I'm seeing a lot of newbie drivers doing this lately

What I don't like in that situation is when you're right up to the car and they open their door and hop out only to quickly flatten themselves against the side while you cruise by merely inches from them it feels like.

 

Get real

If that truck on the shoulder happens to start easing out onto the roadway and you do not make a space for me after I've had my blinker on for the last mile and my options quickly become: ram into the 10 mph truck or put you into the median.... you are going into the median.

 

Real drivers. Real drivers. “Us Real Drivers”

Real drivers don’t clog up the hammer lane nose to tail.

Real drivers respect their fellow hand and leave space, and pass when it’s safe to do so, not cram them into a bad situation.

Real drivers ( used to ) communicate their intentions and work together using the CB.

Real drivers would take up the hammer shoulder to allow the guy in the granny lane to give the shoulder obstacle some safe room - then apologize for not having been aware of the situation.

Real drivers find an off ramp to pull on to, realizing the shoulder is no place to conduct non emergency business.

There used to be a lot of real drivers out here. Now there’s just a lot of real selfishness.

 

And real drivers anticipate that someone on the side of the road is about to do something really stupid.

 

And here is just one part of the problem.

 

Move left for any vehicle on the shoulder IF YOU CAN. It's a courtesy, not something you should cause a crash over. I don't move over super early because some crackerheads on the shoulder will race and keep me in the left lane. Other truck drivers are some of the worst offenders.

 

Your a dick then. Just because they screw up and start to pull out doesn’t mean you push the next guy in the ditch. Real professional there. I’m not saying they are not an A hole for not letting you over, but just because there is two pricks on the road don’t mean you make it three.

 

Wish i could give this 100 "Thanks"...


When a driver turns his blinker on it means I need over... When a driver turns his blinker on and then crowds the zipper it means I need over quickly... When a driver turns on his blinker, crowds the zipper and slows down it means he needs over right G**D*** NOW!!!

My point... If you are so selfish as to not let a fellow driver over in front of you (because he is too slow, or any other reason) when he has his blinker on... Then YOU are no better than the stupid 4 wheelers that race up beside us when we turn our blinkers on because they are too impatient to wait.

 

You gotta slow down and give him enough room to merge, even if he won't merge.