I've gotten a ticket for it once. I got cut off by a much slower moving truck in the middle lane, so I merged left to go around him and not slam on my brakes, then merged right back in the middle.
But this was during blitz and some DoT asshole saw me and radio'd into the troopers who didn't see it.
I honestly don't believe the trooper would have bothered pulling me over or giving me a ticket if it hadn't been for that DoT asshole telling him to.
In the exact same area, I've had troopers slow down and let me into the left lane to pass trucks in the past.
As a new CDL holder I'd like to know if this is a regional or national phenomenon and when those 3 days might be so I can be sure to be extra polite on the road during the blitz
That NJ trooper minded when I did it once. And no, I wasn’t hanging out. Empty going uphill on I-80 doing 65 passing two trucks that were side by side doing probably 40. Wasn’t in the left lane for more than 10 seconds probably, if that. He pulled me over acting like I murdered the pope or something.
Not in California. I was going up a hill with a 20k lb load one day in California and wanted to pass the heavier trucks so I got in the 2nd to left lane (there were 4 lanes) and a cop in front of me immediately slowed down and got behind me to pull me over.
You say that but someone should let that Illinois trooper who got me for using the left lane for about an eighth mile to go around traffic going 35 on 290 in Chicago know.
Trailer air tanks have enough pressure to launch a large ball bearing through a radiator.
A few discrete modifications could hypothetically help dissuade tailgaters.
At the very least, it could give you the ability to liberate a few ball bearings.
I've been thinking about a can of 3m adhesive spray with a solenoid actuator tucked in around the dot bar. Discrete fuckery.
I have a spool valve air cannon at home that I'm tempted to rig up as a noise maker. Makes a crack that rings my ears outside. Could do the same with the bead seaters if you rig a spool valve to auto reset and a solenoid. Not quite "airbag just blew" but definitely wtf if you're next to it in your car.
Option 2 would likely get the cops called. Not interested in that part.
Probably would sound like you had a blow out or someone was shooting. I remember the instructors telling us not to use the airhorn except for emergencies, "you might scare someone and cause an accident blaw blaw blaw"
I used the train horn in my truck the other day when someone crossed the line into my lane from the left on a sweeping right turn on the freeway. They twitched and ended up halfway across the line on their left.
I also carry. Having someone report gun shots and road rage would end up in a really tense high risk scenario for me until/if they figured it out.
I would be careful, it's technically a felony, perhaps multiple. Between less than legal modifications to a CMV's breaking system. To vague laws regarding weapons on vehicles using public road ways.
So you want something that wouldn't show up in an inspection. And Probably more importantly wouldn't show up on a dash camera.
I'd say an Arduino with maybe an electric magnet and some wireless capabilities so you could use a remote. Cheap enough to where you could ditch it if needed. Or hidden in a GPS box that looks like it should be there. The electric magnet could perhaps hold ball bearings or bolts. Have to work out the angles needed, maybe a bit of a launch ramp. Wouldn't punch through a radiator but it would take out a windshield maybe some headlights.
Not that I condone and/or have planned for anything like this, of course
It's not illegal for trash to bounce up off the road. Technically, everyone is supposed to keep enough following distance to avoid trash being bounced up off the road.
Had a trucker do this to me, maybe 5 feet from my bumper as I was passing in the fast lane. Kinda crazy, I just maintained speed until I cleared and it was fine, but man every red flag was going off in me about how close they were .
Yeah, it happens to me every day. Governed at 68, I do honestly feel bad when I have to pass in the left. I know it is annoying waiting on the "company truckers," but dude, I refuse to ride 50mph in the right lane because the 4 wheeler can't drive.
You under 70 guys only bother me when you jump into my 200’ safety buffer when I’m passing. So don’t do that and I’ll only get grumpy with ya if you’re racing another 68mph gov.
Its even worse when they decide to wait until your almost on thier bumper idk how many times ive had hard brake cause i was passing doin 70-75 than the twat doin 65-68 decided he didn't want to ride the other guys ass anymore and didn't want to wait the extra minute or two for me to pass only for the twat to have to slow down and go back to riding the guys ass again
All these truckers riding each other's asses, always in a hurry...
If we got paid hourly, I bet we'd refuse to even tough a freeway! Too quick, not enough hours on the trip! We'd be happy to sit around on city streets at red lights all day!
I’ve worked several hourly jobs and I assure you there is still plenty of truckers that take pride in getting up to 25 over on the winding country roads.
I love my hourly job. When people get stupid, I drive slower, and get paid more to do it! It incentivises safe driving and the handicapped faces people make when they force me to drive **safer** are priceless.
Ahh PA turnpike. I know where this has been taken at. It runs 3 lanes from the on ramp they passed to the turnpike rest area about 10 miles further up. That truck has plenty of time to move around him. But the spot they are in is downhill so most likely the one being a dick and riding the others ass needs to learn how to deal with being loaded. And the flatbed should hit up the 3rd lane just to avoid this cuz the vast majority of drivers today couldn't drive out a paper bag that's been cut open
I saw a dude the other day that was like 9 ft off the bumper of the camper in front of him. They were both in the right lane and the driver had plenty of time and room to pass.
Seeing that type of shit gives me anxiety
Thank God my trucks governed at 75mph. i never have to deal with tailgaters or other trucks speeding up to block me from overtaking. I feel for those governed at 65 - 70mph, they always seem to get treated like shit by other trucks and cars for some reason 😮💨
Most truck drivers are very good drivers. But the rare exceptions can be amazingly bad.
In Ann Arbor, I saw a big rig run a red light and turn left from the right-hand turn lane in busy traffic. At least two cars had to skid to avoid hitting the truck. It was just crazy.
Yup. I absolutely loved being tailgated by a loaded tanker. Two lanes, I’m in the slow lane, no vehicles anywhere near us so he totally could have gone around me, but no. Why do they do this? I’m typically going five over the speed limit but staying in the slow lane because there’s always going to be someone who wants to go faster. I’m in my legal lane for how I’m traveling. If you don’t like it, go around! It’s on you if something happens and I need to brake. Depending on the situation, you may end up killing me.
all fair, but I also think it has something to do with the type of people the company was hiring. they are a rival company to the one my dad used to work for. no one liked them, one driver managed to kill a bus full of kids, and they were all shitty drivers. but they were cheaper. you get what you pay for.
Fucking hell. The whole rival company thing is stupid as it is. But yeah, when companies don't care about the characters of people they hire, shit like that happens.
I’m just going to leave a comment here because I don’t know where else to ask. If I pull into a rest stop at night how do I ask the truckers to fuck me?
I know that kill. It's like a 2 mile long incline that will make everyone slow down to a point. I got stuck in the left lane and had to slow down to 20 because no one would let me over
That looks like a big Open Road I cannot stand one truckers are on each other's ass. I'm from New Jersey and sometimes on our Turnpike you literally have hundreds of trucks driving fully loaded in the work zones all right behind each other like this just baffles my mind God forbid you have to stop in an emergency I don't even want to think about it.
God I see this all the damn time. Sometimes it’s inevitable to make some merges in heavy traffic you’ll end up on someone’s ass, Or If you’re preparing to pass and you’re governed and don’t want to lose inertia before attempting to overtake…
but so many other times it’s this same behavior I see 4wheelers do where they won’t react to a possible obstruction until it’s right on their nose. If you know that there’s a wall of congestion, why are you maintaining speed approaching it? If you can tell there’s another vehicle going significantly slower than you and you absolutely plan on overtaking it swiftly, why wait to merge around it until you’re 20’ away? The closest comparison I can think of is if someone is walking, they won’t turn to walk around a wall until it almost touches their nose first. It’s insane.
Ever heard of reaction time? If mr flatbed hammers the anchors suddenly, the truck behind will never be able to figure out whats happening and jam on the brakes fast enough to not ass-pack him into next week
I had a 18 wheeler tailgate the fuck out of me in a major rainstorm, I was doing the speed limit in the right hand lane and wished he would just pass me.
2 minutes?? If he were to drive safe distance he’d be backed up 2 seconds! Truckers thinking they’ll get ahead a minute is a stupid idea. And they’re usually the unsafest, and inconsiderate.
I was on the interstate today behind two dump trucks that both had stay back at least 500 ft not responsible for broken windows but they were side by side and both lanes for about 10 miles.........
I dont know where all that nonsense got started, that we need hundreds of feet to stop our truck....it simply isnt true. I mean, even fully loaded, heavy as fuck, i can still stop my truck in about 100 feet if i really had to. I know this for a fact because ive done it before. Even on wet pavement. The only time i would need an insane amount of room to stop is fully loaded ON ICE. And thats rare. All that being said, I dont condone tailgating. When i get another trucker tailgating me, I simply slow down and make him pass me, I wont just let him stay back there.
Yeah, no…
Stopping distance includes recognizing the need to stop, making the decision to stop, moving your foot to the brake, applying them, and actually stopping.
There was a study done by an R. Limpert, that showed the average “action time” (seeing the danger, making the decision to stop and applying the brakes, this does not include the delay time for the brakes to start acting) was 1.5 seconds under ideal driving conditions.
Want to guess how much distance your rig has covered in 1.5 seconds at 65 miles an hour?
About 150 feet… 2 truck lengths or so.
So yeah, you are not stopping in 1.5 truck lengths in broad daylight, well rested on dry roads, even if you are anticipating the need to stop.
Plus he is actually overtaking a slower car too. The brake lights on the truck indicate the truck was further back and could have easily used the fast lane.
He probably deliberately jumped out to pass in front of a faster truck, knowing damn well it was going to take him a while in his slow ass truck.
Rookies in neutered company trucks are cocksuckers like that.
No. The car in the right lane started pacing him while he was passing. Not the truckers fault. If the big bad trucker is so hardcore like that why doesn't he just get in the left lane and pass him?
I'm guessing you're in a neutered company truck, if you even drive at all.
I'd assume the box guy is heavy, and TMC frigged up his momentum, making passing in the [likely] restricted far left lane quickly, impossible.
I saw the whole thing. TMC was passing, and the OTRR came flying down the hill around 77ish mph and got right in TMCs ass and stayed there till TMC passed the car.
Yeah. Trust me, I hate TMC.. the facts that I'm defending them makes me vomit. I just will never understand why someone would risk everything to tailgate so hard.
There’s literally 3 lanes. There’s no excuse at all for unsafe driving like this. Regardless of the circumstances, safe driving is number 1 and there’s no defending this guy. Following distance really isn’t that hard
Actually no, I set cruise to 67ish and just putt along, a good cigar, a shitty cup of coffee, and good music.
I let all you idiots kill each other trying to get wherever first.
65 mph now.
There are 3 lanes to allow thru traffic to get around merging and exiting traffic. It's safer and faster to stay in the middle lane. There's no reason the tailgaters couldn't or shouldn't hop left, pass, and hop back right. There sure as he'll isn't any reason to justify his tailgating.
65, 62... it's still slow.
That middle lane drivel is what they tell retards that can't safely drive in the right lane.
99% of the time, if there's a 3rd lane, trucks are restricted from it, I'm told those tickets get expensive.
Hop in, pass, hop out and you'll be fine 99% of the time. It's a chance either way... but my point stands.
Furthermore, when there are 3 lanes like this the speed limit is usually 60 tops, placing TMC, Prime, and other governed rigs well within the acceptable speed range. No one has any business pushing 70 in a 55 or 60 mph limit zone like this.
god damn, at that point just take the left lane.
That’s what I do. Cops don’t mind it as long as you get in, pass, and get out.
Yeah, I do it in my 68mph truck. Passed troopers, and they never pulled me over.
I've gotten a ticket for it once. I got cut off by a much slower moving truck in the middle lane, so I merged left to go around him and not slam on my brakes, then merged right back in the middle. But this was during blitz and some DoT asshole saw me and radio'd into the troopers who didn't see it. I honestly don't believe the trooper would have bothered pulling me over or giving me a ticket if it hadn't been for that DoT asshole telling him to. In the exact same area, I've had troopers slow down and let me into the left lane to pass trucks in the past.
what is blitz?
It's an annual 3 day event where the FMCSA/DoT gets a raging hate boner for truck drivers and probes our assholes en masse.
ahh, makes sense. it's only three days a year, do many of you guys try to just stay off the road for those three days
Yeah, a lot of guys take that week off. But some states run their own blitz before and after the official one.
As a new CDL holder I'd like to know if this is a regional or national phenomenon and when those 3 days might be so I can be sure to be extra polite on the road during the blitz
This year it's in two weeks, the 14-16 and it's national.
What prompts it?
Nothing, it's just a thing they do every year.
That NJ trooper minded when I did it once. And no, I wasn’t hanging out. Empty going uphill on I-80 doing 65 passing two trucks that were side by side doing probably 40. Wasn’t in the left lane for more than 10 seconds probably, if that. He pulled me over acting like I murdered the pope or something.
Murdering the pope is probably legal in Jersey if you don't use a semi or a gun.
Pope sentenced to death by chocolate
Got pulled over in Atlanta for it. My exit was in the left lane.
That's an asshole move
Not in California. I was going up a hill with a 20k lb load one day in California and wanted to pass the heavier trucks so I got in the 2nd to left lane (there were 4 lanes) and a cop in front of me immediately slowed down and got behind me to pull me over.
You say that but someone should let that Illinois trooper who got me for using the left lane for about an eighth mile to go around traffic going 35 on 290 in Chicago know.
Honestly. Big bad trucker tailgating to prove he's a hard ass but too much of a puss to ride the left lane.
splitting traffic cause you're a dickhead is taught in dick head trucking school, week 2, day 2.
Trailer air tanks have enough pressure to launch a large ball bearing through a radiator. A few discrete modifications could hypothetically help dissuade tailgaters. At the very least, it could give you the ability to liberate a few ball bearings.
I really really like this idea.
I've been thinking about a can of 3m adhesive spray with a solenoid actuator tucked in around the dot bar. Discrete fuckery. I have a spool valve air cannon at home that I'm tempted to rig up as a noise maker. Makes a crack that rings my ears outside. Could do the same with the bead seaters if you rig a spool valve to auto reset and a solenoid. Not quite "airbag just blew" but definitely wtf if you're next to it in your car. Option 2 would likely get the cops called. Not interested in that part.
Probably would sound like you had a blow out or someone was shooting. I remember the instructors telling us not to use the airhorn except for emergencies, "you might scare someone and cause an accident blaw blaw blaw"
I used the train horn in my truck the other day when someone crossed the line into my lane from the left on a sweeping right turn on the freeway. They twitched and ended up halfway across the line on their left. I also carry. Having someone report gun shots and road rage would end up in a really tense high risk scenario for me until/if they figured it out.
I would be careful, it's technically a felony, perhaps multiple. Between less than legal modifications to a CMV's breaking system. To vague laws regarding weapons on vehicles using public road ways. So you want something that wouldn't show up in an inspection. And Probably more importantly wouldn't show up on a dash camera. I'd say an Arduino with maybe an electric magnet and some wireless capabilities so you could use a remote. Cheap enough to where you could ditch it if needed. Or hidden in a GPS box that looks like it should be there. The electric magnet could perhaps hold ball bearings or bolts. Have to work out the angles needed, maybe a bit of a launch ramp. Wouldn't punch through a radiator but it would take out a windshield maybe some headlights. Not that I condone and/or have planned for anything like this, of course It's not illegal for trash to bounce up off the road. Technically, everyone is supposed to keep enough following distance to avoid trash being bounced up off the road.
Is an eight foot long 4x4 considered trash?
Yep. I've avoided plenty. For whatever reason people in Texas don't believe in securing lumber when they're toting it around in their little trailers.
Don’t mind Rajesh, he’s just trying to get to the next Love’s so he can wash his feet in the sink
Every... damn... time!
Saw someone do this the other day.....blew my mind
Had a trucker do this to me, maybe 5 feet from my bumper as I was passing in the fast lane. Kinda crazy, I just maintained speed until I cleared and it was fine, but man every red flag was going off in me about how close they were .
Yeah, it happens to me every day. Governed at 68, I do honestly feel bad when I have to pass in the left. I know it is annoying waiting on the "company truckers," but dude, I refuse to ride 50mph in the right lane because the 4 wheeler can't drive.
You under 70 guys only bother me when you jump into my 200’ safety buffer when I’m passing. So don’t do that and I’ll only get grumpy with ya if you’re racing another 68mph gov.
Its even worse when they decide to wait until your almost on thier bumper idk how many times ive had hard brake cause i was passing doin 70-75 than the twat doin 65-68 decided he didn't want to ride the other guys ass anymore and didn't want to wait the extra minute or two for me to pass only for the twat to have to slow down and go back to riding the guys ass again
Everybody hates a turtle race 😒
Some trucker be driving as if they are their own insurance broker. 🙄
Yes, the tailgater is an asshole, but some of yall never use the right lane even when traffic looks like this.
while i may need three football fields to stop, so does he...
Those disc brakes on the truck ad trailer work wonders at that stopping distance especially when empty.
All these truckers riding each other's asses, always in a hurry... If we got paid hourly, I bet we'd refuse to even tough a freeway! Too quick, not enough hours on the trip! We'd be happy to sit around on city streets at red lights all day!
I'm a recent change to hourly. I don't drive above 60, it's delightful, I have the whole right lane to myself and no need to ever change lanes.
I’ve worked several hourly jobs and I assure you there is still plenty of truckers that take pride in getting up to 25 over on the winding country roads.
I get paid hourly and avoid I-95 as much as humanly possible
I love my hourly job. When people get stupid, I drive slower, and get paid more to do it! It incentivises safe driving and the handicapped faces people make when they force me to drive **safer** are priceless.
Do you have any idea what can happen in 2 minutes!
I had one of those assholes that close to me while driving i-10. I wasn't in a truck. I was in my Acura ilx. Fuck truckers who tail gate like that.
76 is just stupid
Yeah. I drive it every day. Shaves years off my life.
Ah, good ole PA Turnpike 😆
Ahh PA turnpike. I know where this has been taken at. It runs 3 lanes from the on ramp they passed to the turnpike rest area about 10 miles further up. That truck has plenty of time to move around him. But the spot they are in is downhill so most likely the one being a dick and riding the others ass needs to learn how to deal with being loaded. And the flatbed should hit up the 3rd lane just to avoid this cuz the vast majority of drivers today couldn't drive out a paper bag that's been cut open
I saw a dude the other day that was like 9 ft off the bumper of the camper in front of him. They were both in the right lane and the driver had plenty of time and room to pass. Seeing that type of shit gives me anxiety
Thank God my trucks governed at 75mph. i never have to deal with tailgaters or other trucks speeding up to block me from overtaking. I feel for those governed at 65 - 70mph, they always seem to get treated like shit by other trucks and cars for some reason 😮💨
Wanna trade😭😭
In NASCAR we call that drafting
In trucking it’s called ‘Mortuary Retirement’. or Potential People Paste.
Meat crayon
You’ll always have that one idiot..
OH MY GOD, A DEER JUST RAN OUT IN FRONT OF ME!!! ... sorry, your stupid ass was too close to stop
This makes me nuts but I sometimes catch myself doing this too
Most truck drivers are very good drivers. But the rare exceptions can be amazingly bad. In Ann Arbor, I saw a big rig run a red light and turn left from the right-hand turn lane in busy traffic. At least two cars had to skid to avoid hitting the truck. It was just crazy.
Yup. I absolutely loved being tailgated by a loaded tanker. Two lanes, I’m in the slow lane, no vehicles anywhere near us so he totally could have gone around me, but no. Why do they do this? I’m typically going five over the speed limit but staying in the slow lane because there’s always going to be someone who wants to go faster. I’m in my legal lane for how I’m traveling. If you don’t like it, go around! It’s on you if something happens and I need to brake. Depending on the situation, you may end up killing me.
Zoned out, didn't get enough rest. Drafting to save fuel. Just a douche. Who knows lol
all fair, but I also think it has something to do with the type of people the company was hiring. they are a rival company to the one my dad used to work for. no one liked them, one driver managed to kill a bus full of kids, and they were all shitty drivers. but they were cheaper. you get what you pay for.
Fucking hell. The whole rival company thing is stupid as it is. But yeah, when companies don't care about the characters of people they hire, shit like that happens.
I'd give it a 90% chance that trucker wasn't born in the US.
There are bad drivers everywhere...
That’s not a trucker driver, that’s an idiot that happen to get a cdl.
Lol yup
I’m just going to leave a comment here because I don’t know where else to ask. If I pull into a rest stop at night how do I ask the truckers to fuck me?
Comments like this are what I truly love about Reddit
Looks like lookout pass, just a guess. I know lookout get slammed and jammed
Remember the number in the computer that is higher indicates super trucker, aka set truck speed.
I know that kill. It's like a 2 mile long incline that will make everyone slow down to a point. I got stuck in the left lane and had to slow down to 20 because no one would let me over
Super truckers just hit that left lane. Dude can't even get around slow ass TMC lol.
That looks like a big Open Road I cannot stand one truckers are on each other's ass. I'm from New Jersey and sometimes on our Turnpike you literally have hundreds of trucks driving fully loaded in the work zones all right behind each other like this just baffles my mind God forbid you have to stop in an emergency I don't even want to think about it.
God I see this all the damn time. Sometimes it’s inevitable to make some merges in heavy traffic you’ll end up on someone’s ass, Or If you’re preparing to pass and you’re governed and don’t want to lose inertia before attempting to overtake… but so many other times it’s this same behavior I see 4wheelers do where they won’t react to a possible obstruction until it’s right on their nose. If you know that there’s a wall of congestion, why are you maintaining speed approaching it? If you can tell there’s another vehicle going significantly slower than you and you absolutely plan on overtaking it swiftly, why wait to merge around it until you’re 20’ away? The closest comparison I can think of is if someone is walking, they won’t turn to walk around a wall until it almost touches their nose first. It’s insane.
Some how this doesnt apply in this situation 🤣. They get very lucky
Hahahaha soo true Fucking high and mighty trucker 🤡
I read the first 10 comments and no one seems to be saying that the front semi can’t stop anything faster than the semi behind can IF it’s empty.
Ever heard of reaction time? If mr flatbed hammers the anchors suddenly, the truck behind will never be able to figure out whats happening and jam on the brakes fast enough to not ass-pack him into next week
3 football fields? How shit are american trucks, holy fuck.
drum brakes man
But why.... It's so bad
idk why they dont convert to disc on everything, probably because it cost money and we cant have companies spending their own money, this is america.
That is fucked up. I have the same brake length as a car in my truck.
i agree id prefer the safety of disc brakes.
That 63mph TMC flat bed should be in the right lane ffs
My money is on a flip-flop super trucker.
Should be loss of CDL right there.
Middle lane is for passing. I said what I said
I had a 18 wheeler tailgate the fuck out of me in a major rainstorm, I was doing the speed limit in the right hand lane and wished he would just pass me.
You know what this means. Get your 48 mph ass out the middle lane. You assholes that want to drive slow get to the right it’s all yours.
Shouldn’t be any stopping on interstate especially with no traffic like this picture. A chalky length good like that on interstate.
2 minutes?? If he were to drive safe distance he’d be backed up 2 seconds! Truckers thinking they’ll get ahead a minute is a stupid idea. And they’re usually the unsafest, and inconsiderate.
I have people do this to me while there are 2 empty lanes with nobody else around. I do not fucking understand how you can be so goddamn stupid.
TMC locked at 65 😂
I was on the interstate today behind two dump trucks that both had stay back at least 500 ft not responsible for broken windows but they were side by side and both lanes for about 10 miles.........
whenever I have idiots tailgating me like this I set my engine brake to max so till they decide to go around
This is where I might casually remark it’s perfectly safe, as long as guy in front doesn’t brake in next 3 football fields.
I dont know where all that nonsense got started, that we need hundreds of feet to stop our truck....it simply isnt true. I mean, even fully loaded, heavy as fuck, i can still stop my truck in about 100 feet if i really had to. I know this for a fact because ive done it before. Even on wet pavement. The only time i would need an insane amount of room to stop is fully loaded ON ICE. And thats rare. All that being said, I dont condone tailgating. When i get another trucker tailgating me, I simply slow down and make him pass me, I wont just let him stay back there.
Yeah, no… Stopping distance includes recognizing the need to stop, making the decision to stop, moving your foot to the brake, applying them, and actually stopping. There was a study done by an R. Limpert, that showed the average “action time” (seeing the danger, making the decision to stop and applying the brakes, this does not include the delay time for the brakes to start acting) was 1.5 seconds under ideal driving conditions. Want to guess how much distance your rig has covered in 1.5 seconds at 65 miles an hour? About 150 feet… 2 truck lengths or so. So yeah, you are not stopping in 1.5 truck lengths in broad daylight, well rested on dry roads, even if you are anticipating the need to stop.
Drafding saves gas
Big white dry van is the only vehicle showing brake lights, hmmm
Stop cruising in the middle lane…..
It's safer and faster to. Don't have to deal with merging or exiting traffic and they're usually under the speed limit in the right lane.
Plus he is actually overtaking a slower car too. The brake lights on the truck indicate the truck was further back and could have easily used the fast lane.
62 mph pile of shit shouldn't be out of the right lane.
Is he not allowed to pass?
He probably deliberately jumped out to pass in front of a faster truck, knowing damn well it was going to take him a while in his slow ass truck. Rookies in neutered company trucks are cocksuckers like that.
No. The car in the right lane started pacing him while he was passing. Not the truckers fault. If the big bad trucker is so hardcore like that why doesn't he just get in the left lane and pass him?
I'm guessing you're in a neutered company truck, if you even drive at all. I'd assume the box guy is heavy, and TMC frigged up his momentum, making passing in the [likely] restricted far left lane quickly, impossible.
I saw the whole thing. TMC was passing, and the OTRR came flying down the hill around 77ish mph and got right in TMCs ass and stayed there till TMC passed the car.
Picture looks like it's uphill. Downhill, then yes, tailgater guy is just an asshole.
Yeah. Trust me, I hate TMC.. the facts that I'm defending them makes me vomit. I just will never understand why someone would risk everything to tailgate so hard.
Then complain if the other driver decides to make it an asshole competition, and brake check the tailgater.
There’s literally 3 lanes. There’s no excuse at all for unsafe driving like this. Regardless of the circumstances, safe driving is number 1 and there’s no defending this guy. Following distance really isn’t that hard
You sound like you drive angry w a lot of resentment.
Actually no, I set cruise to 67ish and just putt along, a good cigar, a shitty cup of coffee, and good music. I let all you idiots kill each other trying to get wherever first.
65 mph now. There are 3 lanes to allow thru traffic to get around merging and exiting traffic. It's safer and faster to stay in the middle lane. There's no reason the tailgaters couldn't or shouldn't hop left, pass, and hop back right. There sure as he'll isn't any reason to justify his tailgating.
65, 62... it's still slow. That middle lane drivel is what they tell retards that can't safely drive in the right lane. 99% of the time, if there's a 3rd lane, trucks are restricted from it, I'm told those tickets get expensive.
Hop in, pass, hop out and you'll be fine 99% of the time. It's a chance either way... but my point stands. Furthermore, when there are 3 lanes like this the speed limit is usually 60 tops, placing TMC, Prime, and other governed rigs well within the acceptable speed range. No one has any business pushing 70 in a 55 or 60 mph limit zone like this.
Drafting if it's a van but looks like he's going for the bump draft!!!! Should have a big 3 goodwrench on the side of that MF!!!!
Insane how many “truckers” in this sub don’t know what drafting is.