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Originally Posted by Lunker
Driving a big rig takes way too much concentration to just keep driving, wondering where you are while pondering the last phone call. Pull off on a ramp, get your bearings, get help if possible on the cb, just don't keep driving wasting fuel and time, cause that's when bad things will most likely happen.
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@ Luker ---normally this would all be excellent advice.
he only problems are with these specific circumstances; they complicate the safety of pulling off on a ramp or shoulder.
Normally, it's considered unsafe to drive into a rising sun or setting sun--because visibility is impaired--not only your's but the motorist following you- in this circumstance is just like driving in FOG---you're advised not to pull off the roadway or stop- unless you can get far off the roadway. Cars aim for the tail of traffic ahead of them when visibility is impaired.
2nd problem is I-15 has several exit ramps with 0 return ramps- once you exit now you're really lost.
3rd problem is California until just recently never used exit numbers, and it's hard to find mile markers--so pulling off the road in the middle of no where- to figure out "where" you are--doesn't work very well.
This is the first time--I've really wished I'd had a GPS device with some kind of warning buzzer--then I would have been alerted when I went off course.
It was a bad situation- topographically & geographically----there are no truck routes over the Santa Ana Mountain range back to the coast. Once
I realized I was in Lake Elsinore- it was 50/50 either way---now later, running it on pc*miler- if I had turned around- 116miles that way. And 126-continuing on making the big circle.