After driving a semi, have trouble driving my own car!!

[ohiomohawk]

1. Put transmission in 1st gear expecting to go backwards

2. Wanting to reach over and pull parking and trailer brake knobs when i park

3. Keep trying to put keys in on left side of steering wheel

4. Keep reaching over my head trying to turn on dome light

5. Slowing down trying to measure a light change

6. Suddenly pausing when i see "no truck" signs

7. Seems like you are sitting on the road when you are driving

[tyoneon]

i always push in the clutch. problem is my personal truck is an automatic.

[Uturn2001]

Just wait until you pass a scale house that is open and hit your signal to pull in.

[One]

Just wait until you pass a scale house that is open and hit your signal to pull in.

That was me till i got prepass- now i dont pay much attention to them.

No worries, ohiomohawk, the longer you are out, the wierder your POV seems. Itll get easier over time.

[dle]

Ahh yes sounds familiar.

[Crackaces]

I find myself making all turns wider than needed.

[ibamars]

find myself making all turns wider than needed.

You know I do that also. Man glad its not just me!!!! My buddy said something to me awhile back and thats when I noticed it.

[Jackrabbit379]

Seems like I always reach for the cluth pedal when I start my pickup. It's a wonder that I havent kicked a hole in the floor. :P

[tootie04]

I ride with my hubby in the truck and now when we get in our personal vehicle I get CAR SICK!!


tootie

[Jackrabbit379]

You ever bump the top of your head when you get out of your car? :P Hate it when that happens.

[Malaki86]

Oh, and lets nots forget how hard it is to back up a POV after dragging around a 53' trailer... I ALWAYS start backing in the wrong direction in my car.

[Yanke_driver]

2 of my biggies are taking turns WIDE and reaching up to the head liner to turn on the interior light in my car (the dome light switch is om my signal arm thingy beside the steering wheel) I do that all the time.
Oh yeah, and I drive WAY slower in my car now too!

[Mackman]

My thing i do is my radio in my MACK is on the roof so when i go to change the station i reach for the roof sometimes in my pickup

[marylandkw]

I am usually in 5th gear by the time I get thru an intersection in my pickup.

I also have a tendency to grind gears not pushing in the clutch far enough(avoiding clutch break)

Trying to figure out why the Jake Brake in my pickup is not working occupies a bit of time also.

I have owned my pickup truck for more than 11 years now and I still have to look at the shifter to find reverse.

[rigidsporty]

I'm guilty of #4 more than any of them.

[Blind Driver]

I always think I'm going to tilt my car over when I go around a curve. I slow down way too much.

[Cluggy619]

I keep feeling the need to mount a air horn in my dodge stealth.....just so I can see the cord hanging in case I need it.

I tried just hanging a cord....just didn't feel the same...

[Hat Rak]

How about going from a 20 inch steering wheel down to a donut, or having to put far less input into the steering wheel to make the pickup turn or stay in a lane.

Police Officer: "Sir, how much have you had to drink today?"

Trucker in a pickup: "Oh no no no, I just got out of my freightliner."

Officer: "You mean to say you were driving drunk in that too!?"

[vavega]

i bump the tires in my p/u before i go anywhere :shock: :mrgreen:

[driver67373]

For my first few months of driving a big rig, when I would get back in my car after a few weeks on the road, I was very nervous driving it and I had trouble keeping it stable in my lane. It litereally took me an hour or so to adjust to my car again :shock: It felt "wrong" to be so low to the ground and I hated not being able to see very fqr. Next vehcile I get has to be a pickup truck. I can't stand being low to the ground. I often find myself reaching for my great shift and have to remind myself it's an automatic. And yes I still reach overhead to turn on my dome light. I also can't remember how my AC controls are congifured and that throws me out of wack lol. What would be awesome would be to put air brakes in my car cus I love the sound everytime I press in the parking break its like ahhhhhhh.