guy got his CDL out of a cracker jack box

This is why good companies prefer 1 year OTR
Experience.
You would have learned how to deal with these
Simple problems that we deal with everyday.

two years in that milk truck, running that 100
Mile circle everyday and you still don't know
Basic road rules.

If someone is riding your ### on a one lane road
he's trying to Get around you.
Here's how you deal with that.

Your in front,you choose the time he can make
The pass without getting both of you killed.
You have a clear view of the road ahead and
Oncoming traffic, he doesn't.

Hold you speed.
If there's traffic coming the other direction,
He's stuck behind you.
If there's a break in oncoming traffic,but not
Enough time for him to pass, then I block his
View by putting my truck a couple feet across
The center line so he can't see and jump out
There and kill us all.

When I see there's enough time for him to pass
I move as far right as I can, and let of the throttle
Just a little bit.
He blows by you, a minute later your back up
To speed and everybody's happy and alive.

You need some serious road and city time.
The pack doesn't slow down for anybody.
It's 24/7/365 go,go,go, non stop.
Remember that guy behind is racing a clock too,

 

To get them from the Cracker Jacks, takes a lot of boxes.
With the Bazooka one, all you gotta do is save some comics, and every piece has one.

 

Why would the passing vehicle slow down?
If the vehicle that is being passed, backed off for 30 to 45 seconds, the pass would most likely be completed in that or slightly less time. Speed and acceleration differential would dictate that.

If the driver of the vehicle being passed slows for an extended time, beyond the 45 seconds, how would that block the passing driver. The idea here is truck A is passing truck B.

One big factor to consider. Attention to your surroundings.
If your not fully engaged in what your doing, then there are going to be problems.

 

If I were passing a vehicle, and saw a Truck coming at Me, I would back off and get back behind the vehicle I was passing. I wouldn’t count on the Vehicle I’m passing to back off. It sounds to Me, the OP must have backed out of it. Luckily for both of the other Trucks.The only argument that can be made, IMO is that the OP already knew ahead of time, that the idiot passing him was taking a chance, as he was familiar with the intersection. The Truck passing him obviously made a bad choice. Everyone does at one time or another. Something tells Me, it’s one of those “ had to be there” to judge. I don’t fault the OP. Simply because of the fact there wasn’t an accident.

 

actually i did my best NOT to drive with any assumptions. i drove nearly the entire tenure of my career at night, doing dedicated routes. now one would think that i knew the roads 1000% percent. that would be a WRONG assumption. things change from minute to minute, don't they?

one night the highway will be clear, the next night, the lane(s) are blocked for tree trimming AT NIGHT...YES, AT NIGHT...this is common in the state of MA....

one would think that driving in the snow, fog, ice, heavy rain, that he/she has done it so many times, that he can assume he will get thru it safely THIS time..??

sorry, but i don;t get your argument either, thinking that we all drive with assumptions.

i drove 50/301(??) in MD/DE, where having your headlights on ARE MANDATORY for the tree over hangs and the ability to loose sight of oncoming cars at the intersections, where MANY ACCIDENTS took place, before the state(s) built over passes to cut down on those accidents.

you DO NOT ASSUME when you approached ANY of those intersections, that the rummy at the stop sign, waiting to come out onto the highway WILL SEE YOU

no sir, maybe YOU drive with assumptions, but i made it SAFELY to 48 years of driving with NO ASSUMPTIONS.

and finally, the o/p admitted he "assumed" the truck behind him was going to STAY behind him.....bad assumption on his part, just like that intersection where HE SAID, many accidents took place there...he "assumed" there would be no problem when he got there....

his NEXT ASSUMPTION may get him or someone else, hurt of killed.

 

You cant anticipate everything is all im saying. Its impossible. I drive with assumptions all the time, so does everyone else if their honest about it. Now dont get me wrong, in certain situations you can anticipate a problem and avoid it for sure, especially impatient meat heads like the op described. But u cant avoid everything, or anticipate everything, no way, no how. Sounds like you might have been potty trained at gun point back in the day, that true? Lol

 

I think you got your idea of the Smith system out of a cracker Jack box.

 

no need for the insults.

one that is trying to be a professional each and every time he/she is out there, stays focused. you do not assume anything, you EXPECT the unexpected. to "casually" drive by an intersection that one was WELL AWARE of previous accidents with a naive way of thinking that nothing will happen is not only wrong, but DEAD WRONG.

to have been driving, KNOWING FULL WELL another vehicle was on hos donkey, and DID NOTHING to alleviate a potential problem was WRONG, DEAD WRONG.

we have here an o/p, that has done nothing in the past, but complain about his company, his boss and his co-workers. he went on to say something about a co-worker that wants to buy (or lease) his own truck, what should he do about it...he is way too young to be driving a tanker truck, even so much as a water tanker, let alone precious, expensive milk, and thank god, NO fuels of any kind.

i fail to see him going into NEXT year with out another wreck, his fault or not, driving on his "assumptions"

and winter is quickly approaching...will it be milder than last year, and he makes it thru, or super snowy/icy cold as some have said it will be...

will he "assume" what to do..???

or be MORE FOCUSED..???

 

Your boss might blow his brains out.
With you guys totally destroying his equipment
On a monthly basis,he might do it for his family
Before he gets sued into bankruptcy.

 

this IS what can cause a good small company to go belly up.

some people would die for such a job, away from the rhetoric of the mega-fleets.

but some just do not respect what the smaller companies can offer them, not in the monetary sense, but in the "security of a job" sense.