Drifting

I guess some drive different than others. I use the hood to line the truck up next to the fog line. Check my right mirror to see I'm about 2 inches off the line. After awhile it becomes second nature. Nothing says lame like wandering or crowding center line.

 

Hi okie, I'd do that too. I'd line up the hood ornament with the line on the shoulder, never heard it called "the fog line", but that makes sense. Many times in the fog, that's all you could see. Hated driving in the fog, like driving with your eyes closed.

 

Up here in the pnwet where it never rains or is foggy @ night we call it the fog line. Otherwise you'd end up in the ditch on your lid. If your driving off road yas got to know where them tires are at.

 

I think I was behind you yesterday....

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I think it depends on which way the wind is blowing. As a rookie, I would pass other trucks and soon after my doors reach their front bumper, my truck likes to lurch that way. Now that I expect it, I ride over the white line a little so that when it does lurch, I am farther away and my reaction time is getting better with it.

I was always afraid that other driver thought I was just being an #######.

 

By 'drifting' I thought you meant having your trailer track to the outside on corners.

 

The best lane position I hold is when I haul oversized 'wide'. That is when I am really focused on it the entire time. I do do also with 60' rebar because I want to be more gentle on the wheel. An adrupt steering correction can really whip the trailer out of line. Not so much with 60' H piling. I think the rebar has a lot more flex to it which contributes to it.

 

I like to drift turns.

 

When you are sitting in the drivers seat you are about 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches left of center, depending on what truck you are driving.

Visualize the center of the lane, then visualize a line that is right where YOU are. Then imagine YOU are flying on that line. The truck is gone and you are just flying on that line.

Same visualization as if you are snow skiing. You have to SEE your line in order to ski it, or you might end up trying to ski INTO the tree instead of around it.

Once I started this visualization I never had a problem staying centered in the lane. For me trying to reference hood ornaments or otherwise looking at anything that wasn't dead ahead made it more difficult.