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Originally Posted by stimpy
actually Sirotta I can agree with you on this , I am kind of glad I quit driving , My biggest pet peeve was I would set the cruise at 2-3 over the speed limit and some butthead would come flying up behind me then pass and pull in front of me and slow down .. WTH?? making me have to come off cruise , and as you know what does that do in a Tanker ?? would just like to be able to Bi**hslap them . after a while I just learned to drive with my lights on and high beam them when they start to move over or tap the airhorn . makes the scoot back and pull ahead .
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I haul liquid fuels and our company tells us not to make quick lane changes and if someone brake checks us we're supposed to hit them to avoid a rollover. Companies that haul fuel want no rollovers whatsoever. I however don't agree with that and had I done in one instance what company policy says, I know there would have been a major wreck with most likely fatalities. Someone in the lane about 10 cars ahead spiked their brakes and the only place I had to go is 1 lane to the left. As it turned out it cost them the bracket that the steps are mounted to over the fuel tank and a bumper cover on the car along with fixing the left quarter panel on the car in front of me. 1 more inch and I wouldn't have had any contact at all with that car at all.
Tankers don't like sudden stops or changes in direction, keep that in mind when your around any tanker, not just fuel. Fuel tankers just can have a lot worse results than say a milk tanker.