I have noticed that cars will speed up only to ride a semis back bumper and a lot of them will cut in front of them only to step on their brakes to make a turn. WHY?
2007-03-24 04:29:56 · 11 answers · asked by Kevin B 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Oh, I forgot to tell you. I am a professional driver with over 20 years of driving a semi truck. I already knew the answer to my question and only wanted to see how others would answer. I've seen a few good answers so far. I'll pick the best answer later on this afternoon. Thanks for responding so quickly! Now...*uh hmmm*...stay off of my A**!!
2007-03-24 04:50:45 · update #1
That REALLY gets me going too!!! Pass me safely and keep going, or stay off the back end please!! Kinda makes you want to shove it into 9th and let the Jake fly!! Also what I don't get is when I signal a lane change either to pass someone else, or to move out of the offending motorists way, they end up cutting me off and act like I did something wrong!!? I signal early and anticipate when I need to move.
2007-03-24 09:50:31 · answer #1 · answered by Porterhouse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Al lot of this is simple ignorance. Lot's of people do not really "get it" when they are told that you mst maintain a safe distance when behind oter vehicles of all kinds. Another reason they tailgate big trucks is "drafting" to save fuel. The winds behind a large trck actuall apply some "pull" and can save a very small amount of fuel but it is not a safe practice if there is any problem wit the truck you are behind.
As for getting too close in front of a large vehicle like a big rig, that is just plain stupid. A loaded rig can't stop as quickly as a car. So zipping around a truck just in time to cut over to take your exit is really not smart. If for any reason, you have to brake suddenly there is a great chance the truck will end up on top of your car!
2007-03-24 04:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by afreshpath_admin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mainly becuase cars use the semi as a draft. But as a truck driver I cannot see up to 70 feet behind me, that is the only true blindspot on a truck. One other thing is please do not sit on a trucks bumper when at a redlight or stop sign give that truck plenty of room because a lot of the time trucks will roll back a few inches or a few feet depending on the street, the weight of the truck, and the driver.
2007-03-24 04:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are various motives for tailgating. there isn't a single darn excuse! the two-2d rule is unquestionably risky in many circumstances. it particularly works in basic terms below appropriate circumstances, assuming good reaction cases, and equivalent traction. 2 a million/2 to 3 seconds is lots safer, longer in moist or snowy circumstances, or in any circumstances of undesirable visibilty like blowing snow, fog, airborne dirt and dirt typhoon, etc. so some distance as your assertion which you're on no account going to rear-end somebody? Sorry, yet what do you do in case you're 50 ft in the back of somebody at highway velocity, and a few thing flies off yet another vehicle into the direction of the vehicle in front and he hits the brakes, or what if the vehicle in front has a sort of uncommon, yet not unknown blowouts? I inform you what you do, you hit that vehicle from in the back of, you will on no account be waiting to assist it! persist with me at 50 ft, and that i greater effectual not capture you at a provider station or eating place, i could be calling the law enforcement officers on you for risky using. 50 ft at highway velocity is stupid, risky, and juvenile, and that i don't tolerate each and each individual threatening my existence, or the lives of folk in my vehicle, with a perilous weapon, and a vehicle is taken into consideration one of the dealiest. And particular, I unquestionably have had a driving force charged as quickly as for such an offence, once I had youthful little ones in my vehicle. There are motives i'm nevertheless alive after 40 3 years of using, and over a million a million/2 million miles, and that i don't desire some fool tailgater inflicting my untimely loss of life. you're so needless to say not between the people I taught topersistent by using the years, or you would know greater effectual, protection, courtesy and shielding using could have been so drilled into you it would be 2d nature. strengthen up, you will stay longer!
2016-10-19 12:29:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personal Ego of the Driver "I can get in front of him!!". How stupid. The braking distance for a semi is much greater than your car. If he hits you he will do a lot more damage than a car ever could.
So I also do not understand why car drivers want to test if the truck drivers are awake!!.
2007-03-24 04:35:58 · answer #5 · answered by m m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you live in Dallas? That's the way you're supposed to drive, right? That's how they do it here. I suppose there are a lot of people who have a death wish. People don't realize that driving a car is the SINGLE MOST DANGEROUS thing you do daily.
2007-03-24 04:39:47 · answer #6 · answered by Sunday P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Semi's are slow(extremely slow starting from a stop) and people want to be in front of them as soon as possible.
2007-03-24 04:33:10 · answer #7 · answered by [Queen_Remedi] 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
THE DRAFT FROM THE LARGE SEMI ALLOWS THE CAR TO MOVE AT THE SAME SPEED USING LESS POWER...ALSO THE FURTHER YOU MOVE BACK BEHIND THE WIND RESISTANCE INCREASES
2007-03-24 04:33:46 · answer #8 · answered by drap22 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
people have a death wish,they just don't consider the out come of some of their actions
2007-03-24 04:35:29 · answer #9 · answered by doug b 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because its extremely fun you should try it
2007-03-24 04:34:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋