What's the word for a group of trucks following eachother

ya i can understand that.

im going to look it up but the thing i dont understand is what do you do if your hauling down the highway and it happens that you decide to follow with some other trucks or vice versa? or is it just that you must keep a certain distance so its not considered a convoy?

 

If I am right got to have at least 300 feet between them but not sure as I am not crazy about that to many things can AND will happen

 

Some one had to do it, so I will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlXx6LxMbdQ

 

Rigs end up running together no matter what. That's the nature of being on the road. Especially when there are so many trucks on the road governed at or near the same speed.

Convoys are organized running together.

 

LOST !!!!!!

 

Drafting!

 

Most of the description are really funny. But if I say more I may appear to be guilty of something I maybe guilty of.

I think that considering the number of drivers around here and the mileage most have covered that most would have been involved with interesting situations that may have involved high speed follow the leader.

I would not call it a convoy because that is a Hollywood term made for the fast trucks that used to run produce coast to coast, Just in normal Hollywood style they over glamorized situations making them worse than reality.

High speed traveling does not necessarily involve tailgating or even dangerous maneuvering thru traffic. People I have run with we would stay fairly docile till most of the solo trucks were fast asleep in the truckstops and the motorist were tucked into bed. Then there are times when your running with a few trucks where everything clicks, and the fun begin . But thats as far as I'am going to go with descriptions, but, nothing I have ever been involved with had any incidents with the law, or accidents of any kind, just good ole boy fun..

 

in ontario its called the law
fixed vehicle speed limiters--of course everybody is going to run up against governed speed when all the 4 wheelers are going 75

 

:"Side by side?????" I've always heard that a`group of truck drivers following each other down the highway was called a convoy...

 

It isn't very likely that an effective convoy could actually happen on our highways any more..Most of the fleets & fleets of trucks are governed 72 mph .. What a crime? Happy Trails...