the one problem with my new job

I laugh at a particular group of gravel haulers around here. Drive like the devil until they see the scale is open. Then you'll see a bunch of them stopped on the shoulder updating their logs and whatever else to try and look legal. Almost every one of them gets pulled around the back.

 

Sometimes it isn't really that simple. If you are driving a 65 mph truck, and are catching up and preparing to pass a 62 mph truck, you are going to end up a little closer to the slower truck than you would like to be for a minute or two, until the opening presents itself to pass. If you proceed to the left lane too early, you have people ticked at you about being in the left lane too long. There are threads full of people whining about that on TTR too. Everything isn't always going to be perfect. Sometimes you are going to be in situations you shouldn't be in or don't even want to be in. Just do the best you can to get things straightened out as safely and quickly as possible. No matter what you do, or when you do it, someone is going to find a way to not like it for you. I did absolutely nothing wrong yesterday, and still got the one finger salute twice. I still don't know what caused one of the salutes. Lol

 

How far do they run? Most gravel haul I've seen is inside the 100 mile radius for no logs.

 

That's why my 65 mph truck doesn't usually go over 62 or 63. I have no problem dropping it down from there until I have the time to get by the slower truck efficiently.

If someone is going slightly slower and traffic is heavy enough that I can't get by without causing a back up or getting too close to the other truck chances are good that once I do get by them I'll find myself in the same situation again very soon.

Easier to just back off a touch IMO.

 

I remember a child in Bessemer,AL killed when a rock fell off a dump truck that wasn't covered. Little kid just playing riding his bicycle.

 

Within the radius that logs aren't needed except these guys are from out of town.

 

you can run your 100 mile radius from where ever you want as long as your work reporting location is the same place every day, and you start and end your day in the same place every day there is a lot of times ill run my radius out of places other than my home 20

 

Outstanding. Bravo.

Just don't stare. Staring erases and drains your mind and ability to process a threat to your truck somewhere active in your vision elsewhere.