No, the point is that those plans only apply to full time professional drivers of big rigs. The rest of us live in that chaos that your plans painstakingly avoid. Our start times and end times are dictated to us, and the only things we have to deal with the chaos are awareness and driver skill.
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Originally Posted by slowmover
What’s to overcome from the sluggish habits of being a commuter is situational awareness. Use of mirrors. Learning how to stay away from other traffic. For our purposes here, minimizing any associated FE penalty for deceleration and eventual re-acceleration (use terrain; study method computer follows: my big truck is best to allow all re-accel by re-engaging cruise; my pickup isn’t).
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I'm sorry, but didn't you just say that skill at the wheel was irrelevant? It seems like what you just described. And for those of us not driving fully laden 18 wheelers, pack behavior helps. Your tips are great for training full time drivers of heavy trucks, but they don't transfer very well to lighter vehicles where driving isn't the end in itself.