frog leaping. what is it and do you do it?

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  1. GenericUserName

    GenericUserName Road Train Member

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    Double checking on something.
     
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  3. Switches

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    well leap frog is a children's game where you jump over one another and I use the same term to talk about trucks i pass and pass me up again and again over a stretch of miles.It may be something else your looking for i could be wrong.
     
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  4. GenericUserName

    GenericUserName Road Train Member

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    That is precisely what i am talking about. I have been driving two months just learned about it today. Amazing how something can be happening constantly right under your nose and you're entirely oblivious to it.
     
  5. HalpinUout

    HalpinUout Road Train Member

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    That's a new one to me... Although we run fast here so normally when I come up on a truck within seconds his in my rear view... Maybe that's why?
     
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  6. GenericUserName

    GenericUserName Road Train Member

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    It's actually brilliant. Truckers can be clever.
     
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  7. scottied67

    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    What is interesting is being on a 3 day haul and seeing the same truck or trucks in the same truck stops as you or passing you several times a day you kinda figure they are on a similar track and hours of service as you.
     
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  8. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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    I know its a game that is not to be played with a unicorn.
     
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  9. pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    Never heard of this term but after your description what it means, the words does speak for itself.
     
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  10. SHOJim

    SHOJim Road Train Member

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    Or Elton John.....
     
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  11. BUMBACLADWAR

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    Well my trailer is usually incredibly light 10,000 lbs of product in a 53" . Usually it goes like this: a container guy,then an OTR guy blow my doors on flat ground or going downhill. I stay at speed limit and 2 miles later going uphill I overtake them easily. Same thing 10 miles later they blow my doors off I pass them going up the next steep grade. What they're doing is trying to make up time they lose on the hills,then speeding downhill to get a "run" at the next hill because they're running heavy.
     
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