Saving another driver from trouble

I've done this several times, both in my car and while driving professionally.

1. Driving to work in my car one morning around 4:30 AM going down the interstate, a trailer had no lights on it. I drove passed the cab slowly honking the horn to get the drivers attention and pulled infront of him. I then turned my tail lights on and off. The driver figured it out and pulled off the the interstate to check it out.

2. While driving in a bus, I saw a tractor trailer he had a right steer near being flat. We were in stop and go traffic, I had to blow the horn and point, eventually he stopped and I shouted through my tiny bus window "your tires flat."

3. Another time in my car, I couldn't do anything, but cruisng around 60 MPH a tractor trailer had a front left steer almost flat, not really any way to alert him. Well, after the fact I realized I could have driven by honked the horn, and then point to my tire.

4. When I worked at a truck rental and leasing company on the fuel island, I heard metal scraping across the parking lot. A driver with a pup trailer left the landing gear down, I ran after the truck probably 200 feet, LUCKILY for him he had to wait for traffic, I knocked on his door and told him his landing gear was down, he was an older guy in his 60's and cordially thanked me and shrugged it off. It's a good thing I did stop him, because the drive way is steep it would have probably snapped the landing gear.

5. At a truck stop one, there was a Schneider truck that pulled in and back in, he had a driver tire with a HUGE bulge in the side it was the size of a cantelope! Another driver got out and alerted him, it was so big he should have seen it in his mirror!

What good deeds have you done? Let's face it, some people/drivers out there don't give a rats ####. If someone leaves a roll up door open, if their brake lights are out, or if you see a flat tire, I would always try and tell the driver because they may not know. You'd want someone to do the same for you. Some people have an attitude, "it's not my problem, or its not mine." If you see something weird going on, what would you do? OR what have you done?

When someone is honking their horn, flashing their lights, waving or pointing, don't think they're loonie, they are alerting you of a problem. Some people may be real quick and frank and you're probably thinking, "What the hell's he doing?" hmm, pull over when you can and check things out.

 

I don't know where my post went, but its no longer here and I didn't delete it. I've alerted numerous drivers on loading docks that their steer tires are low on air, by visually looking at them. Many are just oblivious.

As mentioned in my post which is no longer there, I've driven a bus for a short distance with a tire that had 40 PSI in it, I knew it had 40 PSI in it and I was going to get air in it. Honestly, it didn't feel like it was low driving it, no indication at all. Everyone says that it will pull if the tires are low on air, its my experience in both commercial vehicles and private cars, this is not the case. If a tire is low on air, I can definitely tell a different in handling, but driving down the interstate I don't notice any difference.

I had a front tire go flat on my car, I noticed it AFTER it went flat, I ended up destroying the interior of the tire even though I pulled over immediately. I hit a nail and it ran low on air, but I didn't notice and I wouldn't call myself a steering wheel holder.

There are accidents reports, I can give a link for this one involving a Hound, he blew a steer tire at 78 MPH going down a hill, lost control rolled it over killing himself and a bunch of others. The cause of the crash after forensic analysis was a tire low on air.

I maintain my position, maybe you can but for the most part, if a tire was low on air I would be very ignorant in knowing while driving. If a tire in a truck is almost flat, 10-20 PSI or flat, yes you would feel that, the wheel becomes extremely hard to move especially at lower speeds and the truck would start to lean.

I also find it interesting that some truck when going down the road with a heavy load, the tractor will have a list to the left, I assume from the torque being applied pulling the load.

As far as waving is concerned, personally I would not wave to every single driver I saw. There are times when appropriate, for example if you're at a traffic light and look over and you see the other driver, go ahead and wave. I'm sure the other driver is not going to want to wave to every single driver out there as well.

It's great that people do nice things to help others. I'm a little bothered that one of my posts is no longer here. I'm posting my experience, I have nothing to gain from posting it. It's just been my personal experience.

 

Wow, I don't think you would see me doing that, but that was really thought ful. May have been cheaper to buy him a bus ticket.