Is this a new driver training technique?

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  1. idriveaholden

    idriveaholden Super Heavy Hauler

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    if you cant do at least the speed limit you need to be in the right lane simple as that. and if you're doing the speed limit you still shouldn't be there... everyone wants to go 5-10 over

    what annoys me even more is how most drivers are incapable of holding the fog line/outside line
    hell, even a straight line....
    90% of drivers cant do this, its ridiculous. including 4 wheelers too.
    if you start watching you'll see who the good drivers are just by these 2 things.
     
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    Diesel Dave Last Few of the OUTLAWS

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    You must drive for a mega carrier that has you trained and brainwashed with the “F system”(smith).
     
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    idriveaholden Super Heavy Hauler

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    either that or he learned how to drive from his mom hahah
     
  4. MTN Boomer

    MTN Boomer Road Train Member

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    Must be a different Smith, The 1 took did not say anything about driving slow, untill a truck starts to pass you. Or blocking traffic untill at least 5 or 6 vehicle s are behind you
     
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    All of the worst tricks/shortcuts of the past are now standard practice. Numerous megafletts are filled with drivers that AVERAGE 90-180 days of CDL experience. Millenials are not goingbto strive to any standard other than "what is easy for me."
     
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    I try to ride the right lane as much as possible when not in the city. Of course if you see a Prime or Raider truck ahead, grab the middle.
     
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    What kind of ignorant megafleet brainwashing steering wheel holder sh#t is this?

    If you're in the middle lane and getting passed on the right, you need to move your slow enough to drive miss Daisy ### into the right lane.

    Let me repeat...

    MOVE THE #### OVER.
     
  9. God prefers Diesels

    God prefers Diesels Road Train Member

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    I'm more than happy to pass on the right. At this point, I know a dry van being pulled by a Cascadia isn't going to leave the middle lane no matter what. When I go by, I dramatically shake my head in "disapproval", and when I get back in front of them, I don't use my blinker!!!!!!! Until I can figure out this tarp quick release system where I can dump my tarps across four lanes of traffic, that's the best I can do.
     
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    it's way way safer to sit still in the middle lane where four wheelers and rigs in a hurry can get around you than it is to deal with merging traffic from the feeder ramps every 5 miles and keep changing lanes back and forth back and forth
     
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