Warning! Other drivers are more dangerous than you

VinNB · Aug 16, 2001

I was going to get the bush hog today and this tractor trailer was wanting to go by but had no safe to pass for quite a ways. When I got was just about to my destination I turned on my signal light and was just a bout to turn when I looked in my mirror and the tractor trailer was pulling up close to me in the other lane. I had to pull the wheel back the other way and I pulled onto the shoulder of the road. About five other cars passed me too, following right behind the tractor trailer. When it was all clear I had to back up so I could go in the driveway.

People don't seem to understand that tractors can have signal lights too. There must be ways of educating people about the tractors that are on the roads now because they all are much bigger and much faster than they were twenty years ago.

The farmer that I was getting the bushhog from was turning into the same driveway some years ago with a tractor that has the long axle on it to add duals to, and he rolled the bar right across a cars hood because they were going to pass him and he was turning. Since then when he's about to turn he crowds the line as much as possible, if there are no oncoming cars, when he's about to turn and it seems to keep people from passing him.

Also, people should learn to stay farther back from farm equipment on the road because it is hard to see when you get right up behind you. An accident almost happend one time I was driving the tractor and I came to a corner in the road. there had been a car follwing me for about a minute and it must have been about teen feet behind me. This car pulled out to go by and another car just came into view which was coming around the corner from the opposite way. The driver behind me had to jerk the whell to get back int correct lane.

I geuss there isn't much you can do except know how to operate your equipment and be cautious when your on the road.

StoneHeartFarm · Aug 17, 2001

VinNB

They treat tractors the same way they treat other cars. I've always said it's a good thing brake lights are automatic and not optional like turn signals, or there would be a lot more rear enders.

SHF

ERNIEB · Aug 17, 2001

If I understand correctly you were making a left hand turn? SHF is right. Here in Texas no one uses turn signals. If you are in Texas and you see a car with it's turn signal flashing, it was probably on when they bought the car/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie

VinNB · Aug 18, 2001

I don't live in Texas, but I do live in a small area about twenty minutes outside of the capital city of New Brunswick,Canada.

gotrocks · Aug 22, 2001

This could be getting into discussion regarding "Road Rage". I can't make my old Satoh go 45MPH in a 30MPH zone. Check out the following:

THE POWER OF STATISTICS
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"I was driving to work yesterday when I observed a
female driver cutting right in front of a pick-up
truck, causing him to have to drive onto the
shoulder to avoid hitting her. This evidently
angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out
his window and gave the woman 'the eagle'. 'This
guy is stupid' I thought to myself.

I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner
whenever a female does anything to me in traffic
and here's why.

I drive 48 miles each way every day to work. That's
96 miles each day. Of these, 16 miles each way is
bumper-to-bumper. Most of the bumper-to-bumper is
on an 8-lane highway. So if you just look at the 7
lanes I am not in, that means I pass something like
a new car every 40 feet per lane. That's 7 cars
every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be 982
cars every mile, or 31,424 cars. Even though the
rest of the 32 miles is not bumper-to-bumper, I
figure I pass at least another 4,000 cars. That brings
the number to something like 36,000 cars I pass every
day.

Statistically, half of these are driven by a female,
that's 18,000. In any given group of females, 1 in
28 are having the worst day of their period. That
leaves 642.

According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love
life as dissatisfying or unrewarding. That leaves
449.

According to the National Institute of Health, 22%
of all females have seriously considered suicide or
homicide. That leaves 98.... and 34% describe men
as their biggest problem. That leaves 33.

According to the National Rifle Association, 5% of
all females carry weapons.

This all means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past
at least one female that has a lousy love life,
thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously
considered suicide or homicide, is having the worst
day of her period, and is armed.

MAKE ONE MAD???..........I think not."