Of all the stupid/bad truck driver videos I've seen, there's a preponderance of Swift drivers. :eyebrow:

Duh, I must be late, everyone's coming back.

Ole and Lena were so excited to get a new cellular phone. Ole was to call when he was on his way home from town. Ole called Lena when he entered the freeway.

"Lena put supper on, I'm on my vay home."

Lena says, "Be careful cause I hear dat some nut is driving the wrong vay on the freevay."

"SOMEVONE? It's worse than that, Lena; where I'm dere's at least a hundred cars going the wrong vay!"

I think 135 ft is overkill but it's good to let him know you're there.

Sneak over to the left a bit and the driver can see your side mirror. Then we know to brake suddenly. :)

:)

Hope Pam doesn't see this too much, at least not personally. :eek:

I have had people toss everything from bolts to spark plugs to firecrackers at me. I call police and report them if I can get their plate numbers. Never lost any glass though. Yet.

Swift drivers again...

I'd be willing to bet that Pam don't see this shit every day:

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I'm kinda impressed, actually.

So I had to go look up how it's actually done. Time lapse is the key.

Yeah, I thought the guys in my post were doing it wrong...

but MUCH faster

time lapse? how about lapse in judgement?

Couldn't find an embeddable version, but:

Big Truck Coming Atchya

Gets real at about 37 seconds in.

good times

Man, there's gotta be a great story behind that sign. :lol:

I used to work at a warehouse that had those signs.

It HAS happened that an inattentive driver has pulled out of a dock with a worker inside but they usually notice when they go to close the doors. Now the warehouses use dock locks to prevent this.

Please not to rear-end the nuclear fucking missile!!!!

Big camper towed by incompetent driver on the GSP

A fool and his camper are soon parted. Sure this little baby has lots of horse power it'll tow that thing with no problem. The worst part is they have know idea what to do when the tail wags the dog. :facepalm:

And THAT is why they call it a headache rack.

From a description of the same vid at LiveLeak:

The guy in that Matrix either didn't shit for a week, or he didn't stop shitting for a week.

My money says he lawyered up and tried to blame the truck drivers.

Just a quick reminder, don't be an asshole...

When I am dictator, all new cars sold in the US will automatically turn their headlights on when the windshield wipers come on.

Many do now, plus daytime running lights help. It's a law in PA.

Law in KY, too. I remember when it was enacted, we/they actually voted on it I think, it was called Wipers On Lights On.

I like how you said when...

You don't think he's training all those glattjugend Boy Scouts for nothing, do you. :crone:

I have two cars. Both have daytime running lights, but one has automatic headlights when it gets dark. When it rains, it's almost always dark enough for the lights to come on. Sometimes, though, it's not dark enough, so I have to manually turn the lights on. But when I manually turn the lights on, the dashboard lights that are normally very bright in the daytime, turn down to the dimmer nighttime mode, and I can't read them easily. Can't see the LED information at all. I can drive, but it's like the dashboard is turned off.

My good old Prizm though, is old school, and I just turn the damn lights off and on and manually, and the dashboard lights are not important because there are no LED lights. Gauges are all physical. No electronic screens. It just works.

What do they use for DRLs, LEDs, or fog/parking lights? Mine uses the headlights at reduced power for the DRLs.

Prizm uses separate white bulbs for DRLS. They come on when you put it in gear. and Accord uses regular low beams at reduced brightness.

OK, so the Accord is all set when you go through construction zones or turn the wipers on.

When raining, all bulbs including side markers and rear lights also must be illuminated for human safety. DRLs only illuminate front bulbs - and at lower intensity.

well I use Rain-X so sometimes I don't have to use the wipers :p

The easy answer is to let the dumbasses who run dark in the rain/fog/twilight/dawn have at it. They will get crushed and eliminated or at best have to buy new cars that do it for them.

Road Hog(s)

I don't see it every day, some body sees it every day, but yesterday was my day...

I missed the deer that tried to get me to run into it by... less than a foot as it approached from the right shoulder at a hundred miles an hour. My left front headlight lit up his left rear hip, but missed him, I missed him by > < much. Some car lengths beyond, I applied an urgent amount of brakes. Like it was gonna help.

Just a couple houses behind this close encounter of the deer kind I wondered why the woman walking her dog was stopped in the driveway. As I passed the driveway, I could see she and the dog were checking out two deer at the end of the driveway. Fuckers are everywhere.

Pam doesn't see this every day, nobody sees this every day, but it's some fancy maneuvering.

Pam doesn't see this everyday either, nobody does.
Truck driver follows GPS, drives nearly 3 miles on Atlantic City boardwalk.

:lol:

Three miles he went, and he wound up in Ventnor where the boardwalk STOPS... so he got onto it literally at the other end. Drove the whole thing.

He says he got on at Albany Ave, how far is that from the end? Doesn't look like 3 miles from the map.

Yeah that makes a lot more sense, it means he didn't drive past all the casinos but is more like 2 miles.

You can skip the first 20 seconds...

Train shoulda put a handkerchief, or a shop rag on the end of the load.

re: the log truck. Yes, I do see such things commonly. The rear dolly wheels are remotely steerable to enable tighter turns than would be possible with standard fixed wheels. Many oversize loads use these, although you can't tell just by looking unless you know exactly what to look for.

Still, I grade that driver a nine point eight for difficulty.

Stupid is as stupid does...

Maybe stupid. Maybe just ignorant.

I suspect they have learned their lesson with this particular danger. Too bad they didn't learn it in driver's ed.

If only there was someway to warn people not to do things common sense would should keep them from doing...

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Maybe they were in hurry...

When a truck driver is making a turn like that do they normally glance in their side view mirror to see if some fool is trying to squeeze by?

I'm not saying they are required to. Just - is it common to do so?

For the good/considerate drivers, probably.

I once had a trucker who was beginning a wide-angled turn like that, who saw me coming up the far left lane and stopped to see what I would do. Since I noticed him wanting to make that turn, I stopped and let him continue.

You're wonderful. I love people like you.

Once he does that he has a shitload of other things to watch for, too many to keep checking for some fool trying to sneak by.

I do everything I can to get by them, but I know what they're likely to do, what common sense says they have to do.
Going north on 322 today, it's mostly 2 lane with a center turn lane, and no passing for miles and miles. One short section up the hill in East Brandywine Twp, it's two lanes to the light at the shopping center and a couple hundred feet later it narrows to one lane. Of the three cars in front of me, two pass the truck but the third is pacing the truck despite my threats of castration and disembowelment. Sure enough the fool wakes up and scoots ahead at the last minute. I could have too but the truck has to move over, and would have to brake if I did, which would break his momentum and slow everyone behind me when he did merge. So I waited and let him pull over.

Now before you think I'm Mr nice guy, I was coming out RTE 30 from Lancaster, and it's from five lanes with a center turn lane, shopping on both sides, and a ton of lights. Then it narrows to three with a turn lane, so no passing for a zillion miles. I spot three trailer trucks ahead with about a half mile to the merge. Before I can get there the third, a cattle hauler, moves into the left lane. He's slower at the lights but not enough to get by. The other two beat him to the merge and I followed them and cut him the fuck off. He had to lock 'em up to a full stop. He deserved it.

I once squashed a Grand Am at Bridge and State just that way; he tried to sneak past me and paid the price.

Then he had the nerve to sue and won because Philly is the personal injury capital of the US and my lawyer basically doodled and tried to stay awake.

I figure by the time he paid tax and his lawyer, he had enough left to buy another used Grand Am. And yes, I had that same sign on the back of my trailer at the time.

Well no every day as the wild herd rarely sleeps during the day.

They look like scared goats.

High straight-line wind. Very dangerous, esp on bridges.

Does driving slower increase safety? Or does speed increase a downward force on the trailer?