Tips for new drivers (things not to do)

That is really funny. Happened to me and some girlfriends at the lake . Went on a food and beer run and all the girls decided they had to pee as well .

So everyone runs in the marina and somehow 1 got missed . I get a call from the owners of the marina on my cell phone saying "hey you left one of your girls" I was like what so we start checking on the boat and sure enough she was not there.

When we pulled back up to the marina she came running out yelling what the ##%#!% is wrong with you. We all were laughing , it was crazy. 15 girls on a boat is too many.

The owners of the marina know my family and were dying laughing as I drove the boat back over. I still get crap over it and it was the beginning of last summer.

 

Is the truck guide available on line?

 

Don't park in a Walmart for home time in Chicago 'Burbs when 2 foot of snow is expected monday morning your truck will be the foundation for a 20ft snow pile, ($1400 Towbill for that, and a late load for the frozen fuel)

 

I guess this would come under what not to do, but you definately need to know when you are too tired to be driving ... know when you need to get off the road and rest ... it may not be but 20 minutes bouncing your head off the steering wheel ... but that 20 minutes could save your life or someone elses. It's alot easier to tell dispatch you pulled over for a few minutes than to tell them you need a wrecker to pull you out of a ditch ... or worse.

 

DON'T pull into my lane when there is less than a trailer length between us unless I flash you over!

 

If yu are driving a truck with a sleeper cab get out and look b4 yu back up alll the way underneath the trailer to couple.. i got lazy a couple times and it high hooked on me cuz i didnt get out and look. I had to let the air out of the air bags..lucky for me it was an empty tanker on both occasions. Now i get out everytime and look.

 

when asking another driver for "spotting" when backing, turning, etc., look at the condition of his truck first to determine how well he can do things.

 

Why?? I drive at night and constantly encounter both trucks and 4-wheelers who use their "extra set of driving lights" (they are hardly "fog" lights unless they are yellow) all the time, regardless if its foggy, rainy, snowy, ect. If they are aimed properly and are of factory specs, they dont propose a problem. My driving consists of driving at night and I use them all the time. Every now and them you run into some joker who complains about them by either sayin some lewd comment on the CB or flashing their high-beams at me.

I guess what i should be asking you and whoever else out there has a problem with them, why is it they bother you and not myself or almost everyone else out there?? Im not blinded by them so, whats your excuse other than whining about something that really doesnt deserve to be whined about?

 

Because you're blinding on-coming traffic. Deer don't show up very well until you're on top of them, so it makes a collision much more likely when you're acting unprofessionally.

 

You are blinding oncoming traffic. They are not extra driving lights they are for adverse conditions. If you need them to drive at night then maybe you shouldn't be driving at night.