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Truckers are the worst drivers and possibly the worst people
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:05 pm
I had the displeasure of driving I-55 today between St. Louis and Memphis and it was basically 90% trucks on the road. These motherfrickers don't give two shits about anything happening around them, they just know they need to spend the next 5 minutes passing the next truck and frick you and the 10 seconds it would have taken to let you pass first.
I've heard various excuses on this board from truckers blaming it on other drivers and talking about "oh you just don't understand how the trucks handle and they can't just accelerate and decelerate and yadda yadda". No I understand it just fine, if you pass another truck it's going to take 5 minutes. You have to know that and you just don't give a frick. If it wasn't 90% trucks on the road it was damn near it, and it was the worst interstate driving of my life. It's not everyone else's fault, it's yours.
/rant
I've heard various excuses on this board from truckers blaming it on other drivers and talking about "oh you just don't understand how the trucks handle and they can't just accelerate and decelerate and yadda yadda". No I understand it just fine, if you pass another truck it's going to take 5 minutes. You have to know that and you just don't give a frick. If it wasn't 90% trucks on the road it was damn near it, and it was the worst interstate driving of my life. It's not everyone else's fault, it's yours.
/rant
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Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:07 pm to Korkstand
They are good people outside the truck but they definitely act like the own the road. I kind of get it as it’s their place of work.
Just wish they would stay in the right lane.
Just wish they would stay in the right lane.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:07 pm to Korkstand
Truckers are far better than you are
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:08 pm to Korkstand
Knights of the Highways
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Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:08 pm to Korkstand
What’s your hurry?
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:08 pm to Korkstand
They will run you off the road if you are in their way but have no problem being in everyone else's way. Automated trucks restricted to the right lane can't come soon enough.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:08 pm to Korkstand
They should only be allowed on the interstate at night
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:10 pm to Tyga Woods
quote:
They should only be allowed on the interstate at night
I like being able to find food, fuel, etc…your plan sounds like they’d be more scarce.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:11 pm to AtlantaLSUfan
quote:I know it's not right to generalize like I have and of course not 100% of any class or category is the same. I know some truckers and they are good people, no doubt.
They are good people outside the truck but they definitely act like the own the road. I kind of get it as it’s their place of work.
I'm just being inflammatory on purpose.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:12 pm to Dawgfanman
quote:Doesn't matter. If I see someone in a hurry I don't ask them questions, I just let them be on their way.
What’s your hurry?
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:12 pm to Korkstand
quote:
oh you just don't understand how the trucks handle and they can't just accelerate and decelerate and yadda yadda
It sounds like you don't understand
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:12 pm to Korkstand
It annoys me but then I remember that without them we would not have all of our stuff to buy at stores. Also, tbf dont they have governors on them? I will agree passing or them being in the left lane causing congestion behind them can get dicey.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:13 pm to Korkstand
quote:
I've heard various excuses on this board from truckers blaming it on other drivers and talking about "oh you just don't understand how the trucks handle and they can't just accelerate and decelerate and yadda yadda". No I understand it just fine, if you pass another truck it's going to take 5 minutes.
Fine. But when traffic is thick stay the frick out of the left lane.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:13 pm to Cosmo
quote:Not at being courteous and considerate on the road.
Truckers are far better than you are
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:16 pm to Korkstand
I got run off the road by a Southland POS last week. fricker hasn't out in the left lane well after passing another truck so I took the right lane to get past his arse. In hindsight I wish I would've let him run into me so they'd pull his sorry arse's CDL.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:16 pm to Korkstand
Somewhat with you on this, most company trucks are limited in speed, that being said if I was the trucker in the right lane being slowly passed I’d slow down a bit and let it happen quicker. On the other side they could all just quit so you’d have no truckers to bitch about all the while starving to death with nothing to wipe your arse with. Are some of them bad, yes, but in general they are good people. Just like cops and posters here, there are always shitty ones to deal with.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:18 pm to Korkstand
For as many hours as they spend on the road, you’d think 18 wheeler drivers would know the left lane is for passing.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:22 pm to AtlantaLSUfan
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They are good people outside the truck
All of them? I am sure they are like every other group of people, some are good people, some are assholes, but I am pretty sure most of them don't give a frick about anyone else on the road.
Drive the stretch between Baton Rouge and Lafayette a few times and you will see some dangerous truck driving. Its as if its a "make up time" stretch for them. Also on I-12 from the split to the Denham exit, I am surprised there are not more wrecks because of those dick bags.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:23 pm to Korkstand
I've deposed over the years probably 50 or 60 that either killed or maimed someone.
A few of my favorites: one was legally blind according to the State of Miss but had a valid CDL. He killed a 16 year old girl on I20 outside of Monroe;
One had a documented history of seizures and also had a valid CDL. In fact he had a seizure during his deposition. He killed a young mother and her brother on I49 at the Mansfield exit.
If people had any idea who was driving these rigs they wouldnt get on the interstate.
A few of my favorites: one was legally blind according to the State of Miss but had a valid CDL. He killed a 16 year old girl on I20 outside of Monroe;
One had a documented history of seizures and also had a valid CDL. In fact he had a seizure during his deposition. He killed a young mother and her brother on I49 at the Mansfield exit.
If people had any idea who was driving these rigs they wouldnt get on the interstate.
Posted on 2/22/23 at 8:24 pm to fr33manator
quote:Oh please explain what part I don't understand and why it's required to cut off a passenger vehicle before making a pass.
It sounds like you don't understand
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