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RE: Heavy (truck) thoughts
I do too, I love driving on long trips at night because it's mostly truckers but he thinks they're pitiful drivers these days.
I do too, I love driving on long trips at night because it's mostly truckers but he thinks they're pitiful drivers these days.
Yeah, I know...Truckies (truckers) of old are a dying breed. It used to be they needed to be able to drive a Road Ranger gearbox, these days they're mainly automatic transmission. Still, that's progression for you I guess.
I guess so. I'll have to ask krazzytrukker but it seems to me like accidents involving big rigs like his are occurring at an alarming pace these days.
Yeah, I know...Possibly due to unrealistic deadlines, other idiots on the roads and innatentive phone-driving?
I don't know, krazzytrukker just says they don't know what they're doing which is a pretty scary thought!
Yes, that too I guess...Loads of reasons for a higher incidence of road accidents with heavy trucks. We have massive ones here, up to 5 or 6 trailers. They hike along at 140kph (almost 100mph) and can be very frightening for the uninitiated when one is confronted by one. Still, we need them to keep the country moving.
Holy cow! 5 or 6 trailers! Dang, there must be a law here limiting them to 2 trailers. How do they turn corners?
They are not allowed into the cities so the roads are not conjested. I'll do a post on it someday. See the link below.
Dang, that's amazing. Never seen anything like it. The grills on those trucks big enough?