Speeding in parking lots!

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by blackw900, Oct 3, 2009.

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  1. BoDarville01

    BoDarville01 Light Load Member

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    not at all...i'm a company driver. Whats more funny, are the company drivers who put those lights on their truck or the chrome lugnut covers and center caps, only to be taken off when they leave. now THATs a waste.

    i can understand the stuipd 'fast driving' in a parking lot, but why is it when drivers are too lazy to back into a spot, they get all butt-hurt when they back out, and nobody stops for them??

    (i just like to liven up a thread a little) =)
     
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  3. blackw900

    blackw900 The Grandfather of Flatbed

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    Kind'a what I was thinkin'.
     
  4. FriedTater

    FriedTater Keeper of The Snakes

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    Speaking of the "little man":biggrin_25526:
    Outwardly I can afford;
    Corvettes
    Big Radio's
    Chrome
    Lights
    Top Level Trucks(more then one)

    I support my lifestyle and attitude to "SUIT ME"because I can afford to!
    I do not jackazz thru parking lots and fuel lanes and I never turn off my jake brake.
    My operating skills allow for smooth operation and respect for my truck.
    I do not carry some preconceived idea "I must" be respectful
    to others in a T/S.
    What I do is my thing,how I do "My Thing" just happens to be "How it should be done"
    Everything follows suit and falls in place by its self.

    Does any of that make sense to ya ?


     
  5. blackw900

    blackw900 The Grandfather of Flatbed

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    That's soooo...obvious!


    Maybe...But it's their business. I know a few guys that are company drivers that put on lug and center caps and when they go to another company they take the stuff with them and use it there.

    There is no crime in taking a little pride in your ride.

    You obviously have a very limited understanding of what's happening around you. (Probably due to your lack of experience) I nose in to parking spaces quite a bit when I have to stay in a truckstop. The reason I do is to keep the idiot stering wheel holders from tearing the hood and fenders off of my truck.

    If you see a truck backing out of a space and don't stop for him you are an #######!

    When you have a little more time on the road and you're paying the bills on your own equipment maybe you'll understand.
     
  6. BoDarville01

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    Oh i take pride in my company ride. its always clean in and out. everytime i go home, its hand washed.

    and can understand about why some nose-in. Was in Morris, IL couple weeks ago, and a guy was explaining why he was nosed in to drivers on either side of him who were backing in. he had just had a new hood put on his truck.

    but if its that big of an issue, then get to a t/s early enough and park in a corner, or do what other drivers do, park next to the scale. If i've got a fleet of trucks behind me turning off the road, sorry but i'm not stopping so some guy who is worried about damage to his truck, or because he cant back into a spot and end up being a hazzard to myself.

    why would you expect to inconvience 5 drivers who have ot wait for one driver to backout? ...not to mention be hazzards themselves. you know how poorly some t/s are laid out. any backup snowballs and becomes a huge puzzle. if NOBODY is behind me, i stop. if there is anybody behind me, forget it. the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.


    and yeah, i'm not as experienced as a driver with 5-10 years in. but i'm more experienced than studends fresh out of school now, huh
     
  7. Freebird135

    Freebird135 Road Train Member

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    reminds me of what i do to tailgaters......if i see somebody tailgating me(in my 4wheeler), i slow down, way down.....ill get completely off the gas and even brake....

    if were on the interstate 9 times out of 10 there to stupid to just go around me, but its best if its a 1 lane road

    theres nothing i hate more then being tailgated

    some idiot in a yellow semi some company i never heard of sunbelt or sunset or somethin was tailgating me on the interstate bad and i was going about 60......i let off the gas til i got to about 30, he started blowing his air horn and i just held the middle finger out the window
     
  8. BoDarville01

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    thats the supertrucker attitude for ya. if you followed him into a t/s, he was probably doing 30+ in the parking lot =)
     
  9. blackw900

    blackw900 The Grandfather of Flatbed

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    OK...So you take pride in your equipment in your way and yet you think others are stupid because they take pride in a way that's different than you? If I choose to spend money and time dressing up my equipment it is my business and in no way equates itself to clowns speeding through the parking lot and to attempt to make that leap is completely stupid!

    I've had a new hood or two over the years as well.

    This is the steering wheel holders ultimate solution to the problem...
    Get to the truck stop earlier? How does that solve the problem of idiots backing into my truck? Or be a complete A-hole and park next to the scale because some other ###### can't drive?



    How many times do you think I've had to sit on the street waiting to get into a truckstop? Not because someone was backing out of a parking spot but because some steering wheel holder was parked in front of the fuel islands while he went shopping or took a shower or rooted around at the buffet and trucks were backed out to the corner waiting to get to the islands.

    Unless that driver is YOU, Then based on the self centered attitude hat comes across here you be all upset at the lack of consideration for YOU!


    That attitude is a large part of the problem. I will stop to allow a driver to back out or back in no matter how many trucks are behind me because otherwise he's just gonna be hung out there trying to get into his spot. I won't do that to any driver for any reason. I put on my flashers and wait till he's done with his manuver and then I proceed.


    It's called common courtesy...
     
  10. DozerCowboy

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    Im sorry but this makes no SENSE.... why dont you MOVE. Now if your in the slow lane and you slow to 30.. you should be ticketed cuz the minimum on the highway is 45 and you are now a hazard. If your in the FAST lane and you are doing 60, MOVE out of the way and you dont have to worry about being tailgated. You people trying to SLOW people down and pretend to be the LAW is what creates a traffic jam. As for the MIDDLE FINGER, i find that to be very much an act of a COWARD. Your gonna slow down and cause a potential situation and then speed off with ur middle finger in the AIR?..... you are just as much a part of the problem as the guy that YOU think is driving too FAST. You wanna slow someone down, go apply for the HIGHWAY PATROL or your LOCAL SHERIFF other wise MOVE. Its not your responsibility. END RANT.
     
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  11. tiresONtar

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    Think it's interesting that we haven't heard from the parking lot speeders...
     
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