I'll try not to make this a personal attack, but this attitude is the same
attitude adopted by the morons in the SUVs that you despise so much, and it
pisses me off. What does the fact that race track drivers use drafting have
anthing at all to do with highway driving????? The highway isn't a friggin
racetrack!! You say "True, dangerous, But that's my choice." Well you are
also endangering the lives of those around you. But, hey, you can handle it
*and* you think it's your God given right.
I used to have the same attitude that you have until I got into an accident
where someone was killed. I was in the right of way, but that doesn't make
a damned bit of difference to that woman who's life ended when my car hit
hers. At the time I was a professional driver driving 18 wheelers and I had
been to the NY State Trooper driving school. Doesn't make a damned bit of
difference. As any State Trooper will tell you driving is a privelege not a
right, and when they take your license away for speeding and tailgating,
that's just what the Judge will tell you also.
Let's all try learn to drive defensively and responsibly. Being able to
drive our LBCs is a wonderful and precious gift as is being able to wake up
every morning. The life you save may be your own, or your spouse's or your
child's or that of a complete stranger. Waking up in the hospital facing
vehicular homocide charges is not something you really want to experience.
Sorry, I'm getting down from my soapbox now.
Robert
http://www.woozy.com
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At 09:33 AM 10/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Have CDL can drive anything anywhere and have been doing so for a long time,
>Drafting is an art, developed by the best racing drivers in the world.
>True dangerous, But thats my choice, As far as the guys putting their time in
>on the road, I respect them and never bother the guys in the big rigs,
>Buses on the other hand , Well thats personal, And the yuppies in their SUVs
>are the biggest bunch of it Ive ever seen. I have been trained at the then
>Calif. State Pol. high speed driving school , Along time ago, and have driven
>under conditions no other human is subject too except for other
professionals.
>I enjoy driving, any where any time, Carl E.
>
>"Robert B. Houston" wrote:
>
>> It's ful like that Carl, that drives the professional drivers crazy. They
>> just hate having to hose you off the rear bumper....
>>
>> Robert Houston
>> 74 Midget, Katy
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
>> To: Ajhsys@aol.com <Ajhsys@aol.com>
>> Cc: transerv@sprynet.com <transerv@sprynet.com>; spridgets@autox.team.net
>> <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>> Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 6:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: a Very Sad thing
>>
>> >I do that with my escort on the parkway with the buses running to AC,
>> >Gets me about 4 more mpg, And they stay around 70 or so.
>> >Makes for fun comuteing. Carl E.
>> >
>> >Ajhsys@aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> I used to work with a guy who drove a Triumph GT6. He was more than a
>> little
>> >> nuts! He found that his car was light enough to slip-stream behind
>> tractor
>> >> trailers on the turnpike at 70 MPH! He says he saved a lot of gas that
>> way.
>> >> I think he's still alive. (Folks, please don't try this!)
>> >>
>> >> Allen Hefner
>> >> '77 Midget
>> >> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
>> >>
>> >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> >>
>> >> In a message dated 10/23/98 2:09:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> >> transerv@sprynet.com writes:
>> >>
>> >> << Tractor trailers are a necessary fact of transportation life on our
>> >> highways, and I make my living through them, but when driving on the
>> >> highway, I am always aware of them, and give them as much leeway as
>> >> possible. 80,000 pounds does not stop on a dime, move much when you
>> crash
>> >> into it, or veer defensively worth a darn.
>> >>
>> >> Let's all be careful out there folks.
>> >>
>> >> Robert Houston
>> >> 74 Midget, Katy >>
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