planeflyer21 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Dashcam video of a Montana HP stop, during a winter storm, that turns into multiple accidents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 That's horrible!!! I have a strong hate for truck drivers, I know it's not all but I deal with them daily and their egos and "I own the road attitudes" cause a lot of problems. This happened here south of Milwaukee 2-3 years ago I can't believe all the people who exited they're vehicles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 (edited) ....and you are blaming truck drivers? I must have seen the wrong video. Edited January 5, 2016 by mrmackc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 ....and you are blaming truck drivers? I must have seen the wrong video.the video that flyer posted? You better watch it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I'd say there is more than enough blame for crappy road etiquette to go around. As a local delivery truck driver and motorcyclist, I had a list of the biggest asswipe drivers.At the time the flat out worst were yuppie females in Volvos: "I'm in the safest car on the road, no need to pay attention." They were followed closely by men driving large GM SUVs, then men in fullsize Ford pickups tied with anyone in a minivan.Far and away though, those with the biggest attitude about "owning the road" are the untrained motorcyclists: tailgating, swerving to no effect, looking only straight ahead, dragging their feet halfway across an intersection before picking them up, totally oblivious when they put themselves in a near death situation but completely ready to blame "the cager" when they almost crash and/or almost die. Try to explain to them how to be more safe and aware, they immediately jump to "Hey! Motorcycles have rights to the road too!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 (edited) I only saw the one Shepp posted ..."Multi-vehicle crash on highway 41/45..... and it was a four-wheeler that caused the accident. Edited January 5, 2016 by mrmackc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmackc Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 (edited) That Montana accident scene was a cluster-fhack from the start with the car stopped on the side of the road and being "worked by" Troopers. Don't drive in Montana in the winter. Do they still not have a speed limit, just "safe and prudent"?The trucker was a dork! Edited January 5, 2016 by mrmackc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 That Montana accident scene was a cluster-fhack from the start with the car stopped on the side of the road and being "worked by" Troopers. Don't drive in Montana in the winter. Do they still not have a speed limit, just "safe and prudent"?The trucker was a dork!I'm pretty sure they do now have a posted limit. flyer your right they're are many to blame And I'm in no way the worlds best driver. Here we don't get a lot of motorcyclist, I mean we do but 4-5 months a year? I get paid buy the hour the customer gets charged weather it takes me 3 hours our 15 min to get there. Truckers are trying to put as many miles behind them in an 8 hour time frame. I travel i90 a lot and a large part of it is two lanes. one of the BIGGEST problems is trucker A is following trucker B, A is going 66mph, B is going 65mph. A wants to pass B and he doesn't give a fuck that there is a line of cars in the fast lane doing 70mph plus (speed limit is 70 here) A flips on his directional and cuts off traffic in the fast lane taking 4 miles to pass trucker B. This happens hourly!!!! I'm bigger than you get the fuck out my way, it drives me insane! another thing that happens here in blizzards is two semis will be following each other, the first semi will go in the ditch and the stupid SOB behind him will follow him right in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
392heminut Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 I have lost ALL respect for truck drivers! Back when I started the PD in 1980 truck drivers had the attitude that they were bigger, heavier vehicles and went to great lengths to drive in a more courteous manner because of it. I pretty much left drivers alone unless they really screwed up, I felt they were doing their best to keep the roads safe while making a living. Over the years their attitude changed and by the time I retired in 2002 the general attitude with truck drivers was that the passenger vehicles needed to watch out for THEM because they were bigger and heavier and if they didn't it was their fault, not the truck drivers! I even had drivers at the local truck stop voice this outlook to me a few times in the coffee shop. I talked to an owner operator friend of mine that had been driving for over 30 years and he confirmed that the attitudes of drivers had taken a drastic turn over the years and was almost ashamed to admit he was a driver by the time he retired. Since retiring I have been ran off the inside shoulder of the interstate several times by truck drivers who decide they are going to pass even if you're in the left lane and about to pass them. They just don't give a schit and hit the turn signal and start the lane change as soon as the hit it! I've gotten to the point that I'm truly paranoid about passing a truck if there is another vehicle in front of it! It's a damn good thing I'm retired because there's no way I would give a truck driver any kind of break nowadays. FUK TRUCK DRIVERS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtallen83 Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 My dad retired from truck driving in 1999, he saw it the same way, couldn't stand the way the new drivers were dealing with the public and each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNP Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZBptNq_xo&sns=em Edited January 6, 2016 by DNP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted January 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 We'll sick the CHP on them: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZBptNq_xo&sns=em omg D I can't believe you posted dead bolt lol love it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikedaddyH Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) Truck Fails 2015 Edited January 8, 2016 by MikedaddyH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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blue109 Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 Oh man that compilation was entertaining! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNP Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 The kid or baby crying in the one car made me cringe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted January 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 The kid or baby crying in the one car made me cringe. One of my favs running the MILO training system. You may think you have señor bad dude(s) under control, then the baby starts screaming. Funny how that breaks a person's need to focus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONTANA308 Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Was just on my way to do Christmas shopping last month in a town 2.5hrs away. When a big rig passed me and was doing like 80. So I set up behind him and set the cruise at 75. The guy is all over the road and and is making me nervous so I back off. Not 45 minutes later he runs right in the a bridge (I'm still behind him) and ends up upside down in the bottom of a creek with the trailer sitting on top of the tractor. Craziest poop I've ever saw! We pulled him and he walked away with out a scratch on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 I've come upon two horrific semi crashes. First one guy was hauling a gravel elevator down I 90 up by the dells and there was an accident ahead traffic slowed and the semi behind that elevator couldn't stop fast enough and that elevator went right thru the divers side windshield and out the sleeper, killing the driver. The other was on i94 between Milwaukee and Madison a truck went off the road at a high rate of speed up a hill and wedged his rig under the over pass at the angled part. He had hit it so hard it wedged in there to the sleeper of the tractor and they had to shut that over pass down till spring to the build everything. My haterade began my freshman year of high school tho, my dad road his bike to work into condition for hunting trips he was struck by a semi and launched 60' Broke his shoulder neck and a few other things, was in icu for a week hospital for a month. His bicycle helmet saved his life there was a baseball sized chunk taken outta the back of it. I to this day believe the driver was asleep at the wheel, he claimed he didn't see my dad but he road with a marine strob (from sportsmans guide) on his bike so traffic could see him in the morning hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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unforgiven Posted January 10, 2016 Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 Been driving for a long,long time.Quality of drivers in general for the most part is $hit.Now with phones as a distraction is worst.Pic above is common in the city with all the viducts.I have seen more European [eastern european] drivers that I have no idea how they got to thier destination.Can't fukin communicate can't drive WTF.Here you got doubels and triples that roll down the road like a snake.This last sleet storm I have a car to my left and the trator trailor on my right.He hits the sleet and it's frozen brown $hit covers the entire windshield.Wipers maxed out.Blind all I could do was hang on and get ahead of this guy.Luckily I wasn't in a turn.Happened 3 times till I finally made it home.One of the things I won't miss about the job is the drive.1 more winter after this,God help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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