John in Oz
Well-Known Member
I hope you found a nice kennel for the dog to stay in Chuck or is someone going to be there to dog sit it.
The truck I used to drive Chuck only had 62 wheels on the road and car drivers only have 4 to worry about and still can't keep them going where they should be headed, 3 trailers. The current one is only a 22 wheeler, it is not the truck drivers you need to worry about so much as some dick head in a car doing something stupid in front of the truck and him having to take avasive action, I use dto start off with about 2 to 300 yards space or more and as the traffic would push in I would maintain the distance from the original vehical and that would be on a 4 lane highway, the best lane for a truck in your case would be second lane from the right because cars merging that don't know how to merge and that is speed up to the flowing traffics speed and not dick around about merging and going off etc, it would surprise you how many car drivers want to be in front of a truck making a run up for a hill and it might not be much of a hill either for that matter and some twerp in a Hyundi and have seen part time drivers in Hot Rods make dicks of themselves will want to pull in front of you and slow down to the speed limit and you might only be doing 3 or 4 clicks over and they will bugger you up for the run you thought you were getting. The other thing to remember is a truck driver is usually scanning nearly a kilometer up the road looking for a potential problem where most car drivers are flat out scanning 200 yards or maybe even only as far as the car in fronts rear bumper. So consider a truck may be slow but are you going to slow him down pulling in front of him and then people will go off about a truck tail gating which may have been caused but the car that is in front of him. Consider the motorists actions before thinking the trucks are driven by clowns.
Who do the car drivers ask for help when they need it ........ often it is a truck driver and then some time later they will belittle trucks etc, funny world we live in.
The truck I used to drive Chuck only had 62 wheels on the road and car drivers only have 4 to worry about and still can't keep them going where they should be headed, 3 trailers. The current one is only a 22 wheeler, it is not the truck drivers you need to worry about so much as some dick head in a car doing something stupid in front of the truck and him having to take avasive action, I use dto start off with about 2 to 300 yards space or more and as the traffic would push in I would maintain the distance from the original vehical and that would be on a 4 lane highway, the best lane for a truck in your case would be second lane from the right because cars merging that don't know how to merge and that is speed up to the flowing traffics speed and not dick around about merging and going off etc, it would surprise you how many car drivers want to be in front of a truck making a run up for a hill and it might not be much of a hill either for that matter and some twerp in a Hyundi and have seen part time drivers in Hot Rods make dicks of themselves will want to pull in front of you and slow down to the speed limit and you might only be doing 3 or 4 clicks over and they will bugger you up for the run you thought you were getting. The other thing to remember is a truck driver is usually scanning nearly a kilometer up the road looking for a potential problem where most car drivers are flat out scanning 200 yards or maybe even only as far as the car in fronts rear bumper. So consider a truck may be slow but are you going to slow him down pulling in front of him and then people will go off about a truck tail gating which may have been caused but the car that is in front of him. Consider the motorists actions before thinking the trucks are driven by clowns.
Who do the car drivers ask for help when they need it ........ often it is a truck driver and then some time later they will belittle trucks etc, funny world we live in.
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