No care for other drivers

Actually it's worse.

Throwing the weight around forcing the professional in the victim to give away the lane or space as necessary to avoid a smash.

I'll leave that thought hanging for you to consider. It's ugly out there. Im going to consider it perhaps a immigrant driver using Arab rules rather than American courtesy.

 

worse are the sob's who try to force women and children out of the center lane when they have the correct following distance.they get 10 feet from their bumper.
the innocent people dont know you are not allowed in the left lane and dont have the balls to get out there and your not gonna make 30 cents more
that tailgating ticket is probably worse than the left lane ticket but cops dont crack down on the aggressive types enough

 

True. I see those local guys pushing traffic around like that. I don't know what kind of incentive they've got to to drive around like a 4-wheeler with an 18-wheeler, but that 800 a week job is gonna come to end if they have an accident.

 

If you were that concerned with what happened, get a truck number and call ARKA. They would probably appreciate someone helping them get an aggressive driver off the road.

 

putting your gripes and whines on social media really doesn't solve the problem of aggressive drivers like lonesome said. Get the truck number and address the company responsible for putting that idiot on the road. But I guess nobody has the nads to speak up anymore. Just sayin

 

Don't worry, this one has the nads to speak up. I had a dollar truck run us over on the Arkansas Freeway, turned out we captured his truck number and his trailer number from our personal car at speeds approaching 115 northbound US 67 towards St Louis. Discovered from DOT number he is owner operator leased to Covenant. Called their safety with the real time location, they matched qualcomm and then gave us a blank check to cover the damage to our vehicle from the alligator he threw when he blew a trailer tire at 90 cutting us off in the middle lane from the right. Im pretty sure Covenant charged back the money from the poor sob.
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He wont be the first and he wont be the last. We are warriors about this. Never mind my own past with a dollar truck. The worm turns when you run long enough and mellow out and become actually professional as we have.

 

Speeds approaching 115? And you determined this by keeping up with him? Around 90 when he smoked a tire,,, wish I had the money to spend on gas to drive that fast. But then again four wheelers are the safest drivers out there,,, always in compliance with the legal limits. YEP

 

Maybe, the driver did not see the other truck. Maybe, he just made a mistake. Maybe, he is new to the industry. As a professional driver we are taught that we drive for five. We have to be aware that sometimes we are in a blind spot. Sometimes another vehicle is going to make a mistake and we have to be aware of that possibility.

As to calling a company and turning a fellow driver in, I find that to be BS. The person could have a wife and a family. Get on the CB and tell him of his mistake of pull along side of him and give him a chance at an apology. It is not our duty to get folks fired. It is our duty to do whatever it takes to improve the safety of the industry.

 

Lol, yeah, it's only the local guys. All others are highway angels, lmao. Oh, and this guy's local job pays a hell of a lot more than $800 a week. Just sayin'