[mmiikkee]

what is a jug handle turn?

[Sealord]

Think miniature interchange with no over/underpass. A surface left turn using a 270 degree right turn, peculiar to New Jersey. BOL

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Sealord

Think miniature interchange with no over/underpass. A surface left turn using a 270 degree right turn, peculiar to New Jersey. BOL

Also think of it as "making a left turn from the right lane".... :shock: Picture in your mind the big "pitcher" on the front of the kool-aid package and superimpose that jug handle flat and extending out to the right away from the right lane and curving back left at the top to create an intersection. You have to do the jug-handle to make a left turn in many places in NJ, especially on the Trk 1 & 9 and other roads there.

Sooooo, you newer drivers.... if you go to NJ and are not familiar with the roads....and your directions call for a "left turn" off of a main road....watch for signs that say "All left turns made from right lane"... that is your first clue that you are going to have to use a "jug-handle" to turn left.

Go in slow, watch your tandems..... :shock: :shock: 8) 8)

[Soladad]

mmiikkee...just for you I got up out of the bunk and found my textbook from CDL class that I keep in the truck for reference. Definition in the glossary of what a jug handle turn is "is a right turn where you compensate for off-tracking of the trailer by moving into another lane of traffic before entering the intersection. This type of turn is dangerous and sloppy." Usually it is done by pulling over the center line into the on coming lane of traffic. If you signal right but move left, you confuse traffic. Someone behind you may even try to squeeze between the trailer and the curb (big no-no).

Correct manuver is called a buttonhook turn (squaring off). It is a "right turn that allows you to clear the corner by proceeding stright ahead until the trailer tires clear the corner then turning right." It takes practice but once you start to get the feel of your truck and how it turns it gets easier until one day it becomes automatic.

Soladad

[hitman]

Originally Posted by Skywalker

Also think of it as "making a left turn from the right lane".... :shock: Picture in your mind the big "pitcher" on the front of the kool-aid package and superimpose that jug handle flat and extending out to the right away from the right lane and curving back left at the top to create an intersection. You have to do the jug-handle to make a left turn in many places in NJ, especially on the Trk 1 & 9 and other roads there.

Sooooo, you newer drivers.... if you go to NJ and are not familiar with the roads....and your directions call for a "left turn" off of a main road....watch for signs that say "All left turns made from right lane"... that is your first clue that you are going to have to use a "jug-handle" to turn left.

Go in slow, watch your tandems..... :shock: :shock: 8) 8)

Pretty good description skywalker. I grew up in N.J and know jug handles. It is like the handle on a pitcher, that connects with intersecting roads. But also beaware, while most jug handles are before the intersection, there are also jug handles that you have to make, after you have already gone thru the intersection, and have to loop back around. Only in N.J :roll:

[DesertRat]

Originally Posted by Soladad

mmiikkee...just for you I got up out of the bunk and found my textbook from CDL class that I keep in the truck for reference. Definition in the glossary of what a jug handle turn is "is a right turn where you compensate for off-tracking of the trailer by moving into another lane of traffic before entering the intersection. This type of turn is dangerous and sloppy." Usually it is done by pulling over the center line into the on coming lane of traffic. If you signal right but move left, you confuse traffic. Someone behind you may even try to squeeze between the trailer and the curb (big no-no).

Correct manuver is called a buttonhook turn (squaring off). It is a "right turn that allows you to clear the corner by proceeding stright ahead until the trailer tires clear the corner then turning right." It takes practice but once you start to get the feel of your truck and how it turns it gets easier until one day it becomes automatic.

Soladad

then there is the part they don't put in the book. "upon swinging your button hook, the front of your tractor will be in the wrong lane, were some jackass fourwheeler will be stopped waiting for the light to change and flatly refuse to backup and give you room to maneuver.

Never understood that section of the book to be honest. Why is hooking outward into the wrong lane before a turn sloppy, but ending the turn in the wrong lane acceptible? mind you, I understand the risk of a car trying to slide by on the right, but if you're turning with your eyes routinely checking the right mirror (and you'd better be) you can position the trailer in a way to prevent that from ever occuring. Personally, I like to take my turns line to line, pull out a bit before the turn, end up a bit wide after the turn. If the road has any width at all you can do this without encroaching either of the wrong lanes.

[evertruckerr]

No matter what you do, GET A LAWYER.

You MUST keep that careless driving citation off of your record. It carries as much weight as a DUI as far as insurance companies and therefore future employers are concerned.

At the very least, the lawyer will be able to get the charges reduced to a simple moving violation. Depending on facts and circumstances, the lawyer may even get you out of it clean (and broke). :sad:

Good Luck!