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What is it with Interstate Truckers?
Views: 731Added: Fri. Aug 21, 2009 1:31pm
Posted in: Travel
Being behind the wheel, whilst careening down the road at 83 miles per hour, allows a lot of think time.
I’ve seen long-haul truckers:
- parallel park on the Champs de Elvis in Memphis
- drive three wide in Hurricane Culligan at 83 mph
- flirt with Glinda, eat meat and three, pass gas, all in less than the time it takes me to find my Jon and Kate Wilkes booth
- pick their teeth with a Bowie knife and not draw blood
- with tri-trailers do a reverse 180, release the middle trailer and hook back up to make a dual
- back in between two other trailers at 30 mph and stop within 2 inches of the dock
What’s up with the flashing of lights when they pass each other going 83 mph... (MORE)
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Posted 7:21pm August 24th, 2009Well I'm not sure what that "bright thing that rises in the east" is but if I were you I certainly would look for blinking marker lights and get the hell out of the way. It might be an 83 mph big truck.
Happy trails.
goinglikesixty
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Posted 2:00pm August 24th, 2009@George:
Wow, thanks a LOT for that fascinating disclosure.
Now can you tell me what that bright thing is that rises in the east every morning?
George
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Posted 12:05pm August 24th, 2009Apparently you've never been in a vehicle that you couldn't drive through a fast food restaurant drive-up window. The flashing light thing is a safety thing that we truckers do to let us know that some dumb ass hasn't tried to slip into our blind spot and pass us on the right and that it is safe to get back into the right lane. Even at that, some jerk will inevitably try to get around the right side of a truck while the directional lights are on and the truck is half way into the lane. As a matter of fact, that very same thing happened to me last year. I "flashed" a truck in and an impatient idiot tried to pass on the right, saw that they couldn't make it and swerved out into the travel lane again, lost control, spun around and came at me head on. Needless to say I won. What's with 83 mph? There are trucks that cruise at 110 mph however most of us run betwee 55 and 75. I can't say that about four wheelers. Just as a thought. We are the only businerss that allows everybody in our work space, even the uninformed.