When workers present...

We've 10 workers? Crap, I thought it was only 8. Could it by declaring everything a work zone and catching speeders, it's a money maker? I'm trying to be humourous, well, almost trying.

 

i worked on road construction --so i have a lot of respect for the guys--and will do anything to make their job safer and easier
i kinda new one guy that got killed by a car while working
and i did get to see what happens when a 1/2 ton goes thru the work area really fast then hits the freshly oil sealed section--with a dog in the back of the truck
dogs can really fly---thankfully he wasnt hurt and they didnt break the coolers of beer--but this was back when there was basically no safety systems for workers

 

Something like hitting one of those guys scares the snot outa me.

 

ever notice when going thru a zone and the lanes have been shrunk down with jersey barriers--they always give trucks the crappy lane---the trucks must use left lane areas(or right lane)
the 4 wheels get pretty much a whole lane and the trucks get the lane where you have to #### near rub your steps up on the barrier

 

Ya, a lot of times, what's with that?

 

They figure if you drive a truck, you are a "professional driver." As opposed to the four wheeler that is probably shaving, talking on the phone and changing the kid's diaper, all while driving...

 

Last year I got a speeding ticket in a "construction zone" it said the same thing "where workers present"... I didn't see any...only problem was there was a couple of them on the side in a ditch noway I could see them never the less got a #### ticket. Have to watch out for that!

 

take this for what it is worth, I have worked all around for the last 18 years building the federal dot roads. if there is a advanced warning sign telling you to slow down weather workers are present or not.....slow down! It give the highway patrol a exscuse to write a very exspencive ticket!....this is comeing from an ex superviser that had had to bury two of his friends an exsplain to their wives an kids , why they arnt comeing home anymore.... just my two cents

 

Around here, we call it Fund-raising.

 

I've seen people reading while the car is moving, makeup, you name it. I'd rather be behind a trucker. It's mostly safer there.