Go dude, I rode a Motorcycle for 8 years. On a motorcycle you *don’t* start a pissing contest with a car, cars don’t start pissing contests with Tractor Trailers, and Tractor Trailers don’t start pissing contests with trains.””””
I haul my horses in a fairly large 4 horse trailer with a 1 ton Chevy Dually truck. I have probably run up over 100,000 +++++ miles in the past 25 years doing so.
We call such choices :
The LUG NUTS RULE: :He who has the most lug nuts has the right of way.”
Also: The Rule of GROSS TONNAGE.
“He who is the heaviest has the right of way.”
I get cut off constantly by little plastic cars not made in America. I don’t exceed 55 miles an hour with the weight I am hauling & the fact that I have a LIVE LOAD. It is entirely different when hauling a boat or a trailer with ATV’s or such.
One real difficult problem is having the right of way on a major road & having a car decide to merge in front of me from an on-ramp and they are NOT going the speed of the highway traffic. You can watch them & SEE that they are NOT even looking at what is coming up on them to affect their merge possibilities.
It can be a nightmare.
I drive very defensively.
Exactly. At sea it’s “The Law of Gross Tonnage.”
It even has a little ditty.
“Here likes the body of Jonathan Gray,
who died defending his right of way.
He was right, dead right, as he sailed along.
But he was just as dead, as if he’d been wrong.”