I promise I won't be any of these three drivers

Why did you decide to leave the remodeling business ?

 

It's an everyday, multiple occurrence on 5 and 40. Especially 5.

 

That just goes to show that swift still has not hired all the idiots that have a CDL. Plenty left at other companies(fry miller).

 

Everyone wants to be first. The first person went through at 12:01...probably racing someone.

 

It's everywhere man. You want to drive around courteous drivers, for the most part, it's driving overnight and/or taking highways.

I've noticed that I don't really get slow passed on highway systems. That's just an interstate thing... for the most part. I am sure a few exceptions exist.

 

What gets me is the dragonflies, dead slow up hills and go as fast as gravity can pull em down. Eventually i get tired of em and leave em in the dust

 

The stupidest part is they don't think they are wrong for doing that, they think they are being safe drivers.

 

This is my opinion about driving a governed truck. My current truck is governed at 68, and my first truck was 63.

Sometimes it takes me a bit of time to pass. Everyone has to wait sometimes, so I don't mind holding up traffic for a period of time in order to get around. The thing is, there are situations where I think I can pass in a reasonable amount of time, but it turns out that I cannot because of various reasons. In that case, I have to slow down and back off and get back in the right lane behind the rig I was trying to pass.

Psychologically, I believe it is very difficult for most people to back off once they have initiated a pass. Most drivers cannot go back to where they came from once they pull out to pass. Its like we think we are showing weakness or backing down or something. I feel that way too, but fortunately I don't really give a #### because whoever is witnessing what I'm doing doesn't care about me and most likely will have forgotten all about the incident within the next 10 minutes. I hate riding next to other rigs for extended periods of time, that #### sucks. And if no one ever backs down, where does that get us, exactly? Believe me, there are times when I'm not backing down no matter what. But usually not when I'm doing my job driving a CMV.

 

Thank you for the great response !!
I worked construction for a couple months , I could not handle it. I'm a severe asthmatic and all the dust was killing me. Welcome to the trucking industry !!! It's not bad here , not bad here at all. I've enjoyed it for about 20 years on and off. The job to me is pretty easy it's the all around lifestyle that can be tuff and the shock of the lifestyle then beat most people. I wish you all the luck in the world my friend.