As A Truck Driver, and I'm sure all the other drivers here on this board can agree.. We see this kinda crap everyday, for hours on end...and putting up with it is just part of the job.. When I first got my "A" licence (Same as class 1) my whole perspective and attitude about driving and rules of the road and Common Courtesy changed real fast.... I never realized how many morons that are out there.. People see a big truck and all of a sudden THEY HAVE to be in front... THEN THEY SLOW DOWN!!!! THEN TURN.... LEFT!!!!! FROM A ONE LANE ROAD!!!! WITH A CURB!!!!! (on the right) DURING RUSH HOUR!!!! AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!! (and many other idiocys of the common 4 wheeled driver.. Too many to List here...) 80,000 lbs is a hell of a lot of weight to be in the trunk of a Honda Civic!!!!!

One of the worst things people do that drive me absolutley furious to the point where I am almost willing to smash into them just to get my point across (not in my ranger or my work truck of course... but i can fantasize.. ) is when you are sitting at the front of the line at a red light... and the exact millisecond the light changes green.. the moron sitting opposite (across) you in the opposing lane (without a left signal on of course!) smashes his foot through the floor of his car and guns the hell out of it to turn left....

IN FRONT OF YOU!!!!

GRRRR!!!!!! I hate that!!!

I hate it to the point I made up a name for it. "Jumping the green light" or a "Green light Swipe" (Opinions?? )

Do People forget that as the light changes green the STRAIGHT traffic has the right of way first.. THEN the left turning guys can go WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO...People are in WAY too much of a hurry nowadays and can't wait 10 seconds for the lane to clear.. instead they would rather risk their car, possibly some injuries, a failing to yield charge, and their insurance rates going up through the roof just cause they had to turn left first......

So come on.... Let me hit you head on... It won't be my fault!!!

Sorry I needed to vent that.. Someone did that to me today...

 

Also the motorcycles that go on the center line between cars in the middle of rush hour traffic

 

I was cruisin' down the access road here the other day in the middle lane (3 lanes), when a brand spankin' new Silver Dodge Ram complete with paper licence plate n' all came up behind me, passed me on the left, then got back in the lane I was in right as it went down to two lanes. that's when I noticed that his tailgate was all bashed in. and I thought what a shame that nice lookin' new truck and somebody rearended them. it was right about that time that he hit his brakes, and with no signal turned right from the left lane. now I feel sorry for the person that rear ended him, cuz it prolly went on their insurance as their fault.

what else bugs me
people that buy trucks and try to turn them into ricers.
people that buy trucks and don't use them sept to commute.
when I try try to pass somebody and they speed up so I can't (I git mad and speed like the devil to pass those people)
when the right lane is clear and people drive on the left, slower than I'm driving, I don't mind if you're going slower than me but passing someone on the right. but if there's no one there I tailgate for a while tryin' to get them to git over.
people that pull up right frickin' behind me on a hill, one of these days I'm gonnda drift into one, it'll be their fault for tailgating right? (I drive a stick)

 

This probably goes double for the truckers on here...but I only really lose my temper with the people that drive like jerks when I'm pulling a trailerload of horses. They're usually in high $$$ sedans or little jelly bean cars, and they either pull out in front of you...so I'd have to brake hard enough to throw the horses down in the trailer to keep from getting a new hood ornament, or they tailgate...and I have had a trailer rear-ended. Luckily only one horse was hurt much, and he healed up, or I might've been digging a shallow grave in the bar ditch for the knothead that hit me. Rear-end me, that's fine, the truck can be fixed on their dime...but if they hurt my horses I'll take it out of their hide.

 

One time I was on the highway at 75mph. I saw a dude in a small Honda Civic getting on too the EXIT ramp. He was going the wrong way on the highway and went into the medain to avoid getting hit, he was then stuck in the meidan and couldnt get out. He nearly caused a serious accident, I was right behind the cars that swerved to miss him and it was really close. You know somethings wrong when people are trying to get on to the highway and are going the wrong way.

 

This happens to me all the time, and never works. You see, I have this 352FE that I built myself, and this thing is no wimp. When people dont let me pass, I just put it too the floor and speed on by em doing 100mph, its nice to have a V8. Usually they give up at about 90mph, but somtimes they are stubborn, maybe it makes them feel deficcent to have a beat up 66 Ford Pickup pass there Mercedes.

 

I don't know if someone posted this already, but my biggest driving pet peeve is when you're on a highway, or higher speed road, and someone turns out in front of you when everything is free and clear behind you, so you have to slam on your brakes and wait for them to get up to speed, when they could have waited 3 more seconds and turned in behind you and could have taken their sweet time accelerating. These idiots usually turn off at the next right turn too.. GGRRRR!

 

Since cruising in the left lane was mentioned...

I usually cruise around 70-80mph. You can't go that fast in the right hand lane around here....ever. Well, the trucks have a 55mph speed limit, so if a truck is going that slow I can understand. What I don't understand is the people that get on the freeway and do 50-55mph.

Normally I will move out of the left lane if I see someone coming up on me. If they come up on me flashing their high-beams on and off so I get out of their way because I'm not going fast enough for them at 75-80mph, well, they are just going to have to drive around me and if there are other vehicles in the right lane they will just have to wait.

Then there are the trucks constantly trying to pass other trucks and holding everyone back. This especially applies to long grades where the end result of passing ends up with the trucker cruising in the left lane for several miles.

What about the idiots that go can't wait to get around you on the freeway, then suddenly realize the exit they want is RIGHT HERE and cut in front of you?

And hol. What is wrong with the people that pull up behind other vehicles in really dense fog? You know the ones that tailgate 3' from your rear bumper AND turn on their high beams at the same time? I've had several of those idiots that change lanes right behind me or would not pass me after I slowed down to about 20 mph on the freeway.

 

I found something else thats works just as good as a "brake check". What I do with tailgaters is slow down. That's right, slow down. If the speed that I'm driving isn't fast enough, then how about 10 mph less? They usually get the point and back off.
I remember one day I was pulling out of a parking lot and onto the main lane of the parking lot. As I was approaching the street there were three lanes:left turn, right turn, and an enter lane which was actually on the left(middle lane was left turn). As I'm approaching the street to make a left hand turn when some idgit pulls into my lane at 40 mph almost hiting me head on. Then looks at me like I'm the one at fault for almost taking out her overpriced vehicle.
Then to make matters worse, this old biscuit beside in the right lane makes a left turn as I'm pulling into the street almost ripping the side of my car off.

I'm only 24, and drive a little fast at times, but I have more respect for life, property, and just common courtesy than some people twice my age.

 

I was driving down main street last week (here in woodland main street is to lanes until you get to down town then its one lane) and this bonehead relizes that his lane is ending so he cuts me off as i am slowing down to a red light i came about 2 inches from hitting him and then he flips me off next time I wont have enough time to stop

 

This REALLY pisses me off, especially when you are towing a load and they decide to wait until you are 100 feet from them! Once I caught up to one of these wastes of skin at the next light and asked him why he did it. He said (after putting his cell phone down), "I didn't see you!" Really? Big white truck on a clear, sunny day with a 30' white boat on a trailer with all lights on...

 

My biggest rant is the Morons who think Auto glass is privacy glass...

I can't believe how many people pick thier damn noses thinking you can't see them.
it's glass folks....a window.
The other day this fool is cork screwing his nose, lifting his head to get a nice view of the 2 ports on his face...(he's behind me going at it )...then when he passes me he covers up for a millisecond while parallel to me then proceded to auger the crap out his nose while just starting to pass me...

then I could see him drilling deep for pay day in front of me.
oh he had a snack alright...munching away.

I was so pissed off I started to speed behind him with my bent finger up my nose to say "hey you hungry fool" you pig
I actually felt my space was violated with his disgusting picking.

people.


My rant....

 

Yesterday, I was on my home from work driving the wife's car. I pulled up behind a SUV at a red light waiting to turn left. I waited there for a few minutes when the SUV makes the left turn. Apparently he was sleeping because he made the turn as the arrow turned yellow . Thus, leaving me to wait for the light to cycle again. Did it make me late? No, but it was rather annoying. Had my truck been running this week, I would have been able to see that the light turned green and told him (with my horn) that he was taking far too long to decide if he was driving or not.
This seems to happen frequently around here. Some yuppie in an overpriced econobox or a ricer will pass you at neck break speed just to get to the red light and then take the next two hours to decide if that the light has really turned green.

These are probably the same people that are being complained about in the "who's driving the shopping cart" rant.

 

The thing that gets me the most is the people who drive the gigantic SUV's on the interstate and snake in and out of traffic and then complain about their MPG. On the same note...i also hate compulsive lane changers. Get in a lane and stay there! Im tired of waiting in traffic jams after you wreck.

 

I agree with mostly everything everyone has said. The one about the green light, your going straight, and the guy in the opposing lane is turning in front of you, and he cuts you off, this happens to me all the time. Someday I will hit someone and not have the time to stop. Mass. has the most drivers that break this law as I come to realize.
Another thing thats common here in CT is people who drive into YOUR lane to check thier mailbox in the street. That can get annoying. And last but not least Ricers. We have 100's of them in the state. Most of them are just civics with the fart can and the 50' custom park bench on the back and the blacked out windows, body kit, etc. and some stickers. Man, these kids think they have the fastest thing on wheels. My 17HP Toro riding lawnmower can beat these cars