I’ve always tried to avoid running side by side with traffic in neighboring lanes myself, for the reasons your father provided. In all but the heaviest traffic, I prefer not to have a vehicle beside me and will accelerate to pass or slow down and fall back to avoid it. It’s gotten more difficult in recent years to do this because other drivers appear to be judging their speed by other cars, and pace you. You speed up, they speed up, you slow down, they slow down. I blame cell phones.
Logging trucks in the south scare me. Those big heavy logs are chained to axles.
Editing is getting to be a lost skill.
This guy is VERY lucky. Last year a semi truck wheel broke lose and killed a driver a couple hundred yards ahead of my car on I-95 here in Florida. Those wheels are BIG and heavy. It happens so fast at 70 MPH there is nothing you can do but pray it doesn’t hit you.
Yeah, never stay in the blind spot of a tractor trailer ever. You either pass them or allow them to pass you.
Wow I also have the heebee jeebies about driving next to a truck
This just adds to,it
Lucky guy
Mighty Horrific.
What I do not understand are the drivers—and there are many of them in this area—who do normal freeway speed until they come up to a semi, then slow down to maybe one MPH or so faster than the truck and take forever to pass it. Why on earth do they want to prolong the time they are next to the truck? That practice is not only dangerous, but it slows down traffic as drivers like that keep slowing down next to trucks, holding back traffic, then speeding up as soon as they get around the truck, so no one can pass them.
I always get past trucks as quickly as I can. Today, I had to change lanes because the truck I was about to pass suddenly decided to get into my lane.
When I go to pass, I floor it. I don't care how fast I have to go.
When they need to pass me, I stand down to get it over with as quickly as possible.
And I always do the courtesy flash of the headlights when they are clear.
BTW, remarkable technology. I've got a camera but never put it on the dash yet. Good reminder to do so.
I loved Chang’s attitude and how he handled this event. God was certainly watching out for this man.
Whoever owns the truck is in big trouble. The federales will be on them in force.
In upper Nyack that was my bridge
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Women in menopause are so scared of 18 wheelers
Must be some delayed genetic engineering
Today I risked it - because it happened in a while.
I passed an RV taking an exit in CT (84 wstbnd Newtown) and that cretin decided he didn’t want the exit. He continued to drive into my door while a-hole new Yorker to my left just watched the whole thing unfold.
This is why I won’t own a car with less than 240hp anymore.
But I used to travel these routes all the time to work - And NE traffic is utterly insane. I stopped. Took work elsewhere.
Never get/stay beside OR behind a: semi-trailer hauling garbage, dump truck, long log pulpwood hauler.
Your dad was wise.
Now the roads are like Tijuana. No rules. No common sense. And look out for that donkey.
Been there. I’m driving a propane truck, slow lane. 18 wheeler has just passed me,my driver’s side front tire blows out and I’m in the next lane before I can react. Got it controlled eased off the speed and got in the median.
I’m with you, always try to leave an “out”. Got lucky, a few seconds earlier and I’m tangling with a much heavier truck. I check tires every AM, DPS agreed there was plenty legal tread. Sometimes “stuff” happens, all you can is try to be ready to respond.