When there is vehicle on the side of the road ahead

While I'm a company driver now, I come from working as a codriver for an owner/operator as all my previous work history (my brother). The last thing we ever wanted to do was drive for any extended period of time with a blown tire. That's just begging for additional expensive and time consuming damage. The faster you can get to a spot off the road the better. That's just the way I've been taught and I consider that to be the right way to go. Getting tire shreds wrapped around a mud flap, taking out air bags and air lines, etc. is only going to increase the cost and the time you spend without making money (company driver or O/O).

Where I pulled over to the side of the road I had two feet clearance to the white line. That should be plenty of room to at least do a road side check of the situation, the damaged tire was away from the road, so that's the right spot to sit. No extra damage and no extra wasted time.

It isn't being lazy, it's being smart.

Regarding doing 75 or more and hating having governed trucks "get in your way", and I assume you are still on topic regarding the issue of how to behave when there is a roadside vehicle, I'm appalled that you think it is too much to slow down for safety in that situation. So what if a governed truck pulls over to give room to that vehicle? You can't be "inconvenienced" to slow down and wait for 1/2 mile? What? You're going to lose a whole $0.013 because you had to slow down for 1/2 mile? That's more important that someone's life?

Get some perspective.

 

I had to laugh after reading this one. It reminds me so much of newspaper articles with a perp picture with a quote underneath, "But he had it coming!"...

.... followed by an interview with a fat woman, "IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN MY MICHAEL, HE'S SUCH A GOOD BOY!"...

... and we wonder why trucking and the world at large is sliding backward.