SLOW DOWN!!!

I stand behind everything I said, If I am so out of line please enlighten me. I do lay off for someone who is taking a ridiculous time to pass, but
the attitude many of the posters have about it being courteous and the person trying to pass is such conditions is an okay thing, is BS. It is me reacting to an unsafe driver. And if you are trying to pass and it takes you 4-5 minutes to do so then you only have a differential speed of less than 1 MPH, which makes no sense to even try to make the pass.
And that is just common sense, not some secret trucker lore that I am not privy to yet.

 

Let me try to enlighten you then--most of what you say is true in principle--BUT--and I am gonna assume here(which I typically do not do)that YOU consider yourself a professional driver--therefore as such--you should and do understand how traffic works and flows--SO you are cruising along at your speed legally--and someone who can go 1mph faster pulls into faster traffic and attempts to pass--in a very short amount of time you have all the so called amateurs(ie cars) going bat###--swervin weavin tryin to cut each other off etc so they can get(insert destination)6seconds earlier--So I ask you--do you continue to be part of the problem? Or do you ACT like a professional and back off and let the other driver in--thus clearing up the traffic problem--and ending the potentially dangerous already volitile situation? or do you continue along your merry way comfortable in your mind that it isn't your problem--the other guy is to blame?
Just wondering?

 

The passing driver caused the problem. The passing driver, if he is a professional, can back off and pull in behind. This is what he should have done in the first place. He can wait until it is safe and he has enough time to pass. One, two or three miles slower for a short time, isn't going to make him late for his delivery. This is common sense, unfortunately, I see a total lack of common sense in many drivers. What am I supposed to do, as one driver said, keep slowing down until I am backing up on the highway. Isn't the problem, at least to many of you, that I am going too slow? Your solution is for me to go even slower. Perhaps I should pull over on the side of the road and you can give me a call whenever you reach your destination. Imagine that, a route that has absolutely no delays, no slow drivers, no 4-wheelers, no stop signs, no accidents, no nothing, just a clean free highway. Some of you would still find something to gripe about.

 

i agree that the one passin and really doesnt have enough motor/speed to pass is the problem...but having driven a governed truck (62)..worst year of my life btw...sometiimes ya gotta give in....if we got around someone who just had to be in front...usually only to slow down...just back off..and yep, sometimes even a trip thru the rest area or take a ramp...you dont have to stop...(unless of course stop sign/or light at bottom or ramp, have to add that or some ppl will be sayin i am tellin ppl to run lights)....if you go for mile after mile drag racin...it only gets my bp up....and i personally dont want someone stupid enough to act like that ridin beside me any longer than nec.

 

Like I said early terrylamar--the other driver probably is wrong--but it doesn't matter--u have the opportunity to b part of the problem or b the solution?--the chose is all URS?-U can profess to b a pro or u can act like one--again UR choice--&please don't try the tired I'll going backward rookie excuse on me--cause it don't hold water--same as slowin 4 cars in urban areas--almost everyone I've taught to drivehas tried that when I told them to back off in town and let em cut u off--if there was any truth in that statement--mist if of us would still stuck in the Bronx--or Chicago or-----

 

mom used to say 2 wrongs dont make a right
2 wrongs is how we got to this state of affairs to start with
37 minutes in the fuel island today
i had every right to take my time also
but i fueled up and went and parked my truck
before i went in the TS

 

37 minutes??better not let Red Hot Mess find out u were in eatin lunch parked@fule island!










I no I can b such a xxxx
Lmao

 

"Probably," I would say, definitely, wrong. The driver was behind you for miles and miles. He knows how fast he can or can't creep past you. He made a conscious decision to block traffic, maybe believing he could bully you into slowing down for him. You do, and he learns that he can keep on doing this same action. I use this situation as a teachable moment. We have all be hanging out there, so we know the feeling. Hopefully, that feeling will deter him from doing it again. I'm not trying to be a jerk. There are times when I will move over to help another driver out of a bad situation. But, if you throw your chestnuts into the fire, don't expect me to pull them out. I don't want to handle your chestnuts! As far as two wrongs don't make a right, if there is a cop behind us, I don't think I will be the one getting the ticket!

 

I think what's being said is even though someone is dead wrong there is a high road we, the other person can take.

And it can only be a teachable moment when both parties partake in the lesson plan, the other guy was just trying to pass, he Wasnt sitting in class.

And it may not just be the 1 mph difference, maybe you were slowing him down on hills because he was lighter, not saying, just saying.

is it pride that won't let you slow down, even for a few seconds? Just curious. It wouldn't be unusual.

 

You have your perspective, I have mine. I will turn the questions around, why doesn't he slow down? I suggest the driver that can't get the job done to do the right thing and not try to pass when it is obvious he can't. Are you really suggesting someone slow down on a hill, knowing you just don't slow down on a hill, but you loose most of your speed, you will have to drop gears like crazy and may end up causing a major problem on the highway? When the big boys whizz by on the hills, they soon slow down and I keep chugging away leaving them in my exhaust fumes wondering what just happened.