Do truckers/other drivers hate us?

[ParadigmDawg]

I think it's just you. After reading the first few replies, I hate you already.

I was going to say the same thing but didn't.

I don't notice anyone acting any differently when I am in my Jeep. I assume if they are behind me they assume I'm drunk since I am all over the road....

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[Ratbert]

Yeah many states have adopted the "passing lane" type law in recent decades. Though I think this is the first time i've heard of someone actually being ticketed for it.

Oh yeah, I've watched people being pulled over for not keeping up with traffic when in the left lane. It's actually pretty satisfying to watch that happen.

And I've also watched state patrol (Georgia in this case) sit in the left lane doing precisely the speed limit. He sat there for probably 10 minutes just waiting for someone to pass on the right...all while impeding a massive cluster of vehicles stuck behind him. Someone eventually timidly passed at something like .5 MPH over the limit. The officer immediately switched on his lights and pulled the "offender" over.

 

[yokramer]

Oh yeah, I've watched people being pulled over for not keeping up with traffic when in the left lane. It's actually pretty satisfying to watch that happen.

And I've also watched state patrol (Georgia in this case) sit in the left lane doing precisely the speed limit. He sat there for probably 10 minutes just waiting for someone to pass on the right...all while impeding a massive cluster of vehicles stuck behind him. Someone eventually timidly passed at something like .5 MPH over the limit. The officer immediately switched on his lights and pulled the "offender" over.

Man I wish that was the case here in NC. Instead its usually an Altima with no/expired temp tag from SC on their phone doing 5 under

 

[Whaler27]

When your not focused on NJ you should know that insurance companies are not a good example for anything being the blood sucking leaches they are.
Your argument is the government of NJ won't allow insurance companies to raise rates?
You seem to be the high horse type who believes when you entered the State of OR (saving it, in the process) you were not the newly arrived cell.

You've missed the point. Again. Although I can't imagine how.


I don't give two sh1ts about New Jersey, Although I feel sorry for the many fine people who must live there and suffer with that environment.

My point is: The companies that have to pay for the insured vehicle repairs/replacements want to leave New Jersey because the loss rates are so much higher than normal, and it's not because of hail storms and hurricanes. Apparently, although you have reportedly managed to survive unscathed, and I survived an afternoon, statistically speaking, many, many New Jersey drivers do not. Either a disproportionate number of NJ drivers are impaired in some way, or your state tolerates a particularly vigorous and destructive subset that's running around and crashing into everybody else.

And I'm not on a high horse at all. i just appreciate courtesy and kindness -- more now than ever, as I'm old and I've spent much of my life in conflict of one kind or another. I try to emphasize kindness and forbearance in my life to compensate, but I also know a douchebag when I see one, so I despair when they want to move in next door.

 

[Whaler27]

Oh yeah, I've watched people being pulled over for not keeping up with traffic when in the left lane. It's actually pretty satisfying to watch that happen.

And I've also watched state patrol (Georgia in this case) sit in the left lane doing precisely the speed limit. He sat there for probably 10 minutes just waiting for someone to pass on the right...all while impeding a massive cluster of vehicles stuck behind him. Someone eventually timidly passed at something like .5 MPH over the limit. The officer immediately switched on his lights and pulled the "offender" over.

Perhaps the good people of Georgia should raise the speed limit or direct the State Patrol not to enforce it?

 

[Ratbert]

-Anything under 15 below the speed limit or whatever speed traffic is doing, put on your flashers so we all know you're not going anywhere fast. Otherwise you can expect some hate coming your way.

No idea about where you live, but in Colorado that's frowned upon unless you're going 25 or less. Not sure if it's technically illegal, but...

 

[yokramer]

No idea about where you live, but in Colorado that's frowned upon unless you're going 25 or less. Not sure if it's technically illegal, but...

I was always taught that hazards are for when youre stopped, posing a hazard. People here turn them on when its raining a little bit and it makes it way worse cause no one knows exactly what youre planning on doing.

 

[AFD]

No No No
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Yeah, that's exactly actually what our high school driver's education teacher taught.

Honestly can't tell you how many times I've driven my 2-lane commute with vehicles in front and behind me, all keeping 3 to 4 seconds or more at the posted speed limit, while somebody else constantly tailgates and uses every single passing zone trying to get ahead only to still be in eyesight nearly an hour later. I'm guessing it directly correlates to the extremely high number of fatalities on that same road.

I loved driving my last vehicle pretty damn fast when the roads were clear, but me tailgating some dude in front of me wasn't going to get me anywhere faster

 

[Ratbert]

Look at how people reply to threads, and it's nasty, presumptive, judgmental, uptight, angry, even. No different than being on the road, or anywhere else these days. The only thing you can do is stay out of other people's way.

Exactly. Do this:

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[NWJeepr]

The other thing with truckers...A lot of the OTR guys live a miserable existence. Some of them are new to the US, and state regulations can be lax for obtaining a CDL, and some really aren't fit to be behind the wheel (anger issues, for example). For everyone else in a commercial truck, time is money....

Let them in, give them room, move over if they want to go fast, lose the aggression. Give them room mostly for your own safety.

 

[driventoadventure]

I was always taught that hazards are for when youre stopped, posing a hazard. People here turn them on when its raining a little bit and it makes it way worse cause no one knows exactly what youre planning on doing.

Any hazard communication (super slow, stopped, coming up on stopped/slowing) is what your hazards are for.

 

[yokramer]

Any hazard communication (super slow, stopped, coming up on stopped/slowing) is what your hazards are for.

"OMG ITS RAINING" isnt really one of those hazards ... which is really my gripe there lol. Yea if you have a tire down and are trying to get to the side of the road yea use your hazards, if you are just driving slowly for the helluvit yea maybe just speed up.

 

[NWJeepr]

-Anything under 15 below the speed limit or whatever speed traffic is doing, put on your flashers so we all know you're not going anywhere fast. Otherwise you can expect some hate coming your way.

This is definitely taught as part of Commercial Drivers License training programs. It's to warn other drivers that you are a slow-moving vehicle. See it all the time on mountain passes when big rigs are having to crawl in the slow lane. I have to do it all the time when towing with our motorhome, especially when having to pass other slow moving traffic. If I can only do 50 in a 70 on a mountain pass, but need to pass a trucker doing 35, I need and want my flashers on while I take the passing lane. Small cars may be coming up at 80+.

No idea about where you live, but in Colorado that's frowned upon unless you're going 25 or less. Not sure if it's technically illegal, but...

It's a little weird when a driver in a car does it because they can usually keep up with minimum speed limits or the flow of traffic, but it does actually mean something

I was always taught that hazards are for when youre stopped, posing a hazard. People here turn them on when its raining a little bit and it makes it way worse cause no one knows exactly what youre planning on doing.

That too.

 

[driventoadventure]

"OMG ITS RAINING" isnt really one of those hazards ... which is really my gripe there lol. Yea if you have a tire down and are trying to get to the side of the road yea use your hazards, if you are just driving slowly for the helluvit yea maybe just speed up.

LOL Agree, that or "Ewh Snow" when there's just a hint of dust on the shoulder. The only similar I have seen people use flashers in and thought "yeah that might be appropriate" has been the Tule fog in CA...

 

[MeefZah]

Think truckers hate Jeeps? Trying driving an RV while pulling a Jeep.

Nobody likes you.

You’re big, you’re slow, you can’t take corners fast and worse, you’re sure to have a better night than those poor souls grinding their life away working for the man.

Yup, you’re just cruising down the road honoring work zone speed limits while a pissed off soccer mom throws you the bird because you’re too wide to pass illegally and she’s already late picking up little Bobby from his “everyone’s a winner” practice. Of course, Darby’s in the backseat learning how to behave in public to ensure continuation of the brain defect.

You just give a Forest Gump wave as you pass by her sitting on the side the road with LEO writing double fine tickets.

Life’s too short to give a fling about morons upset because you don’t qualify for their club. Just drive the way you’d want your lane mates to drive and let the dipsticks seethe at their existence…….

I don't think I have ever encountered an RV operator who shows one iota of respect for other motorists. As a result I have a seething hatred for them. Sorry not sorry.

When I lived out west it was a ten-times-a-day occurrence to get stuck behind some lumbering asshole in a motor home who either was in an inappropriate place or didn't understand basic road etiquette. As examples- going up a grade at 8.4 mph and refusing to use turnouts, with traffic stacking up behind them. Rental RVs on forest service roads they had no business on driving at idle speed and absolutely refusing to squeeze over even a little bit so a guy on a motorcycle (me) could sneak past. Once in Alaska on the McArthur Road I got stuck behind two rentals driving at 3 mph as if they were terrified of the gravel road, driven by Asian tourists as it later turned out, and they refused to pull over to let us past for a dozen + miles. Another time on the Macgruder Corridor some cocksmoke hauling a 30 or 40 foot camper trailer was stopped and blocking the entire road on a blind uphill, meaning everyone coming up had to stop and then back down a challenging section to let this asswipe past because he was too big to use the scarce 1/2 lane turnouts and couldn't back up the hill the get out of the way.

My general thoughts on driving are - you don't have to speed, but do the fucking speed limit. If someone wants past, let them. And If you can't have a good time leaving the house without bringing everything you own with you, stay the fuck home.

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