when big trucks want over in your lane

What does a suicide have to do with a truck merging? Or did you miss the part "man walked in front of the semi"?

 

Yes really

http://www.whio.com/news/crash-wrong-way-driver-death-suicide/WSy3QOpKUjrvRUXLm9DPWK/

 

Here's the video of this accident

https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=Tbob1VGPpU0

 

tons of confirmed reports of suicide by truck

https://www.google.com/search?q=sui...e=UTF-8#scso=uid_WAw7uwAG0VMKPiASDQKEVg_0:725

 

If you read the post yes, suicide. If it was an accident the story would have said "struck while walking" or somesuch. When it says "stepped into the path" it is not an accident.

As to you main point of getting over I do agree that way too many drivers don't even when they can.

 

Suicide by truck. Messy.

I also see suicide by train from time to time. But the worst are children whose parents do not pay attention and wander into reach of the engine roaring by. Then the dead kid is knocked 200 feet across the depot like a rag doll. What a waste. One in Harpers ferry was too close to the rail on the platform when freight approached at speed wailing the whistle to get back. 50 mph was almost sufficient to push the man away with the first air pressure and then try to suck him under the second engine. Someone grabbed him and saved him.

Back to truck. I don't care to count how many times I had to horse the wheel and get past someone in the way the entire situation itself is immaterial., You do not hit anyone period. There are a few people imprinted on my minds eye even today who lost 8 lives while my tractor missed them and the trailer missed them less. I will never forget them.

Or the catwalk in NYC near hunts. They get up there and start fooling with the glad hands. A heavy J turn at 30 scrapes em off. Screams and cursing tell me he is not dead. Later Engineers did not install grab irons on the sides of the sleeper and changed the geometry of the fairings so that it's truly dangerous to try and hop on a modern truck rolling by.

If you are rolling down the highway in a car knowing nothing about trucks and you get passed... stay put with what you got. It's not personal. Likely you are slower than he or she is on the governor limit and it's exacting important that truck keeps against the governor becuase dispatchers make appointment times to 15 minutes and fire those who are 20 minutes late.

Let em roll by. And live.

I introduce a new thought with all the crappy drivers coming here from overseas to drive really cheaply our trucks. Stay away from them #### things. I do.

Here in Arkansas you might find us in convoy with a professional at 65 or so, not necessarily 70. It's a habit. Say hello sometime. You never know.

 

Read my mind with that 2nd part, X.
Two sure ways to be relieved of your life if you want out.

Did you know statistically, more women attempt but more men succeed? We use, generally, more lethal means... like trying to occupy the same physical space as a 40 ton 65mph+ vehicle.