Yes I realize my truck is slower than yours

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by FatDaddy, Jul 17, 2012.

  1. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    the thing i hate is the circle game. i don't have a governor but i don't have the power either. so every time a hill comes up. you pass me. down hill or straight i pass you. then antoher hill and you pass me. SHEESH.
     
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  3. OpenRoadDreamer

    OpenRoadDreamer Road Train Member

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  4. allniter

    allniter Medium Load Member

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    Thats the way I do it too 01cblue, 1 or 2 mph doesnt matter in my day, and I am otr.
     
  5. seabring

    seabring Road Train Member

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    They can if they want to. I was in a "little hurry" to get from Rancho Cucomonga to Oxnard , I departed Rancho C at 515 pm and had to be in Oxnard before 8pm . I was making use of the left lanes and stretching what you would call 55 LOL. Had a highway patrol on a motorcycle come up next to me and first point to the right lane and them point his finger in a "down" motion. I got the hint and moved over and slowed it down. I got lucky but thats a rare thing in Cali to be "warned" like that. Could've got alot worse.
     
  6. RAGE 18

    RAGE 18 Road Train Member

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    Hahahahaheeeee sorry driver just picturing that made me bust out laughing dont take it personal....
     
  7. gravdigr

    gravdigr Road Train Member

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    You are what I call a dragonfly (drag and fly) you drag up the hill and fly down it. It usually happens to me when I'm running light across I80 in PA. I go right up the hill at 65mph, but I don't have the weight to go down the other side any faster.
     
  8. CertifiedSweetie

    CertifiedSweetie Road Train Member

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    A couple of days ago I was on I24 going west in Tennessee right before Nashville and I was behind a ups truck and hte blew a tire so I looked in my mirror and there was a truck a little ways back and he had been in the lefft lane for sometime so there were a bunch of cars behind him so moved over and the ups driver was pulling over on the shoulder and at the same then the truck behind me cuts over to the right lane blows by ups them waves to me as he passed me in the right with all 100 of the tailgating 4 wheelers behind him. I was furious. Thank goddness a truck was merging on I was able to jump over eventually but I can't believe that brain dead idiot did that.

    Same day a little further down I moved over to let a truck on and b4 I had chance to move back he gunned it and I couldn't get over and there was a scale coming up. Well it was open but right as he passed closed. I started to tell him but then I was po'ed at what he did. He ended up sitting on the ramp and I laughed at him as I passed.
     
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  9. Jfaulk99

    Jfaulk99 Road Train Member

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    If your speed governor is the same as the speed limit, you have no business in the left lane anyway. You choose to drive in a lane you don't have the speed/power for why is it my responsibility to make sure you can get back over? It may not be polite but neither is flashing your brights in my mirrors.

    What you guys call the "hill game" is because some of us set our cruse on a speed, say 65mph. I'll pass someone up hill doing 65 but they want to race down the other side at 70 and pass me back. So when I see them struggling up the next hill they expect me to allow them to slide in front of me so I have to step back out and pass them again. Sorry, slower traffic STAY right.
     
  10. FatDaddy

    FatDaddy Road Train Member

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    Will do...just remember you said that when I don't give you the courtesy to merge and you are at a dead stop trying to get on the freeway
     
  11. MNdriver

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    Who moves over for merging traffic? They've got the yield sign not the mainline.
     
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