Truck slams into RV on I-75 Florida

ChuckV1 wrote:

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 :)

Flashing your lights at a slow vehicle in the left land is proper protocol to get them to move over. It doesn't work for most semi.
drivers, these days.
I probably have 3,000,000 miles in over sixty years and have noticed a lot of changing trends.
I have flashed over a young woman in a Avalon, I think who promptly called the Hiway Patrol after moving over and then zooming up behind me close enough to read the small print, so to speak. She had beeen taking notes on a pad on her steering wheel whie talking on the cell phone and built a long line of traffic mostly semis behind me, going up a slight grade. She was also weaving all over both lanes.
The trend now and the view was reinforced on return from west this month. Saw four semi wrecks, one having occured hours before, they were using a front end loader to remove tomatoes.
Wife was nervous wreck, she was driving. Semis playing leapfrog all across Arkansas from Ft Smith. Very few autos or other vehicles.
They pulled outwith signaling to micro pass another semi or several at less than speed limit. It is not much of any easier to stop the Mh, in a panic stop or sow down. Had to do it many times.
As I reported in previous post we avoid I24 and I75 and I65 as much as possible. The stretch of I 24 near here, is blocked 90% of the time, to the point we always go around old roads even in to Al, Ga and up old 41 thought Chikamaka Battlefield.
Kids set in traffic last year for over 7 hours due to two semis in a wreck near 165er mile mark.
They are constantly replacing jersey barriers along the 20 miles stretch from semi caused wrecks, usually semis only.
I have had to repair our and sons car the times from Gators thrown as we were moving, and The deductibles mount up.
I understand the state spends over a half million a year, in casual conversation or heresay, cleaning gators from the Interstates and the total in loses, in wrecks exceed several million dollars not to mention lives lost. I witnessed a gator from left outside trailer take a Harly Rider into the median and kill him. Truck kept on going.
I saw a truck throw a tread in N Ga and destroy the front end of a older Pontiac and into the wall in the median.
Saw an older couple in a Buick from Ohio hit a gator in the left lane causing them to go into the media spinning the car and destroying it. The wife had to be taken to the hospital.
And... just about every eratic Semi we see now is not from sleepliness but they are talking and texting, when we mange to get past them.
There have been eight rigs go into the ramps this year so far on Monteagle that I know of.
Problems are not all Drivers but companies and so on.
I am familiar with many or most of the problems as I insured several trucking companies and their Drivers in the eighties and nineties.
i spent too long here already.