Types of truckers passing me

My favorite is the guy that wants to pass you,but hangs beside your mirror for 2 miles,till you finally slow down to 58mph.Then he's going 58mph in front of you,slowing you down again!

 

Nobody today should have to use draft or gravity to set up a pass like with mechanical engines when it actually took a thing called talent . Nowadays, if you caught him on flat ground, you can pass him and move on. The "potential" of your engine is enormous but unfortunately most companies play with the 100s of parameters in the ecm. Not giving a single care to the driver but just the bottom line. Belive me, Schneider used to pull the paint off your doors with a screaming 318 Detroit blowing gallons of oil all over their trailers and if they could run that hard again they would in a second. But it's an old family company and to its credit PRIVATELY OWNED which makes a huge difference to me. They aren't dialing your truck way back because some non driving sharholder tells them to. They have to do it to survive . I despise slow underpowered publicly traded companies... sure, they may not have as many hiway accidents but the carnage unleashed when they are finally out of the way is like the start of the indy 500. The slow truck is in the rear watching the show as impatient , frustrated or just plain confused people that have lost their freedom of movement for 5 or 10min go absolutely nuts . Those of us with the ability to actually run with the flow of traffic have to pull the Raines back and let things shake out.

 

All trucks will have it eventually.

 

I agree completely. Yeah, there's something to be said about feeling like you're being expected to drive the other guys truck too but, in most of these cases, they'd probly be running faster of their company would allow it. We're all just tryin to get down the road and deliver our loads and get on to the next one.

 

Ah yes... the good old days of hitching up the team to take the goods to market. Stopping off at the telegraph office to send a wire home to the wife and kids. Hanging out with other drivers and singing songs while Sid or Joe struck up a tune on an old guitar or harmonica.

Yep.

Before anyone gets their panties in a wad, I'm just having a little fun. So lighten up Francis.

 

What I still don't get is this concept that if I'm driving along at a certain speed cruise control for the last 3 hours and here comes another truck driver comes along trying to pass at 1/4 mile per hour faster, it is somehow my responsibility and my requirement and BS courtesy to slow down for the prick so he can get ahead of me sooner.

Tell you what when I'm gaining on a faster truck up a hill I will fall back and stay behind him as a courtesy because why should he have to jump back out to pass around me again when the road flattens out and this way I am still behind him on the flat so everyone is happy and safer that way. Just because you can pass doesn't mean it is the right thing to do...

 

So... You will be courteous to one truck that is faster in one situation but not extend the very same curtesy to another truck that is faster in a different situation?

Ok, so one must ask, at what point of "being faster" gains an act of curtesy from you... 1/2, 3/4, 1, 2, 5, 10 mph faster than you?

The curious amongst us would like to know just where this line in the sand lies between two professional drivers just trying to get to the drop.

 

Me slowing down isn't so much a courtesy to the other driver, it's that I'd like to keep my left hand "out" path clear in case that truck or mine blows a steer tire, we come to a busy on ramp, or the four wheeler stopped ahead of us on the shoulder decides to pull out from a dead stop right in front of me, which has happened to me and my left side was blocked by a truck.

 

Exactly.This was what I was talking about.Drivers that sort of "want you to work with them so they can pass you"Then ,they want to run 53mph in front of you,instead of getting over in the Truck Lane.

 

I still can see my skid marks from locking them up. As Swift tried to pass another Swift up hill. I know he soiled his shorts that day. When he noticed how I appeared in his mirror.

Not to mention fuel mileage doesn't go in toilet much when your rolling in the hammer Lane. Doing 70+