Mean Trucker?

While the cost to this driver was obviously far too high for what he has accomplished, he had indeed accomplished something: The driver of that car will never again ever think of doing that (slamming brakes in front of truck to try to slow it down) again! So he's done something good!

 

Although, I'll agree that could be at least one way to get a/the point across to a 4-wheeled motorist, I question if it could/should be considered the "best" form of instruction?

If a Big truck truck driver is THAT wound up, I don't think they should unwind on the highways by pushing John Q. Public down a public, or any other, road.

If y'all even get that urge, it's best to calm right down -- or take a break. Sooner the better. Driving a Big truck with that attitude can spell
T-R-O-U-B-L-E
Brewing or
Distilling.
And it could boil over.

As long as there are 4-wheelers, there will be jerks to drive them. Same holds true for Big trucks. A chance meeting betwixt those two combinations should be placarded
DISASTER --
LOOKIN' FOR A PLACE TO HAPPEN.

OH!

S hip
H igh
I n
T ransit

Driver!!

Git outta their way!

 

Not very likely at all. The switches aren't supposed to be that sensitive. If any switch is that sensitive, they are malfunctioned. I've hit bumps harder than I could ever slam any door. By the way, the Topaz was only made from 84 to 94.

 

Yeah, this thread IS a year old..

But I'm gonna add my comments anyway, so there

I'm going to agree with Danc694u and the others who suspect this whole thing is invented.

My first accident (I'd had my regular DL for about a week) was.. a lot of years ago. I can remember everything about it, quite vividly. The same is true, in fact, of EVERY collision I've been involved in.

Do I remember license plates? No, but I can tell you the color(s) and body type of each and every involved vehicle. I can tell you the number of people on board and which was driving. I can remember identifying marks on those vehicles that had them (rust, bent quarterpanels, mis-matched paint)

In *every* instance, the first (well, in one case, the second*) thing I did was call the police. Kept witnesses on the scene, etc. And I was 17 at the time of my first crash.

Now, here we have a victim with a barely plausible story - but she can't provide *any* details? Requests for enlightenment are not responded to at all, and, when called on it, she changes the subject to something truly heinous.

Then she vanishes altogether. >poof<

Yeah, I don't think I'd buy this story with HER money.

*the one time I called the cops second, I called Mom first. It was her car, after all.

 

It appears my memory was indeed faulty. The Mercury Topaz I purchased was in fact a program car purchased in Bangor Maine in 1994. I drove that car until 1998 when I traded it in on a Ford Windstar. The Ford Windstar was traded for a Ford Contour in 2003 and the Ford Contour was traded for a Ford Focus in 2006. I try and keep my lady in new cars with bumper to bumper warranties.

I did not make up the story about the fuel switch shutoff. Here is the whole story; While checking out the local car dealerships for a new car I happened to leave the car running and my eldest daughter decided it would be fun to play in the drivers seat, I got so angry (and scared) I dragged her out of the car and rather than hurting her I slammed the car door causing the car to rock from side to side. The car would not start after that. I did in fact have it towed to the closest Ford Dealer.

Wether the switch was faulty or not was not the point of the post. This was the only time it happened and I traded the car shortly afterward as it was getting old (the warranty was gone).

I offered the story to illustrate the fact that there are fuel shut off switches installed in cars and in the event of an accident, stop the fuel supply, and render the car undrivable.

That said thankyou for pointing out my feeble memory. My wife tells me I am slowly losing my mind anyway and this just proves it.

 

Dang it Aftershock you spoiled my vision I thought thats why you see more Moose Bumpers in the USA lately.For pushing 4 wheelers.

 

I don't like seein' one of those big ol' steam train bumpers comin up behind me in the truck.. much less my 4 wheeler...

 

I've been driving OTR for 10 years now, and I really think her car got lost under the trucks hood. I've had this happen to me once before.

I was in a long stop-and-go line at a toll booth. I came up behind a car towing a small flat-top camper with a spare tire on the back. Well, as time passed I happened to creep too close to the guys camper (and forgot about it) and ended up slightly bumping it each time I came to a stop. All I could see was a car in front of me. I kept bumping the guys spare tire on the back of the camper. Luckly no damage. What finally got my attention was when I noticed all four of the family's heads snap back against the head-rests just as I stopped. I couldn't even feel anything because my load was quite heavy, and I suspect that the other truck driver couldn't feel it either.

From then on I made a mental note to ALWAYS leave more space in front of me.

-bigbear

 

Oh wow, no that was no game, That person was a ###-HOLE I don't believe that driver did that not all drivers are like that . Take my word for it.
Sorry you had that experience.

 

My old boss had a circumstance like this once. He was sitting in heavy traffic and as his story goes, he "forgot" that a Geo Metro was in front of him. In his defense, it was a long hood Freightshaker and a Metro is pretty small. He was of the opinion that he had left room in front of him and when the light turned green he started to roll the truck forward. He said the guy in the lane next to him started blowing his horn an pointing. He thought the guy was trying to cut in, so he accellerated further pushing the car in front. When he went to grab the next gear, the lady in the Metro gunned it and that was the first that he knew that he was pushing her. He immediatly moved to the shoulder as did the other lady and he called the police. There were no injuries, thankfully, but the boss was shaken up a bit and gladly accepted his ticket.
The moral of the story is, sometimes this can happen, and it should be seen as an accident, and nothing else.