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Edward IV posted:This is the Garden State Parkway after snowing for the better part of the day. Lane markers are completely covered and it was hard to judge where the sides of the road were. Note all the plows off to the left waiting. I've always said that when I get tired of driving in the snow and the dark, I'm going to become a plow driver for the state.....
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Motronic posted:You know the worst part about that? It's often not their choosing to be sitting there. Yeah, I found out here in Nevada how it's done. NHP patrols an area, calls in dispatch, dispatch rolls the plows. This is how it really works. NHP sees it is snowing, camps out at the local whorehouse/donutshop, waits for a pile-up or some shitass fuckfest, heads out after awhile, then gets the plows rolling after there is a plate of ice on the interstate. I've had to call 911 to tell them to get the plows rolling because there are cars all over the loving place off the interstate, I haven't seen a loving NHP or a plow in 76 miles, and I have 36 cars lined up behind me like I'm a loving mother duck with a herd of little ducks heading to the pond. The kicker is I won't see a plow until I'm another two counties over and it's stopped snowing. 
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Dec 17, 2013 06:10
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Kilersquirrel posted:A page late but I'm firmly of the belief that once you're old enough to get social security payments(or the equivalent for non-US drivers) you should have to re-qualify your eyes and ears every 3 years, and a full road test at the 10-year mark. The AARP is the most powerful union ever. And that includes the old Soviet Union. How else do you explain RV having 800+ HP engines, air brakes, 60K GVW and still doing 45 in a 75mph zone? And you don't get your eyes checked every couple of years at the DMV? I know I get my poo poo checked for my medical, but I also always get me vision checked at the DMV when I renew. Funny story about that, I am legal to drive a normal car without glasses, but I have to wear glasses to drive a CMV.
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NitroSpazzz posted:This rolled in this morning. Apparently it was making a strange sound yesterday then this morning on the way to work it started handling funny so she drove to the dealership 20+ miles away. Good thing the TPMS sensor was there, she likely knew she had a low tire. What does all these lights on my dash MEAN?!?!?! Did I just get a facebook update????
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Dec 19, 2013 21:42
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WORST PUN EVER. For a second I thought I was reading a craigslist ad.
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Dec 20, 2013 00:15
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cursedshitbox posted:Every city I cycle in its illegal to ride the sidewalks. I get to see them get punted off the highway every once in awhile. Riding on a shoulderless highway with snowbirds ends up killing two birds with one stone. NHP writes the bicyclists tickets too.
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Dec 24, 2013 07:06
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trouser chili posted:I'm catching up with this thread, and a ways back we were talking about overloaded trucks. We get these guys everywhere in St. Louis. Don't laugh too hard that guy is hauling about $600+ in pallets.
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Dec 31, 2013 19:01
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BraveUlysses posted:New vehicles have sudden stop braking technologies so slipstreaming for hyper milers is getting even safer Unless of course the truck rides the rumble strips. You might think you are saving money on fuel, but windshields aren't cheap.
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Dec 31, 2013 20:13
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FogHelmut posted:I just want to give a shout out to the salt truck driver heading south on PA 402. I was heading north, he stopped the flow of salt as we passed each other. Pro. Seriously? Go buy a loving lotto ticket, I've never seen that poo poo happen.
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Jan 1, 2014 07:44
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CannonFodder posted:Freight can't sue the driver and the company for injury, passengers can. Thanks to that Rabbi in Indiana who killed his wife, they can't sue trucks for lopping heads off passengers who rear end truck trailers. I've seen 7 four wheelers vs big truck accidents over the last couple of years same thing, big flashy signs "slow trucks" steep grade, 75 mph zone, RAMMING SPEED! DING DING! DING DING! Last one I saw, a guy rammed a ore train (129,000 pound gold ore side dump double, lit up like a xmas tree with permayellow flashers on the rear end end) so loving hard, his ENGINE was stuck in the rear trailer and they where cutting it out. http://www.sidedump.com/s3-three-axle-side-dump-trailer.php Kinda like that one. What was left of his Toyota....Chevy...GMC...Maybe a Ford? was in the center of the interstate wadding up like a ball with a huge hole where the engine was. Had brand new paperplates from the dealer on it too.
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Jan 2, 2014 05:50
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cursedshitbox posted:I always try to wedge my vehicle with my passenger side against their driverside. Climb over your console you gently caress! While I have never had that happen, I can't figure out why people would squeeze me in when I was driving my F250 beater. I mean for gently caress's sake people, it looks like it's been through a war, there isn't a straight loving panel on the drat thing, including the roof, and you aren't going to park in your spot so I can get in? Does it look like I am going to really give a flying gently caress about what paint is left on the door when I have to wedge it open so I can fit into my truck?
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How about when it goes from single lane to passing lane and the fucker that was doing 50 is now doing 75 so you can't pass in the safe passing zone, and then they drop back down to 50 when it's two lane again. Another bitch is mountain roads. You don't know how many times I have gotten stuck behind a person doing 10 under the speed limit because they are scared because the road goes left and right, then as soon as it is a passing zone, they go 20 over. I've just given up on these morons that don't use the turnouts, and will outbrake them into the corner. Much shame is brought onto the Fatherland when a BMW gets outbraked by a non-turbo F250 4x4. And don't get me started on the clown in the WRX that finally pulled over because I got sick of waiting for him to learn how to drive their car and out-cornered them in my one ton dually. I'd never seen a car push so bad in my life, I think the guy had to clean his shorts out. Slower traffic use turn-outs! I don't cut fuckers slack in midlife crisis mobiles. You bought a sportscar, you took it on a mountain road, now drive it so I can't catch you, or use the loving turn-outs. By the same token, I'll let you pass ASAP if you catch me. Which to date has only been a couple of Sunbeam Tigers and Vintage 911's out for a jolly cruise driving them like they stole them.
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Jan 5, 2014 07:11
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nm posted:You know who never uses turn outs? Motorcycles. Was stuck behind a harley and two BMW touring bikes from Boonville to Cloverdale on 128 the other day. loving maddening. And I can't safely pass 3 motorcycles in the very short passing zones they do have, esp with 100hp of fury in my Mazda 2. Yeah, motorcycles riders have been doing dumb poo poo stuff as well as me, which is why I get a bit testy when I hear poo poo about "cagers" anymore. It doesn't matter what they ride, they'll pull out from a side street in front of me while I'm driving the big truck. It's like a two story tall semi is a loving stealth bomber. It might be because they are used to semi trucks going "slow" they think they all are "slow" and they can pull out in front of them at whim. That or riding the line. I know it's cool and all, but don't loving put your tires on the line when you are riding double, because that means you are in MY lane. Between that and leaning into a turn so hard that they are splitting the line, head in my lane, the motorcycle in their lane, it's no wonder they kill themselves in horrific fashion. Also note, snowpoles WILL take your head clean off, so don't loving cut in on them as well, unless you want to be the headless motorcycle rider.
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Jan 5, 2014 21:40
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IOwnCalculus posted:I actually saw a justified use of double parking the other day. Pulled up to Walgreens and saw a double parked SUV. Noticed it had a handicapped placard, then saw that all four handicapped spaces were also occupied (legally, at that). Yeah. Go out to Quartzsite. Half the year the place is empty with an average age of like 40, the other half it goes to Population 50,000, average age, deceased. Hell, Sun City is like that as well. Old folks hot rodding their golf carts around. Always wanted to get a PA system and just scream at them. Well, I want to do that to most people, but I know I can get away with it with the old people, they couldn't make out the numbers on my truck.
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Jan 5, 2014 21:45
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Jan 8, 2014 23:04
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Deedle posted:It's hard enough for people, that bicyclists around here will tell you that they are legally protected against financial liability if you run them over. And then they just bike off into the night with a black coat on, no lights and often not even reflectors on the heap of scrap metal they call a bike. The Black Ghosts strike again! Almost mowed over a lady wearing all black walking a black dog at 10:30 at night just the other day. 
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Jan 12, 2014 07:19
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West SAAB Story posted:I still get strange looks when I'm asked why I am slowing down by my own drat passengers. Well, in about 1000ft it drops 10mph. There is no viable reason to hammer down straight up to the next speed limit sign and reseat your brake pads while testing your seatbelts' automatic locking mechanism. Heh, I keep my foot in it until I see a white sign that says otherwise. 6 wheel drifts are awesome, I dare you to say otherwise. I did have some fun the other day, I was driving my pickup and some rear end in a top hat in a HYBRID TOASTER CAR was ignoring the turn signals of the big truck trying to get over because the lane ended (Reno/Sparks, the clusterfuck by the Nugget) Well the truck came over and this made the HYBRID TOASTER CAR driver completely outraged, so I boxed him in behind the big truck, and flipped him off while pumping my finger in my fist-anus. This took him by surprise and seemed to calm him the gently caress down a bit, and by calm him down, I think he had a stroke and passed out purple. Guy was trying to tailfuck the dude's DOT bar for some reason.
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West SAAB Story posted:But, but, but my MPGs. My MPGs??? Here is something for you to sit back and think about. My pickup gets worse MPG than my semi. I pretty much will go around the Spaghetti Bowl if there is any event anywhere near town because I'm tired of playing "Dodge the Californian that figures out they need to get off here to go to Reno" game. You know the game, I'm going to spend three loving days in the left hand lane then cross traffic sideways 50 feet past the point of no return to make my offramp at 70mph. I'm going to end up doing the PIT Maneuver on someone by accident one of these days. Also, gently caress people scared of blowing trash. Almost got into a major pile-up because a box blew out on the interstate and everybody in the fast lane was playing restrictor plate NASCAR and hammered on the binders at 80mph 3 feet apart. I said gently caress it and mowed over the box and whatever was in it to calm these fuckers down. Of course there was some kind of rattle cans of something in the box and they took off like missiles, but for gently caress's sake people don't be retarded.
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Negromancer posted:On residential/side streets? gently caress you if you speed in those areas. The neighborhood I live in does not have sidewalks on all the side streets, so when I am out walking my dog I am forced to walk in the street. Despite doing everything I can to be seen(wearing clothes with reflective stripes, flashing light on my leash, flashing light on my dogs harness, walking against traffic, etc), I have almost been hit by cars easily doing 30+ on the side streets. basically gently caress you if you feel the need to speed in residential areas, I hope you learn your lesson before you kill someone. There are a couple of places that I go where the speed limit is 50mph. And it's residents/farms right there. I've killed quite a pile of critters on that road because people are too lazy to fence in their chickens, ducks, geese, some fuzzy critters that almost look like beavers but aren't. Also had someone on a sidestreet run the stop sign and pull out in front of me on a scooter while not wearing a helmet. If there is something funnier than the looks on some idiot's face when they see what they've done, I haven't seen it. Best part was after the fucker got done doing a lawn job, he got mad as gently caress at me. Some places will keep the speed limits up that high when people buy out a farm and try and turn in into a mini burb as some kind of only the strongest shall grow to breeding age or something.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's kinda funny, actually. Seems so far this year bicyclists have finally learned that riding on a no-shoulder 70mph highway isn't a good thing. I guess after enough of them getting RAN THE gently caress OVER and not only getting a nice long trip in a meatwagon, but a ticket ontop of it, they have finally loving learned.
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HorseLord posted:You know, driving a motor vehicle is a privilege. The whole reason that things like driving licences exist is because you have to earn the ability to drive heavy machinery around other road users at high speeds. After all, the car showed up a long time after roads and their users did. Is this poo poo for real, or are you having a giggle?
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Aug 27, 2014 07:07
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Powershift posted:Why are cyclists so thin skinned that they can't accept criticism? must be all the shaving.  And don't even get me started on loving BLACK GHOSTS! It's dark as gently caress, no light because light pollution is BAD, I'm going to go bicycle riding, or go for a walk, wear nothing but black, and if I'm on a bicycle, I'm not running a light and I have taken off all my reflectors. This happens more times than I care to think about, and last time it was real nasty a girl did it on the loving interstate in the loving travel lane at 1am. I don't think they found all the pieces of her.
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tuna posted:Topical video of a douche in a truck throwing poo poo and rolling coal on a random cyclist: http://youtu.be/2HlZXCWha6Q?t=30s He claims it was the third time they gave him some carbon free tax, but don't see the videos from that. Wonder what started it all.
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tuna posted:Here is all the internet has been told: Lucky he didn't get a ticket for riding and using his cellphone.
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jamal posted:Sometimes it's hard to pull out a phone and take video while riding a bike and trying not to get killed. Here's a fun one: Then you best not do it and be unsafe!
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http://youtu.be/aq2XWYjc96E This guy has killed more sagebrush than anyone else.
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KozmoNaut posted:There are narrower roads in the UK with 60 mph limits. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.308032,-120.763113,3a,75y,101.78h,62.73t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEDo8w6LcQozN4yd5LhIYTQ!2e0 This is fun when you are 75 feet long.
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watwat posted:Please cut up your license and sell your car before you kill someone Sorry buddy, but I heard him use his turn signal so that makes him better than 94% of the drivers out there right off the bat.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Here's something I witnessed this morning: I've had people do that from the right only turn lane when I'm in my big truck, two left hand turn lanes, one right, person from the right hand cuts across my lane and the lane next to me to make a left, illegally.
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Double whammy with two wheelers yesterday, motorcyclist went down hard as gently caress on the interstate, my guess is he clipped someone's left front fender with his back tire, like he almost did to me in my rig 15 miles before, but at least he was wearing full gear went he went down and was only bleeding out his mouth and nose. Then later, getting late on a two lane highway, in a 70mph zone, 25+ miles from the nearest man-made light source, I drat near ran into a black ghost pushing a bicycle in the travel lane. Yeah, no lights, no reflectors, dark clothes, middle of nowhere, walking in the travel lane. I figured the man wanted to meet Jesus, the Aliens, or feed the critters, only reason I loving saw him was I noticed the fog line acting funny.
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some texas redneck posted:Watch out for motorcycles, fuckers. Can't tell over the kickin rad 90s techno, but the guy on the bike was laying on his horn as soon as the Cruze started to change lanes. Driver even sees him, waves, taps the brakes, and still continues his lane change. http://youtu.be/s9ePl3Il6D0 This video popped up as well. Guy on motorcycle complaining about the car crossing the double yellow, while crossing the double yellow himself. If you are on a motorcycle, and your tires on on or near the paint, you're over the line!
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The Door Frame posted:I saw the strangest traffic sign yesterday, it was on a state Highway just before a turn with a 45mph speed limit and it said "NO ENGINE BRAKING" M. Night Skymall posted:They're talking about super loud engine brakes on semis, not when you let off the throttle. xzzy posted:Those signs are super common in rural areas, they're talking about the noisy as gently caress engine brakes that semi trucks use. Sounds like a monstrous fart can when they do it, is usually forbidden in towns because of the racket. http://youtu.be/JF6ZeybmQ1U There is the yawn-fest http://youtu.be/Pokpfj6ZF90 Bring the noise. Sadly new trucks can't rock the engine brake hard. And new new trucks seem to have a loving delay on the engine brake even kicking on. gently caress it, I'm getting a old 359 or 379 and a N14 and putting a straight pipe on it and going bullracking.
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kastein posted:Just saw some loving idiot stopped IN THE LEFT TRAVEL LANE OF I90W because they had a flat. And then get out of the loving car and walk behind it to look at it. Almost as good as the idiots from Burning Man, two years ago, that parked on I-80 to take pictures of the Truckee River.
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Murphys Law posted:Both Driver and Mother of the Year. I really don't think much of that rage was directed at the driver. I feel sorry for that thing's husband though. I take that back, I feel sorry for everyone around that crazy bitch. http://www.rentalprotectionagency.com/case-23-3799-DIAMOND-HEAD-LEILANI-CONDOMINIUMS-THOR-WHITE-SITE-MANAGER-HONOLULU-Hawaii InterceptorV8 fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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Bum the Sad posted:A while back I was with my good friend and he was driving and I looked over at the dash and saw his brights indicator was on and asked him why the hell he had his brights on. Turns out he though that the brights indicator just meant his lights were on. He had been driving for about 5 years at that point, exclusively using his brights. The real question is how hard did you hit him on the back of the head?
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Bum the Sad posted:I made sure he received a good week of verbal abuse from our circle of friends.  Humans need a cone of shame as well.
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PaganGoatPants posted:"I should put this on youtube What the gently caress are some Brits driving on the wrong side of the road in the states or what? EVERYBODY LET'S CROSS THE DOUBLE YELLOW TODAY!
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some texas redneck posted:Somewhere, a lawyer is trying to figure out how to start a class action lawsuit for people that got in a wreck.. because their car couldn't stop itself. I've already warned my family about BENDIX WINGMAN SYSTEM in my new truck and how it's already loving up, and if I crash and burn who to sue first.
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