US 54 9 miles east of Tucumcari, NM last night.

####... R.I.P Driver

 

I nearly had a head on collision not far from there when I was headed westbound on the 54 at dawn a couple of years ago. Coming over a blind hill was a truck passing another truck, it was one of the few hard braking "events" I've ever had and it was necessary to give enough room for the idiot to barely complete his pass.

In the last two year's I've had two such incidents, the other was on US-95 northbound going around Walker Lake in Nevada, when a SRT tried to pass me on a blind curve in a no passing zone. Had I hit the brakes to cancel cruise control three truckers could have died that day. He barely had enough room to tuck back behind me before the oncoming truck came through.

Complete idiocy.

 

RIP driver, I didn't know what happened here BUT the last time I came over from Kansas City a couple weeks ago I saw a LOT of BAD driving by big trucks, guys get impatient, had 2-3 trucks at a time trying to pass other trucks on a double yellow, etc.

Just figure there are going to be slow trucks AND very little passing lanes on a lot of US 54, take a number and roll with the flow.

TS