GREAT DRIVING MANEUVER

[RedRaven]

A long time ago, I used to own a 1980 Camero. Well, one day I'm driving down a two lane highway at a fast speed. When all of a sudden I see the blue lights in my rear view mirror.

I'm driving in the passing lane, as I watch the state trooper getting closer, and closer. I'm thinking I can't get a ticket, I've got to figure a way out of this one.

I look ahead of me, and in the right lane there are two big rigs going along, and a rotary ahead, with an off ramp on the right.

Well, I timed it perfectly, I drove along got into position to squeeze between the big rigs on my right, thus not giving the state trooper any room to pull in behind me...

Then my next great move, was knowing the off ramp was coming up on my right. I simply pulled off the highway up onto the exit ramp.

The state trooper was driving so fast, he couldn't slow down in time to pull off to the right to follow me, and instead he was forced to just fly right by the big rigs, and didn't have a chance to make that off ramp.

It was the funniest driving maneuver you've ever seen. It was beautiful... It was like something you would have seen out of the movie Smokey, and the Bandit.

I just laughed my x.x.x off, when I took the ramp, and watched the cruiser just fly right by...

I thought to myself, that the state Trooper was probably cursing himself out, for driving so fast, he couldn't slow down in time to follow me off to the right, and up the exit ramp...

You had to be there to see it... It was beautiful... :wink:

[Roadhog]

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[Rev.Vassago]

You had to be there to see it... It was beautiful... :wink:

It was also highly illegal, and could have landed you in jail.

[bulldog2036]

Glad you are proud of yourself and you're bad driving.

[Mr. Ford95]

And dangerous as he!!. Cutting off a big rig like that. Thought this was going to end up like the one of the kid in Arizona who smashed headlong into the back of the semi in his stolen 'Vette.

Running from the cops ain't smart in the first place, you will never outrun that radio.

[RedRaven]

It is unfortunate that everyone seems to picture the worst in everything.

I never cut off a big rig, and NO ONE was ever put in danger. I'm not that kind of person.

Considering I had a younger sibling run down, and killed at age 12, while simply trying to walk across a street. I would never do anything in a motor vehicle that would put either myself, or anyone else in harms way. :x

There was at least a 3 car length of space for me to transfer safely to the right lane. You think I want to get killed, or crushed by a Big Rig?... You've got to be kidding me... :?

The reason the state trooper couldn't do the same was because he was driving at such a high rate of speed, there was no way he could slow down in time to negotiate the lane transfer.

Also I would like to say that everyday where I live you are taking your life in your hands traveling any of the roadways here, including the Highways. Everytime I travel the highways here, there isn't one vehicle that obeys the speed limits, including the "BIG RIGS"...

In fact you ARE taking your life in your hands, if you don't "go with the flow of traffic" (speed rates), on the major highways here (which average at 70 MPH, with a posted speed limit of either 55 MPH, or 65 MPH. I've had several Big Rigs come barrelling up behind me, trying to force me out of the lane, because I wasn't going fast enough for them... :x

I'm sure you know of Truck Drivers who have done this to little 4 wheelers, and you don't have those CB radios in your trucks just for chit chat... So, don't go getting so self rightous... :x

Heck, I can't even walk in my own town, and come to a marked crosswalk to cross the street, without drivers refusing to stop, and let you walk across the street!

Also, I was severely injured in an auto accident that I was not at fault for several years ago. I was stopped in traffic, and was sandwiched by a reckless driver who plowed into the back of my vehicle, and pushed me into the vehicle in front of me. I have permanent injuries I will never recover from, and pain I will live with the rest of my life. Having my spine busted up in 3 different places. So, don't think for a minute that I would ever do anything reckless in a motor vehicle.

In fact since having my back busted up, I have a big fear of reckless drivers who tail gate you down the road, come speeding up behind you on the highways, or try to cut you off on the roadways, or run red lights cutting you off.

Because the next time someone tries to run me down on the roadways, I could end up paralyzed, or worse, and frankly, I don't want to find out... :x

[Twilight Flyer]

3 car lengths at 60 M.P.H. is very, very little. But still, you can't really think you wouldn't get hammered on this, can you? You were speeding, you cut through traffic, and you were guilty of evasion. Not something to be proud of.

I did some stupid things while I was growing up, including some nifty driving of my own, but those are things I'm certainly not proud of and I consider myself lucky I wasn't ticketed or worse.

You're posting this in a trucker's forum, where the majority of the drivers have enough close calls every day. People die doing what you did. So, I wouldn't say they are self-righteous...I'd say they were justifiably peeved.

[RedRaven]

I never said I was PROUD of that maneuver. Other people are making that statement.

I would bet money there isn't a driver out there that hasn't done some kind of maneuver whether they smoked their tires in their car when they were young drivers, or did donuts in a parking lot, or elsewhere, when they were teen drivers.

Like I said, that maneuver I did when I was younger, and your right I can understand some of the people on here getting upset with such a maneuver.

I can also say that unfortunately there are several Truck drivers who don't do so well on the roadways, either.

Where I live, there is at least one big rig a week rolling over on a local highway off ramp. The truckers all know these hazardous off ramps if they've traveled these roads long enough. I would think that through communicating over their CB's, they would also have passed on this information, so that they don't continue to happen.

Yet, I can watch local television news, and watch at least one story a week on a Big Rig that has either rolled over on an off ramp, or that has plowed into the back of 4 wheeler on an interstate highway.

I actually changed careers to avoid having to drive the local highways here. They are simply to dangerous for everyone who dares to drive them... Then again I live in a state with one of the highest rates of road rage, auto accidents, etc...

I avoid the "bad spots", as much as possible, believe me... Watching the nightly news, you wonder, o.k. so who died today on their way to, or from work... It is really tragic, and I feel the same way some of the members here do. I don't like having to deal with the bad drivers out there either.

I'm much older now, and I've actually witnessed people die on the road. I've missed being killed myself on a couple of occasions. One occasion a car in front of me on a side road was 2 car lengths in front of me. A young guy driving his new (at the time) Mustang, came barrelling over a hill in the opposite direction at an estimated 80 MPH, in a 40 MPH posted speed road. He caught a curb, and his mustang sharply veered across the opposite side of the road, and slammed into the car in front of me.

The guy he hit was in an old (70's model) Monte Carlo. The Mustang hit him at an angle head on. I had glass carved streaks up the hood of my own car from the impact and projection of flying parts. I tried to help get the guy who had been driving in front of me out of his car, he was pinned, with his face smashed into the dash of his Monte Carlo. The seats wouldn't budge, and the only movement I saw from him was when I told him to hang on, help was on the way, and he raised his hand that was resting on the dashboard slightly, then didn't move anymore... He died that night, and the guy in the Mustang died instantly, and his Mustang had split in half, with the back portion propelled through the air, just missing my own car. The guy in the Monte Carlo who was hit, and killed is buried in the same cemetery my younger sibling is buried in as well.

Believe me I've seen enough death both on, and off the road, related to motor vehicles, that I'm definitely not a fan of reckless driving...

But, you have to also acknowledge from reading the boards, there are those who get speeding tickets, and other motor vehicle violations, so there are no perfect people on these boards...

I was coming home one night from work and hit some black ice on the on ramp for I-39 off of I-80 EB. I was driving an old 85 prelude and all of a sudden I was in a spin I ended up doing a 900 degree spin in the road and somehow kept it on the road. I had a Yellow driver stop on the ramp behind me and check on me I was stopped in the lane and I needed to pee and I did not care were. He goes I wish I had a camera that way I could send it in to wildest videos and win you and me some cash how you stayed on the road is beyond me. Redraven the way you describe it yes you took a chance but you also did it safely the cop was going way to fast to make the exit. That is the only reason you did not get a ticket.

[Scoe]

I never said I was PROUD of that maneuver. Other people are making that statement.

The title of the thread is:

GREAT DRIVING MANEUVER


Now, let's examine that statement. The subject of that statement is you. The adjective is GREAT. In summary, YOU did something GREAT, yet you state that you are not PROUD of it?

Here's a new word for you...INCONGRUENT :shock:

[bulldog2036]

You posted it as "great" so you must be proud. What say you....

[RedRaven]

Maybe the title of this catagory should be changed. Since after reading some of the posts in this catagory, like one that states that an individual drove a semi at a speed over 100 MPH, and some others with stories that would scare the wits out of anyone driving a 4 wheeler.

So, if you don't want the stories, maybe you should change what it is you mean by "Amusing" truck driving factual stories.

I mean would driving an unsafe rig be considered "amusing"? I don't think so, nor do I think that driving a semi over 100 MPH is amusing.

But, like I said, maybe the title of the catagory should be changed.

Maybe it should be changed too...

AMUSING TRUE TRUCKING STORIES...

If this were the title of the catagory, I can think of one story posted else where, about one trucker who had a poodle in a vehicle next to him, just sitting and staring at him... That's "amusing"...

That's all I have to say about this...

[Mr. Ford95]

Was it amusing, sure it was, along with stupid. Was it great driving?? Heck no, I've seen better, much better than that little stunt. That is one of the easiest things to pull off, 1st graders are doing it these days as it is very commonplace on the East coast in everyday normal traffic. Commuters wait until the last second for their exit then swerve across 4 lanes of traffic and slice thru the grass just to make their ramp.

Why not be a man and say that you were wrong in your actions?? By running it shows that your nothing but a wuss, can't man up and take responsibility for your own actions yet your one that will talk all big and bad, aka Rambo.

BTW, 3 car lengths ain't ***** when going in front of a semi. 3 car lengths is only about 40 feet max. Takes a semi a whole lot more than that to stop in an emergency. Your little POS Camaro can stop, take off and then stop again before the semi has even stopped the first time.

[RedRaven]

I happen to be a woman for your information, and I'm sure you can come up with some very nasty, rude comments for me, just because I'm a woman as well...

Like I said, I've read other posts in this catagory, and they weren't amusing...

End of subject...

[jiptwoo]

Why waste time defending yourself, hey you lived thru it, no one got hurt and you slipped the police. Alot of us have slipped the police in one way or the other including myself, don't worry about the self righteous they are always ever present. All the time knowing that they have done worse, and if it ever came to light where would alot of us be---jail. That's right; what will some on this board take to the grave, is your closet really that clean?---Tell it to someone else, I don't care to hear how perfect we think we are, next joke.

[confusedwife]

I just don't understand some men. My husband lost a child at 7 in a car accident. He was with his mother and she missed a stop sign (thx to the lortabs she was on).. This was a traggic loss and I see him suffering from it, yet he still jepordizes our two little boys. I say God gave him another chance and I hope he grows up soon to enjoy all of it. Man I hope you have learned after this and the previous accidents that you need to stop and smell the roses also...

[Windwalker]

I was going across I-70, westbound and coming up to Cambridge, OH. In a bit of a hurry, I was doing a little over sixty. At the top of the hill, a trooper was going eastbound. As he got past me, I saw his brake lights come on. I know he's coming after me, so I start to slow down. He does a flip through the middle and starts out westbound. I'm down to fifty and he's not catching up. Lights going, and he's slowing down. There's smoke coming out from under his hood. The next thing I know, he's pulling off on the shoulder...

I think he knocked his oil pan off on something in the median. But, I don't know for sure.

Nice driving officer.....

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Another time, I was eastbound, empty, and going across the St Croix bridge from MN to WI. It had rained and frozen, and I was not going over thirty. This cadillac in front of me loses it and starts doing 360s, bouncing between the railings on either side of the bridge. Trying to avoid the car, I stepped on the brakes.

Did you know that with ABS, at lower speeds, if all brakes lock up at the same time, the computer says: "THE VEHICLE IS STOPPED".

The tractor and trailer stayed in line, but the whole rig started turning clockwise. She was against the railing on the right side of the bridge, and the rig was perpendicular to the road before I got to her. I was seeing the side of the truck wiping her off the bridge, and then realized the tractor seemed to stop. It wasn't getting any closer to her, and was pulling back from the railing, and I was starting to look back toward MN. Right after that, I was looking in the mirror and seeing the trailer go toward the edge on the WI side of her. Before I knew it, I was starting to look toward the WI side again. I let off of the brakes, and the truck straightened out at about five mph. That's how fast I crawled across the rest of the bridge and parked on the shoulder. The ice on the grass formed a ridge so that the rig did not slide off the shoulder and into the ditch. When I walked back up onto the bridge to see if she was alright, a cop stopped, and I got there in time to hear her say: "The driver in that truck is a really fantastic driver. He turned that truck completely around to avoid hitting me."

To this day, I really don't believe she has any idea how long it took me to be able to stand up without my knees feeling like rubber.

By the way... I looked over the truck very carefully. Not even a rub mark. The truck did a 360, did not jack knife, and did not touch anything either. At the time, I was driving a brand new Kenworth T-600 for a company out of Wausau, WI, and my wife was going through cancer treatments at Marshfield Clinic.

Of course, I do not recommend that any of you try this at home, or on the road either.

Now, as far as "zipping between trucks" with a 4-wheeler... Do you use a CB radio? Have you ever heard someone say something about some "STUPID 4-WHEELER"? Don't you wish you had a CB in your car about then?????? You might have heard what those drivers thought about your fancy driving.