Another idiot
#21
12-27-2006, 09:05 AM
Sorry movinit but there are too many people out there who are already against truck drivers, someone has to back them up sometimes. This story sounds real fishy, for all we know this whole thing never happened. If he really were hit from behind, the truck driver would be in jail, that's vehicular assault, assault with a deadly weapon and a major case of road rage that is an automatic night in jail in most every state if not all. The other problem,
Nope, he decides to make a wild lane change into the now vacated right land... running an SUV off the road.
Your not going to get better drivers, just look around you going down the road. The 4 wheel drivers get worse and worse each day and a lot of those are the same people who have college degree's. The entire country is full of bad drivers, it's not just truckers.
#22
12-27-2006, 11:47 AM
Originally Posted by Mr. Ford95
Couch, I know that by law you did the right thing by slowing down to try and get out of the way by getting behind the vehicle beside you. Had you sped up and got over and a cop pulled you for speeding, you would have heard the judge telling you that you made the wrong choice. Well, this is reality, you NEVER drop the throttle when a semi is that close to your rear end. If it were another car, that would have been fine, they can slow down a lot quicker and easier but not a semi. I'm not saying the driver was in the right to hit you, but maybe he did try to slow up. Your lucky he didn't run clean over top of you with that stunt.
If what you said is all true, he should have been in jail. I would not have let him off the hook by calling the company. You put him in jail and the company has no choice but to terminate him, going to jail is MUCH worse than being fired. As it is, he may get hit with a slap on the wrist from the judge if that because it looks like he wasn't even written a ticket from your story. You said the cop ripped him a new one, then called his company but did he write him for anything?? What was the company??
#23
12-27-2006, 12:59 PM
Couch why have you not responded lately? Where you at on I75 south of Atlanta? I believe if the driver bumped you and ran another vehicle off the road that other truck would have stopped and turned him in.
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#24
12-27-2006, 02:05 PM
Jim, he said he slowed down to 65 and that is when he claimed the truck hit him, THEN slowed down to 30 to try and get the driver to pull over. I was in court one day for a window tint violation and a similar situation came thru that day. Girl was popped for speeding, her excuse was that she had a car tailgating her and she sped up to get clear of the vehicle beside her so that she could move over out of the way. The judge responded, "Well, you were doing 80 in a 65 when you were caught, I will not dismiss nor drop this because by law, you are not to break the speed limit in order to get in front of another vehicle. It does not matter that another car was tailgating you, the legal thing to do is to slow down and then merge over out of the way." In VA, if another vehicle comes from behind and flashes you, by law, if another car is already beside you, you are required to slow down and get behind them unless you have already cleared their front end and can safely merge over in front of them. Like I said, legally, he did the right thing but in reality it was wrong because it is more likely to get you killed.
Who really cares anymore, we have punched a few gaping holes in the story and nothing has been said back.
#25
12-27-2006, 08:16 PM
In my states CDL manual when being tailgated you are instructed to increase your following distance from the car ahead of you and the tailgating vehicle should pass........that being said, driving the speed limit in this area in your personal car generally will get you lots of aggressive drivers tailgating you.
Slowing down in front of a aggressive driver likely will result in a conflict. I have found holding your cell phone in the air will usually send a aggressive driver down the road. Being dead right is of no merit to your wife and kids, its smarter to yield than to "fight over the road".
#26
12-28-2006, 12:57 PM
I post on CFIDrivers also, and I do believe Couch was a Law Enforcement officer! Why would a Law Enforcement Officer slow down to 30mph on the highway??? Thats nucking futs!!!!!!!! I dont think I believe this post, like everyone else has said if a Semi hit him, there would be enough damage for that driver to go to Jail!!!!
#27
12-28-2006, 01:46 PM
Well, sorry folks if you think I'm embellishing. I really don't care if you think Im telling the truth or white lying about the incident. Yes, I got tapped by an idiot tailgating me. No he didnt hit me that hard, it was a tap. Yes I slowed down after being involved in a collision (being rear ended is a collision). Yes I was attempting to pull over to the side of the road just as your suppose to do after a collision.
Im a 17 year law enforcement retiree. I feel that I did the right thing. The idiot driving the Semi on my tail did not. slowing down is not called "obstructing traffic". The responsibility of a rear end collision falls to that of the following vehicle.... its called following to closely and careless driving. As far as I know the driver did not receive a citation. I declined to file a traffic crash report because there was no damage to my vehicle. I now regret that and wish that I had. The Deputy conferred with me after stopping the truck to see what I wanted done... which is customary for LEO's do do with each other. I do not think that there was any damage to the SUV he cut off. The bottom line here is, there are plenty of $hitty drivers out there piloting 40,000 lb ++ semi's. Thats scary. And... if you dont believe me, thats ok, I really don't give a crap. 
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#28
12-28-2006, 02:34 PM
Think ya missed something in your training when you were still a cop. When you decide to start running at 40 mph below the speed limit, you are impeding traffic and can be held liable if someone else doing 70 were to have hit you.
Your telling us you felt a small tap?? So small that it left no damage, yet hard enough that you felt it?? :shock: :roll: Did the SUV stop?? If I had been cut off and then saw the truck pulled over, I would be stopping to tell the police what happened. Whatever happened to the truck that was beside you originally?? Next time, if your going to slow down, put your turn signal on before you slow down so that they realize your trying to get out of the way. Best bet is to hit the gas and get on up out of the way instead of slowing down, their road rage won't be quite as bad towards you.
#29
12-28-2006, 03:17 PM
Originally Posted by Couch
Sit back folks, cause you aren't going to believe this. Tonight Im driving up I-75 just south of Atlanta in my little Toyota Corolla. Im in the center lane doing 70MPH in a 70MPH zone, when suddenly my rear window fills up with the lights from a speeding semi. I cant get to the right because there is another truck there. The trailing semi is so close that all I can see is his grill. Needless to say, this pisses me off. I decelerate so that I can fall in behind the truck to my right. Well this must have really pissed off the idiot behind me because he turned his high beams on and HIT ME! He fricken nudged the back of my Corolla at 65MPH! Un-believable!! Well, Now I decelerate to around 30MPH and motion foe the idiot to pull over. Nope, he decides to make a wild lane change into the now vacated right land... running an SUV off the road. as he passes me he hangs the one finger salute out the window. Oh HELL NO!! My first call was to 911 and a very nice Henry County Deputy got the jackass pulled over. I talked with the Deputy who left it up to me as to whether I wanted to file a accident report, and if I wanted the jackass to go to jail for leaving the scene of an accident. At first I said, "Hell no, he needs to go to jail for Aggravated Assault (Felony) as I was in fear for my life when I was hit". After I calmed down and I watched the nice Deputy RIP Mr Road Rage a new a$$
I felt better. We decided to do one better than arresting the jerk... So, my next phone call was to his company's safety department, and so was the Deputy's. The company safety officer did call me back. I very nicely told him what I though of their drivers actions. I was assured that the situation was going to be taken care of, and he apologized up and down. Now what really is on my mind. The trucking industry. Pathetic. That is the state of affairs in our business. I know that Mr Jacka$$ was not representing the majority of us in this business, but he was representing more than a few. We are not going to get a better reputation with the public with idiots like that on the road. Problem is, there are more than a few of them out there. The industry can do a HELL of allot better at preventing incidents like this. For one, they can hire better people. A high school diploma should be required at a minimum. The driver looked like a refugee from Grizzly Adams. His clothing was in disarray. What a representative. Our industry isn't going to get any better until we up our standards and hire people with common sense and a sense of respect. I can now see first hand why the people are calling for more regulation in our industry. We are represented by morons like I encountered tonight. What if the person that he was trying to intimidate was a lady and her baby? What if they were elderly? What if it were someone who didn't give a $hit and placed a cap in his a$$? To tell you the truth, if he would have stopped immediately and he would have given me an ounce of lip or attitude, I would have beaten his a$$ senseless. Thats how made that made me and I'm not kidding. This has got to stop, or we can stand by and greet more legislation like the 14 hour rule. You didn't use your TURN SIGNAL...AND you claim to be a TRUCKER!! Your rear window is filled with Grill...and YOU SLOWED DOWN :shock: Like I said...if you INDICATED you will get out of the way, by using your turn signal...maybe the outcome would have been different. Again...I reiterate...the Truck Driver was wrong...BUT ....well...read your post. I know a lot of Cops...and I know a lot of Trucker's. I don't think even one without a High School education, would be this stupid....but I could be wrong about some Cops. :roll: Here is a part I like from your last post....and I quote..." The Deputy conferred with me after stopping the truck to see what I wanted done... which is customary for LEO's do do with each other. I do not think that there was any damage to the SUV he cut off." What the hell happened to.... :shock: Felonious Aggravated Assault? leaving the scene of an accident, fear of your life! and running the SUV off the road?????? Why didn't your fellow LEO shoot that SOB?...at least in the leg? You'd back him up...right? :lol: You called the Cop on the scene...."very nice Henry County Deputy" :lol: :shock: yer a retired Cop? :shock: :?   :lol: You are a Trucker ? :shock: :roll: You know what...I feel much better now....about how I sized this up. Thanks. 
#30
12-28-2006, 04:35 PM
Roadhog, Ok, I wasnt ever really a cop, and the entire post was a well concocted lie just to stir up you ignorant truckers. There never really was an incident like this, and you know all there is about trucking, police work, collision investigations and physics. Matter of fact, if you run for president I'll vote for you because of your overwhelming insight and intellect. Was the holocaust a lie too? Do aliens infest Donlad Trumps a$$?? Tell me Roadhog you God of all knowledge!!
feel better? I hope so. because you are the man. No really, you are. 
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