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Don't Understand

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by terryg247, Feb 15, 2016.

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  1. Feb 15, 2016 #1
    terryg247

    terryg247 Light Load Member

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    I was driving on the 402 in Ontario a couple of nights ago. Those unfamiliar it is about sixty miles long between port Huron/Sarnia to London. The roads were fine until I passed the last stop then suddenly they turned to crap from glare ice and a ton of snow. I was driving bobtail so I slowed way down and put the flashers on. Now I was being passed by a number of trucks doing the speed limit while I was counting the trucks and cars in the ditches and middle of the fields. Police would report over sixty accidents the next day. Is being on time so important that you will risk your life and everyone else's on the road. Met a driver the next morning saying the road was still crap with no plows in sight
     
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  3. Feb 15, 2016 #2
    TequilaSunrise

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    And truthfully I don't understand it either it seems like your life would be more important...
     
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  4. Feb 15, 2016 #3
    Raezzor

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    I wondered the same thing last night here in Columbus, OH while driving in the snow we got. Seen plenty of vehicles spun out and wrecked, roads completely covered, I'm doing 35-40 and getting my doors blasted off by big trucks and cars alike. *shrug*
     
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  5. Feb 15, 2016 #4
    Charlie Mac

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    Unfortunately I think drivers get comfortable with unsafe behavior...until It's to late.

    They misinterpret luck for skill.
     
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  7. Feb 15, 2016 #5
    americanmadetrucker

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    To quote Mike Tyson, "everyone has a plan until they get smacked in the mouth."
     
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  8. Feb 15, 2016 #6
    Longarm

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    It's the ' I'll show these pups how the big dogs roll' mentality. Quite a few guys had bad days by the looks of things coming across I80 in PA today.

    Just mind your own and stay outta their way. 40 mph on snow covered roads isn't unreasonable.
     
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  9. Feb 15, 2016 #6
    RoadRooster

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    I think most people, even professionals, believe that you can drive fast until you lose traction. I hate to say it but when you lose traction it's too late...
     
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  10. Feb 16, 2016 #7
    blairandgretchen

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    If I'm all by myself, it's all on. That has tempered a lot since I now own the truck.

    If there's other vehicles around, it's a game of staying away from everyone.
     
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  11. Feb 16, 2016 #8
    Diesel Dave

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    They are probably more experience on the ice roads and snow, also I'm sure they knew the road alot better then you did. In my first year or so when I experience the ice and snow conditions, I slowed way down only to see trucks passing me left and right thinking, WTF.......
     
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  12. Feb 16, 2016 #9
    superflow

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    I just slow it down period!
    ....and let those brave souls be on their way down the road
     
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  13. Feb 16, 2016 #10
    bowtieboy77

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    Some one has to be the first in the ditch. That was just not a race that I was interested in winning.
     
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