Day before yesterday while travelling up NE 2 on my way to I80 westward to SLC, some four wheeler forced me to take critical actions when he thought his ordinary green light meant he could take a left turn while I was already in the intersection. I had to dive slightly to my left and marvelled at how fast I lost 15 mph in speed and didn't jacknife or roll the truck. I avoided killing the idiot. Needless to say if he had been towing a trailer even the size of a Uhaul pup, I would've creamed it. At the end of the day when I did my post trip, I was promptly rewarded with a tire separation.
My first hard breaking incident
Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by truckermario, Aug 11, 2010.
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Tell them what you wrote... tell them exactly what happened and they will understand... You are not alone... we all go thru situations like those... with so many idiots driving crazy out there and doing stupid things around us... Don't be scared... You didn't hit anybody, you didn't damage anything... YOU PREVENTED AN ACCIDENT... that's all that matters... Learn from that experience, keep your head up and move on.. Be safe...
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People at stop signs were doing this to me all the time when I delivered around a city that had nothing but tight turns. Even though my signal was on and I had the right of way, just as I started turning, they'd concluded 1/2 second prior that I was going to go straight through the intersection, and ran right in front of me...
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