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Mr. Ford95 · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1816 Location: Orange, VA

ChikinTrucka wrote: madpuppy wrote: The problem I have with 4-wheelers is they drive on the same roads we do ! :twisted:
[b][color=blue]Thanks, I needed a good laugh! I just drove 650 miles in the Northeast, on a Friday, that can dampen anyones spirits! Don't they have turn signals up here?

Add in to that Chikin that the weather was not very good today in the Northeast and it becomes a pretty formidable challenge.

ChikinTrucka · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 122 Location: Maine, Ayah

Mr. Ford95 wrote: ChikinTrucka wrote: madpuppy wrote: The problem I have with 4-wheelers is they drive on the same roads we do ! :twisted:
Thanks, I needed a good laugh! I just drove 650 miles in the Northeast, on a Friday, that can dampen anyones spirits! Don't they have turn signals up here?

Add in to that Chikin that the weather was not very good today in the Northeast and it becomes a pretty formidable challenge.
Snow changing to sleet/hail and freezing rain? That's the easy part. Pushing the cars out of the way is the hard part! :asta:

line_transporter · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 67

They tailgate. If I have one lane to drive in and a speed limit of 65 mph, they stick their bumper right behind my trailer (I see their headlight reflecting off my trailer) .. as soon as I get two lanes, I move over to the slow lane, but God forbid we have one lane and they dont feel like doing the speed limit :evil:

ChikinTrucka · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 122 Location: Maine, Ayah

This week my biggest complaint was 4-wheelers (and trucks, too) passing me and then pulling right in front of me, with like maybe, one car length of room. I've seen so many rear end accidents as of late, that I refuse to get too close to another vehicle on the road. In the snow and ice around Indiana and Ohio this week, I saw 4 trailer trucks in the ditch and rolled over or broken apart. I just can't seem to keep a safe following distance, especially when it's slippery, unless I start backing up! Sometimes those friggin' 4-wheelers will cut in front of me and slow down! What can be going through their heads anyway? "I want to die now, please run over me..."?

Windwalker · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 2773 Location: Holiday, FL

line_transporter wrote: They tailgate. If I have one lane to drive in and a speed limit of 65 mph, they stick their bumper right behind my trailer (I see their headlight reflecting off my trailer) .. as soon as I get two lanes, I move over to the slow lane, but God forbid we have one lane and they dont feel like doing the speed limit :evil:

Fact of the matter is, I don't worry about them tailgating. I worry about whether or not they're driving with their heads... in the clouds. if they're watching the road and what's going on, there is no reason for them to hit me if I have to stop. If their heads are up their... Where the sun does not shine...

Actually, I don't blame the 4-wheelers that much. All the times I've heard "STUPID 4-WHEELER" on the radio, I keep in mind...

Many of them are not stupid. They are teachers, doctors, lawyers, business executives. People that would not be where they are if they were stupid. But, they ARE UN-INFORMED. And, I blame DOT for that. DOT has the responsibility for safety on the hiways. Why are they not telling the public that one eighth of a mile in front of a truck is a SUICIDE ZONE. If they don't know about it, I suggest that they are not qualified to hold the positions they do. If they do know about it and are not telling the public, I suggest they are GUILTY OF VIOLATION OF PUBLIC TRUST.

Yes, there are times when it takes more than half a mile to stop a truck, but I'd settle for an eighth of a mile as a general rule.

ChikinTrucka · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 122 Location: Maine, Ayah

I noticed that Ohio now has signs along the highway that say "leave enough room" and an illustration of a trailer truck with and arrow pointing to twice the length of the truck in front of the truck. And it says "don't get a ticket". It illustrates that 4-wheelers need to leave more room before pulling in front of a truck. I can't see where it has done any good whatsoever. But, when I think the whole world is against trucks, it's nice to see that someone is making, at least, an effort, to help truckers in some small way. It's not much, but it's a step in the right direction.
Also, I have had people tell me they got a ticket for tailgating, wish that would happen more often...

Mr. Ford95 · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1816 Location: Orange, VA

I don't mind them tailgating, it's their problem if they hit me and it ain't gonna hurt me much, heck I might be lucky if I even feel it. It's the one's who chop me off just to make a turn 200 ft later and do it with a young child in the car. I hate it when a person does that and I see that safety seat in there.

ChikinTrucka · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 122 Location: Maine, Ayah

I was just talking with a friend who lives in Massachusetts. He says it's been a common thing around there to pull in front of someone and hit the brakes and then sue them for hitting them. Until recently. Someone tried to do that in front of a big truck. He couldn't stop, and went right over the car and killed everyone in it. Not a pretty sight. So, I guess they've calmed down a bit, but I sure wish the cops would write more tickets for that. I still have people cutting in front of me all the time.

line_transporter · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 67

Yah, getting cut off by cars is a definite problem. Maybe that's why I see some 18 wheelers in the hammer lane; they figuer that way, it's less likely to get cut off?

Windwalker · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 2773 Location: Holiday, FL

Biggest complaint about 4-wheelers... UMMmmm......... Let's see......

Wish they could come up with a "COMMON SENSE" test that they had to pass in order to get their license. Of course, it would be the 4-wheelers that would be coming up with that test, and it would make no sense at all, so that idea is dead.

But if they did use just a little common sense, we would not need P.A.T.T. or C.R.A.S.H. We could keep the roads nice and safe without them.

Georgia has signs much like Ohio. "LEAVE MORE ROOM AND AVOID A TICKET". But, unfortunately, the 4-wheelers don't know how to read signs either. Sign says the exit is coming up in 2 miles, but they're out in that left lane, then just before the exit, they have to get across 3 lanes of traffic to get the exit. Can't read road signs. Something to do with the colors of the sign?????

Phantom433a · Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 313 Location: Chino Valley, Az

All of the above plus more.

My biggest complaint is when they are coming up on you and they flas their highbeams (at night) so you can SEE them. Damn foriegners from that country to the west of my state :lol:

dangwabbit · Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Lower 48

They only have 4 wheels and what they had for brains are still at home. :shock:

ChikinTrucka · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 122 Location: Maine, Ayah

Windwalker wrote: Biggest complaint about 4-wheelers... Can't read road signs. Something to do with the colors of the sign?????
Maybe they CAN'T READ at all!
I picked up a load of lumber in NY last week and they guy in front of me couldn't read, write or speak English. The shipper told me that his dispatcher called and told him what to do: "just show him where to sign, he'll be all right". Then he drove through a stop sign and proceeded out the entrance gate. With truckers like that, and most assuredly, 4 wheelers too, it's no wonder they are in the wrong lane and doing stupid stuff at the last minute. They can't read because they can't read!

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