I'm 100% behind your message -- trouble is, the people that NEED to read it not only likely WON'T, too damned many CAN'T!

Hmmmm...I can't find fault with any of your comments.  I suppose if some moron were passing me on the right, on the shoulder (this has happened to me, by the way), I'd probably try to let them bail out if they were facing death (e.g. a broken down car sitting inexplicably in the breakdown lane).  They would definitely get a long blast of the horn, though.  Fair is fair.

 Right on! Especially about the 'merge' lanes, one of my biggest pet peeves (which also happens to endanger my life from time to time). If people can't get that one simple thing right, what hope do they ever have of NOT dying in their cars? Oh wait! GOOD DRIVERS are why the idiots don't end up dying in theirs cars as often as they could (should)! Good drivers anticipate your stupidity, morons!! And you're right, BigP, those people not only won't read this post, they wonder why this site even exists. Aah, ignorance is bliss....

Semis CAN stop on a dime - it's YOUR car that will be the dime!  When I return from fishing, towing my boat I get the same type of cutoff, thinking I can stop fast - NOT!  I usually ride behind the semis since I KNOW they cannot stop immediately and give them space.  At least I know the vehicle that just cut the semi off is now "road-kill" and I don't have to worry about another idiot cutting me off!

 Good Blog! And I think we made history. I even wrote this down in my diary!

bigpedaler,  oddjob3422, ronin, and buttfish all agree on something!

I do have one comment, 79,500 lbs isn't 39 tons!
It's more like 39 3/4 tons.....I just thought I would clarify that....


As a CDL (with all the endorsements except passenger) carrying Grandmother I know exactly what you are talking about. Several times I watched people come down the ramp, signaled and never even looked in the mirror. I guess that's what they make ali arcs and train horns for...to wake these people up...real fast!

Sheila

 Sheila..........................you were supposed to 'miss' that -- it's the seventh sign of the Apocalypse......................

You could take it a step further, and argue about whether the tons were short tons (2000 lbs), long tons (2240 lbs) or metric tons (1000kg, 2204 lbs).

Then the calculation becomes hopelessly muddled.

 Sheila, "Ali Arcs". You're talking about those "Moose Catcher" grill guards, right?