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[Travelover]

None of you should have been in that lane.
Drive in the RIGHT (aka correct) lane unless you are passing.
If passing, DO IT & get back in the right lane.

That's right and if you don't, a trucker has the right to kill you. After all, you might cost him a few minutes of his time.

 

[aczlan]

Driving in the center lane on the interstate yesterday I saw a semi about a car length behind the last car in a train of six cars in the center lane. This at 75mph with lots of room to go around. Thought it might have been a short time traffic congestion thing but he tailgated for maybe ten miles before he broke away.

Then, a few minutes later I see him a car length behind another car and same speed or faster. He knew what he was doing because he moved over when a cop passed going the other direction. Then he was right back to tailgating. We followed him for 35 miles. What the...?

If it were me, I would have gotten his trailer number and called the trucking company he works for to report him for tailgating. They would be very excited to hear about that as if you rear-ended the train of cars and cause a pile-up their insurance would have to pay for it which would cost them more money.

Aaron Z

 

[California]

Found this in an I-80 rest area restroom way out in the godforsaken middle of the Nevada desert, summertime, hours from any human habitation:

Here I sit
with a a broken heart.
Ate my pills.
And my truck won't start.

That tailgating trucker was likely so high that he thought a carlength was wasting usable space.

 

[sixdogs]

None of you should have been in that lane.
Drive in the RIGHT (aka correct) lane unless you are passing.
If passing, DO IT & get back in the right lane.

Trucks drive in the center all the time. The right, yes but a lot in the center and sometimes the left passing lane.

 

[Raspy]

way out in the godforsaken middle of the Nevada desert, summertime, hours from any human habitation:

:laughing: Love the description! Ahhhh, the beauty of the Nevada "desert". That's why we love it out here. Turn one way and you can handshake with the old west, turn the other way and see the Milky Way sweep across the sky. Meanwhile, coyotes sing and in the contrasting silence, you might hear a train coming from 20 miles out, or the breeze passing through the pinion pines. Unlimited four wheeling exploration and then fun in Reno on the weekends. Yes, the "godforsaken" high deserts of Nevada. Strewn with hidden lakes and streams. Best to steer clear of this place. :thumbsup:

 

[LD48750]

Trucks drive in the center all the time. The right, yes but a lot in the center and sometimes the left passing lane.

Just because SOME truckers drive like A holes doesn't mean it's right.
They should be in the right lane unless passing just like everybody else.

 

[Sysop]

Just because SOME truckers drive like A holes doesn't mean it's right.
They should be in the right lane unless passing just like everybody else.

Replace "SOME" with "MOST" and you are getting close. Problem isn't confined to truckers though. MOST drivers drive like A holes. Very rare is the consistently cautious and polite driver.

 

[Jstpssng]

Where do you drive? It certainly isn't just truckers who travel in the passing lane, on two as well as three lane highways.

 

[California]

:laughing: Love the description! Ahhhh, the beauty of the Nevada "desert". That's why we love it out here. Turn one way and you can handshake with the old west, turn the other way and see the Milky Way sweep across the sky. Meanwhile, coyotes sing and in the contrasting silence, you might hear a train coming from 20 miles out, or the breeze passing through the pinion pines. Unlimited four wheeling exploration and then fun in Reno on the weekends. Yes, the "godforsaken" high deserts of Nevada. Strewn with hidden lakes and streams. Best to steer clear of this place. :thumbsup:

I love that country. When the kid were little we used to cross Donner Pass and take the little tent trailer to remote spots - east of Bodie past the Nevada line, Pyramid Lake (back when you could camp alone anywhere), Berlin Icthysaur State Park, getting out of the car an hour short of Jackpot to show the kids the late night Milky Way. Across from Herlong (camped in the desert overnight) to the Black Rock Desert region, camped, then in a big circle back to I-80. (Long before the Burning man crowd popularized that region). Before kids, visited Manhattan mid-60's when the mountain was rabbit-hole prospects, before the whole mountain was demolished and run through crushers. One trip to Bonneville Salt Flats to watch motorcycle speed records.

When I was a teenager in the 50's my uncle was the USGS specialist mapping mineral resources for the Tonopah-region quadrangle, then later the quadrangle a couple hours north of Elko. He was based at a then-abandoned copper mine near Mountain City and all us cousins were invited up there for weeks, exploring the desert on our own while he worked. He took us along a few times for real adventures up remote canyons etc in his government Willys Wagon. I love the desert.

Photo: Drove the dirt road down the Carson river and camped near Fort Churchill, early spring. We told the kids their ancestors had likely come up this same canyon 140+ years prior. We had to wait for chain control to be lifted to get back over the summit.

 

[Raspy]

I love that country. When the kid were little we used to cross Donner Pass and take the little tent trailer to remote spots - east of Bodie past the Nevada line, Pyramid Lake (back when you could camp alone anywhere), Berlin Icthysaur State Park, getting out of the car an hour short of Jackpot to show the kids the late night Milky Way. Across from Herlong (camped in the desert overnight) to the Black Rock Desert region, camped, then in a big circle back to I-80. (Long before the Burning man crowd popularized that region). Before kids, visited Manhattan mid-60's when the mountain was rabbit-hole prospects, before the whole mountain was demolished and run through crushers. One trip to Bonneville Salt Flats to watch motorcycle speed records.

When I was a kid in the 50's my uncle was the USGS specialist mapping mineral resources for the Tonopah-region quadrangle, then later the quadrangle a couple hours north of Elko. He was based at a then-abandoned copper mine near Mountain City and all us cousins were invited up there for weeks, exploring the desert on our own while he worked. He took us along a few times for real adventures up remote canyons etc in his government Willys Wagon. I love the desert.

Photo: Drove the dirt road down the Carson river and camped near Fort Churchill, early spring. We told the kids their ancestors had likely come up this same canyon 140+ years prior. We had to wait for chain control to be lifted to get back over the summit.

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Fun times. Fort Churchill built on silt mounds deposited in the ancient Lake Lahontan from water currents. If you look up on the rocky hills, you see ancient water lines from that lake about 20-60,000 years ago as it slowly lowered over time and revealed the desert floor. Fort Churchill was purchased by Buckland who took the wood and built his beautiful mansion along the road. I think Dayton was the closest town then and a several day trip to Carson if needed. The army built that fort to quell some Indian problems and then de-commissioned it when things settled down. The soldiers would swim in the Carson river in the summer.

One day some travelers came through, on their way to San Francisco, I think. Two beautiful young sisters were part of the group and one stayed to marry Buckland. They had about 8 kids. Not all survived those harsh conditions, but their ancestors are still around the area in Dayton and Carson as I understand it. Now, the Lahontan Reservior is the main lake in the area, backed up by a dam on the Carson River. During the drought years a few years back the water level went to practically empty. Way below the penstocks. Then the old tree stumps showed up along the old river route from when they had cut out all of the cottonwood trees around 1900 to prepare the lake bottom. I cut and brought home a sample of that wood that had been submerged for over 100 years. It looks just fine.

As we fly along in the car passing beautiful spots, it's sometimes hard to appreciate just what life was like only 120 years ago, right there. A harsher life. Simpler in it's customs. The history of the old west is right here to see and appreciate. We also have hieroglyphics and grinding rocks from much earlier times. I gaze out the window and think about people living right here, grinding the pinion nuts, hunting the deer, throwing a scrap to the coyotes and gathering water from the trickles meandering down the canyons, or from the fine Walker River that churns along all year. Hot springs in the area could have helped them stay warm. Then later the wagons passed through Wilson Canyon on their way west, deciding near here if they wanted to brave the rugged Sonora Pass or go over Donner.

This has been a home and a crossroads for many people for a very long time. And no wonder, beneath it's somewhat barren appearance lies an abundance.