Road Rage Stories

You sound delusional.. stressors have been associated with a higher possibility of developing delusions....Contributing factors such as, dysfunctional cognitive processing only increase this behavior. You see when coping with life as a truck driver becomes a significant challenge, you view others as the cause of your personal difficulties. In order to maintain your own self esteem you begin to challenge the views of others in an aggresive manner..

Rule number one AIM HIGH IN STEERING:
If you can follow this rule you will never be surprised with a slow moving Prime Truck. For most truck drivers this seems to be a challenge....
Space cushioning is the key........ Thats probably the reason you are so stressed, seek help, and quit terrorizing your fellow drivers........

 

First of all, this story does not even talk about the fabled "rock in the stream" BS that you guys keep espousing. I said it once, and now I am compelled to try again. The student driver was moving from a situation where he was traveling in a left hand lane (with no explanation why, so shut up about his trainer teaching him what a rock in the stream is, cause you don't even know what the trainer was doing) and had to move to the right lane. He legally did so, and for no good reason a flatbed driver swung in front of him and brake checked him. EZX1100 adn Mitchtazz, you guys are first of all inputting something that is not even in the story, and now you say that your driving skills include following too close in congested traffic at speeds above the legal limit posted JUST BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT??????? Do I have this right???? And EZX1100 says that he would rather have everyone road raging on the road rather than Nutdriver with 20 years experience ensuring he has a good following distance and is in a lane that is not going to compete with congested traffic moving on and off of the highway..... do I have that right fellas? Because what you are communicating is that you will ignore posted speed limits because everyone else is. You do it because it is "safer" you say... but if you are, how are you developing the stopping distance between you and the vehicle in front of you should traffic come to a halt? in the name of safety you revere the road raging driver that will "teach that guy a lesson" just boggles my mind. Please post a picture of the trucks you guys drive so we can all stay away from you on the road. From your posts, you guys own the roads and make the rules that everyone else should follow. One of you even talk knowledge/wisdom into the blustering wind of this thread, trying to sound smart. Rediculous is what it is, and unsafe drivers are still here, espousing some very dangerous "wisdom" that will one day put you in a bad situation.

 

You have to tell them you thought he flashed a gun for the police to roll in many places.

 

Quick lesson, as humans we never fully convey our thoughts in our speech or writing. Normally it's something little left out that's so unimportant it's not even noticed, but every now and then it's something that is important. Most people have developed a skill that allows them to use context clues to put the fractured pieces back together to get the picture. Others just stay lost in the sauce..

The reason we were saying they were cruising in the center lane is because they said they moved to the "far" right lane. If it's only two lanes there is no "far" right lane, only a left and a right. The far right lane i guess would be a shoulder.

And no one said the trainer was teaching the "rock in the stream" everyone just referenced it. And while being referenced along with the Smith System it was brought up that knowing/having the information and properly using it are two different abilities in their own, hence:

and at the same time i dont think anyone said what the flatbed driver did was right, only that we'd rather have to deal with the flatbed driver or a driver holding up the center lane, we'd gladly choose the flatbed driver.

And so much for following too close, that all depends on the traffic situation, crossing the GWB around 3:30pm i'm pretty sure you wont have more then a foot between you and the car in front, if ya do it will get filled with another car really fast..

At 60mph on open highway and i have multiple outs (shoulder, another lane, median) i leave possibly a tractor trailer length depending if i'm running hard or not, if not then it's usually bigger. If i can't get the gap i want from behind the vehicle, i'll pass and make a gab and then reset the cruise.

I dont need a quarter mile gap between me and another vehicle, that is uncalled for, if you're paying attention then you really wouldn't need 100yrds unless visibility is really poor, and in that case it's kinda a dang'd if ya do, dang'd if ya dont type deal.

 

Hmmm this ^ driver apparently doesnt believe in physics. Guess when his "outs" arent available he'll find out why it takes more than a 100yards to stop that truck from 60+ mph.

 

i drive at a rather brisk pace, i can count on one hand in the past 5 yrs i have had to brake quickly, and NONE of it had to do with speed, but because someone came out of nowhere (once was a cop coming from my left to exit on my right)

yes, following too close for speed is dangerous, but not observing the larger picture and seeing whats ahead is moreso a contributing factor

you want to drive across nebraska on i80 at 55, thats fine by me, but that would put me to sleep, and a sleepy driver is a dangerous driver

most states who have raised their speeds see no difference, and some even a decrease in accidents because drivers are more alert

so this focus solely on speed is misdirected and driven by insurance companies and very easy for cops to generate revenue

but these "center lane" drivers (in my opinion) present a much more danger to the roads than someone doing 70 in a 55

 

I was wondering who else was going to chime in about that comment.

 

Your common sense posts have no place here.

 

I'm guessing you already knew.

 

Umm... why?

To show how inept most drivers are? Or to show that a driver might encounter the type of scenario in the videos... probably slightly less frequently than they are struck by lightning or hit by an asteroid.