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05-18-2008, 10:47 PM
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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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05-19-2008, 03:02 AM
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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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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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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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Re: 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:
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I've never seen a driver flash his fruit bowl to motorist.
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05-28-2008, 12:40 AM
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I've never seen cadavers fall off the back of a truck.
Except in this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldt1kaOr0ZY
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05-28-2008, 07:45 AM
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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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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.
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I've never seen cadavers fall off the back of a truck.
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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.
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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.
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:?
I thought that sort of thing only happened on TV.
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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.
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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
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