Please help a rookie driver.

try taking ramps in so. cal at posted speed limit and see what happens.....

always always take the ramp at LEAST 5-10 mph slower than posted....if unsure about how the load is secured....slow even more....

if the OP really does mean curbs.....then well...ummmm there aint no help for him

 

Well as much as it can be a pain, in training we were told never to take an off ramp higher than 35 mph, and if its posted lower than that then a min. of 10mph under the posted speed. (So those 15 mph off ramps are 5 mph lol)

Looking back, that is good advice. And I still slow way the heck down on a curve that is new to me. I would rather slow down a row of cars behind me, than roll the truck and stop the row of cars behind me.

 

I used to haul swinging meat a long time ago....high center of gravity and it moved, the rule on that was that you could go like hell in a straight line but always go slower than the posted limit on ramps and curves. You really don't lose very much time in the long run.

 

I also take ramps and curves a lot slower than the posted yellow, I do it based on how it looks and how comfortable I am going through it, if it says 55 then im taking it at 50, there are some I take even 10mph slower since its sharp. Took one the other day that was 20mph posted and it went almost in a complete sharp circle, I took it at 10mph

 

Any one here try getting on I44 west of 55 in st Louis? Now that's a sharp ramp

 

only been out to st louis area once I think, dont think i took that one though but cant remember where I was a week ago lol

 

I irritate 4 wheelers daily slowing down, they usually get mad then try to fly past me, funny when they try and its a 2 lane off ramp that merges shortly and they cant get past me and have to let me over, I do get the bassholes who fly past me using the shoulder and I have to hit the brakes, some of these 4 wheelers are just asking for me to run them over like a monster truck

 

I get one in like 50 cars who are polite and will let me over, I get plenty of the bassholes who just cut me off or speed up when i put the blinker on even when they were behind me and could of let me over.