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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I've never seen a driver flash his fruit bowl to motorist.

 

I've never seen cadavers fall off the back of a truck.

Except in this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldt1kaOr0ZY

 

Do you only drive in simulator? For if you drove on the actual roadways of this country you would see all of this several times a day.

 

I have! :shock:

Man, did that bring back memories. Way back in '85, when I was an assistant manager for a Pizza Hut, there was a hard crash at the intersection near our store. Someone blasted through a red light and hit a hearse hard enough to pop the back door and send the casket gurney on a ride down the street. The ironic thing was that the body was that of some guy that had been killed in an automobile accident a day or two before.

On a related Karma note, we were driving back from Des Moines on Monday and some twit in a BMW came flying by me, weaving in an out of traffic. I had seen Mario Andretti coming, so had slowed a bit and moved way over in the right lane to accomodate his stupidity. As he flew past, I noticed he had all the radar detection gear in the window and told my wife that since it was Memorial Day, they would have planes in the air and stop-watches on overpasses and he was done inside of 20 miles. Sure enough, about 15 minutes later we passed him on the shoulder with two troopers sandwiching him. I smiled and waved as we passed.

 

:?

I thought that sort of thing only happened on TV.

 

I'd say that is conclusive proof, that guy was the fault for the first accident , then too.
Let's just hope he didn't go to hell, now by accident. :shock:

,,,anna ways...two things I've never seen a Driver do...are wear a cape or tights. Recruiters though??? ....wouldn't surprise me. :lol:




zing :P