Moronic drivers

[the old grind]

Hope that truck was not full of Kleenex. From the looks of what I'm reading here, there may be a shortage in Michigan.

Well, a lot of Hoosiers and Buckeyes do come here for farming lessons, and we try to teach them to blow their noses before we send 'em home.

Drifts were barely more than 10" or so where I went on my own today. Didn't need 4WD 'cuz ... I drive a Chevy.

Personally, I don't like the cold, my NH has no cab, and I'm almost 64, so I don't plow snow unless it's above 15^ F or so. So, maybe we aren't so tough around here. :laughing: C'mon up sometime. ... you might have to wait 'till Spring, though ... if you're not taking the bus ... (goes both ways, huh?)

 

[coobie]

Have driven since 1966, never got off the road, never had an at-fault accident and my last moving violation (the only one I ever had) was in 1972. Drove commercial straight trucks up to 25 tons gross weight for a living for 31 years, inclusive of dozens of weeks of the worst winter weather the Upper Peninsula had to offer, and in all that time I never got off road, was never cited nor even stopped by the police, never had an accident of any type, and that's why I have no tolerance for careless drivers.

Back then we did not have cell phones,texting and all of the fun little gadgets that distract our driving.Work along the side of the roads for awhile.You will see more idiots than you can count.Back in 2011 my journeyman lineman was kllled in Hillsdale county mi.by a 61 year old idiot driver on unprescribied Oxycodone pills.His sentence was $12,000 fine and 1 year suspended jail sentence.My friend and coworker sentence was much worse.

 

[Reyer Farms]

Maybe the trucker was from Mississippi- we are not used to snow and ice. If he a Ms boy, he was probably in a hurry to get milk and bread.

 

[JDgreen227]

They got JDgreen227, you want him?

Gee, Murph...and here I thought nobody read my posts....:laughing:

 

[murphy1244]

Guess you know we do now. :laughing:

 

[MoKelly]

Maybe the trucker was from Mississippi- we are not used to snow and ice. If he a Ms boy, he was probably in a hurry to get milk and bread.

That was good.:laughing:

MoKelly

 

[aczlan]

It's always easy to blame the guy in the ditch or sideways across the road ... while the instigator cruises on oblivious to what others got into trying NOT to run their bum a__ over or to get out of his/her way. (good intentions gone bad?)

Yep, especially if the moron cuts off the truck driver just as a nice gust of wind hits the side of the trailer while as the axles are on a patch of ice...

Aaron Z

 

[texasjohn]

Some mistakes have greater consequences than others.

Drunk driver killed two and critically injured 5 with 20 others in hospital in Austin last night.

Don't gotta love that!:thumbdown:

Gotta love the posts from people who have never made a mistake in their lives.

 

[300UGUY]

Back then we did not have cell phones,texting and all of the fun little gadgets that distract our driving.Work along the side of the roads for awhile.You will see more idiots than you can count.Back in 2011 my journeyman lineman was kllled in Hillsdale county mi.by a 61 year old idiot driver on unprescribied Oxycodone pills.His sentence was $12,000 fine and 1 year suspended jail sentence.My friend and coworker sentence was much worse.

We had a surveyer killed here, back in the 90's. He got hit by a 83 year old woman, driving on a restricted license. Broad daylight, she wiped out 100 ft of cones, hit him, kept going. State trooper saw it, chased her down, she was doing 80 on a 2 lane road. She claimed she didn't know how fast she was going ( couldn't see the speedo ), and she thought she had hit a dog or something. I think that driving is not a right, and if you have a lot of risk factors, you shouldn't be allowed too.

 

[Bird]

only to find out later that the cops wont do anything as they didnt see it themselves

"wont" is the wrong word; should have been "can't" do anything in such a case.

just as a nice gust of wind hits the side of the trailer

As we went north in I-35 into a strong and gusting north wind yesterday we saw a southbound 18-wheeler on its side on the right shoulder of the road just a couple off miles south of the Oklahoma border. He was also probably less than a hundred feet south of the southbound entrance ramp from the rest area. When we were coming back, the right lane was closed by wreckers, law enforcement, etc. trying to turn it back up on its wheels.

Of course I have no idea what caused him to turn over, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised to learn he was dodging someone coming onto the freeway from the rest area and/or got hit by a good gust of wind.