Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief...

   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #21  
Guido455 said:
I find that bugs me as well. Up here we have a lot of gravel shoulders, and for some reason, my truck and trailer seems to wander off just a little onto the gravel, once or twice, depending if the gravel pinging off there hood and windshield wakes the tailgaters up. For some reason, once they pass, or back off, the fishtailing seems to misteriously end. LOL

My father taught me that one when I first started driving. Works without gravel as well. Just a little bit of tail shake usually gets them away
 
   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #22  
I am with jpm1 on this
I too have been a driver for approx 32 yrs (both box truck and tractor trailers) and mostly drive the speed limit or 5mph over on the highway.
And people just don't get that mechanical's fail at anytime .
And mostly in these type situations when the hole peepers are distracted by the qwerty board
and then need to lock up all four's... and the brakes have never been maintained nor the tires
nor the brain power needed to actually pass a road test.
Maybe Ford or GM can mount front mount censors when they get to close it turns on the limp mode until
there is safe operating room restored (1 length of vehicle per 10 mph ) or cell phone companys install
an automatic shutoff for any phone travling more then 3mph for more then 15 seconds
which can be done through there gps tracking that almost every phone in the world currently has installed
[/end rant...
Sorry guys but OMG this is one of my biggest triggers dumb people who either don't care about killing someone else (they never seem to be the ones) or the fact they cannot react in time to keep from hitting a suddenly stationary object.
I do as stated already... mostly i just keep slowing down by 5mph each time if they back off i go back to the speed limit
 
   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #23  
I just pull over. I know it sounds simple but life's too short to get my blood boiling over someone driving too close. These days you never know who's behind you or what they will do. A lot of people that do this don't think they are doing anything wrong and if you do spraying rocks across their hood or windshield you may find you've just made someone on the edge go over. It just takes one nut with a gun who feels like you "wronged" him to ruin your life, just not worth it to me.
 
   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #24  
I won't tell you what I used to do, when I was an over the road driver LOL
but the ingrediants was a zip-lock baggie with yellow fluid.
david
 
   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #25  
With tailgaters I can always go slower than their patience will allow.
Remember this,often times women driving alone will tail gate because they feel safe for some reason. They don't feel alone.

I tailgatted trucks from Ohio down to Florida in an old VW bus. It was the only way I could go 55 mph in that beast.
 
   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #26  
A couple of months ago I was on my way to an appointment and was doing just under the speed limit (50 kph) and I picked up a tailgater..a female City cop. I just slowed down....and down...after a while she moved into the other lane and passed me but it irked me considerable! After all, one expects the ever so righteous cops to obey traffic laws.

A few years back I was on the freeway in the city here driving the company work van doing about 90 kph and a little car latched onto my rear bumper. I wasn't tailgating the vehicle in front of me but I was following fairly close, the usual distance everybody follows actually, and then someone did a lane change a few cars ahead of us and cut somebody off who had to get on the brakes. We all had to get on the brakes too, but since we all were paying attention, nothing came of it...but the car behind me ...that driver must have thought he was going to disappear under my van! :laughing: How he didn't end up hitting me is a mystery! Must have had darn good reflexes and even better brakes.

I remember back in about 1975 I was on the divided highway one night doing about 65 mph and a car caught up with me...and then stayed behind me with his lights on high beam. PITA...errrr...eyes when they do that, so I flashed my lights several times...he didn't take the hint, so I slowed down...and he slowed down...I was down to 30 mph and he stayed right there. I had to almost stop before he got it in his head that he could pass me. (btw, no other traffic around us) I returned the favour to him by following him with both my high and low beams on for a short while...but I doubt he ever twigged to why my lights were so bright.
 
   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #27  
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There is more to the story to what transpired afterwards but I still to this day can't believe that this happened. Oh, and by the way, I did not know the person. Go figure. :confused2:

That's unfair!! you can't leave it like that!!

Weedpharma
 
   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #28  
A brisk application of the trolley brake often seemed to knock the cobwebs out of some tailgaters heads.
 
   / Personal rant---tailgaters when towing trailer...good grief... #29  
Defensive driving courses will tell you to double your following distance when "pursued" by a tailgater.

True, you have to increase your cushion plus add in the cushion that the stooge behind you doesn't. At least that's how I figure it. I drop back from the vehicle in front of me by another second then add a couple seconds that I will have to give up for the guy behind me.

Most conditions a 3 second following distance works, bad weather, towing, or if you have an idiot on your ***** you have to add a couple more. I am not above pulling over and letting these nuts go by. I'd rather have them in front on me where I can watch them than behind me where I am looking in my mirrors all the time and not giving the road in front of me the attention it needs.
 
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#30  
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I remember back in about 1975 I was on the divided highway one night doing about 65 mph and a car caught up with me......he didn't take the hint, so I slowed down...and he slowed down...I was down to 30 mph and he stayed right there. I had to almost stop before he got it in his head that he could pass me. ..

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I mentioned earlier that on a no-traffice straight country road on flat ground I kept slowing down and slowing down for a tail-gaiting woman on the cell phone. She kept slowing down until I finally stopped and she stopped right behind me as well (still too close) and still on the phone. She did get the hint after a few seconds but how do these people get through life? Who brushes their teeth or dresses them in the morning?
 

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