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HWD
Joined: 24 Apr 2008
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Location: Norf Kakalacky
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: Two things I never saw a driver do |
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Your experiences may vary, but I will say there are two things I have never seen any truck driver do:
1) toss cigarette butts out the window
2) change lanes without signaling
I don't know if I just don't get out much, but 25 years of 4-wheeler-'in and the 5 years I drove OTR I never saw either one!
Drivers I have seen have always signalled their lane changes and I have never seen one toss a butt out the window...like I said I am sure some do but I ain't never seen it.
Little things do mean alot, at least to me. I am proud of the bulk of the drivers out there still driving. |
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Mackman
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Location: Concordville PA
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I do both them things. I will use my flasher if cars are around. But at 3am and im the only one on the road i dont use it. Just wearing it out. Plus there is no one there to see it. |
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CaliTrucker
Joined: 01 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Two things I never saw a driver do |
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HWD wrote: Your experiences may vary, but I will say there are two things I have never seen any truck driver do:
1) toss cigarette butts out the window
2) change lanes without signaling
I don't know if I just don't get out much, but 25 years of 4-wheeler-'in and the 5 years I drove OTR I never saw either one!
Drivers I have seen have always signalled their lane changes and I have never seen one toss a butt out the window...like I said I am sure some do but I ain't never seen it.
Little things do mean alot, at least to me. I am proud of the bulk of the drivers out there still driving.
Just curious, have you been to California lately, I probably see this on a daily basis. |
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HWD
Joined: 24 Apr 2008
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Location: Norf Kakalacky
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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I was in CA only because the military wanted me there. I live on the east coast and when I drove OTR I only went once, and that was 15 years ago!
CA seems to be the exceptions on ALOT of levels... |
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JeffTheTerrible
Joined: 20 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm with Mackman on this one. I was actually cut off by an end dump which changed lanes without signaling this morning.. of course, it was a Puryear truck (they're kinda like the Swift of the local construction industry here in the Raleigh area, albeit with faster trucks), but they're hardly guilty of being the only ones who do that. |
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Phantom433a
Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: Chino Valley, Az
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| I see drivers change lanes all the time with no signal and FYI....throwing a cigerette butt out the window in the state of Arizona is a ticketable offense no matter what time of the year. If you see someone throw one out, you can even call the local police and they will run the license plate and contact the person(s). |
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Syncrosonix
Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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Location: scottsdale, arizona
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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saw both of those happen today as i was jamming through new mexico. an o/o not only cut me off, he also chucked his f'ing cigarette butt out the window, and it bounced off my f'ing windshield. :x
it's all good, i suppose. 150 miles down the road, i saw his ass on the shoulder with his hood open, and a crapload of oil splattered on his windshield.
karma is a bitch. :twisted: |
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Phantom433a
Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: Chino Valley, Az
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Bad karma Syncrosonix, you didn't point and laugh did you? :shock: |
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Syncrosonix
Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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Location: scottsdale, arizona
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| nope. saw it and chuckled a bit to myself. |
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TruckerChris
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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Location: Sacramento, California
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| You must not pay very good attention to trucks when you drive. I see those constantly. It seems that most company drivers signal (MOST, not all) but those square nosed owner ops like to changed and not signal! Must be the billybigrigger mentality. |
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JeffTheTerrible
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| I find them to be a mixed bag. I'll see company drivers and O/Os both who dot every 'i' and cross every 't', just as I'll see both company drivers and O/Os who won't. |
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Random_Facts
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
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Location: Northern California
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| Seriously! lol. No one knows what a turn signal is. Crossing the street..waiting for this car that's driving ever so slowly...as minutes turn to hours it seems. they turn at the last minute. That really bugs me. I mean if you're that lazy to NOT turn your blinker on, get off the freaking road. |
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Roadhog
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Location: Upper Lower Michigan...he heeeeeeeeee
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I don't smoke... and I know I wouldn't toss the butt if I did. I won't even toss an apple core out my window.
:shock: ...of course...I do need to stop swallowing those apple cores...they are almost as bad at plugging up the works, as a chicken foot. :cry:
I made the habit of using my signals, long before I got my CDL.
But since I began driving pro...I learned to use my CB on occasion while passing another truck,
and I can see I'm being sized up in the mirror. I'll say, "don't worry driver, this won't hurt a bit."
...then I might hear "ya got me driver"... I'll advise back over the CB..."blink-blink >> flash-flash <> <>." :)
... :P being a pro, has it's privileges. |
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DaveFromColorado
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
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Location: Chaska, MN
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This happened to me just today on hwy. 31 in Indiana - driving northbound, north of 30, beforeI got to south bend, a trucker jumped into the right lane without signaling, and flicked his smoke out the window which hit my car!!
As soon as that happened, I thought about this thread. It was just a crappy grain truck, and the kid behind the wheel looked like he was scared to death to be driving that truck.
--Dave. |
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Bigmon
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
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Location: S. Cal.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: Two things I never saw a driver do |
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HWD wrote: Your experiences may vary, but I will say there are two things I have never seen any truck driver do:
I've never seen a driver flash his fruit bowl to motorist. |
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