Lane Changing Petition: Please Read

Good luck ! Kind of like that Vision Zero thing. Good luck on that too

 

Government is never a solution, more Government always makes things worse; Law Enforcement today exists to generate revenue and truck tickets don't anger voters.

So it is far more likely that trucks would get more following too close tickets than cars getting more tickets for cutting off trucks, ask for more Government and ye shall receive 10 fold upon your own head.

 

Stay Out Of The No Zone!

Yeah right. The last thing anyone will ever do is keep a distance from anything else on the road, you'd have to put them in straight jackets (i.e., outlaw lane changes) and govern their vehicles... wait, that's what became of trucking after the whole no-zone campaign failed; you can't make this stuff up. Well you can, but it just happens in slower motion, and that's about as good as it gets (unless you drive at night in the middle of nowhere, when there's fewer and farther between: I'd petition for a curfew on cars then, except it kind of takes care of itself).

And think of this problem in terms of traffic control: it can only be as effective as the extent to which it stops vehicles from moving (that is, when or where they shouldn't). Apparently more of this responsibility is on the truck drivers to control as such (by offsetting themselves even further in response). It's one of those things that isn't enforced until whatever goes wrong, and therefore is better yet not to go there. In other words, if your truck is about to be pulled in front of, start falling back, and if there's so much traffic that this is constant, keep going slower. That's why some roads have lower speed limits for trucks; after all, the speed limit is not a minimum speed to maintain, but a maximum speed under ideal conditions, including traffic as a condition which makes it less than ideal.

Now, what if every truck on the road did this to keep a distance? I'd say that's truly the only way to petition, and get everyone else up to speed, as it were. But this is just my two cents, 'cause I get paid more for slowing down (really though I'd prefer to drive less). I mean there was a time when I had a work ethic about going with the flow, except it had to involve a level of assumption that other traffic wanted me to, or could refrain from speeding for two seconds (to keep a distance, which is an all or nothing proposition), and ultimately the authorities wouldn't let this be my job description, so it isn't (but there you go, I've since determined that there never was a flow). Funnily enough, now they're practically begging me to speed up again (well you can't have it both ways, but I can follow a double standard, and double down on it to the extreme necessary, so that will do, or we'll do). Personally, I don't drive on the interstates at this point, unless they pay me for that, and my vehicle is somewhat indestructible (well, I'm not trying to be a rolling roadblock there either, it's just that my two choices are to do this in one way or another—potentially avoiding an accident, or being part of one—except then I'm not rolling).

 

I will support this when truck drivers also start doing this. I have been cut off by more trucks than cars in my time on the road, most of the time these idiot truck drivers just can't be happy with doing 5 over the limit but have to do 15 over.

 

Maybe it takes a special brand of idiot to cut us off in a pilot car though, see what happens...

 

Class "C" drivers aren't my problem. It's the idiots driving "fast" company trucks governed at 65 to 68 that want to jerk it out in the left lane in front of me to turtle race

 

Ha... I LOVE the "follow me" part!~

 

It might have been a good idea for the OP to proof read his petition before posting. I got a little confused there for a bit.

 

Lol, are you being serious.