Would you drive in front of a moving train?

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  1. pennsy.357

    pennsy.357 Bobtail Member

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    This is meant for the four wheeler members. Then why would you pass and then cut right in front of a 65 mph truck on the interstate, that's the same thing as driving in front a moving train, it could kill you. Give the trucker atleast two-three second, ideally seven seconds, following distant between you and the trucker before merging back in the right lane. This is why when a faster truck passes a slower truck, the passing truck doesn't merge in front of the slower truck until there's a couple of seconds of following distant, but yet so many four wheelers behind the passing truck are so impatient they cut off the slower truck to pass the other truck in the right lane because the passing truck doesn't merge quick enough into the right lane in front of the slower truck. If a truck can't stop and you're less than a second ahead of that truck the consequences are not good :biggrin_25513:
     
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    rockee Road Train Member

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    This could also be for the dipwad truckers out there that have to get back in the lane with 20 feet of space in front of you............................:biggrin_25510: Its not necessary
     
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    And they usually do it without signaling while they're on the phone. Or theyre just playing super trucker
     
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    pennsy.357 Bobtail Member

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    20' seems to be like a few seconds of following time at 60 mph? :biggrin_25513: Let me put it another way, if a truck ahead does an emergency stop and the truck behind has to do an emergency stop too and there isn't enough distant between for the truck behind to stop, where does the put the driver in the second truck, right between the load he's pulling and the load that's ahead of him, making him the meat between the sandwich, literally. :biggrin_25513:
     
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    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    This sort of fits in with this thread:

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    Dave 1960 Road Train Member

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    I'd pull that trailer in a heartbeat!

    In my personal vehicle ('03 Ram 2500) I RARELY exceed 65. More than a few times big trucks moved over too soon. But THOUSANDS of times cars do!