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Do truckers hate us? or Who Packs Granades?

Old 10-20-05, 09:00 AM
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Maybe he was just checking out your wheels, and squinting from the sun. Right?






or...maybe not.
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Old 10-20-05, 10:29 AM
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Or maybe he was just looking to see if you were going to throw yourself under his truck. I see a lot more bike riders taking liberties with the rules than I ever have a trucker... not that they are all wonderful people by any means. It's just that when a truck takes on almost anything else...the anything else loses.
Who knows what goes on the mind of someone else. But for what it's worth, I can understand how being involved in a close call with a truck in the past makes it easier to jump to an automatic defensive position.
Personally, I wish they'd get rid of SUV driving idiots....talk about death on wheels.

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Old 10-20-05, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by jbrians
Personally, I wish they'd get rid of SUV driving idiots....talk about death on wheels.
The only accident I ever got in while driving a truck was with a young girl in an SUV that ran a stop sign and hit me. At a T intersection where she was the only one with a stop sign. She's lucky she didn't get killed-- I was doing 50-55 and she blazed through the stop sign at about 20 and hit just at the fuel tank. After I got stopped and ran back to see whether or not she was dead (she was unhurt amazingly, the SUV was destroyed), she told me, and I quote, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you." I was driving a bright yellow, 11 foot high semi-truck, with white trailers full of bright red tomatoes, and I had my lights on, and it was 1:00 pm on a sunny cloud free day, there were no obstructions what-so-ever that would have been in her line of sight, and she didn't see me. So I have to agree-- wish they'd get rid of the SUV driving idiots. Good thing I wasn't on a bike.
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Old 10-20-05, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by dan828
The only accident I ever got in while driving a truck was with a young girl in an SUV that ran a stop sign and hit me. At a T intersection where she was the only one with a stop sign. She's lucky she didn't get killed-- I was doing 50-55 and she blazed through the stop sign at about 20 and hit just at the fuel tank. After I got stopped and ran back to see whether or not she was dead (she was unhurt amazingly, the SUV was destroyed), she told me, and I quote, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you." I was driving a bright yellow, 11 foot high semi-truck, with white trailers full of bright red tomatoes, and I had my lights on, and it was 1:00 pm on a sunny cloud free day, there were no obstructions what-so-ever that would have been in her line of sight, and she didn't see me. So I have to agree-- wish they'd get rid of the SUV driving idiots. Good thing I wasn't on a bike.
Yellow truck? Was it one of Ozark's trucks.
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Originally Posted by Dang
This was a busy intersection. I was stopped. I had both feet on the ground. Waiting for my light to turn green. His light just turned green and as he inched his way through the intersection he glared at me. And he continued to glared at me, turning his head for as long as he could before his trailer blocked his view. And I was also wearing a pair of dark sunglasses. So he couldn't see my eyes. I did nothing to provoke this guy. I was being safe and obeying all laws.
Hey Dang I see three possible reasons why the trucker was staring at you.

1. Please don't take this wrong but are you a guy or a girl, truckers love to look at chicks. By your username I'd guess your a guy, but what the heck do I know.

2. He could have been checking out your bike.

3. Maybe he was staring you down on purpose so you wouldn't do anything crazy like jump out in front of him.

Then again he could just hate bikers.
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Originally Posted by Dang
Yellow truck? Was it one of Ozark's trucks.
It was a Penske Freightliner, rented for the Ag season.
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Old 10-20-05, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Dang
Yellow truck? Was it one of Ozark's trucks.
Ozark's trucks are red, might've been a subcontracted owner/operator.
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Rear ender, run under, roll over, sitting duck, or at fault fatality crashes will end driving careers at most front line companies. Even the few who qualify as sociopathic need a paycheck and understand this. Reason enough to believe that this driver was doing nothing more than making sure he didn't grind you into the pavement.

Unfortunately drivers of big trucks do some not so smart things, as do we all. Except with trucks the results are magnafied because of the size and weight involved. It a good practice to give big trucks plenty of room and plenty of attention.

There is a book titled Driver, by Phillip Wilson which chronicles a refridgerated truck driver's first month or so as a trainee. Not a page turner, but lots of insight into the world of over the road trucking. These guys earn their money.
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Old 10-21-05, 09:35 PM
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So the answer to my question then is.....
Some truckers hate all cyclist. Some don't.
And some cyclist hate all truckers. Some don't.
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Old 10-21-05, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by krispistoferson
Ozark's trucks are red, might've been a subcontracted owner/operator.
Are we talking about the same Ozark trucks owned and operated by Raley's Superstores Ind? The place where people love to shop and employees love to work at. I didn't know they operated in your neck of the woods.
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