4x4 ?
i ain't rite
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
it is different here is Jersey. when it snows, people forget how to drive and think the snow means they can drive 90mph wherever they want to, because the lane markers are covered in snow, making the road one big lane.
Bleed Ford Blue
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: Anchorage Alaska
heh, tell that to everyone who commutes all winter and runs 70mph+ every day. you can drive fast in slick conditions(they dont salt here and hardly sand) you just have to think very far ahead and start braking early. also mostly everyone runs studded snow tires also.
Post Fiend
Joined: Nov 2003
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From: Nutter Fort, WV
I am going to bet the traffic load on your highways in Alaska are nothing like we see here in most of the lower 48.
30 years ago when the traffic was much lighter here and I traveled way to many miles every week in a semi, speeds of 70 or 80 or 90 miles an hour on snow packed roads were normal winter driving for us with loads of swinging meat.
Today, that woud be impossible.
To many drivers on the cell phone, sending and reading text messages,surfing the internet, eating, doing hair and make-up, getting dressed, reading the paper and watching movies while behind the wheel.
Seems like the only thing people are not doing behind the wheel today is what they should be doing, IE, driving the vehicle they are in.
Sure is a different world out there today than what it was when the stereo and a CB was the extent of a drivers available distractions.
30 years ago when the traffic was much lighter here and I traveled way to many miles every week in a semi, speeds of 70 or 80 or 90 miles an hour on snow packed roads were normal winter driving for us with loads of swinging meat.
Today, that woud be impossible.
To many drivers on the cell phone, sending and reading text messages,surfing the internet, eating, doing hair and make-up, getting dressed, reading the paper and watching movies while behind the wheel.
Seems like the only thing people are not doing behind the wheel today is what they should be doing, IE, driving the vehicle they are in.
Sure is a different world out there today than what it was when the stereo and a CB was the extent of a drivers available distractions.
Bleed Ford Blue
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: Anchorage Alaska
nothing like huston or LA but we get plenty of traffic. they say 30-40k cars commute in and out of town every day(morning and evening). may not sound like much but theres only one highway running north, so it is somewhat comparable and one wreck can have you sitting there for hours.
Cargo Master
Joined: Mar 2006
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From: Sand GAp, KY
There was a billboard not long ago on the kentucky side of the river on I 75 north (cincinnati area) that read "80,000 vehichles see this sign a day" trying to get ad bussiness. This is just one of 5 bridges in the cinci I275 loop. So the number of commuters all trying to get to and from work everyday that all want to do 70 plus even on the snowy/ icee roads is crazy. People need to learn to drive relative to conditions and other vehichles. That includes the semis trying to climb the "cut in the hill" on I75 south of the river that will bring traffic to a sudden and complete stop.
i ain't rite
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
years ago, i was sitting in a rest area on the pennsy turnpike having a well deserved cup of coffee when i overheard an idiot complaining about the snow plows driving so slow and creating a traffic jamb.
i looked at the lady, and politely asked her "if the road conditions are so bad that the snow plow operators feel it is not safe to drive over 20 mph, why in the world would you want do drive 50-60 mph??"
the guy she was bitchin to said he has a valid point ya know, and she told us both to fork off.
some people are just plain clueless, and should not be allowed to breed
i looked at the lady, and politely asked her "if the road conditions are so bad that the snow plow operators feel it is not safe to drive over 20 mph, why in the world would you want do drive 50-60 mph??"
the guy she was bitchin to said he has a valid point ya know, and she told us both to fork off.
some people are just plain clueless, and should not be allowed to breed
Fleet Mechanic
Joined: Nov 2010
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From: Kville, ohio
this is why im convinced that 95 percent of the people in the worls are just plain stupid. last winter i made a pretty good amount of money pullin those stupid people out of ditches.
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From: Grand Rapids
To many drivers on the cell phone, sending and reading text messages,surfing the internet, eating, doing hair and make-up, getting dressed, reading the paper and watching movies while behind the wheel.
Seems like the only thing people are not doing behind the wheel today is what they should be doing, IE, driving the vehicle they are in..
Fleet Mechanic
Joined: Nov 2010
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From: Kville, ohio
Till they go through it when they rear end someone in a 1988 F250.
Senior User
Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Elk City, OK
I am putting a darn train horn on the f250 when it is done. The horn on the ranger is not loud enough. I have had two people try to rearange the passanger side of my truck in the last month. They did not even bother to use that thing on the side of the vehicle called a mirror. They just started changing lanes.
