SLOW DOWN!!!

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Logan76, Feb 2, 2013.

  1. aiwiron

    aiwiron Road Train Member

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    Nope, not touching that thing. I just wizzed on it like that last 5 zillion hetuns did. But I have the cleanest socks in the world, that windshield washer stuff in the big buckets doe wonders.

    A little more blue, but hey they are clean.
     
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  3. Trucail

    Trucail Medium Load Member

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    That would entail actually walking into the truckstop to go!
     
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  4. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

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    Ahh passing. I love that little feeling of irritation that I get when I move to the left lane at 70mph to pass a column of governed trucks traveling at 62, only to have the back door of the convoy cut over in front of me at the last minute and accelerate to 64 to try to pass the long line as well. Then 5 miles later as he passes one truck, he cuts back over to take the upcoming exit to the truck stop.
     
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  5. 48Packard

    48Packard Ol' Two-stop Shag!

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    Just about witnessed this along the IN Turnpike today....I was just-a-groovin' along at my 62, when a Koch and a Yellow doubles start rollin' up on my left....and viola'!!....Just before they get to me, the Western Express flat behind me moves out to pass! He's rollicking along at, oh....63.....and Koch and Yellow both had to drop out of it....I back out, Western gets by me and STAYS in the left lane!

    Now, there's a Chinese food 6-wheeler from Chicago about a quarter-mile in front of me doing 55...no, wait, 63....hold it....57...well, anyway....poor ol' Koch moves back in front of me only to be stonewalled by Egg Foo Yung. Took Koch and Yellow about five or six minutes....literally....to get by Western and roll on.....
     
  6. Bayle

    Bayle Road Train Member

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    How do those drivers even navigate city roads, and stop lights, when they seem to have no sense of speed, and distance.
     
  7. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

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    Of course they don't. They're plastered to their gps while talking on their phone to their buddy and texting their girlfriend.
     
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  8. Cowmobile

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    Thats an everyday occurrence for me, and the idiots that do it are absolutely oblivious to anything they've done wrong...
     
  9. 48Packard

    48Packard Ol' Two-stop Shag!

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    This WE driver appeared to be completely clueless....from what I could see in his west coast mirror as he passed me, he was pretty active in the seat.

    Doing what, specifically, is anyone's guess!
     
  10. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

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    I've definitely noticed a pattern to the behavior of WE drivers.
     
  11. Logan76

    Logan76 Crusty In Training

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    that's when you grab that 3rd lane and pass him, then cut into his lane when your trailers at about his drivers door...
     
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