I'm seeing a new negative trend being born with truckers

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by TruckRunner, Jun 21, 2019.

  1. booley

    booley Road Train Member

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    are you serious?!?!
     
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  3. let's put the needle down on this broken record.
    why did CSA become a reality in 2010..
    how bad did the industry get that the feds have to make it a federal mandate not just dangling proverbial carrot. if you don't straighten up you're going to have this coming down.
    the professional generation who started prior to 1995 before the industry took a turn and continue to downfall to where it's been at rock bottom for almost 14 years now did not cause CSA..
     
  4. iceman32

    iceman32 Medium Load Member

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    People don’t realize. There are anti trust laws for brokers too. Brokers have tarnished this industry, period. The trucker was the middleman. Now trucking is like playing 3d space chess, with dot overseeing the board.
     
  5. MGE Dawn

    MGE Dawn Road Train Member

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    Can we take a moment to appreciate the ####wads who tailgate you for 30 miles with their brights on, and then ONLY move over to pass once you've slowed down by about 20 mph because you're absolutely blinded by their douchebaggery, then they take an hour and a half passing you going exactly one half of one mile per hour faster with their brights still on? I'm honestly surprised I haven't found myself in a ditch yet given all the times this happened to me on winding roads...
     
  6. there's been shot he broke her since back in the mid-70s even long enough to remember old Rubes truck stop in Jersey City.
    that's absolutely nothing new with all as far as the brokers how many times you see these brokers like in truckstop set up shop screw people out of money never pay their freight bills and then set up in another town old news..however they're not the problem with people driving like idiots going down the road. nobody forces them to do that at all.. if you choose to haul cheap freight thats your own problem.
     
  7. snowwy

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    There used to be signs that said SLOWER TRAFFIC RIGHT LANE. No one obeys. And the signs are gone now.

    I would agree safer. But 4 lanes over is ridiculous.
     
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  8. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    The only tankers around these parts is me. The others stay in the right lanes.
    I can do the speed limit. They apparently can't.
     
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  10. MGE Dawn

    MGE Dawn Road Train Member

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    I obey... for the most part. There are areas that I run the left lane, although I'll state in my own defense that I wouldn't HAVE to do that if the rest of the drivers in those parts would quit trapping me when they see situations arise that I'm gonna need the hammer lane to avoid a collision without fully stopping on the interstate. That ####ing camera on my dash keeps penalizing me for not getting over despite not being able to see that I'm not able to get over, and its getting old. I wanna drive, not play 4D chess with the Safety department
     
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  11. Zeviander

    Zeviander Road Train Member

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    Not every state has lane-usage by-laws IIRC, so why not just pass and carry on with your life and not worry about it? At least you aren't stuck in a governed truck within 0.5-1.0 mph of the offender.
     
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