Posted by RBoots on April 15, 2017 at 07:42:49 from (173.241.113.102):
In Reply to: Semi truck drivers posted by Gary from Muleshoe on April 14, 2017 at 20:23:38:
I believe that most are no worse than the amount of idiots driving cars and pickups out there, they're just driving something bigger, so it makes it look like a worse offense. How many times a day does a car pull out in front of you or blow a stop sign? I'm not saying all truck drivers drive like that, most don't, but the ones that do get noticed. When you're pulling something that long, or that heavy, you're not going to fit in the same space or get going as fast as a car, and with the increasing traffic everywhere these days, sooner or later you're gonna have to go at the largest break you have, and someone may have to slow down to let you in, because I can count on one hand how many times someone has slowed down or got over to the other lans so I could pull out to get going. Sort of like the highway down the road from my house. In the summer, when all the people from downstate are going up north, I can't get onto the highway, let alone cross it with my pickup, there is too much traffic, and I don't live in the city. That alone turns my 5 mile trip to the other farm into a 17 mile trip one way once I have to go up and around at the nearest overpass. So I usually just don't go over there. A guy that has a deadline with a haul has to get there one way or another, no matter what time or where it's at. Still, not defending bad truck drivers, but I think if some of the people that complain about trucks (that are driving safely) had to drive one, they might change their tune a little bit. Ever had to back up a set of super trains in a narrow intersection to make the turn because you couldn't swing it due to all the people at the stoplight pulled up way too far?? What about the guy hauling a 53' reefer that has to cut across 4 lanes of traffic and back into a small grocery store in a city? He only has one shot, and a lot of p!ssed off people behind him, but what choice does he have? Was someone going to come out and shut the street down for him? No. Had a guy at work a couple months ago back into some little car when he was scraping a gravel road. Had his 4 ways on, strobes on tip of headache rack and on back of box, and a large sticker that says "vehicle will back up stay back 500 feet". While he was watching what he was doing scraping, he never saw her come up behind him, and she was so close he couldn't see her in his mirrors. Her excuse was that she had never seen a truck like that and didn't know what it was doing. She must have thought the roads just smooth themselves out at night when no one is on them. Now, I can see both sides too, I'm not all biased because I drive a truck. Our other farm is located on the route to one of the Belgian mega dairies unfortunately. The trucks hauling the milk from there have to haul through a small village with an elementary school in it, 25 MPH speed limit. At the township meeting, people in the village have been complaining of Jake Brakes at night from the milk haulers, and of them speeding at up to 40 MPH through town as well. They can't exclude the trucks from the road, so the county has to have a sheriff deputy watching the route through town virtually all day and night if they have a guy available. Which, if the milk haulers would take it upon themselves to not be idiots through there, it would just make it easier on everyone. Their excuse is, as given by the sheriff's deputy, "give us the tickets, we have to get this milk to ----- by ----- time". Also, when I used to load construction equipment in containers, the sheer amount of foreign drivers was astounding. Many were middle eastern, could speak almost no English at all, couldn't back a truck (with only a 40' container), would not help, and would not even try to communicate with you at any level. If you can't or won't speak English, how and why do you have a CDL and are hauling stuff with the rest of us? The Czech, Russian, and Bulgarian drivers were for the most part good drivers and although didn't know a lot of English, were very helpful, and were very good at making sure one way or another that we were on the same page. Communication goes a long way with a safe driver.
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