A message to the California Highway Patrol

[elcajones]

Originally Posted by oddstray

We haul our trailer at the 55 mph limit. That means we're driving in truck lanes quite often. We have not yet had any truck pull back in front of us anywhere close unless we signaled the truck that it was safe (which we do when traffic is heavy). So where are all these trucks who cut off when passing?

Cars, now, seem constitutionally unable to 'get' that a truck (or RV or vehicle hauling a trailer) CANNOT safely jam on the brakes when said car cuts back in 2 inches in front of our bumper!!!

I tow a large cargo trailer around quite a bit and people do that to me all me time. It's a major pet peeve for me that will get a rage honk. Gotta love almost getting in a wreck due to these morons. Thankfully in AZ trailers get the same speed limit so I cruise 60-70 depending on how heavy my load is. But generally I also stick to the right lanes. I feel that since my truck with a trailer has much less acceleration, must maintain a greater following distance and drives slower than the flow of traffic on the more wide open highways, it is my due diligence and responsibility not to be a rolling road block in the fast lanes. I would think a truck driver, who hails for a living would give a damn about the written and unwritten rules of the road unless, they really enjoy being an a-word. Trucks cause wrecks often and many near wrecks doing this going up the 17 to climb the hills toward Flagstaff. Nothing like going 75 and having a semi hop in front of you going 25 and having to skid to a near stop in seconds.

[Safeandsanedriver]

All you 85mph drivers are *******s regardless. Stop making it dangerous for the rest of us.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Safeandsanedriver

All you 85mph drivers are *******s regardless. Stop making it dangerous for the rest of us.

In some States the speed limit is 80, one it's 85. You really signed up just to post that?

[hitman619]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

In some States the speed limit is 80, one it's 85. You really signed up just to post that?

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