truck swerved with hard braking
Ok, here is the story. I was driving on the interstate it must have been approaching an uphill. Truck in the right lane moving slow. Another truck moving up on me in the left lane. So I hit the gas to...
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lakeside013104 wrote:
Understood, but with respect, you are allowing the traffic to dictate how you drive and 'push' you into an unsafe situation. You are trying to make an excuse for why you were in the position of needing to do the hard braking that you did.
Lakeside
Please read what I said in my post again. I said that I was driving 65 mph or less when the braking incident happened. Then as an aside I mentioned that I know this because I always drive 65 mph or less unless in heavy traffic.
As far as going faster because of heavy traffic. At times it can be a trade off of increasing speed or having a line of cars in back of you all trying to swerve into the left lane around you. There is danger either way, going faster versus unsafe drivers around you.
I don't know, I assume that speeding up to 70 or 75 in the right lane on a highway to keep up with traffic isn't unsafe. Is it? I have a dually truck with a lightweight camper and the truck handles fine up at 70 or 75. I more stick to 65 because of gas mileage. I find that the jump from 55 mph to 60 to 65 definitely hurts gas mileage. Going over 65 and gas mileage really tanks. If I am on an empty interstate I have chosen 62 mph as a sweet spot, or if I am in no hurry I may just go 55 mph and save some gas.
