What driving actions and situations peeves you most?

1: Not being able to get out of my own driveway because of constant traffic.
2: Someone pulling out on front of you and going ludicrously slow.
3: People passing you when you are making a right-hand turn.

Anyone else?

 

I would have to say #2. Pull in front of you and drive slow. Only thing worse is when they speed up as you try to pass. The solution, of course, is to continue the pass as if they didn't speed up by changing back into the lane regardless of their position. But I don't reccommend that.

Actually the best solution to most situations it to get a bigger truck. I get much more respect on the road in my truck than I get in the wife's minivan. Seeing a roof rack in the rear view mirror just isn't as intimidating as seeing a license plate.

K.

 

i hate it when people pull out infront of me while im goin pretty fast... its hard to stop 36's in a hurry with small breaks.

 

I would say people who move into the right hand driving lane from the passing lane (while they are adjacent to the merge lane) AT THE SAME TIME, with me trying to merge.




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People who won't let me get into the lane when my lane is ending. I almost had an accident cause of this. The 1 mile 'till lane ends sign came up so I turned on my blinker trying to get over, the guy beside me was going the same speed as me and every time I slowed, he slowed, ever time I speed up, he speed up. Finnally, I just gunned it with about 300 ft left of lane and forced my way over. I don't think he liked the site of 3 tons of truck moving towards him.

 

As far as the original post, I have to say #3. They are all idiotic maneuvers, but as a Commercial vehicle driver, number three is a problem.(78 ft. total length set of doubles)

Some of my other favorites are:
1)People who accelerate rapidly up a freeway on-ramp, only to STOP at the end. Then merge on to the freeway at 15 mph, while everybody else is traveling at atleast 75 mph.(Colorado has very liberal speed limits, we pretty much get to hammer it out west).

2)You've seen them, those folks that drive with two feet. They pass you with their brake lights on! Yea those guys are cool.

3)People who can't read the signs that were posted 1/2 mile back that tell you that a lane is closing ahead. Then they pass on the shoulder just to get to the front and cut people off.......effectively making the jam up even worse. If you are reading this and often practice this maneuver, PLEASE pull your head.....

4)Finally, those who "Multi-Task" while driving. Cell phone users only think that their world consists of two inches in front of their front bumber, to roughly one inch from the back of their head. Also, please do not try to eat a five course meal while trying to negotiate rush hour traffic, It will only mess up the make-up that was just applied three exits back.

 

This is a great thread! I have to have my wife read these. She thinks it's just me that's bothered by this stuff.

BigDeezil58, great additions to the list. You'd love driving north through Illinois to WI on a friday in the summer. The two lane highway becomes 4 lanes in heavy traffic. People drive 65 mph on the shoulder when traffic is at a stand-still. But hey, their exit is only a few miles ahead and they shouldn't have to wait.

 

>4)Finally, those who "Multi-Task" while driving. Cell phone
>users only think that their world consists of two inches in
>front of their front bumber, to roughly one inch from the
>back of their head. Also, please do not try to eat a five
>course meal while trying to negotiate rush hour traffic, It
>will only mess up the make-up that was just applied three
>exits back.


Lol most definately Bigdeezil!

Also people flicking cigarettes and such out the window on my truck...oh, I could just kill...

 

>Also people flicking cigarettes and such out the window on
>my truck...oh, I could just kill...

one of my sisters friends was driving down the highway and someone flicked there cigaret out the window and it bounced back into her car, she got burned pretty bad and was lucky she didnt get in a wreck.

 

How bout the people who tailgate so close to you, you cant see their head lights. Another personal favorite is the people that pull all the way over to the RIGHT to make a LEFT hand turn.....

 

Got another one for you, Bigdeezil58. From another class 'A' CDL driver: people who try to pass on the interstate or a four lane highway who are in cars and going about 1MPH faster than my truck. Apparently these idiots don't realize that if something happens up ahead the semi is either going to rear end the vehicle ahead of him or sideswipe the idiot beside him! My choice is to hit the idiot. When passing a truck, hustle up and GET PAST!

 

>>Seeing a roof rack in the rear view mirror just isn't as intimidating as seeing a license plate.


#1 in the Top Ten Reasons Why I Drive an Excursion.

 

>>>Seeing a roof rack in the rear view mirror just isn't as intimidating as seeing a license plate.

in the Top Ten Reasons Why I Drive a lifted Ford!!

 

>Also people flicking cigarettes and such out the window on
>my truck...oh, I could just kill...


Sorry, Darren. I didn't know that was you...


Mine is #2! I don't particularly care for brush guards and stuff hanging off the front of my truck. But if it happens again...

 

Stupid/Negligent drivers have many breeds, but the ones that make me the maddest are the idiots that drive as if they have a "right to be STUPID".

Let me see if I can categorise a few of them....

People who barely have enough room to pull out on the road, knowing they will force an evasive manuever from an oncoming vehicle. that taaaaaaaaaake their sweet bloody damn time about it...

People who see you coming up an on-ramp, DON'T change lanes (the safe move) and match your speed perfectly as if to let you know you are not welcome on "THEIR highway..."

ADDENDUM: The stupid chick riding in the passenger seat making all the dumb gestures out the window as you try to avoid the oncoming guardrail...

People who come up on you in the middle lane at high speed- flick their brights on at high noon, and expect me to think they are GOD or something.... (on a 6 lane road)

CONVERSELY: People who "Brake For Tailgaters", attempting to deliberately cause an accident. There is NO excuse for that. It is nothing but pure and simple vehicular mayhem, but hard to prove. I hope some of those people DIE. We need to get them off the roads somehow...

Rice-rocket bike kamikazes, that split through traffic riding the white line between lanes of cars

People who think they have the GOD given right to leave their high-beams AND road/fog lights on when approaching oncoming traffic

Dumb kids that pull up alongside and flip-off people they don't even know....

Cell phone users (of course)

PEOPLE WHO SPEND ALL THEIR TIME ARGUING WITH THEIR MISBEHAVING KIDS INSTEAD OF WATCHING WHERE THEY ARE GOING! (Leave your rotten kids at home....)

Litterers. They chuck just about anything out the window....

This is a new one I have noticed since "GANGSTA" rap has been out:

People who open their doors at traffic lights, and set empty 40 ounce bottles outside on the pavement on the lane dividers...

Do you know what a glass bottle like that can do to a tire??????
Evidently they either don't, or hope it happens to someone they don't know...


In summation, I HATE scum bags and incompetent drivers. Dang right...

And I have seen more and more of it over time, it's getting worse (at least in Virginia)