Here's something else I have a "beef" with.....
 

...drivers of semi's who are sitting on the shoulder of the interstate who just up and decide to jump into traffic with a hard left turn from the shoulder and no speed!!! :x :evil: :x :evil: I have had two boneheads do that to me in the last week.... Betcha can't guess who they were??? :shock: On one of them...I'm still not sure exactly how I managed not to end up filling out an accident report.....and the dumbass in that truck looked at me like it was my fault.....oh, duh...

Look people....if you pull off on the shoulder of the interstate for any reason, when you get ready to pull back out into traffic...use the freakin' shoulder as a run up lane to get some speed up before you go to turn into traffic and maybe get hit or killed, or kill someone else. Its a pretty good bet that if you get hit from behind under those circumstances....its gonna suck to be you within minutes. Come on folks....use your brains....put them in gear before putting truck in motion. OK 8) Oh...and look in the mirror and clear the rear before you merge into traffic......that would be nice too!

And use your turn signal! And consider using your 4-ways until you're up-to-speed!

That happened to me on my way to work today, as I was coming down I440. But this was a Puryear truck (a local company of about 75 power units which runs dumps, end dumps, and some lowboys, plus is augmented by a tanker fleet). I don't like it when that happens, suffice to say.

Just out of curiousity, Sky... was this in a heavy traffic area? You didn't SEE him on the side of the road from about 3/4 mile back? You didn't have the opportunity to move OVER to the fast lane for security reasons whether he was gonna move or not? Failing that..... you weren't able to slow down as you approached? Or flash your lights to say you were coming THROUGH?

I'm just curious, because I drive mostly on OPEN roads. I see this ALL the time, and though I don't appreciate it.... it is rarely a problem for me.

It must really SUCK to be a Truckdriver in the N.E.!! This is NEVER a real problem in the West or SouthWest. i.e: Three quarters of the country!

You're going to beat that merging thing to death, aren't you Hobo? :roll:

I agree with Hobo. I hear guys gripe about that stupid SOB on the shoulder, and then make no effort to even move over.

USA Trucking did that this morning on I-95 north during rush hour traffic headed towards DC. Talk about a flipping mess that driver made. They pulled out while doing maybe 25 mph into traffic running 70 and was going uphill when they pulled off the shoulder. Might have done it because they were unfamiliar with the area. They were right at an exit ramp that could have been used to get up to speed by continuing straight on down the ramp and re-entering further up the road at a much safer merging speed. Probably did not know that so they pulled right out into heavy traffic and looked like a moron.

Oddly enough, on the CDL license test in PA, they instruct you to immediately jump onto the highway. They safe it's safer then driving down the shoulder til you pick up speed.

I always pick up some speed before jumping back on, but agree that the worse offense is the guys who won't move into the left lane. It tends to be supertruckers who feel the need to blast past the guy on the shoulder at 70mph.

Originally Posted by Mr. Ford95:
USA Trucking did that this morning on I-95 north during rush hour traffic headed towards DC.

Wasn't me! :lol: I took US50 out to the peninsula.

I did see where a Paschall truck rear-ended a Stevens yesterday on I70. Maybe that's how it happened. Dunno. I felt bad for both of them.

I've got to agree with hobo on this one as well. If your on the shoulder with the flashers on, I'll take the next lane if I can. If your on the shoulder with your signal on, nosing out, I'll back off the hammer and give you a clear lane in. Drivers used to care enough to help out a fellow driver, I think we need to get back to that.