Feel Safe on Freeway behind this guy?

If you want to stop tailgaters use a full freshwater tank with a purposely slow dribble from the drain. I don't do it but many years ago my drain was leaking and I didn't figure out the oddly courteous drivers around me until we stopped for fuel and I saw the puddle.

A few years ago a friend departed to that great campground in the sky. On his last camping trip with our canoeing group I saw him hang his 11 lb propane cylinder from the rear of his wooden canoe rack in his truck bed tied with a rope as he was finishing loading his truck to go home. I pointed out his swinging propane cylinder. He told me that it kept people from tailgating him. He was serious.

What scares me more is people so abscess with other drivers that they don't pay attention to their own driving. One always needs to pay attention to what is going on around them and drive defensively, that's a given. However when one gets so paranoid that every little thing scares or has them worried, it's about time to hang it up.

Looks ok to me? Why not? Ummmmmmmm? Peace, my brother.

Some of you guys are missing the point if those tanks or cylinders had inert nitrogen in them and fell off the roof onto a road they could kill someone.

Veebyes wrote:

ScottG wrote:
Not as stupid (or maybe as bad..) as mounting them or gas cans on the back of a vehicle.

This scares me more. Those propane tanks can take a beating & not burst.

No kidding, even if you set the explosion hazard aside, they are like heavy steel missiles. A windshield wouldn't even slow them down.

ScottG wrote:
Not as stupid (or maybe as bad..) as mounting them or gas cans on the back of a vehicle.

This scares me more. Those propane tanks can take a beating & not burst.

RinconVTR wrote:
Big deal about nothing.

As long as those LP tanks are tied down, they are by far safer than any full gas can in the back of a truck. I'll take an LP tank flying around on the interstate over gallons of gasoline any day.

And apparently few of you realize what is on the road around you everyday. Just two examples. Semi fuel tanks are completely exposed, and often leak after accidents. And many...many vehicles have gas tanks as the very rear of the car/SUV. Notably, a long generation of Jeep Grand's, recalled for exactly what I state and the Fed's claiming if there is a hitch installed...you're good!

I also used to carry 3 gallons of gas in a 5 gallon container on the back of my TT bumper. While I never found any laws restricting this, I was concerned a bit about going thru many tunnels on the East coast that did have specific restrictions and I still passed the criteria I was told by Virginia State Police. Still, I no longer carry it. It's not worth it.

Just because people do stupid things and get away with it, is no reason to just blithely accept more stupid behavior. There are lots of unavoidable hazards, why add more when you simply don't have to.

Like the old saying goes, you can't fix stupid. Especially where ignorance, stubbornness and selfishness collide.

Big deal about nothing.

As long as those LP tanks are tied down, they are by far safer than any full gas can in the back of a truck. I'll take an LP tank flying around on the interstate over gallons of gasoline any day.

And apparently few of you realize what is on the road around you everyday. Just two examples. Semi fuel tanks are completely exposed, and often leak after accidents. And many...many vehicles have gas tanks as the very rear of the car/SUV. Notably, a long generation of Jeep Grand's, recalled for exactly what I state and the Fed's claiming if there is a hitch installed...you're good!

I also used to carry 3 gallons of gas in a 5 gallon container on the back of my TT bumper. While I never found any laws restricting this, I was concerned a bit about going thru many tunnels on the East coast that did have specific restrictions and I still passed the criteria I was told by Virginia State Police. Still, I no longer carry it. It's not worth it.