LOOK. IN. YOUR. MIRRORS!!!

Some drivers still have 4 wheeler vision. Some have impared depth perception. Some have bad night vision. Some don't give a winged flying poop what the truck does, it's magic when they end up where they're supposed to go.
We've seen them all. We all know to give a wide berth. I don't hang behind, I get past and fly.
I took a NHTSA bullpoop course somewhere over the rainbow. They marked me wrong when I said staying behind was more dangerous. Too bad for the poor Renzenburger course givers!

 

If I hear that and have a safe place I'll move over. However, one time in oklahoma I was following a 24 ft wide load on a 2 lane with no shoulders just a deep bar ditch. I was thinking there is no way in heck I'm pulling off into the bar ditch. If I get stuck or roll it's on me not him. I think this was very bad routing or he was off route. Plenty of drivers did pull into the ditch though.

 

How many pilot cars did they run?

 

Can't remember exactly. I think it was 2. 1 in back and one in front. May have been 3 with 2 up front. The load was as wide as the road.

 

This is the road they were on. Headin west. US 412 is just 10 miles north and has superloads all the time.

 

Did wind farms in Seiling and Hunter,OK, lots of loads to the Texas Panhandle, Liberal and Ullyses,KS. 412 is MegaHaul Alley. Always a big load on US 412 and US 83. Nothing but bullhaulers and superloads in Bryan's Corner. It's funny, pulling OSOW, you run common routes. You see the same trucks, run into the same drivers. And then there are the superload routes. The high routes. Much fewer MegaHaul routes, much fewer drivers. I'd wager that they probably all know each other.

Story Time: A few years back, we were running from Grand ForksND to SeilingOK. The route was i29,i90,us281,OK45,OK8,US60. One of the guys followed his front car and missed the turn onto Ok45 and got stuck in some little town after dark. Big trouble. We were staying at the co-op in Fairview. Its was the last place to park a big load.
Well, he made it through and went back east on 60 to the co-op and arrived at dark thirty. He fired his front car. Why?

"She missed a turn!"

"YOU missed the turn!!! Your front car misses a turn, you call them and tell them to get turned around and come back. You're the one that missed the turn."

 

I lived right off of US 83 for a while.

 

Kansas?

 

Yep, Scott City.