I got TWO, I think, for now:

1) The governed truck who has been following another governed truck for the last 5 - 10 miles, then, JUST when I come rolling up in the Hammer lane, doing 10-15 miles FASTER than the both of them... he decides he HAS to pass NOW, so as not to get caught behind!!! I have to SLAM on my brakes, lose ALL my momentum, and wait for the next 15 minutes or so for him to get by the other guy.... doing only 1 mile faster!

Don't LET me catch you out of your truck! I'll beat the crap out of ya!

2) The guy who passes me doing 10 mph faster than me... then slows down to JUST over my "uphill" speed, LESS than one trucklenghth ahead of me, and waits for me to flick him over in front of me (or doesn't!) There are TWO miles of open road ahead of him AND me, and NO one behind him! If I WANTED to bounce around in my cab due to your "backwash" or cared about looking at the ASS end of your trailer, I'd be following YOU!

I got into trucking to see OPEN road and scenery! I'm NOT an elephant in a circus train! Get the heck BEYOND me before pulling over! If you don't see me flash my ligts.... it's because you are NOT far enough ahead of me for my COMFORT or my SAFETY!!!!

You closed the last 5 miles on me in 2 minutes! You can't keep the pedal down for 10 MORE SECONDS to get clear of me????

Who taught you IDIOTS how to drive, anyway?????

It's called "BACKWASH!!!" It causes planes to CRASH!!! [Flight 547] It makes MY life uncomfortable... and is TOTALLY unnecessary!!!

This is what happens when 4wheelers are given CDL's!!!

Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!

 

Unfortunately this happens over here All too often...
I,ll make a video of one arsehole doing it tonight(thats how confident I am that it will happen!)
The problem we have over here is that our (U.K) speed limit is 60mph and european law states that all trucks must be governed to 56mph :roll: :roll:
So, consequently, British trucks are set at 56mph too, but some are ... ermmm ermmm slightly tinkered with to run at 57,58,59mph..... :?
And some guys just "pull the fuse" and go Hell for leather... ops: Did I really say that?
Honestly Officer, I ,ve never done that, or "ran with a blank card" or deliberately snagged a card in the centrefield, or..... :lol: :lol:

 

My Pet peeve......... when there is plenty of parking at a truck stop I.E(the pilot in VA exit 213 on i-81) and drivers park in the ENTRANCE or the EXIT!!!!

 

My pet peeve is when yahoos talk on the phone,and dont pay attention to what they are doing...and then....they get the 800 number on the truck,and call in on the driver for blowing his horn. :shock: That happened to me a couple of weeks ago. There was this lady in a Cadillac that was on her phone,and she had some piece of paper that she was looking at at the same time. She just sat there for a minute,it was at a 4-way stop,and I laid on the air horn,and I saw her look in her mirrors after she jumped :lol: . Didnt take her long to get through the intersection. I was done with my route,and I was heading back to the yard. Not a few minutes after this,my supervisor called me,and asked me if I knew anything about it...I was like,uh,why do ya ask? :P He told me that a lady called in about a driver was being rude,and honking his horn. I told him that she was half right,I blew my horn. He laughed,and he was like,well,you need to stop wasting your air. :P

 

One of my biggest pet peeves is when drivers decide to park as close to the truck stop building as physically possible, even though where they parked isn't a parking spot and there are tons of open spaces available.

It's even worse when they do this and where they park makes it hard or next to impossible for someone in a correct parking space to get out of, or vice versa.

 

Blinker <--- by far lol. People not using them drives me insane. I mean If your that lazy to turn on a switch you shouldn't be driving lol. but thats just my thing.

Oh and cellphone drivers while driving (do i need to say more?) California just signed a new law that If you are caught using a Cell phone (thats not hand held You will get a fine for it). It goes into Effect by 2008 though. and If they really do enforce it then that would be great. But I doubt it just another thing that will go wrong lol.

So blinkers and Cellphone drivers are on my top 2 list.

 

Here,s a guy who took over 11 minutes to get past another truck :roll:
At the speed they were doing thats about 9 miles before he passed..
Sorry if you can,t understand Geordie accent :wink:

 

Billy Big-riggers parked in a truck stop's with their running lights on. I can understand if they are parked on a ramp to a rest area at night.

But hey you never know I might pull in a truck stop and hit a parked truck because I couldn't see it because the lights were turned off. Some times a 80 foot long 13'6 foot tall object is hard to see in a lighted parking lot?

............ And those disgusting Looking eye sore of a dash board with piles of paper,tobacco spit bottles, and maps.

 

The four wheelers that speed up to get in front of you then slam on the brakes to make a turn.

 

Drivers who complain