Truck slams into RV on I-75 Florida
MICANOPY — "One person was killed and six others injured Friday afternoon when a tractor-trailer veered off Interstate 75 and struck a band’s RV, which had pulled off the highway with a flat tire." ...
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down home wrote:
I'm not sure over what period of time this problem evolved to the severity we witness these days.
A stretch of I24 in Tn to I59 in Ga, and on to I75 it is not uncommon for two to three wrecks and more a week all involving semis.
They are constantly replacing guardrails. Quite often you can see them cleaning up loads of produce or other contents.
The problem sees to start on I40 in Arkansas, with semis micro passing and blocking traffic in left lanes and playing games.
Weaving to the extreme of causing other vehicles to jam on the brakes or head for the shoulders etc. You can see many of the Drivers on their cell phones, illegal if you can get to pass them.
In Oklahoma you don't see as much of the problem. The signs on both sides of the lanes says illegal to block traffic in left lane. They fine Truck Drivers and others squatting in that lane.
In Tn and Ga and so on flashing your lights is to no avail, even though Tn passed a law making it illegal to block traffic in the left lane of three lane roads, or some such language.
The traffic load of semis is enormous now that nothing is produced locally or even regionally. It is shipped fro the coasts and redistribution centers, accounting for the massive warehouses along some stretches of Interstates.
Reducing traffic load can be accomplished with more roads and maintaining higher speeds.
Higher speeds increases the loads or number of vehicles that the road can carry.
The effect of semis blocking traffic, leapfrogging governed speeds of 65 or 68 mph and prohibiting traffic from maintaining the flow is causing an enormous number of accidents,deaths, road rage, and other huge economic and society costs.
Simply requiring Truckers to keep right will positively affect a reduction in numbers of incidents, including wrecks, death and perhaps the number of "gators" themselves causing billions in vehicle damages and many deaths.
If you flash your light to an old truck driver it means your safe to come over ...
Lets see, making trucker stay to right will block off exit since they all will be in the right lane, then you will ***** because they are blocking the lanes to get off ...
Maybe you should take a ride with a trucker, just might change your mind about them... In Washington State the DOT painted a trailer stating do not pull in front of truck's within 5 yards or you will get a ticket. The 1st day they put the tuck on the road the troopers couldn't keep up, they wrote 130 tickets in 4 hours. The next day the wrote another 130 tickets in 2 hours, the were only working a 10 mile
stretch ...
One other thing that really get me mad is that road sign state that the right or left lane is closed 1 or 2 miles ahead, I always move to the lane that is open, not the other 100 cars that pass me clogging that is close and wanting people to give them a brake as if a few secomds will make a difference in the lives ... An yes i am one of those truckers that will block a lane to get traffic back to flowing an making you wait an merge like you should have a mile back instead of trying to be number one. I will also do it with my 5th wheel when out on the road, if you all would merge like your suppose to then traffic would flow, but a bunch of h^& (*e A657s always want to 1st ...
End of rant, drive a mile in my shoes for 3 million miles accident free an you won't wine about trucks any more :)
