Road Rage "enhancements"

[Cattletrkr]

In the span of a couple weeks:



1: I was driving home one night with my empty 6K trailer and some cheesehead from WI passed me with about 1/2 a mile clear in front of us. Did he keep going and pass the slowpokes (2) in front of me? Of course not. He slammed on the brakes and pulled in 15ft. in front of me. SO I decided to ride his arse for a while. He must not have like my headlights lighting up his cabin 'cause he started tapping the brakes and swerving over ther yellow line. Then he slowed down, so did I. I let him get a little bit ahead of me and then I took a run at him. He never saw it coming. I blew right past him in a swerve lane, HIGHLY illegal but fun as hell. Man was he ticked. He passed me going up a short hill with no regard for who WAS INDEED coming over the hill. This time he passed the slowpokes in front too. I guess some folks don't like being shown up by a stinky old cattle truck (er).



2: I was on my way to the stockyards, this time loaded-the trailer not me. 14 head of roughly 1400lb. steers makes for about 25-26,000 lb of trailer. The steers owner was riding along. Some "horse person" in a Furd dually decided he didn't want to wait for me. I don't know if I could have stopped if I had wanted to, but I didn't try very hard. Instead of causing them poor steers to tumble to the floor and probably break a few hundred dollars worth of trailer, I decided to keep going. I hit the brakes at first, but I wasn't sure I could stop, so to the floor she went. I was probably doing about 40mph or so when I went around. I took to the shoulder and passed that poor sucker. He didn't know I was no more than 3-4 inches from his truck until I laid on the horn. I've never seen a Ford jump like that. Scared the beejeebers outta that guy. I just barely missed his fenders. It was a narrow shoulder so I had to hang it tight to him. He ended up staying behind me for about 10 miles or so, well behind me. We came up to a stoplight side by side, sorta. He didn't want to be cab-cab with me for whatever reason so he just hung back until the light changed and then took off.



3: Some prick in a straight dump truck was the fourth guy to pull out in front of me in less than 20 mins. 1 of the other three actually pulled out in front of the car in front of me, I had plenty of time but not the guy in front. The other 2 were almost all out stomp-on-the-brakes-and-hope-for-the-best. I had to slow down for a stoplight, but not stop. The cars in front of me obviously were able to take off faster, therefore creating an opening for this jerk, kinda. I pulled over into the turn lane and once again floored it. I was in third gear (6spd) when I hit it. He musta been loaded too 'cause it didn't take much to get around him. I *maybe* pulled back into the proper lane sooner than I should have. I didn't know dump trucks were afraid of farmers. Dink almost hit the median curb. No, I wouldn't have hit him, just maybe splatter that nice chrome bumper with some stuff from my trailer.



There were more instances within that same 2 week span, but these are then ones that really stick out.



What does any of this have to do with anything? If not for my Juice, I know I would have never done any of that crap. Never set higher than 2/3. I'd hate to see what kind of trouble I'd get myself into if I had a clutch to handle 3/x or higher.



I'm cetainly not bragging. Think of this as more of a confession. OK, story #1 is bragging. That was just awesome.



Anybody else got anything they want to get off their chest???

 

[Rotty]

I think it is time for a big roo bar up front for you.....

That is for the eventuality of when you are given no choice and the phrase/bumper sticker is "you are my crumple zone"

 

[Silver Bullet Ram]

I have noticed when I try to pass people who are driving decide they want to make it a drag race. I had some young punks try this in a Oldsmobile a few weeks ago. I got up beside them, they floored it and I could not get around them, just pace them. So I started crowding them in their lane to the point they were going to have to go to the edge of the road and all they could see when they looked over was RAM2500 CUMMINS 24VALVE TURBO DIESEL on the my door. Anyone who wants to tangle with a 7000 pound truck needs their head examined.

 

[05mxdiesel]

the weird thing regarding cattletrk's stories that I have noticed, is that when you are hauling a load behind you, is when people always pull out in front of you. I help some buddies plow parking lots in one of their work trucks and I always see little ricer cars pull out in front of buses and other big trucks to have the truck run off the road and miss the car. I actually blocked a car on the side of the road and yelled at a kid for this, when the tractor and low boy jack knifed over one.

 

[Got Smoke?]

I drive delivery trucks for a living now for a landscaping supply co.



We have a major concrete manufacturing company in our town, and they have SEVERAL concrete trucks that are all over town everyday. They make a VERY BAD habit or pulling out in front of me all the time and these are at like 5-10mph speeds TOPS! (the concrete trucks... I'm usually running 30-50MPH!)



Finally the straw that broke the camel's back was yesterday. Had yet another one pull out in front of me and nearly take the front clip off of a car in oncoming traffic as he crossed to my lane. I was livid. We got to the next redlight and were side by side. I got the # off of his cab and called the shop. Normally I would not do this because I never want to be report & we just got those "1-800-2-ADVISE" on our trucks a few weeks back..... but enough is enough. #@$%! :-{}

 

[rbattelle]

Sounds like you guys need some train horns. Blastin' ear drums would make you feel better.



-Ryan

 

[Rams-n-Hogs]

Sounds like you guys need some train horns. Blastin' ear drums would make you feel better.

Sounds like you guys also need to take some DEFENSIVE driving lessons.



Jim

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

My apprentice and I left our yard one morning to head out to the job site. I was driving the bucket truck towing a backhoe. The road we were on went from a two lane down to a single lane. I had to merge over from the right lane to the left. There was a jeep already in the left lane a long way back, I put the turn signal on and merged over. When I got into the left lane he was still a ways back but came up fast. He proceeded to pass me on the shoulder. As he went by the cab he was honking and told me I was #1. We were traveling around 55mph when he pulled in front of me and hammered the brakes. I hit the brakes too, but there was no way I was stopping. I smashed into the back of his brand new Jeep. He lost control and swerved down into the ditch and back up onto the road into on-coming traffic. Once he got it goin straight, he took off and we never saw him again. The back end of the Jeep was totally smashed. I filed a report to the Mesa police just so this wouldn't come back and bite me, but I never heard anything. When you drive these bigger trucks every day you kind of get used to things like this. This is just one of the many incidents that has happened to me while driving work trucks. It's amazing how clueless the majority of the general population is when it comes to driving around bigger trucks.

 

[Jeff H]

If a commercial vehicle is involved. They will look for any excuse to blame the commercial vehicle. Even when its not the commercial vehicles fault. Trucking companies have money. So they have a much higher chance of getting sued.

Try driving near SCTC and SCSU in StCoud. Constently people trying to get of you. Driving like they are in nascar. Funny thing is I'll see them at the next dozen stop lights. I usually keep a tight space to prevent getting cutoff.

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Some prick in a straight dump truck was the fourth guy to pull out in front of me in less than 20 mins.



Do you run with the radar in idiot mode so you can see them coming? Radar modes are 1. Idiot 2. Oklahoman 3. Texan (sorry guys) 4. Care a little bit 5. Normal 6. People that actually think!



I find it hard to be a Christian and not think about playing Nascar on the highway..... rubbin's racin' baby!



Jim

 

[bmoeller]

Jim, with almost 900hp, you can rub hard. :-laf

When you drive these bigger trucks every day you kind of get used to things like this.

Sure you get used to stupid drivers, but it still p***** a person off.



4 wheelers pull the same crap with large farm equipment, too.

 

[Jim Fulmer]

I've had people on my butt and have made there cars completely disappear in smoke standing on it, converter locked and on the brake, it makes me want to put a loose spring in the AFC! Rule #1..... get off my tail.



Jim

 

[Got Smoke?]

I've had people on my butt and have made there cars completely disappear in smoke standing on it, converter locked and on the brake, it makes me want to put a loose spring in the AFC! Rule #1..... get off my tail.



Jim

:-laf Jim we share the same #1 rule.



Mine just goes "My trucks on 35" tires... if I cannot see you headlights over my tailgate thru my rearview..... your getting "SMOKED!" Oo. :-laf

 

[CSnyder]

I have left bumper marks on several cars that think it's cute to cut me off or pull in front of me. They automatically go into stupid mode when they see me hauling farm quipment on my trailer and assume that I must be only going 20-30 mph. I also love it when 18 wheel grain trucks try to get around me on big hills in the fast lane. Since I have a small cell phone style CB antenna they don't realize I can hear them talk back and forth between each other and it's funny what some of them say about my little 4 wheeler hauling heavy loads when I smoke their Arses on 8 and 12% hills. Last week I was following 3 big trucks running 70 in a 55 when this idiot in a company Buick thought I was going too slow so he kept swerving out and tailgating me so I got a good grip on my trailer brake controller and turned on my jake and when he swerved out when I knew he wouldn't be able to pass I locked up my brakes with no lights and he lost his headlights. Then he came flying around me telling me I'm number 1 so I mashed the go pedal and when he tried squeezing in front of me I clipped his quarter panel and knocked out a tail light. I haven't heard from the police or the DOT yet so I must have not been turned in. I would do it again in a heartbeat too.



Chris

 

[MLee]

Quick Motto;;;::::LEAD-FOLLOW-OR GET THE HE$$ OUT OF THE WAY Alot of people put there brain in the freezer when the get behind the wheel. Over the years I have been able to tell what a driver is going to do BE-fore he does it. Just that 7th sense one develop when your on the road.

Marv.

 

[rbattelle]

Often times I prefer to putz along in the slow lane 10-15 carlengths behind an 18 wheeler (so I can see his mirrors). I figure it's kind of like I'm a quarterback and he's the offensive line. Unfortunately, doing this on a relatively crowded roadway almost guarantees 3-5 cars will squeeze into the space between me and the truck. It's amazing how closely people will follow behind an 18-wheeler.



-Ryan

 

[NIsaacs]

This countrys county jails and state prisons are full of Inmates charged with, "crimes of passion", from misdemeanor "disorderly conduct" to "felony manslaughter" mostly commited under the influence of "anger"!



I am not saying this cuz I am a do gooder, I have my moments too however I see it all the time and ya can't turn back the clock after the fact.



Drive safe guys!





"NICK"

 

[bmoeller]

My rule on tailgaters is, if I can't see their headlights or front bumper (having flatbed and no tailgate), they WILL get smoked. That was one of the reasons for BOMBing the truck. As it runs now and with the stacks, I don't have to aim. I can black out 2 lanes of road now, if I want. That, and to have to power to get away from people have almost caught my back coner from merging ontp the interstate. Haven't been hit, YET. After the Ford is sold, I'm getting a REAL front bumper. LOTS of dumbarse drivers around here, and it is getting worse. So are the deer.

 

[GBobbitt]

We have a lot of those kind of drivers around here too. Sometimes when you look through their back window all you can see is blue hair and white knuckles. The other ones just prove the old saying that "stupid people shouldn't breed" should be made into a federal law.

 

[Cattletrkr]

I was afraid to check back for fear I was going to be savaged for being an aggressive idiot. "Thank You" to those of you who make my indiscretions look mild.



I almost forgot the best one:



Thankfully this time I was unloaded, still 6K trailer in tow. Coming thru town at 35mph I was cruising along, coming up on a GREEN light. A guy on the cross street pulled up to the light, stopped, looked both ways, and pulled out RIGHT in front of me, turning left. I couldn't have been more than 50ft at the absolute max from the intersection. I yanked that steering wheel as hard as I could to the left. My front Michelin 245/70/19. 5's were SLIDING ON THE TAR. I heard and felt a minor bang/bump. I got thru the intersection and looked back. The guy was continuing on his merry way. I pulled over to look things over and scrape out my drawers. No marks on truck (I knew there wasnt) or trailer. I think that bang I felt was a couple shovels in my GN and maybe my toolbox inside my crossbox. To this day I can't believe I missed him. Yes, I did slam on the brakes as well, but I was already around him by the time my foot made it to the brake pedal, that's how close it was. There was a very distinct pickup behind me that I've seen before and if I ever see him on the road again I've got a question for him. "Did I really have a green light or was I the idiot?" It's one of those things that really make ya question yourself. Thinking back right after it happened, I swear the light was green, but I'll probably never know for sure. Seeing as how the other guy stopped and looked both ways before going, I've gotta think I had green and he treated it like a 4-way. Still gives me the willy's. He would have been dead even at 35mph 'cause I was headed right for his left temple.



I screwed up the exhaust on my truck. First muffler was a leftover from doing the exhaust on dad's '02. Came as a kit and he put a different one on. Wasn't offset so my tailpipe hung really low. Second was put on by the guy who installed my BD brake. Hated that damn thing. Managed to re-install factory potato. Got so sick of not making any noise when someone ticked me off that I had to get one custom made. It was the same as the first aftermarket one I had, only they added a couple offset pipes. Now I can rattle windows. I'll have to do it again someday 'cause now I've got stainless (factory) clamped to aluminized. Next time it's bye-bye kitty.



I can't really smoke anyone 'cause I'm running B20, very little smoke unless I really get on it on too high of a Juice setting for my clutch, so that doesn't happen very often.

doing this on a relatively crowded roadway almost guarantees 3-5 cars will squeeze into the space

Yep, gauranteed. Everyday at least 5-10 times.

Over the years I have been able to tell what a driver is going to do BE-fore he does it. Just that 7th sense one develop when your on the road.

I play a little game to keep my mind going. I try to guess what the other guy is going to do. It's not even a matter of guessing anymore, I just know. The problem is I don't play often enough. People who don't drive for a living would probably think I'm psychic, or is it psychotic... :-laf