you might be a 4 wheeler if...

That's not just a "4-wheeler" trick.
There is a certain group of drivers that do the same.
You know, you come up on them they're doing 50 mph, so you safely pass them and about mile or two down the road, here they come, driving at 75 or better just to pass you; and they get back up on the front porch slow down down to 50 mph again. You repeat the the process of passing them when you get tired of them and they repeat the process of passing you and then slowing back down again.
This game of "Leap frog" happens on the 5 between the "Grapevine" and Redding, on the 99 between Mettler and SAC, way too much for my liking....

 

I do that as a big truck driver, playing "governor leapfrog" in the hills usually manages to entertain me. Though I think it tends to have the opposite effect on some of the drivers I play it with.

 

I played leap frog years ago out in Utah and Nevada with a driver from Hill Brothers. I was haulin feathers and he was loaded heavy, so I passed him on the way up, he passed me on the down side. We had a blast with it!

 

Yep, that's usually how it works with me too. Did it with a Crete driver on I-77 in WV a while back (our governors were both set to 62, and I think I was heavy and he was light), we had fun with it.

 

We made sure we didn't mess anyone else up. It can make things fun out there! I think I had about 10,000 in the box at the time, so climbing the hills was pretty easy. I kept picking on the guy about his bright yellow tractor and asking him how he could look at that bright of a color first thing in the morning!

 

As a safety supervisor once joked:

"Remember, the car that is currently passing you is taking the next exit."

 

That's no joke!!!

 

Yeah, that ain't a joke, that is so true! You can pretty much bet on it!

 

@IROCUBabe

My God, you've touched on something brilliant here! I once got in a furious yelling match with some stupid piece of human filth driving a diesel pick-up truck (no trailer, just four-wheels of sheer stupidity). I had pulled into the second-last parking space in a rest-area at 10pm at night. The pick-up truck believed that since his pick-up truck was diesel powered and larger than other four-wheelers, it would be good fun to park with the big rigs in the rest area while he used the bathroom.

When this dumb jock and his princess girlfriend got out, I exited my cab and proceeded to tear a strip of him for taking a parking spot from a truck so late at night and reminded him that roads and parking areas are part of where truck drivers work, that we need those spots, and that they're not a place for him to joke around. Sure enough, he told me to ##$! off and walked off anyway.

But that incident is a trifle compared to another one I witnessed at the Flying J in Denver, CO. This Flying J enforces bob-tail parking to ensure that larger parking spots are used appropriately (which I think is a positive measure, and strongly support). As I pulled into a bob-tail parking spot, I looked beside me and saw a king-cab diesel pick-up truck with a fifth-wheel and carrier markings for a RV hauling company sitting in the spot beside me.

A few minutes later, parking enforcement staff walked across the parking lot, saw the pick-up, stopped, stared, and then noticeably sagged at the shoulders with frustration at the sheer stupidity of this four-wheeler. Later, as I was returning to my truck with a coffee, I found the driver standing beside his pick-up raging to his boss over his cell-phone at the indignanty of being asked to move his pick-up and park it over with the other four-wheelers.

"I bobtailing," he raged, "so I parked in the bob-tail section! This is an insult! We spend $2,000 a month in fuel at Flying Js and this is how they treat us?! We should cancel our accounts and take our business elsewhere!"

'Cause $2,000 per month in fuel for an entire fleet is such a lucrative account in the trucking industry...

 

You might be a 4-wheeler if you see cop (whether it be smoky, diesel, kitty, or mounty) , lights flashing or one of the camoflagued ones. And then you feel the need to dynamite your brakes to a speed 5-15 MPH UNDER the speed limit, because those #### cops always write tickets for going 55 in a 65!!! And you act baffled at the amount of big trucks blowing your doors off still going at or above the speed limit.