Good thread.
Southernpride: Thanx for your posts. Hang in there. You're doing good.
I once drove 21 miles on two-lane roads in Illinois before I could turn around; shipper's directions had left and right mixed up. Oh, well--better safe and out-of-route than sorry.
Years ago a friend who drove for Swift showed me one of their company newsletters. It had an article about uturns--and photographs. A Swift driver had pulled a uturn (like the one in the YouTube clip below) and had been hit by a pickup pulling a horse trailer. The photos showed two dead horses in the road. "Sorry" wasn't good enough.
So, speaking of uturns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr-YF1pbGuE
Folks, there's LOTS of truck-related clips on YouTube. Search "truck crash," "truck wreck," "truck drivers," "swift driver." (Off-topic, but
there's lots of great music clips too.)