Road Rage Stories

sometimes that works, many times these are the same type that "i dont listen to the silly cb radio"

 

Ok, guy, you have encouraged me to pull out the keyboard and post a long one here. FIRST: the story never indicated WHY he was in the lane that he was in. There are sooooo many reasons, especially in a congested city like chicago, to not be in the far right lane. You are imposing a philosophical point of view that may or may not apply, but you are imposing it as if that "rock in the stream" was actually what the trainer was teaching. This assumption is what is pitting you against everyone else. Not that you have that philosophy (that we could debate till the end of time) but that you imposed it into the scenario and created a very unfair view without the OPs actual input. Simply put: the guy was in a left lane (and he didn't explain why) and had to get into the right lane. He had clearance to move over, and did. It is a LEGAL move that he made. Everything that happened after that was totally UNPROFESSIONAL and ILLEGAL.. For you to try to justify the reaction of the crazy road raging unprofessional driver's actions could bring your driving skills/habits into question at this point. To sympathize with someone clearly on the wrong side of right COULD cause some to think that maybe you drive that way also. Kinda like when you point at someone there are three fingers pointing back at yourself.

Now, if I have offended you, be the bigger man and take it as just my take on the subject presented, act professional, and agree to disagree.. Any other action would definitely indicate your frame of mind at a very basic level. Thank you for participating.

 

i am not offended, and for the third time, i am not justifying anything

i am saying that this whole "sitting in the middle lane" nonsense is one of the most inconsiderate acts I see fellow drivers do to one another

and to sound like the group "its unsafe and against the law"

but seems like no one wants to address that issue, because their safety people have trained them to sit in the middle lane and have a ####y attitude to boot

i dont buy it, but obviously many of you do

when i teach anyone to drive, my first rule is not to disturb the flow of traffic (even many cops have told me this is better than merely "obeying the law" because safety is first

so if you are in a 55mph zone and EVERYONE is doing 65, what is the most common sense thing to do? some say, dont break the law and do 55, others say dont break the flow of traffic

we will always differ about this, and the scenario described in the first post displays the frustration many drivers have with the varying approaches to this

but stop saying i am justifying it, i am not

if a man shoots a guy who was banging his wife, i may not justify it, but i can understand it

 

West side of Chicago implies I80 at some point. There are a number of places where you merge from the left into more lanes. It could have been one of these points were the OP was initially in the right lane, but after the merge was in a central lane trying to get to the right. At no point does the OP explain why he was going "slower" - perhaps he was at the speed limit to begin with.

There is no excuse for what the second driver did - especially to another commercial driver.

 

yeah, from the sound of it, it seems as if the OP was just cruising in the center lane (possibly holding up the crazy driver) and then finally decided to switch lanes..

I wont lie, that garbage upsets me to all heck.. i dont cut ppl off or lock up my tires (never know when i might need that 1/100 of brake lining) but it is upsetting to see drivers being so inconsiderate of other drivers.. if you're going to be "SAFE" and creep through a congested area, why not do it in the safe lane. Instead they decide to do it in the center lane forcing the other drivers that are trying to get somewhere either risk a ticket in the left lane, or worse yet, battle with merging traffic in the right lane..

and if it were a merger to where he was in the right lane, and after the merger was in the center lane, then the other driver would have passed him in the center lane awhile ago so that scenario doesn't work.

 

Did you read the part about the "OP is a student CDL driver WITH an instructor in the right seat?" BTW, if you haven't noticed, it takes about 18-1/2 milliseconds to PO the jerks in Chicago. Usually all it takes is for someone to only be going 20+ mph over the speed limit in a lane the road rager wants to do 22+ over the speed limit.

 

I understand the OP is a student and had a trainer with him in the jump seat.. so does that mean the trainer is inconsiderate for not informing the student to run the right hand lane instead of the center? i'm not placing blame anywhere.. i'm just standing next to EZX1100 on the whole "Drivers are inconsiderate" statement..

I drive as if the person behind me has somewhere to go. Funeral, hospital, work, school play, who cares, they need to get there so who am i to hold them up. When i pass and there's a vehicle behind me i actually hit the gas and take over until i've completed the overtake, and then i let the cruise take back over. People always assume the guy blazing through rush hour traffic is a maniac, but they never know what that driver has going on. I see alot more accidents in the right lane then i have in the left lane. Usually because the left lane is going down the road instead of ... well i don't know what the right lane be doing, but i sure hate when they migrate into the center lane..

If people were more considerate of other drivers, accidents we all be disappear. Think about the person that fights to get infront of you, only to slow down so they'd have a 1/4mi gap between them and the next car so they can send a text message? How ignorant is that?? Or the person that fights to get infront of you at 65mph only to slow down to 60mph because that's what they feel comfortable at.

 

You also understand the OP was attempting to move into a lane further to the right? I get the impression this was one of those areas that I80 or whatever was 5 or 6 lanes wide.

 

Yes i read that too, but as i read it over and over again, it become cloudy. It never mentions where the flatbed was, only that it passed on the let after the OP switch lanes into the far right hand lane. The OP said the right hand lane was plenty clear, so it leaves me to believe the flatbed was behind him before they switch lanes which agains leads me to believe that they were holding up the center lane..

Now, if the flatbed was in the right hand lane, and they got over infront of him, and the flatbed had to switch into the center lane to pass the OP, then that makes me wonder what's the OP's definition of "clear for a good ways back" is?

Either or, i don't care, i just don't want the OP to turn out to be one of those inconsiderate drivers, i believe that is worse that what the flatbed did. Not justifying any of it, i'd just rather have the cold instead of the flu.

 

this video should also be required for all drivers

because you never know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMy_g4FOLME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovRu_a3-p8E