How Mad Would You Be?

I've seriously said it many times, but I think we all say it many times and mean it--life just comes along and hands us opportunities! Or slaps us with them. But if we knew then what we know now, we couldn't say it. I think there's a song lyric: "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."

Are you sure memory is the second thing to go and not the first?

I'm not sure which would be worse: To know you don't know (you can do this, but you still can't know what you don't know). Or not know what you know (this is possible). Or to forget what you know and think you knew when all you can really know is what you think you know. I think.

 

Its not your fault HE hit you, but whether I got a rig 1 week old, or 20, I would never park on an end of a row for just that reason. too many sh&theads out there in a hurry to be a nascar racer thru the parking lot to get a spot or leave. I guess 1st or 2nd gear is too slow for a small lot for them.

 

do you guys know just how much damage a trailer can do to the corner of a big truck? they dont have to be going 25 mph or anything. It dont look like damage if the driver that caused it was riding the brake, they must have been on the 'gas' a little. But my guess is they werent going more than 3-5mph.

that all being said.......that is why i run a webcam on my dash, and it feeds directly into a CPU i have dedicated just for the webcam. runs and records 24/7.

 

i bet the trainer woke up nearly almost as fast. =) nice job on the work they did. who cleaned up the dashboard? =)

 

Exactly why I get out a million times if I have to to make sure I'm not going to hit another truck and I go really slow. Even though I hear some drivers on the cb laughing at me or complaining I rather that instead of me hitting something.

 

no hi speed impact...watched it happen today in Tennessee...the leverage of a trailer at 5 miles an hour can break the linkage on the steer axle...

 

i never hear that on the CB.....know why? cause as soon as i hit the parking lot from the roadway, the CB goes 'off'. and i NEVER use a "spotter" that i dont see get out of a swift truck. a fellow co. driver isnt going to steer you wrong....but i've seen and heard 2-3 drivers get out of their trucks to 'help' another driver back, only to direct him/her right into the truck next to them, just for kicks on a monday night

 

You don't get 3 million miles safe by being stupid..good for you and don't listen to them turkeys. When I do that, and they start to heckle, cackle, and cluck like the chickens they are, I always ask politely if they have ever has an accident in a truck stop backing up, and if they say yes, I then say, "then maybe you ought to get your goofy ##### out and check once in awhile.."

 

packerfan.... I'll have to remember that. Those hecklers on the CB are the BBR's and Supertruckers that also could not run a legal log if they tried.

 

I have seen MANY "supertruckers" in the ditch or median during snow storms. First time was when I was a newbie going east on 40 through Gallup NM after a bad snow the night before. Six.... SIX trucks, all owner op except two of them, jacknifed or sitting on their side in the median. That doesn't include the 10 or so 4-wheelers who figured it would be ok to go 55 on solid ice. One of the O/O's blew by me like I was standing still about six miles back. Thankfully, cops were already on the scene because of the car and truck carnage that had built up. I just sputtered by at about 35mph, flashers on, and waved at the morons standing in the median or on the side of the road scratching their grapes looking at their wrecks.