Good info thank you. One of the reasons listed above, speed limiters, yes I can see that also contributing to tailgating for sure.
Truckers Tailgating
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Labrador, May 21, 2022.
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If they’re spaced it could be the adaptive cruise control
If tight. Brake check!!
I have a Maserati
We went out for dinner and some dimwit was on my Az in a 35mph zone through residential area
Simply locked them up
They quickly went pretty far back
Probably never figured a car like that would chance a rear end collision
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Lots of bad habits in today’s drivers, I don’t recall getting the memo saying they stopped putting turn signals on trucks. Trucks cutting off another one to take an exit like the 4 wheelers is something else I’m noticing more and more. Smdh
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Tailgating is a choice made only by the driver doing it.peterd, TheLoadOut, YumDinger and 7 others Thank this. -
Stupidity. That's it and that's all. That's why when it snows 2 snowflakes there's a 147 car pileup
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Tailgating is the one law that not many officers seems to be enforcing much as pretty much the majority of drivers whether car or truck is less than one second behind another vehicle.
This one showed up on the news a few years ago....
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5072823
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Many “super truckers” think that if they get somewhere a few minutes later than expected than they’re going to lose their behinds…many couldn’t even tell you how much delays they have anyway..if getting somewhere is that important, you should’ve left earlier.
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Following at 100 feet gets the driver there at the same time (less 3 or so seconds), less safely and with more stress, then he would have following at 400 feet.
You mentioned less than .1% (less than one tenth of 1 percent) speed difference.
How much time is that exactly wasting at those speeds over a few hours time?
Give up more miles?
Given that scenario it would be much less than 1 mile.
Even at a full 1 mph difference it would amount to only a few minutes.
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