I had my experience with a roundabout while driving a truck in Idaho Falls. Some of you probably know where it's at in the eastern part of town. I was hauling wheat to an elevator and was making three to four trips a day for ten days or so.
I had to go straight through but in order to go around the circle I had to swing out into the right turn lane so that my trailer wheels wouldn't go up over the curb around the circle. If I went over into the right turn lane too soon a car would sneak up on my left and would get squeezed by the left side of my trailer. If I stayed in the left too soon before getting into the right lane, a right turning car would sneak up on my right. Then a car coming across from the right or left would gun it to try to get across before I came through with the big slow truck and I would have to hit the brakes to avoid them. I finally turned into a bully and just rolled through whether anyone was coming or not, which is not the kind of guy I normally am.
I didn't realize how many women are fluent with the one finger salute until I drove that route for a few days. The scuttlebut was that a trucker has never been charged yet in a car-truck accident in that location.
When I was driving a pickup through the circle I didn't think it was such a bad setup. Jim
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