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WTF people?
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WTF people? I guess you can figure out what I just said in the title Pretty much, I do not get people anymore. Lets take my last delivery I made this afternoon. I was on my way back from my delivery to the warehouse. The road I was on is a 50 MPH road. I was doing 40 maybe 45 as I do not trust people anymore. Oh for those of you who do not know. I am a commercial truck driver. Anyways, I come up on this driveway that had a ton of bushes and trees that block the view of the home owner as well as me being able to see anyone coming to the road. Out of no where, this dim wit female driving a 1 ton crew cab ford 4x4 truck comes flying out of that driveway and I almost plowed into her. There was not more than 10 feet between my semi truck and her pick up. Really? You can not wait for a minute for the traffic to pass to make your turn safely onto the road? You just do not look at the traffic at all. You just barrel straight out into the road without stopping. Now there are a new set of black skid marks on the road from my semi truck and the trailer I was hauling. So think about this when you people see a commercial truck. I know that is tough for a lot of people. But try it anyways. When you see a commercial truck, take that extra time and wait for the truck to go by. I do not care if you are late for work. Let the truck go by. If you cut off a semi truck and he or she can not stop the truck in time. Not only have you just made a bad decision, you just possibly killed 2 people or more. You ask how you just killed another person besides yourself? You killed yourself because you failed to be safe and wait. Then you just killed the driver behind the truck who did not see you cause a fatal accident until it was too late and they just went through the back end of the trailer. If they had passengers. then you just may have killed them too. The truck driver may be able to walk away. But the commercial cops are going to poke and prod every orifice of the truck driver. Make him pee in a cup, Make him give blood to see if he or she is on drugs or drunk. Then the cops will put the driver in handcuffs. Now you are no longer late for work. You no longer have a job, a home, a car, A LIFE!!! Every day as I run up and down the highways and side streets. I see the same old stuff day in and day out. 90% of the drivers are on their cell phones and not using hands free devices. The little boys in their super tuner wannabe's driving them like they stole them not more than 5 minutes prior to them cutting off a semi truck. People who pass a semi truck and the lane in front of the semi truck is clear for a 100 yards or more. But your dumb ass has to cut the semi truck off. Does that make you feel manly? Or womanly? Do you think you are invincible? You all complain that the semi truck is too slow and causing the back ups in traffic. Guess what? We are only slow because of dumbasses who seem to think that they are more important than safety and they cut us off. You hear about it daily on the radio. Car versus semi truck accidents almost daily. The cops always ream the drivers ass even when the driver is not at fault. The cops are hardly ever on the road to see how people drive around the trucks. Yesterday in kent was a classic example of shear stupidity on the driver of the jeep side. The commercial truck had to do a button hook turn to get into his delivery location. You can see that by how the trailer was sitting on top of the jeep. The turn signals were on as the driver started his turn. The driver of the jeep was booking down 84th avenue and went around the traffic that was stopped for the truck. The driver never had a chance to react as the jeep was doing at least 50 MPH and went under the trailer. The front end of the jeep was almost to the other side of the trailer. Which shows you how fast the jeep was going. The cab of the jeep was peeled back a ways. So much so that the Cherokee looked like a liberty. You can safely say that the jeep was at fault and was totaled out. Do you people really become brain dead when there is a semi truck around? Do you stop all thought processes and just focus and getting past the semi truck? Do you stop all comprehension all together when there is a semi truck around? What is your excuse for being a dumbass and fucking up someones life including yours? Every night I go to bed and pray to god and thank him for him giving me the skills to keep me from killing someone with my semi truck. Then I pray like hell that the next day I will be able to make it through without someone trying to cause me to kill someone with my semi truck. Take it from me people. Give the semi truck room. Take safety on your side and wait that extra minute to let the truck go. The life you will save is yours as well as the one behind the truck. Let alone the driver of the semi truck will never recover from what you just done. It is not the semi truck drivers fault for you being stupid. Be safe people. Life is too short to fuck it up by being stupid. |
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Why was I NOT surprised to see that you live and presumably work in the Puget Sound... People here are the worst and rudest drivers I have ever had the displeasure of having to commute with. They have the worst case of the "me first"s I have ever seen. Strange Jekyl and Hyde thing going on with Puget Sounders... Walking down the streets here, the people are generally affable, friendly, polite... But as soon as they get behind the wheel of an automobile, they transform into ASSHOLES.
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Semi's and semi drivers scare me. I had one pass me in my lane (I had to pull off the side of the road) as he had the brilliant idea to pass a line of 20+ cars on a 2 lane road. Me: driving in my lane... seeing a semi and road haze in front of me "that guy's coming straight at me in my lane... no, no... can't be... but I swear it is... but ... but..." and I kept slowing down, slowing down, and then pulled off the road. Another time one never looked in his mirror, flipped his lights and switched lanes. I had to slam on my brakes on the freeway to keep from being run over. My passenger was watching the driver in his mirrors (my friend used to drive big trucks in the military) and said the guy never once glanced in his side mirror at all. I was not a surprise person: I'd been in the fast lane passing cars for at least 5 miles and was just starting to pass him. Beyond that though: My step dad was a truck driver. Got the full lecture about staying far enough back (and far enough back from ALL vehicles... though nowdays you give that safety space and somebody cuts in front of you), and to not pull in front with out the proper space... I just can't believe drivers anymore. That and the stupid insane "cut across 3 lanes of traffic" including directly in front of a semi truck.
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Well, today did not fair any better. I have had 5 people pass me using the on coming traffic lanes to pass me at a blind intersection where we had the red light. As usual 1 was a wannabe super tuner, an over grown 4x4, 2 BMW's and a Mercedes. I just do not get people at all. You would think they would have to be smart to be in a position to afford such ridiculous cars. Or maybe they really are stupid as they are paying huge payments.. LOL. Oh and one of the really retarded things I had happen to me yesterday. I am in traffic and in the right lane. I just past an on ramp and the traffic from it was entering behind me. I was shocked. LOL... No one tried to use the shoulder to pass me.. Traffic is still doing maybe 30 in a 60. One of those cars that just came onto the highway darted in front of another vehicle cutting it off. Then he flips me the middle finger for no freaking reason. Really? Do people really take the time to think how fucking stupid they are and what they just done to another motorist and then harassing a semi truck driver? Really? You really think you are right in your actions? You really think the trucker is at fault for you being ignorant? Ok, I think I am done ranting tonight. LOL. I have to get up early and head to seattle in the morning.. Oh I so hate seattle. Not only do I get all the idiots who think they know how to drive. But I also get all the can haulers who are either mentally challenged or I think they are suicide bombers by the way they drive.. I wonder if my life insurance is up to date? LOL And yes, I do know about some of the truckers are just cookie cutter graduates from a driving school. Some should never have been given a CDL.
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