Rolled my truck

Starting to show a really terrible pattern of decision making here....braking for a deer....won't be long before we here some really bad news from this cat....he ain't got what it takes....panic sets in and takes over....scary....I mean scary.....

 

Woooooooo.......not a good pattern at all some crackerjack training they get at england

 

Sorry Chewy, but this gives us a significantly better picture of your driving skills.
I can speak from personal newbie experience on the deer incident. When I first started driving, one of my biggest worries was... how I'd react if a deer or other large wildlife creature suddenly bursted out in front of me. In my head I *knew* not to jam on the brakes, but I always worried if my "natural involuntary reactions" would (wrongly) override my sensible thinking/reactions, if this occurred. I honestly did worry about that.

About 8 months total driving in, that "test" came to reality, and included a "complicating factor", which I'm now grateful for.
Pitch black, middle of the night, and I was being passed on I-80 by a R&L truck with a 53', he was right alongside of me, slightly ahead by just his cab, when a huge buck shot out from my right. The buck darted across, from the right ditch, past the shoulder of hwy, and got to just past my front of my left headlight, with 3/4 of his body between me & the R&L, just prior to impact.
With only a few feet between me & the R&L, I never once touched the brakes (I easily could have locked them up). I concentrated, instead, on maintaining control of my steering in a straight line. I whammo'd the buck in the hind quarter, where he then flew upward, bouncing off the R&L and my trailer at least twice (two additional impacts).

I'm so glad to have been given that "test" scenario early on in my career, and so glad that I passed that "test".
No amount of training can prepare you for it. I knew what to do before an incident like that arose, but I always wondered WHAT I might *involuntarily* do.
I'm not trying or intending for this to be taken as boasting,, far from it, as I'm not that type of guy.
It's simply to show how two new drivers reacted completely differently to virtually the same situation.

Yes, your reaction to the deer does worry me, and it puts your actions prior to your off-road rollover even more into question.

 

I'm lost as to why so many people are judging the OP, he posted what happened and didn't make excuses, why is it that you all seem to have nothing better to do then dissect a post? ? It is what is is... he was driving to fast for conditions plain and simple. No need for name calling and shaming.

 

Kw Cajun the difference here...at least IMHO is..."you" gave that scenario lots of thought...lots! going over and over in your mind the possibilities and problems that could/would ensue if /when you panicked and slammed one the brakes. You "trained" your mind to recognize the issue and react accordingly....it's not too hard to do...just like military training...it just takes over......you don't think...you just do......

 

I haven't seen any naqme-calling...please correct if I'm wrong by quoteing the particular post...but the OP came on here and used a lame excuse for a roll-over....it was , what it it was.....a lame excuse that we all for the most saw through. That's one thing wrong...drivers need to be told that they can't make-up excuses for BAD DECISION MAKING...he could've killed all of those envolved...the OP and the other 2 truckes simply because he was driving way too fast with very little room for error.....I'll not pat him on the butt just to make him feel "better"...sorry......

 

I did not see any name-calling either. My post(s) was not to shame Chewy at all. Far from it.
I give Chewy tons of credit for taking responsibility, and admitting where he likely made mistakes, without him trying to divert blame, as many other posters do.
The intent of my post was to "share" a similar scenario, especially with the added similarity of both of us having it occur when we are at the relatively new stage of T/T driving. I had hoped he could "see the light", and learn that was also a very bad move, and learn from it, in the deer scenario.
I hope you didn't misinterpret that as shaming him, or even condemning him.

 

So anyword what England said about the rollover?If not they'll wait till you get back to Salt Lake and have you talk to safety.