Do you find yourself making wide turns in your 4 wheeler?

reaching for the shifter in an automatic happened to me, when i was in my class training for my CDL i went 4 weeks with driving only a manual (big truck and personal truck). in that short of time i still got in the habit of shifting, clutching. as others stated, people think your mental lol.

 

I'm guilty of making really wide turns while in my 4wheeler and I'm always reaching for switches on the dash that aren't there or reaching for the key on the left side of the wheel.

 

I turn way too wide. Just started driving a short bus lately, and I have stopped at a few turns thinking I wasn't going to make it without hitting a pole, then realized that without a trailer I was still several feet away from the curb.

I feel like a car doesn't fit into the lanes as well as a truck. Driving something big, I can run down the center of the lane, hug the right or hug the left. In a car, I feel like I take up the whole thing.

I get confused a lot backing up. Sometimes I have to stop, realize which way I would turn the wheel if I had a trailer, then go the opposite way.

Biggest thing I can never get over is pulling out in traffic. I wait for gaps big enough to get a slow truck and trailer out into traffic, no matter what I drive. I sometimes pull out expecting to get rearended for not having enough space, then watch three cars behind me pull out with plenty of room.

 

I've been making wide turns since I was about 16. My dad was a life long trucker.

I still put fish eye mirrors on every car I own.

 

That's another one there.

I feel blind driving anything without a set of spot mirrors on it.

 

Yup, I take way too wide turns, eat up the shoulder, etc.


I also look for the clutch and the gearshift in an automatic lol.

 

That gets me all the time. Drives anyone riding with me nuts.

 

lol, I do that. It drives the girlfriend crazy. Wide turns and slowing down early for the red light get noticed also.

 

I make every turn like I'm pulling a 53 footer. Which is especially funny, considering I drive an Echo (echo...echo...echo...)!

 

These replies are all classic... the best related story I ever heard came from a hand who was on vacation in the family wagon---he pulled into the chickenhouse after seeing the sign saying it was "Open." Said it was embarrassing, and the D.O.T. bears looked at him kinda funny as he drove on through...