I’m getting tired of being flipped the bird....

[Electric Chicken]

Look here ****wits.... if you’re following THAT close that I have to shoehorn my truck in between you and the car in front of you when I’m passing..... YOU’RE FOLLOWING TOO CLOSE and creating a HAZARD by not letting me pass SAFELY.

Some of these asshats need to be ticketed and have their licenses revoked yet they have the GALL to flip me off.

Look assholes. I’m the good driver. I’m not driving some faggy Prius or some POS Tesla. Learn to drive and at the very LEAST stay out of the road and don’t be a rolling road block.

You’d swear these halfwits went to Prime trucking school

Car to car following distance is closer than truck to car following distance to remain safe.

So no you're not the good driver when you try to squeeze in between.

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

Today’s honourables mentions goes to balls deep ditchpig from Brampton driving a day cab Volvo pulling a reefer.

I’m almost 12’ wide. In the big horse. Going through Toronto. Toronto sucks!! Lots of exits, on ramps, collectors, etcetera, it’s a long slow journey through a shithole.

I saw this POS Volvo two lanes to my right. Pulling a reefer, of course. I’m ahead of him. We carry on through traffic for 3-5 miles. I’m following another idiot with the same load as me. Two trucks ain’t quite a convoy but hey, figure it out super chief.

So we’re coming to an express collector split. Idiot in the Volvo comes up beside me. Perfect, now I need to thread a 12’ wide between you and the traffic on my left.

THEN, the left turn signal comes on. Geee who didn’t see that coming. I maintained my lane and sped up so Ditchpig couldn’t squeeze over.

So now Ditchpig tries to muscle over into my lane. Nope. Airhorn, shift left, maintain speed, maintain lane control

YOU’RE NECK IN NECK BESIDE ME. Not in front, not behind, right ****ing beside me. You REALLY think I’m going to let you get in front of me? Nope, not happening.

So, then you grab your puny little fleet Volvo air horn as you jam on the brakes and flip me off.

Good job balls deep Ditchpig. Fantastic driving. No wonder you’re driving a Volvo and pulling a reefer

And people wonder why open deck is higher up the food chain than reefer.

Idiots

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

I'll go out on a limb and bet he had one of those names worth 15 consecutive consonants.....possibly even a cloth motorcycle helmet.

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

I'll go out on a limb and bet he had one of those names worth 15 consecutive consonants.....possibly even a cloth motorcycle helmet.

I’m not sure why they feel compelled to wear a cloth motorcycle helmet while driving a truck. But, I’m not sure why Brampton drivers do a lot of things they do

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

I’m not sure why they feel compelled to wear a cloth motorcycle helmet while driving a truck. But, I’m not sure why Brampton drivers do a lot of things they do

I hear ya

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

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I remember the one on its roof. That one took extra “skill”. Right after the off ramp from the 402 to 40 in Sarnia

 

[Steelersjunkie]

Can’t remember getting flipped off when I have passed.

Possible it could be your driving habits?

Ruh roh, shots fired.
*ducks for cover*

 

[ironpony]

Ruh roh, shots fired.
*ducks for cover*

Maybe if he avoided being a total douchebag ALL the time. Some of the time is OK... like chillin' out on alternate Thursdays...

 

[Steelersjunkie]

Try driving a Kenworth with an automatic. That's a test of f*ing patience.

Even with an empty trailer, from a dead stop, you can floor it and it won't get moving any faster than it would with a loaded trailer. It won't skip gears and each shift takes like two whole seconds.

Meh, I just put mine in manual mode and skip gears when accelerating from a stop when I'm empty. Definitely helps.

 

[r3gulator3]

Meh, I just put mine in manual mode and skip gears when accelerating from a stop when I'm empty. Definitely helps.

My fleet has my shitty Eaton auto set up so I can’t start higher than 2nd and I can’t manually skip gears or manually shift 8.9, or 10th

 

[Steelersjunkie]

My fleet has my ****ty Eaton auto set up so I can’t start higher than 2nd and I can’t manually skip gears or manually shift 8.9, or 10th

I'm sorry I have an Eaton as well. Transmissions are programmable just like a computer, so companies can tinker with them as they please. Shift points, manual mode, etc. The company I worked for before O/O disabled manual mode on their trucks. Now that I have it, couldn't go back. Everything on my truck got reset to original factory settings. It's been a very enjoyable truck.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Mine is kind of retarded in the opposite way. It'll start in second and wind all the way out to 2000RPM so it can shift straight into 5th...then it sends me a message saying I was over RPM.

 

[Sinister]

I used to tell my new pilot car drivers that if they didn’t get flipped off at least once a day (20 times a day in Houston) they weren’t doing it right.

The only time I flipped off someone passing me was when I was 15 wide and got me doors blown off BAD by not one but TWO mobile home movers. I could have beaten those two hillbillies out of the rest of their teeth. I don’t know how wide they were but we took up both shoulders and all. The first came about an inch from my piece, which would have shredded the new redneck mansion he was pulling.

One of their escorts had a piece of plywood inside the bed of the Ford Ranger they were using that said OVERSIZED LOAD. You couldn’t see the whole label, and it was written in old English font, which is totally illegal.

They really are the worst thing ever in oversized.

 

[Steelersjunkie]

Mine is kind of retarded in the opposite way. It'll start in second and wind all the way out to 2000RPM so it can shift straight into 5th...then it sends me a message saying I was over RPM.

Every once in a while mine will over rev too. Usually if I've been running for 5 or 6 hours then stop for a nature break or coffee or fuel or whatever. Pull out of the truck stop and head to the highway, she wants to set off the dash dinger by hitting 21 or 2200 for no reason while moving through the low gears. Only seems to do that after long stretches of running. Not sure what the deal is. Makes things interesting when you arrive at a shipper or receiver after a long stretch and then try to put her in a dock. She acts super jumpy and doesn't respond well to gentle touches on the accelerator. Dunno if that's just a KW thing or not, but my company truck did that too.

 

[ironpony]

Autos...

 

[Electric Chicken]

Autos...

Agreed. I miss my old stick. It had zero nannies and wasn't governed.

 

[InTooDeep]

I got flipped the bird yesterday. Or actually the bird got flipped by me. It tried to get by me but misjudged the distance hit the top of grill and flipped right over windshield.