Originally Posted By: BuickGN
Originally Posted By: 1sttruck
"Its not the small cars that create the problem, its the large vehicles."
Then tell small car drivers to keep from cutting in the bit of extra space that I keep in front when I drive the pickup, especially the ones that then hit their brakes. Tell the small car owners to avoid doing the same to medium duty delivery trucks and the large semis, and to also avoid hitting the really big bridges, buldings, and the planet earth.
I drove motorcyclces for 20 years, and don't have much sympathy for people whining about being in a small car. The worst vehicles that I see on the road are the 'cockroach cars', which are the Civics with the spoliers, [censored] can mufflers, etc., zipping lane to lane like some sort of bug. Next for some reason are BMW drivers.
I couldn't agree more. When I used to drive a delivery truck I always tried to maintain a safe following distance with the car in front of me. Unfortunately this was impossible because everytime there was a 6' gap some riced out Civic would squeeze in there to save .00001 second to his destination. The one time when things got ugly and I couldn't stop, instead of switching lanes and possibly hitting an innocent car next to me, I let the truck plow into the car that cut me off. I had to try hard to wipe the smile off of my face before talking to the guy.
You are talking about drivers. I was referring to the vehicles. Its the mass of the large vehicles that reduces the overall safety of the fleet.
Originally Posted By: 1sttruck
"Its not the small cars that create the problem, its the large vehicles."
Then tell small car drivers to keep from cutting in the bit of extra space that I keep in front when I drive the pickup, especially the ones that then hit their brakes. Tell the small car owners to avoid doing the same to medium duty delivery trucks and the large semis, and to also avoid hitting the really big bridges, buldings, and the planet earth.
I drove motorcyclces for 20 years, and don't have much sympathy for people whining about being in a small car. The worst vehicles that I see on the road are the 'cockroach cars', which are the Civics with the spoliers, [censored] can mufflers, etc., zipping lane to lane like some sort of bug. Next for some reason are BMW drivers.
I couldn't agree more. When I used to drive a delivery truck I always tried to maintain a safe following distance with the car in front of me. Unfortunately this was impossible because everytime there was a 6' gap some riced out Civic would squeeze in there to save .00001 second to his destination. The one time when things got ugly and I couldn't stop, instead of switching lanes and possibly hitting an innocent car next to me, I let the truck plow into the car that cut me off. I had to try hard to wipe the smile off of my face before talking to the guy.
You are talking about drivers. I was referring to the vehicles. Its the mass of the large vehicles that reduces the overall safety of the fleet.