Posted on 12/18/2004 9:42:31 AM PST by Tribune7
The other morning I was nearing a very busy juncture on I-95.
In short order there are two entrance ramps leading onto this major thoroughfare followed quickly by a pair of exits. It is a very tricky stretch, which has had its fair share of accidents. I was in the far right lane where the entrance\exit traffic weaves in and out.
Normally, I try to avoid this lane. However on this particular day I wasn't able to get into another lane so I was stuck in this slow moving difficult segment.
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FMCDH(BITS)
Wish there were more truck drivers like that one in my area.
Instead, I get to deal with 'Yellow Freight'- also affectionately known as 'yellow fright', whose ads claim to have the best drivers in the business.
Route I 84 passes through my area, and climbs "Greenville mountain" (hill) with a speed limit of 65 MPH.
I was climbing the hill and found that a Yellow Freight hauling two trailers was inching along at 40 MPH at best.
So, it being clear to my left and rear, signaled and passed him.
As I neared the cab, the Yellow Freight driver blows his airhorn and swerves at me.
I didn't get the cab number, it's stenciled on the back of the cab behind the driver vertically on the "A" pillar.
So when I read this article, I said to myself, "That could not possibly have been a Yellow Freight driver, wonder who he was and if there are more like him ouot there?"
Nine out of ten "drivers" merging into freeway traffic are incompetent. They are steadfastly unaware that the traffic already flowing on the freeway is not expected to adjust their speed to match his, but the other way around. Is this too complicated a concept?
Couple that with the "deer in the headlights" approach to the final 5 seconds of the merging maneuver and you have an accident waiting to happen. Their neck is incapable of motion until the last 2 seconds, just before impact with the car or truck already on the freeway. Side mirrors are for applying lipstick, I suppose.
Do we want to reduce traffic fatalities by half? Just apply a real driving test and fail the incompetent; the ones I call the "aimers", destined never to be drivers.
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It's somewhere between Philly & Wilmington, Del. I think. A real crappy stretch of road.
That is bizarre. The driver was a moron.
LOL. There'd be nobody around to buy cars.
Nah, u got confused--ROADWAY has the best....
FMCDH(BITS)
hah heh hah...I drive a little 1980 Nissan 4X....The side mirrors are about the only mirrors I use...I mean, who cares who is directly behind you? It's the peripheral that's most important.
FMCDH(BITS)
*chuckle*
A truck driver told me that he may have been 'upset' that a 'little four wheeler' was passing him.
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