amazing how bad the mega drivers are

Want to have some fun one day. Get out and walk around the truck parking (if you can stand the smell of urine) and look at all the tractors with scratch marks and dents on the right side from the front fender all the way back to the fairings. Then notice the ones with missing and bent fairings.

 

Couldn't agree more with this post, complacency and arrogance are an accident waiting to happen out here, see it every day

 

I am going to poke fun of myself for a minute. Back sometime around 2011 I was in Indy. I had just finished a tough long day and was told because I had some time left to go up in the northside and take my 10. I was not thinking and did not make that left turn to go north and just crossed through the light. As you can see it is a dead end. I was tired. I came very close to doing some very expensive damage that day. Thankfully a guy came running out and told me to follow him and he got me turned around. I went back to the fishhook and shut down. None of us is perfect.

 

ALL of us have stories we don't necessarily want to share.

Thanks for sharing.

 

You understand.

You understand that not having any accidents doesn't mean that you're a good driver.
You understand that when you have to go to a different area, you're a rookie all over again.
You understand that despite bringing that A Game last decade, last year, last week, yesterday and today, you will still have to bring that A Game tomorrow.
You understand that we shouldn't compare ourselves to other because we can only improve upon ourselves. And you understand that we can always continually improve.

You understand...

...and yet...

...you post in this thread. I salute you.

 

The thing is even though I no longer drive I try to be a mentor to new drivers. One thing I have tried to stress to all new drivers is there are going to be days you will wish you had just stayed in bed. It does not mean you are a bad driver. It just means you are human and can make mistakes. Then I always follow that with (if your in a hole throw away that shovel).

 

driving in Boston during the Big Dig was hell in a 4-door. Can’t imagine it in a truck

 

Yep we all have brain farts. But, in a town cornering is not the place for one. Replace the words stop sign with pedestrian.