Do you report bad drivers?

Speeders? No.
Reckless or aggressive driving, I have, and will continue to report them to their companies.
Drivers who may be impaired or tired (tired drivers more likely, since I drive at night), I have called in immediately to law enforcement, and will continue to do so. I won't waste my time or risk someone else's life by calling the company. Last one I called in, the driver was literally drifting from lane to lane on a 3 lane interstate. I had to call 3 times because I kept switching jurisdictions before I finally spotted a trooper in a median on the last call and told the operator where I spotted the trooper.
The operator told me the trooper would catch up and observe the truck for a while to see if a pullover was warranted. The trooper was behind the truck maybe five seconds before he lit them up.

 

I've only reported one driver in my entire driving career and that was a 4. wheeler because he was driving drunk.

 

I don't report drunks if they're out at the dead of night on empty roads.
I just follow them until they crash and that's all the satisfaction I need.

The reoccurring close calls are the best. I'll be dying laughing going down the road watching them swerve from shoulder to shoulder. One of the only times I actually talk to myself.

"OHHHHH HERE WE GO HES GONNA DO IT!!!!!
Awww shoot he got it together..."
(2 minutes later)
"YESSSS THIS IS GONNA BE IT THERE HE GOES!!!"

 

Speeders, no. Obviously drunk drivers...twice have. I've only called in on a truck once, and that was when he did a hit and run on me in the parking lot while I was right there.

 

Brilliant, let them run until they kill themselves. Must of been born in the 90's.

 

Just what comes with my smartphone. It is not the best but it does work.

 

Threads like these make me less likely to check on someone broke down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere getting snowed in, they might report me for dangerously stopping my truck on the highway, better just let them freeze.

 

With the advent of cell phones most 911 call centers are swamped now. With cars I would make the call, tell the operator where the car was, describe the vehicle and a brief comment about why I was calling. With trucks though I hardly ever dialed 911 because so these call centers get so many calls that they ignore more then half of them. What I did was to begin to assemble a small book indexed by state of the scales phone numbers. I did not have them all but I had maybe half of the scales in the US in that book. In some cases those numbers were actually in the phone book. This was not a short process, it took me years to put that information together.
I never would call the drivers company while the incident was at play. What I would do was just carefully get the truck/trailer/tag numbers write them down then later report it. In the case of a driver swerving all over the road this was actually one time when I would turn on my CB and start screaming for other drivers to watch out and try to get the driver to pull over somewhere so I could buy them a cup of coffee. I did something much like this in Mississippi early one morning back around 2005. I first spotted this driver somewhere around the 75 MM on I 20 west bound and followed him west bound. I tried to get him to stop @ Pearl then @ several other places as we went westward. I finally told that driver I had had enough of his dangerous attitude that night and was planning to cal the west bound I 20 scale just across the river. As he blew past that last scale in Mississippi I picked up my phone and dialed that scalehouse. The scalemaster asked me some questions about myself then told me he would have a trooper coming and would be there soon. The scalemaster was just letting trucks roll over the scale by the time we got there and a trooper was parked with his engine running. Just after this guy went by the trooper pulled out behind him. Even with other truckers telling him via the CB he had a trooper behind him he was so dang tired or drunk he could not stay in the road and within just a mile or 2 the trooper hit his Kmart blue light special. As I followed him I was able to get the trailer/tag number and a partial truck number as I passed him. When I got to Greenwood and parked I called that company and left a recording with the information and gave them my phone number and went to bed myself. Several hours later I spoke to this company's actual safety director whom was still ignorant of the incident but had used my trailer/tag number to ID the driver. I did not get a whole lot of information out of this guy, but one thing he did tell me was that driver had better be doing a Quailcomm Macro to safety before the end of the day.

 

I had intended to make a snide remark here but decided to just stow it. To be honest this is a problem that cell phones and Quailcomms solved 20 years ago. I have had breakdowns. In every case I contacted my company and stayed warm or cool depending on the weather with my APU/bunkheater and sometimes chowed down on some food as I went online while waiting on help to arrive. Actually in my case the last thing I would want you to do is stop. It is nothing personal with me. I just don't trust the average driver any longer. There are just very few if any situations today where a driver does not have a phone, Quailcomm and there is bad weather and broke down. It is just not much of an issue any longer. It is not a problem east of the Mississippi River and if a driver is stupid enough to operate a truck in bad (measured in feet not inches) snow out west with no means of communication that is on them. Even with bad credit you can get prepaid cell phones. There just is no longer an excuse for this in todays world.