Semi truck drivers..lack of concern ??
Many excellent drivers out there and have safety concerns for others, but I have come across a few AH's from time to time. Most recently crossing the Mississippi River at Memphis the bridge is so old ...
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JCR-1 wrote:
I guess many of the folks on here do not understand aero dynamics. Just watch a nascar race and you will learn something , I am not talking down to anyone. The bridge is very narrow and just adequate for two vehicles but when a semi truck is doing 65 plus and whips out and passes another box doing 55 there will be a force that pushes the vehicle outward , then a suction pulls it back into the truck. Not about being nervous , not about a woman, its about a courtesy of a truck driver. If I'm driving a truck I will gradually overtake a truck towing a trailer so that my wake does not disrupt anyone radically in my wake. I would be concerned that a novice , ie perhaps a gal might over react and cause a spin out . Now wouldn't that be nice.. A tie up on the narrow bridge during rush hour..just what everyone needs to have. Just a little courtesy and understanding how to overtake another vehicle especially on a very narrow corridor with no escape is what I am referencing. Just as in Nascar racing wind and pressures cause vehicle oscillations.Get it, got it.. Hope so !!!
So, you are saying that either your equipment is inadequate or you have difficulty controlling it and the professional driver is supposed to know this --- how?
