Shadow Wulf wrote:my brother is a truck driver im pretty shure he obeys the laws, hes a pretty honest person and tries to do things right.
same here.
I don't want to lose my drivers license because I'll lose my job at the same time.
Vilkacis wrote:When it comes to the road, I have several pet peeves -- many of which have already been mentioned. But here's one that really gets to me: speeding truckers.
It's not uncommon for me, between quarters, to spend a few hours in my car driving to my parents' house for a visit. And one of the things that will inevitably happen is that I'll be driving along at the speed limit for cars (70mph), and trucks will pass me. That's annoying in and of itself, but also take into account that their speed limit is 60mph and it becomes illegal, too. Yet, on any given trip, including the one I made two days ago, it will always happen at least once or twice.
Those are just the really bad cases. In my experience, a significant portion of the trucks out there consistently drive between 5-10mph over the speed limit.
*sigh*
-- Vilkacis
I was taught to keep the speed of the other drivers around me, so if they're all going 20mph over, then I probably will be too. (Like this one stretch of road by my high school: The only people going the speed limit there are the driving school students.) People driving both too fast, and too slow make me nervous.Vilkacis wrote:I hate it and it pisses me off, and it's way too common. It seems to me that nearly everyone (or, at least, a very large and significant majority) thinks it's perfectly OK to consistently go 5mph over the speed limit, and many go faster.
Lupin wrote:I was taught to keep the speed of the other drivers around me, so if they're all going 20mph over, then I probably will be too. (Like this one stretch of road by my high school: The only people going the speed limit there are the driving school students.) People driving both too fast, and too slow make me nervous.Vilkacis wrote:I hate it and it pisses me off, and it's way too common. It seems to me that nearly everyone (or, at least, a very large and significant majority) thinks it's perfectly OK to consistently go 5mph over the speed limit, and many go faster.
Fenrir wrote:AH I'am just learning to drive and I hate when that happens or when somebody passes you and then slows down
*nods*Vilkacis wrote:Trinity, I by no means meant to imply that truckers are the only ones speeding or that it's not noticeable or annoying when cars do the same. I've had my fair share of cars pass me going 70mph on a 40mph road, or 85mph when the speed limit is 70mph.
I hate it and it pisses me off, and it's way too common. It seems to me that nearly everyone (or, at least, a very large and significant majority) thinks it's perfectly OK to consistently go 5mph over the speed limit, and many go faster.
As you mentioned, speeding truckers are just a minority, but they are a very scary minority. Speeding cars scare me, too, and are probably the bigger problem, but they are not as newsworthy.
-- Vilkacis