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Originally Posted by wagonman76
I just hope to god that a deer doesnt jump in front of me, because thats all too common here. The ones who most commonly do that to me are the 18 wheelers, ride a few feet from my bumper. Its nothing new, its been like that since I started driving in 1992. I can speed up to 70 in a 55 and they still just stay right on me so I figure why bother trying. Its nice when the mpguino numbers go up, but kinda scary otherwise. If anything ends up in front of me, Id be dead. And in that case it wouldnt really be a big deal whose fault they say it is. I just hold off till I need to turn, then slow down really slowly so they wont run me over.
I had one about 1 1/2 weeks ago where I just hit the shoulder. I was headed south on Friday, not many people out since the masses are headed north on Fridays, going about 65 in a 70. A Dodge Sprinter with Parts Plus logos came barreling at me, had to be going at least 90. I just hit the shoulder and just missed getting turned into an accordion. Even so, they didnt even move over to the empty left lane. It was like I wasnt even there.
Sometimes Im tempted to call up some of these commercial folks with "hows my driving" stickers on the back. But then I wonder if rather than the company, Ill just get the cellphone of the jerk who is driving and cause more issues.
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Call the 800 number and ask to speak to someone in their safety department. Be sure to have all of the details such as truck or trailer number tag number and date of the incident. I had a driver continue to cut me off in an 18 wheeler a few years ago. As it happened I came up on a state police that had someone else pulled over so I stopped and told him about it. The truck driver knew why I was stopping and also stopped so it cost him some time on his schedule since I had to wait for the trooper to finish with the vehicle he had stopped. Anyway the state trooper told me to go on and told the truck driver to wait a while so we wouldn't be travelling anywhere close to one another. The trooper told me I could take out a warrant for wreck less driving if I wanted to, but I'd have to come to the court hearing and I was about 250 miles from home so I didn't. Anyway I reported it to the company's safety department he drove for with his name which the trooper gave me when he checked his license and also the truck number and date of the occurrence. They assured me that they would deal with this driver.