A question for the non-truckers

I see the same behavior from more and more truckers.
With the idiotic claim "we're not allowed in the left land", my truck is tailgated at 65mph in a 55mph zone (like he's gonna intimidate ME?),
or passed on the right where he then runs up the bumper of the slow traffic I'M passing and thinks I'm gonna back out of it so he can cut in front of me with 2' to spare?
or the New York hand who runs the right shoulder at full speed and tears off my mirrors cause he doesn't want to wait in traffic for another 100' til the exit ramp appears?
How many times now do I get passed and then the same truck slows and I pass him? Only to see him talking on the phone?
How many times an 18 wheeler passes me, cuts me off, and cuts hard right to make that exit instead of slipping in behind me and driving like a professional?
How many times I watch a driver drift onto the shoulder, then across the lane markings, then back onto the shoulder and I see him making a sandwhich behind the wheel?
I'm a 12 year trucker and I don't respect truckers anymore, why should 4 wheelers?

 

Hey, I had a lady pass me on a two-lane over-pass in Arkansas one year. Hit an older model pick-up head on. Killed the other driver instantly. She was slightly injured, because she wore her seat-belt and had airbags. This happened right next to my driver's door. By luck, I wasn't involved, other than as a witness.
He story to the Ark. State Police????
The 'big old truckdriver' forced her into oncomming traffic.

Glad that there were about 10 witnesses.

 

Sadly, if a careful and responsible driver says anything about their driving habits to them, we are told to ####, and "this is my truck, I'll drive it (the way I want to), you drive yours". Anymore, all you can do is keep yourself safe and sane.

 

I'm a four-wheeler... and had a fellow four-wheeler attempt to pass me several times yesterday on my 2-mile commute home. At no place was it safe... and each time he had to return to his position behind me... but he certainly was an eager beaver.

To be honest? If someone is in that much of a hurry to pass me -- and it's happened to me with both trucks and cars -- I pull off the road as soon as it is safely possible and let them pass. I'm not going to get myself involved in a wreck or wind up with a speeding ticket trying to make a point to some knucklehead who's trying to push me along.

 

Too many people are in a hurry. When I got my CDL to drive a schoolbus I Learned that the art of driving a large vehicle takes patience and the abilty to see what's ahead. Four wheelers do stupid things all the time because they are in hurry. That's just ignorance. We had a driver that was driving our newest schoolbus. It was an International 2007 and had barely 100 miles on it. Coming around a corner a pick up truck slammed into him pretty hard. Totaled the truck and put the busdriver and one student in the hospital. The Pick up was just purchased too. He had just got it off the lot and was hotrodding it.

I agree that truckers can be just as bad it seems more nowadays. So I just watch for everyone and not follow to closely. I have witnessed too many accidents in my life and carreer to take driving lightly.

 

I thought when I was riding with my husband I saw some really stupid things. Now that I am back in a 4-wheeler 24-7 it seems like I see even more. I'd say vehicle to vehicle 4-wheel drivers are the worst! Here where I live I wonder how 65% of them even go a drivers license. Everyone of them should have a ladder rack and a hose because it seems there is some fire somewhere that needs put out.

 

The "big hurry" because everything is running on "just in time". I just wish if you're going to talk on your cell phone you do it with a headset....this goes for big trucks and 4 wheelers. Dang people you're safer with two hands than one......geez!!

Been doing this long enough and courtesy seems to have disappeared on both sides of the fence. 4 wheelers are rude to trucks and trucks are rude to trucks and everyone seems to be hell bent anymore.

Doin' the best I can out here, I just smile when someone flips me off the one finger salute.

Work zones are my pet peeve....not going any faster than posted speed limit, not happening, not ever, don't care how mad you get, don't care how close you get to my DOT bumper, don't care you're every shade of red....I'm savin' someone's life .... maybe yours.

 

construction zones are also a pet peeve of mine. You are told to reduce your speed for a reason. The cones are set up because of construction, not because they are setting up a road course for you. I always do the speed limit in construction, and even a little slower sometimes when the workers are out there. One of these guys/gals could trip/stumble at any time, and I would like to increase my chances of being able to stop.

To a point someone else made, it infuriates me more to see a truck driver tailgating and making idiotic passes than when I see a 4 wheeler do it. I had and England driver just two days ago pull out and try to pass me in a construction area as the lanes were merging into one. Why? I guess because I was leaving too much of a safe distance between me and the other vehicle. Well, needless to say, she didn't make it passed me before running out of room and sent a Schneider egg flying before getting stopped.

The "idiot" ratio on the highways just keeps increasing.