I can’t pass you, so you’ll make room

Well,We don't need your Kind out here then, You Post is what a Typical 4 wheeler would say.
If vHe's Right Next to you but doesn't have enough oomph to get by, Bump it down a touch, It Won't Kill you to do that.

If You cant Learn Patience and Be Courteous to your Fellow drivers, GET OUT OF TRUCKING- We Don't Need your Type.

 

Get out of trucking? I'm the idiot when someone tries to pass me knowing they can't get by?? OOOOOKKKAYY buuuddyy.. Any trucker with any cells in their brain will be able to assess if they can successfully pass. It's not my responsibility and it is also not a COURTESY to change my speed of travel because someone is being a ####### .. They need to get the points on their record so they lose their license to make the roadway more safe and peaceful for the rest of us out there doing our job.

 

More safe is the key IMO. When you have a truck at your side going the same speed with traffic bunched up behind you and you come around a bend to see a cop on the shoulder, debris on the road or any situation where you need to get over think about being more safe. smh

 

No its still your problem! You were the one who misjudged your ability to pass and now you are the cause of the traffic jam so own it. Just tap your brake or let off and take your place in line behind. The four wheelers will make room for you knowing your trying to get out of there way. Just so you know your entitled attitude sucks.

 

You would be half of the problem. In the case of the drag race to nowhere I'm looking at two idiots. The first one in the left lane who just created a hazard and the second in the right lane who just recognize a hazard and didn't immediately take steps to elieviat it.

Let him pass, get on the CB and jump up and down, call the number and turn him/her in, do whatever after the fact but if you don't take steps immediately to make the situation safe again then you're just as guilty as the left lane guy imho.

 

Our freeway system is over 50 years old and honestly was never designed for today's traffic. Maybe at some point all of these mountainous roads can have 3 lanes. Until then it would be of extreme help if we ALL showed a bit of patience with each other and if it is not asking too much to also maybe walk a mile in that other drivers shoes. You can banter this topic until the bitter end but if you don't show some patience in my view your all wrong, both passer and passie.

 

Two loaded crude haulers pulled over on the climb north of Heber, UT on HWY40. Safety dept said they were both ticketed. I have no way of actually knowing because it wasn't me. Maybe they say that to scare us into not blocking the left lane.

 

Point taken Grumppy,,,,EXCEPT for one thing, the truck trying to pass you may only be "faster" than you because he was drafting you, he was riding in your wake, he thinks he's faster, you assume he's faster, but as soon as he gets about 3/4 the way up on you aero raises it ugly head and says this ain't gonna happen, so then you both just sit there side by side because no one has the advantage of the slipsteam, was he following to close to start with? Probably.

Here is the bigger problem, because of everyone pushing to cram as much into a day as they can everybody is running 10/10ths, right up against the governor, all the time, that is what causes this issue, if everybody would just run a mile or two under their governed speed you would never have this issue.

This is the sole reason that all of my fleet trucks are set at 68 on the Gov. but have 3 mph left in the pedal for just these situation.