Truckers question traffic-relief efforts - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 12.27.2007

Truckers question traffic-relief efforts
12/27/07

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ATLANTA — Sitting high in what he calls his "condo cab" — equipped with bunk beds, a laptop, flat-screen television, satellite radio and DVDs — long-distance trucker Ted Gennick gets a bird's-eye view of the road.
As he shifts through the gears, all 10 of them, his 53-foot-long trailer in tow, he says he sees passenger-vehicle drivers distracted by cellphones and other devices, succumbing to road rage and routinely breaking the law.
"I try to stay out of their way," he says.
For motorists unnerved by seeing hulking 18-wheelers bearing down on them in their rear-view mirrors, Gennick's philosophy might seem surprising. Gennick, however, represents another side of an emerging debate around the nation as state and federal transportation planners develop strategies to fight congestion prompted by a surge of cars and big rigs on highways.
The initiatives include laws that restrict trucks to the right lanes on interstate highways in many states or set slower speed limits for them in 11 states. Several states, including Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, California, Arizona and Texas, are studying truck-only lanes.

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Mtn.Momma · **^ Top** #2 12.28.2007

It would sure be good if those doing the Study on Truck-Only Lanes and Speed Limits, would ride around in a big truck for six months before jumping to their conclusions.

palerdr · **^ Top** #3 12.31.2007

in this country since everything revolves around stupidity. They hate trucks because they're bigger. That's the bottom line and it will never change. I say let them go ahead and slow us down to the point of lethargy and they start crying like the babies they are about where the freight is or why isn't there any tampons on the shelf or "they ran out of viagra THAT fast" ?? Let them go ahead and slow us down to the point that we're moving backwards !! I couldn't care less , I'll help 'em out and go even slower !! Stupid idiots. There's 200,000,000 cars on the road compared to 50,000 trucks and they can't figure out why it's congested. Bunch o' simple simon, numbskull, no-brain, imbiscile , clueless half-wit ninkinpoops who are only going to create more congestion. Brilliant

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