Do you really need to pass?

When someone is passing me, and I see he can not be able to pass quickly, usually I lower my speed, to make him pass me safe. I am not selfish person, like the trucker in the video above.

 

The only one in that video who didn't do anything wrong was the trucker. He slowed down considerably going up the hill but the pickup driver slowed down with him. Pickup driver paced the truckers speed which is very unsafe and did so b/c he wanted to mess with Camaro(?). When crash investigator looked at the video the trucker is the only one not to receive a ticket.

 

When next to you is complete idiot (the van driver) is good idea not to compete with him. Just hit the brakes, let him to pass you. Saves you a lot of troubles.

 

That's how I seen it. Four wheeler floatin next to a truck on open highway is pet peeve #1. The camaro guy should have relaxed but the pick up truck picked that fight. The rig was mindin his business

 

No no, I am not saying the trucker is doing something wrong, according the law. I am saying the trucker should have put brakes, even to complete stop, because the idiot (van driver) next to him is this, just idiot. And what you may expect from idiots? Not so smart things

 

Yeah I see what you mean. CYA type deal

 

And then the next post will be titled

Don't Run In Packs!

SMH

Seems many are forgetting basic truths in trucking... different gross weights, different top ends, different power/torque curves, different wind drag profiles, all coupled with constant topographic changes.

I'm not going to spend 5 minutes trying to match your speed profile PRECISELY so I can let YOU dictate how MY truck is going to run the next 200 miles (or until you decide to go get your corn dog fix)

 

CNN Headline News report

500 mile long truck convoy between Fabens, TX and Boerne, TX snarls traffic on I-10. A line of trucks, all driving 63.5 MPH and with only 1 truck length between an estimated 5,000 trucks leaves the motoring public scratching their collective head.

Why? It was later discovered a Swift driver (who wished to remain unidentified) who was driving from Fontana, CA to Houston, TX, did not want to be passed if the maneuver was going to take longer than 80 seconds, and that all those who accumulated behind were to adopt the same policy, or be trashed on the TTR forums.

 

A complete stop on an interstate or 4 lane divided highway is asking for trouble