No shoulder rollover

Lane control.

It is something that requires paying attention to steering. By this I mean you must also pay attention to HOW you steer.

Often on the big road I will be overtaking a trucker that's having difficulty keeping it between the zipper and the fog line. I sneak a glance as I pass, and usually that driver is steering with palms on the spokes, one hand at 12 o'clock, or using some other variation of poor steering technique.

Last year I was hauling a load to an oil rig north of Watonga, OK. I made a left turn to go west on a narrow paved road. No fog line. If there was a fog line it was where the pavement dropped a few inches to dirt. I followed a "pickle puller" (crude oil hauler) for 10 miles until I turned onto a narrow dirt road.

That pickle puller nearly rolled it a dozen times in 10 miles. All his passenger side tires would get sucked off the pavement and he would YANK it back into the oncoming lane to straighten out.

I gave him LOTS of room. It was fortunate he didn't Yankee Doodle it into oncoming traffic.

If you want to be called a professional driver, then drive like a professional. Rule #1 is KEEP IT IN YOUR LANE. In order to follow Rule #1 that means you need both hands on the steering wheel somewhere in the vicinity of 10 and 2, AND you need to FOCUS on your position in the ####ing lane.

 

Just today I had a bit of a pucker moment... I-90 west bound in western SD. It was raining pretty good but not horrible.

Ya know how ruts, or other changes/defects in the road will pull you one way or another???

Well I was doing about 60ish mph, down hill grade (maybe 3% or less), and was rapidly gaining on another vehicle so I grabbed the hammer lane. About the time I was abreast of the slower vehicle we came into a gentle left hand curve. Then I felt the road begin to pull me more to the left. Started to easy on the wheel back to the right... Little more right, slightly more right.... Then truck went RIGHT!!!! I was ready for it and gently corrected without leaving my lane. But the floaty feeling as I was easing to correct the drift was a little unnerving.

I think the rain had pooled in very slight ruts and hydroplaned my steer tires alittle. Was kinda spooky for about 2.5 seconds.

 

Huh. That was me on 86 east going into upstate NY a few weeks ago. Getting sideways in a tractor is no joke

 

What we have here is a failure to know your truck dimensions. Just like hitting a overhead limb with the box. He put the right steer tire off the lip.

 

is that one of the old Reinhardt driver's performance Food group just bought out?? lol
I couldn't quite see all the way in hopefully wasn't one at Hackney's I thought they required some kind of experience to work for them..
Good ole CSA2010 I can't wait till next year when it turns 10 years old and we get to find out the results of it it was a 10-year trial run to see if it cleans up the industry or not..
sure it did LMFAO

 

Where in Murfressboro? If its over by Amazon I used to drop there all the time. Its not that narrow.

 

Lanes are usually 12' wide, how much room do people need?

 

Not always the case out on the backroads. Here locally, there's a "truck bypass" around a decent size town where if you're pulling a 102" you're touching both the yellow AND the white lines at the same time...and the white lines are painted on the edge of the pavement.