case of an emergency. But i was getting pissed because every time i broke free from traffic, and i was the only car that needed to get by one of them would block me off and so i would have to wait 5 min to get by whem it would have taken just 2 seconds. I know they have to make good time on their deliveries but it wasnt like there were ten other cars behind me trying to get through.
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Originally posted by dr3d1zzl3
that is why i bring my spear gun with a rope on it. When they give me funk i just shoot it at their front window then i shimmy up it and steal their loads.
that is why i bring my spear gun with a rope on it. When they give me funk i just shoot it at their front window then i shimmy up it and steal their loads.
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Ever since I started driving the truck and trailer around, I have a newfound respect for the aggravation commercial drivers need to deal with on a daily basis.
I can't tell you how many times someone has attempted to merge onto the highway right alongside of me without looking. I'm not going to slam on my brakes for a moron like this, and nearly every time I'm on the road with the trailer, someone does this and winds up rolling along in the breakdown lane to let me by.
There's also the folks that get on the highway at 45mph RIGHT in front of me. Just about the time I've slowed down to they're speed, they decide to accelerate up to 85mph.
Or the people that zip past me in the left lane, slice right in front of me into my lane and hit the brakes to take the exit we're on top of, when no one is behind me.
Or when there is a long line of cars in the left lane on I-5 and I'm with them, and some idiot finds a break on the right, zooms up and decides to stuff their car right between me and the car right in front of me.
Sometimes I have a very difficult time restraining myself from giving these idiots a little nudge with my 17,000 pound rig.
Most drivers of cars have no understanding that it heavy vehicles require more time to slow down than cars do.
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I can't tell you how many times someone has attempted to merge onto the highway right alongside of me without looking. I'm not going to slam on my brakes for a moron like this, and nearly every time I'm on the road with the trailer, someone does this and winds up rolling along in the breakdown lane to let me by.
There's also the folks that get on the highway at 45mph RIGHT in front of me. Just about the time I've slowed down to they're speed, they decide to accelerate up to 85mph.
Or the people that zip past me in the left lane, slice right in front of me into my lane and hit the brakes to take the exit we're on top of, when no one is behind me.
Or when there is a long line of cars in the left lane on I-5 and I'm with them, and some idiot finds a break on the right, zooms up and decides to stuff their car right between me and the car right in front of me.
Sometimes I have a very difficult time restraining myself from giving these idiots a little nudge with my 17,000 pound rig.
Most drivers of cars have no understanding that it heavy vehicles require more time to slow down than cars do.
Gary
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Originally posted by sonicsuby
every semi driver is an idiot piece of ****. I hate those ****ing guys. When I was coming home from Vegas a guy nearly killed me - he changed lanes in front of me, so I went to go around him and he swerved over and blocked both lanes. I nearly hit him.
I think that truckers all have a picture of my car in their cab and when they see me they attempt to kill me.
every semi driver is an idiot piece of ****. I hate those ****ing guys. When I was coming home from Vegas a guy nearly killed me - he changed lanes in front of me, so I went to go around him and he swerved over and blocked both lanes. I nearly hit him.
I think that truckers all have a picture of my car in their cab and when they see me they attempt to kill me.
Don't let LagnWagn hear you... he's got a class A too.
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Originally posted by sperry
Don't let LagnWagn hear you... he's got a class A too.
Don't let LagnWagn hear you... he's got a class A too.
hah, my dad used to drive 18 wheelers too. I can understand that their truck is slow (from being so damn heavy) and that it doesn't handle well (from being so heavy and big), but most truck drivers, in my opinion and experience are VERY incosiderate.
I live near a truck stop, and near DAILY I have some ******* semi pull out in front of me to enter traffic from the truck stop parking log. The speed limit on this road is 50mph and they will cut it so close in front of you that their cab is hardly in your lane by the time you have STOPPED from 50mph. They do it all the time, in front of me, in front of other vehicles. The only people they don't pull out in front of is themselves.
Heading up 80 is bad too. East of Auburn when 80 goes down to two lanes, you'll get some trucker who wants to pass another slow truck and he'll decide to do it UP A HILL and he'll usually cut in front of somebody doing 70+. Then, that guy has to slam on his brakes, and all the cars have to wait for miles while the asshat in the semi passes the other semi.
Many truckers just seem to have little or no regard for the other vehicles on the road. I'm sure their job is hard and I know they deliver near everything, but that doesn't give them the right to be *******s.
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Originally posted by robb
As a commercial driver myself, I must come in and defend the truck drivers.
Many times what may appear to be a "for no reason" maneuver to a car behind a truck, is actually for a reason. Commonly the random lane change has to do with wind. The average trailer on the road now is 13' high and 53' long - well lets just say it doesn't take much wind to push them hard...so if there appears to be room they will let the rig drift into the other lane rather than fight the gust (this makes it more likely to wreck).
The key to that statement is "appears to be room." The truck driver is looking an a mirror to see you - he can't look over his shoulder...now mind you he is looking at your car which is 5' tall in a 5"x10" mirror from 8' above the road 65-70' in front of you...
Really merging is a bit of a guessing game in commercial vehicles when judging the speed of an approaching car.
I have over 10,000 hours behind the wheel of commercial vehicles and have driver well over 1/2 million miles commercially. I am also a Federal Department of Transportation and Federal Transit Administration certified instructor...so although I get pissed at trucks when I'm in my WRX give them a brake and some extra space...
also remember that if you eat it, use it, wear it, or bought it - chances are it got there on a truck.
As a commercial driver myself, I must come in and defend the truck drivers.
Many times what may appear to be a "for no reason" maneuver to a car behind a truck, is actually for a reason. Commonly the random lane change has to do with wind. The average trailer on the road now is 13' high and 53' long - well lets just say it doesn't take much wind to push them hard...so if there appears to be room they will let the rig drift into the other lane rather than fight the gust (this makes it more likely to wreck).
The key to that statement is "appears to be room." The truck driver is looking an a mirror to see you - he can't look over his shoulder...now mind you he is looking at your car which is 5' tall in a 5"x10" mirror from 8' above the road 65-70' in front of you...
Really merging is a bit of a guessing game in commercial vehicles when judging the speed of an approaching car.
I have over 10,000 hours behind the wheel of commercial vehicles and have driver well over 1/2 million miles commercially. I am also a Federal Department of Transportation and Federal Transit Administration certified instructor...so although I get pissed at trucks when I'm in my WRX give them a brake and some extra space...
also remember that if you eat it, use it, wear it, or bought it - chances are it got there on a truck.
Originally posted by sonicsuby
hah, my dad used to drive 18 wheelers too. I can understand that their truck is slow (from being so damn heavy) and that it doesn't handle well (from being so heavy and big), but most truck drivers, in my opinion and experience are VERY incosiderate.
I live near a truck stop, and near DAILY I have some ******* semi pull out in front of me to enter traffic from the truck stop parking log. The speed limit on this road is 50mph and they will cut it so close in front of you that their cab is hardly in your lane by the time you have STOPPED from 50mph. They do it all the time, in front of me, in front of other vehicles. The only people they don't pull out in front of is themselves.
Heading up 80 is bad too. East of Auburn when 80 goes down to two lanes, you'll get some trucker who wants to pass another slow truck and he'll decide to do it UP A HILL and he'll usually cut in front of somebody doing 70+. Then, that guy has to slam on his brakes, and all the cars have to wait for miles while the asshat in the semi passes the other semi.
Many truckers just seem to have little or no regard for the other vehicles on the road. I'm sure their job is hard and I know they deliver near everything, but that doesn't give them the right to be *******s.
hah, my dad used to drive 18 wheelers too. I can understand that their truck is slow (from being so damn heavy) and that it doesn't handle well (from being so heavy and big), but most truck drivers, in my opinion and experience are VERY incosiderate.
I live near a truck stop, and near DAILY I have some ******* semi pull out in front of me to enter traffic from the truck stop parking log. The speed limit on this road is 50mph and they will cut it so close in front of you that their cab is hardly in your lane by the time you have STOPPED from 50mph. They do it all the time, in front of me, in front of other vehicles. The only people they don't pull out in front of is themselves.
Heading up 80 is bad too. East of Auburn when 80 goes down to two lanes, you'll get some trucker who wants to pass another slow truck and he'll decide to do it UP A HILL and he'll usually cut in front of somebody doing 70+. Then, that guy has to slam on his brakes, and all the cars have to wait for miles while the asshat in the semi passes the other semi.
Many truckers just seem to have little or no regard for the other vehicles on the road. I'm sure their job is hard and I know they deliver near everything, but that doesn't give them the right to be *******s.
I find in general the truck drivers out west are much better than the average motorist... especially the oblivious SUV driver with the cell phone grafted to their head.
Now, the casino tour bus drivers... that's a different story. Those guys are the ones I see pulling out on a curvey section of 2 lane highway to pass a rig that's *faster* then them, cutting off 15 cars in the process then sitting in the lane till the rig creeps ahead far enough that everyone just passes on the right.
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Originally posted by dr3d1zzl3
that is why i bring my spear gun with a rope on it. When they give me funk i just shoot it at their front window then i shimmy up it and steal their loads.
that is why i bring my spear gun with a rope on it. When they give me funk i just shoot it at their front window then i shimmy up it and steal their loads.
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Everything that has been said here has been very informative and interesting.
But I still have no comprehension why a 18 wheeler going 55 1/2 mph needs to pass a 18 wheeler going 55mph when 5 cars are about 50 yards behind coming up fast at 75mph with nobody behind them for several miles and then proceed to only pass the 18 wheeler doing 55mph at 55 1/4 mph and not actually accelerate a little bit so that the line of cars (which the semi driver could have just waited to go BEHIND) will only have to spend ~ 30 seconds behind the semi instead of 3 minutes...
I'm going to go bang my head on the wall for an hour or so now
But I still have no comprehension why a 18 wheeler going 55 1/2 mph needs to pass a 18 wheeler going 55mph when 5 cars are about 50 yards behind coming up fast at 75mph with nobody behind them for several miles and then proceed to only pass the 18 wheeler doing 55mph at 55 1/4 mph and not actually accelerate a little bit so that the line of cars (which the semi driver could have just waited to go BEHIND) will only have to spend ~ 30 seconds behind the semi instead of 3 minutes...
I'm going to go bang my head on the wall for an hour or so now
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Originally posted by sonicsuby
every semi driver is an idiot piece of ****. I hate those ****ing guys. When I was coming home from Vegas a guy nearly killed me - he changed lanes in front of me, so I went to go around him and he swerved over and blocked both lanes. I nearly hit him.
I think that truckers all have a picture of my car in their cab and when they see me they attempt to kill me.
every semi driver is an idiot piece of ****. I hate those ****ing guys. When I was coming home from Vegas a guy nearly killed me - he changed lanes in front of me, so I went to go around him and he swerved over and blocked both lanes. I nearly hit him.
I think that truckers all have a picture of my car in their cab and when they see me they attempt to kill me.
Ouch! That is harsh...It sucks that a minority of truck drivers do suck ***, (hense, the crappy image) while the majority are good drivers, doing their best to stay out of everyones way.
Driving a truck in California sucks. 55 MPH speed limit it very unsafe, as trucks are often going 20MPh+ slower than the rest of traffic. I saw some truck drivers on I5 today made some poor choices. The key is to be patient, and only pass if you can best the slower vehicle by 10mph or more, otherwise, you get stuck out in the left lane too long.
I know most people don't care, but I wish more drivers could ride in a big-rig at tleast once, just to see how poorly people drive around them.
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Originally posted by psoper
They all deserve to die horrible flaming deaths in a massive pile-up.
They all deserve to die horrible flaming deaths in a massive pile-up.
A good friend of mines niece died and a large portion of her family were seriously injured exactly like that.