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The main reason for highways are delivering goods to cities and towns, not your late butt to work. Create your own road if you can't get to work on time because you can't get up when you need to.
Not saying its right to pull in front of a big rig at speed, or any vehicle for that matter, because personally I think it's moronic as hell.
Butttttttt, cars have absolutely every right to be on the highways as trucks do. I see on here some truckers think they are special and own the roads, but their not and they don't. I personally am pretty sick of the holier then thou thinking that people have because of the line of work they chose to go into. again, us cars and pickups have the same rights to use the highways as big rig drivers.
The main reason for highways are delivering goods to cities and towns, not your late butt to work. Create your own road if you can't get to work on time because you can't get up when you need to.
The main reason for the highways is being able to drive from point A to point B. Regardless of what you're driving. The idea that so many truckers on here have that just because they are delivering some type of good they have more right to the road than commuters is total BS and just holier-than-thou crap to justify a job that a monkey with some training could do, and will soon be replaced by autonomous cars and / or drones.
Which will be lovely, because then the roadways will be far less cluttered with trucks.
The main reason for highways are delivering goods to cities and towns, not your late butt to work. Create your own road if you can't get to work on time because you can't get up when you need to.
You're wrong. Simply wrong. What is with this trucker's view that interstates were built for trucks to deliver goods? That was one of several reasons. Another was to relieve congestion so people could get to work on time.
by
Richard F. Weingroff
Federal Highway Administration
From the vantage point of the 21st century, we can see how the Interstate Highway Program launched in 1956 turned out. But as the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was working its way through the legislative process, what did the people involved think the Interstate System would accomplish?
In a July 1954 speech to the Governors' Conference (forerunner of the National Governors Association), President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked for help in devising a Grand Plan for upgrading the Nation's highways - Federal, State, and local. (Vice President Richard M. Nixon delivered the speech after a death in the family prevented the President from attending.) The President listed the problems to be overcome:
Safety - an annual toll of nearly 40,000 killed and 1.3 million injured.
Congestion - wastes billions of hours in detours and jams amounting to billions of dollars in productive time.
Courts - civil suits related to traffic clog up our courts.
Economy - bad roads nullify the efficiency in the production of goods by inefficiency in their transport.
Defense - "the appalling inadequacies to meet the demands of catastrophe or defense, should an atomic war come."
The primary purpose of the Interstate Highway System was not for civilian commute or pleasure travel, it was for the movement of military goods and for national security.
And guess who hauls a lot of freight for the DoD? That's right - trucks.
Quote:
The initial purpose of the Interstate was to allow for mass evacuation of cities during a nuclear attack. It was also designed so that one mile in five was straight, useable as an airstrip in times of war or other emergencies. One of the primary reasons for building the Interstates was national security. The military benefits are as initially intended – to protect and defend our country.
Oh nice, you use a military site to claim that the primary purpose of the interstate system was for the military.
I gave you the Purpose of the Interstate System, as explicitly stated by the President that proposed it, straight off the website of the department that oversees it.
Nevertheless, the purpose today is to handle all traffic, which is why interstates are 4 lanes or more in heavily populated areas and often prohibit trucks from the left lane.
I see people cutting right in front of tractor trailers all the time, do these people have a death wish? These trucks can weigh upwards of 80,000 pounds fully loaded and flatbeds even more. Most of the time it's people cutting in front of them just before the red light and jamming on the brakes.
Honestly i think a law should be made for all regular drivers license holders to take a series of classes about the dangers of cutting off tractor trailers and other aggressive moves they make around these trucks. Either that or include it in the drivers license exam.
A tractor trailer fully loaded would take about 2 football fields in length to stop from 65 mph. At 40mph it's about 170 feet to stop.
Most traffic accidents that involve these trucks are caused by cars pulling these deadly stunts.
I just don't get why someone actually think that is the slightest bit safe?
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