Should you ever swerve your big rig to avoid an animal..??

ALWAYS hit the animal !!!!!!!!!!

As you're braking, of course !!!!!

 

As a tanker yanker.......Hit 'em. It is one thing to kill a deer (and I hate doing that and have done it) but better a deer than me or someone else.

I love the smell of broken fiberglass in the morning.

 

It's one thing to hit a 400 pound deer, but moose go about 7 feet tall at the shoulders and weigh 1800 pounds +. I'm not going to tell anyone how to drive their truck (it's none of my business what you do) but if it's the choice of hitting a moose or taking the ditch, the ditch wins. How many trucks do you see doing 90 - 100 km/h in the winter and lose control and end up in the ditch? they don't all roll over I've seen a truck go down an embankment that was probably 20 feet deep on highway 11 and he didn't flip over he almost made it up the other side . If I was pulling a tanker I would probably hit it though I figure I may as well take him with me lol.

 

400 pound deer!!!! That's a doubled@mn big deer!!!!

 

I won't hit the ditch for anything except another truck or a bus. Moose may do some damage but you will still win. I've seen the damage a moose has done to more than one truck and it's not worth hitting the ditch IMO. If you're in a 4 wheeler though a moose can be deadly and the ditch just might be a better choice.

I've had a couple of close calls with moose but saw them in time, one was really close though. It's amazing how hard it can be to see something that big yet a little mouse scooting up the road stands right out.

 

On the moose. I've read and seen about how your headlights won't pickup a moose like they do a deer. Seems a moose is so far off the ground that headlights don't catch their eyes. I swear I've skinned a couple moose noses. Scared the snot out of me. Those guys are big! And they come out of nowhere!

 

It's because your headlights only hit their legs, plus they only like to come out in the fog it seems haha

What can I say we grow em big up here!!!!

 

I guess so!!!