Author Topic: When passing a truck don't delay or linger.  (Read 1618 times)

08087

  • 09' Peoples 200, NJ
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1373
    • View Profile
When passing a truck don't delay or linger.
« on: July 01, 2012, 09:34:31 PM »


When passing a truck make a decisive move and get past him, lingering around will only get you killed.
This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties either expressed or written and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use, the author is not responsible for your inability to understand logic, ambiguous references, sarcasm, the imaginary friends living inside my head or William Shatner

wordslinger

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10766
  • undead primate
    • View Profile
Re: When passing a truck don't delay or linger.
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 09:36:03 PM »
...close call...but it appeared he escaped...
..every mod (action) necessitates a (reaction) mod..

Peters

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1582
  • In Glock I Trust
    • View Profile
Re: When passing a truck don't delay or linger.
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 11:23:33 PM »
Damn!

I sure hope that guy got the hell out of there

The truck must have had most of its load on the right side of the trailer. I used to load trucks, you have to try to load the weight evenly. Either that or it was really windy and the trailer was empty.
*2010 People 50 2t with 70cc kit and more
*2001 ZX-50 beater

YagerMySter

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 126
    • View Profile
Re: When passing a truck don't delay or linger.
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 11:49:09 PM »
Yikes.

I did it and I'm glad.

Vivo

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4980
    • View Profile
Re: When passing a truck don't delay or linger.
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2012, 02:29:37 AM »
I had an office mate who tried to pass an 18 wheeler with a souped up Dio.... didnt make it...

was sucked under .... his body was cut into two.  True story...  :'(

ScooterWolf

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1171
    • View Profile
Re: When passing a truck don't delay or linger.
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2012, 11:44:48 AM »
Damn -- wouldn't wish that on anyone, but it doesn't look like he lingered when passing. Maybe the lesson here is to avoid passing something like that on a turn where you can't see far enough ahead, causing you to move slower than usual.

Once I was almost run over by a huge tow truck -- the kind used to tow 18 wheelers. I had pulled ahead of him on a 50 cc scooter when we were next to one another at a stop light, then our two lanes merged into one. I could see he wasn't happy being stuck behind a scooter in my mirrors, so I gunned ahead and pulled around a tight curve. There was another red light, and something told me to pull over to the side. Good thing I did -- the truck driver barreled around the curve and completely ran through the red light like it wasn't there. Had I'd been in the lane he would have run me over.

Hate riding behind or between trucks, buses or SUVs.

-Wolf

bleys

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 243
  • Ride what you like, not what other's like.
    • View Profile
Re: When passing a truck don't delay or linger.
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012, 10:18:38 PM »
Yeah, trucks are nasty.  I was going through some "S" curves today at about 60mph with a truck next to me.  Between the shift of the wind around the curve and the suction created by the truck, I started being pulled into the truck.  Nothing to do but lean down further and hit the throttle - one of those examples of knowing when it is better to accelerate - if I had slowed down, it would have made the situation worse.  Still no fun having that sinking feeling in your stomach for a second. 
Bill
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
2009 Xciting 250Ri - gone :(
2014 Honda CTX700N

An Error Has Occurred!

Call to undefined function split()