Trucker Etiquette (that's Manners)

Or... if you're heavy and know you can't maintain your speed on the upcoming hill YOU could wait and make your pass when the road levels out

 

but that driver i'm passing might get the last open space at the rest area or truck stop if i don't pass him

 

“Officer, who said I flashed my lights, the guy who couldn’t even see that poor car load of nuns? We can’t trust his eyesight!”

 

Main problem is these drivers are letting the ELD dictate their every action from flying thru parking lots, rest areas and such. Have the mental attitude of me me me and #### everyone else, I got to save that precious second. That is until they kill someone or injure someone. Then they will have plenty of time to reflect and ask themselves was that precious few seconds or minutes that important. This ######## Of I gotta go go go go is ridiculous. Common courtesy and manners have left the Industry. Lots of people got into this industry in the last 10 years or so as a last resort. They don’t like being out here but they are stuck. They could give to ####s less about anyone or anything. Drivers won’t even move over for emergency vehicles.
Don’t get me started on the flip flop, feet on the dash board tablet velcroed to steering wheel. Jackoffs couldn’t drive a #### Yugo but here they are thinking they are really doing something.

 

Yep... many are not only incapable of extending common courtesy to others, but even get butthurt when someone tries to show them some courtesy... like the sensitive sally that #####es about a driver giving a quik flash of the highbeam to let them know it's okay to come back over... "ooh ooh you blinded me, waaah"

 

I've met this guy. Like a couple of times.

 

If you're coming up to a slower truck and see a faster truck catching up to you, wait for them to pass instead of moving over in front of them.

If you're about to pass a slower truck and see something ahead that they should move over for (ie, police on the shoulder), slow down a bit so they can move over.

If you come up to a slow truck passing another slow truck, wait in the right lane for the pass to be completed and the cars to go by before moving over to pass. Help keep them from getting pissed off.

If you are driving slower then your trucks maximum speed, then speed up when passing to avoid blocking cars and pissing them off.

 

Very low.

 

1. High beams are worthless dont use them
2. Flashing lights is extremely annoying especially when they do it when i am already halfway back into the lane. But whatever.

 

I used to say: Speakl ###, your mouth won't". Long time ago, when I was younger and stronger.