Harassment from 4Wheelers

Mother: so many people (including my wife, at first) don't understand that when everyone is going the same speed, we are all standing still. From there it is an easy prospect to move ahead, change lanes, back off for a ramp and to stay spread out. There IS no breakneck "speed" unless someone is going slower or faster than everyone else.
Now I understand that today's speeds are faster, but I find we have plenty of company and no problem when hypermiling our car or truck in the slow lane for fuel efficiency, like around 65 or so. And the unofficial speed of Atlanta out of rush hours is 75. Unless everyone is going slower, then it's whatever they are doing.
I get the occasional truck "driver" who just has to get around me, even if it means getting into the ticket lane, but I help him do it, light him back in, and laugh to myself when he comes up on the back of the next surge and I've caught up with him...at only 65 or 70.

 

One thing that being a wannabe has done for me is that is that it actually makes me *think*. Not that I'm a particularly unsafe driver, but when you're zipping down the highway, you (or I, rather) only tend to think about what *my* car can do, or whether *I* can stop in any given amount of distance in any given condition. Now, when I drive down the road, I'm always thinking, and I'm always watching the big trucks and other four-wheelers around me. Better for me to fix my bad habits now, as opposed to when I'm training, or even worse, hauling multiple tons behind me...

And then there's the CB. Hearing the way some of y'all talk about a stupid four-wheeler they just saw (always with good reason, from what I've seen), makes me realise that there are other people out there, and they are watching. I don't want to be that one y'all talk about. I may not get it, having never driven a rig, but lots of those yo-yos out there *really* don't get it, and they don't get it in such a way that makes them dangerous not just to you guys (and gals), but to everyone who gets behind the wheel.

 

It ain't all four-wheelers. There's more than a few Yo-Yo's in some of those trucks too. I've seen a few "drivers" I'll simply refer to as: Four-Wheelers in Training...... which would be a four-wheeler with 14 training wheels and he needs every ###### one of 'em. LOL

 

Ha...priceless.

Yeah, I know it's not all four-wheelers...I've had my doors blown off more than once by Mr. Supertrucker in his ungoverned rig. The National Association of Licensed Yo-Yo's takes ya no matter what ya drive...