I-70 in Englewood,Ohio. I didn't know if anyone had posted about it

OP: Opening Post or thread starter. kacey1959 = OP of "I-70 in Englewood, Ohio. I don't know of anyone has posted about it"

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It is you I hope she never encounters

 

Well, I respect the speed limit and only speed when it is an emergency plus I stay out of the way of trucks..

Just something about this woman who died. Maybe she could have been with us today if she learned some defensive driving skills?

A few tips..

1) Never let a truck get to close to you.

2)Always look for an out.

3)Always look for an alternative route if the highway is dangerous.

4)Call your representative and tell them trucks are speeding and following too closely.

There are other ways I'm sure but it's best to tell your loved ones that the roads are dangerous because there are too many trucks plus drivers are under a great deal of pressure to get to their load destination, and there are also too many impatient people driving cars.

 

Respect the speed limit, yet exceed it by almost 30 mph? Defensive driving, who are you kidding. Emergency?

Who are you kidding?

First off learn the meaning of emergency.

a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.

The dangerous situation you thought in your mind should have been to pull to the shoulder on the right.

A fire truck, ambulance cannot run 90 mph to a call. Their call is by far an emergency yet they are professional and use enough common sense in the situations.

There are so many holes in your story, I cannot believe you even have opened a door on a truck.

 

Do you have nothing better to offer than attacking me personally? lol I was in my car btw..

The speed limit on I-80 in western PA is 70 mph I do believe..so twenty miles over the limit, in the middle of the night, to loose a crazy trucker chasing me with flashing high beams, an opened up engine, and no load, is a emergency.

 

Not in my book. I would have pulled to the right like the law in your state requires.

Your speedometer may be out of balance. The truck driver might have been speeding. IF you drive a truck, You would know they tend to go faster down hills where a car does not.

No, it is not an emergency. An emergency is when my pager goes off for a full arrest and I have to get to the FIRE HOUSE to get the equipment for saving a life.

Nothing like what you describe is an emergency.

I am not attacking you personally. I attacked the facts in your post.

The speed limit in your state is 70. It is illegal to cruise in the hammer lane IN ANY vehicle. You previously stated it was ILLEGAL for the truck to even be in the hammer lane. I asked you to provide the link to support this. YOU still have not.

Who is crazy, the truck driver doing 75 down a hill or the car going 90?

Since I see many stupid accidents, you can imagine I believe the car going 90 is.

But, it is your story, do not expect others to believe it.

 

First of all I am not from Pennsylvania I was driving through, secondly and more importantly he was within ten feet of my car, getting over to the right would have been dangerous at that point.

My first post in this thread, maybe you missed it..

A few important things you overlooked. I was doing the legal speed limit of seventy miles an hour, passing a convoy of trucks whose speed was no better than 50mph. The trucker was tailgating me (which is illegal) within ten feet (way too close!) I sped up after he refused to slow down. I did this because I did not want to take a chance at being clipped in the corner of the car and spinning out.

All trucks are required to go slower going down a hill since the momentum is much greater increasing the odds for an accident. And again, I was passing trucks going up the hill, not down. Secondly speedometers going out of calibration is rare, mine isn't since it always matches digital signs that post how fast cars are going.

Sorry, I disagree, you weren't there and you didn't read my posts correctly.

How can you address the 'facts' correctly when you said I was passing on a downhill when it was uphill?

Once again, I am not a Pennsylvania resident. Trucks are not allowed in the state of PA to be in the left lane of a three lane highway. I was in the left lane passing (not cruising) trucks on (which means up) a hill and, to the best of my memory there were three lanes. For the sake of argument, if there were two lanes he was tailgating and speeding, which doesn't seem to be wrong to you.

The crazy and irresponsible one was the trucker, who I believe was an O/O with an opened up 550 or 600 hp engine and perhaps 4.11 rears at no more than 35,000 gross. My speeding up twenty miles per hour late at night in clear road conditions is not very much for a car which can slow down way quicker than an empty rig.

People will always make their own judgements. I am not telling anyone what to think, just sharing an experience I had which was close to the area where Brenda Longstreth died.

 

I am not standing up for the truck. I am referring to the actions that you took.

Now, the hill is going uphill and now you have stated that there are rules for trucks to go slower downhill. I am not aware of such rules on I 80 west bound. I am not aware of any 3 lane sections on I 80.

In some states the longest you can be in the passing lane is 1/2 mile. Which means when passing the convoy and another vehicle comes up you have to get over.

Now, since you claim to be a trucker.

You are passing a long line of trucks legally and come up on a slower car that just seems to be driving in that lane. What would you do?

I do not support tailgating at any time. It is not just trucks doing this.

I already knew the law in Pennsylvania for the 3 lanes. You are the one misleading in the post where you stated they were not to be in the left lane.

So, now you claim you did not want to change lanes because you were scared you might get clipped.

In other words, You could have moved to the slow lane.

You are right, I was not there. I have a dash cam for idiot drivers. In your example, you would have got the prize. The truck driver would have as well.

Just amazes me that you claim to be a trucker, yet say as a 4 wheeler you will cruise in the passing lane to stay away from them. I pointed out that this is illegal to do, but you do not agree.

Your story.

 

As a point of interest how would 54 trucker have any way of knowing that the truck was any O/0, and that he had 4:11 rears. I am a company driver and drive a truck that will run over 100mph if I want it to, and it sure as heck doesn't have any 4:11 rear ends.

I don't think this guy is really a truck driver, just on here to give people a hard time. It is obvious that what ever he is told he will have a come back whether it makes since or not.

 

A professional driver would see that they were wrong to be driving at such speeds. It is apparent that an axe to grind is there.