bad habits to avoid

also, to the I'm not slowing down guys... what makes your load more important than the guy you expect to show down to stay behind you? Hypocrite much?

The thing is, out the only 3 excessive bad habits I posted, 2 of them are actually laws in a lot of places. Refusing to yield to being passed, puts the the blame of any accident that coincidentally happens on you. Intentionally blinding someone with your high beams, doesn't just make you as fault for accidents, but can risk license suspensions, costing your job.

just because we drove trucks, it doesn't mean that traffic laws don't apply to us anymore, actually the exact opposite.

Some of you think there we more important thongs than this thread, fine, think that. But for everyone else, 2 of those habits are potential accidents our tickets, 1 is extremely dangerous, maybe not for the other truck, but there are other cars and trucks on the road, that you're putting at risk to prove a point.


Remember, fully loaded, a crash in these trucks have about 900,000 to 1million pound of momentum,the actual force will be higher. These tricks are not the place to mess around, you're in a killing machine with the power to tear a person's body apart. Avoiding these habits aren't for you, their protect everyone else on the road from you. And these things aren't just limited to new drivers, a lot of long time drivers do it too. Just remember, while you're doing these things that seem small and really not that important to point out, another truck somewhere is gambling with your family's life by doing the same things.

 

yes, and so do the cops in probably most of the state's drove in. Depending on the exact story, blame might be shared, but in court, the judge is going to ask you why you didn't slow down when you saw oncoming traffic. I'm sure he'd love to hear the other guy's fuel story an excuse. Even on 4lane roads, you'll actually be ticketed for an accident if you decided to pace someone passing you instead of let him past. He's going faster, just let him go and be done with it

 

when passing, you're not supposed to slow down. this is why there's actually a law on who yields to who, to avoid situations like that. When being passed, you're supposed yield the person passing you. Unless he stayed the pass when it was clearly unsafe, outs your fault if he doesn't make it over before traffic hits him.

you're saying maintain your lane and leave the decisions to the person passing you, but the law says the opposite. once they're making the pass,by law, you're supposed to key them pass.

Both our you shouldn't be slowing down. once you commit to a pass, you make it... because getting back into the lame might be hard if traffic moved up. That's why the person being passed slows down, so the person passing can be guaranteed that he can get back over. But if he goes to pass you and then I move to where he we and there's a line behind me, if he brakes, he's not making it back over. Make sense?

Now if the guy passing slowed down, then he'd be at fault, not you.