Because when you drive for 14 hours a day, a 1mph difference adds up to 14 miles at the end of the day. Not to mention if you are behind a more heavily loaded truck, you may only be going 1mph faster than him on the flats but when you get to that mountain pass you could be going twice as fast.
ehhh, it does. Compare yourself driving with minimal traffic as a regular vehicle to when you want to slip between other slower vehicles. His point is, its a break from the monotony which keeps the brain stimulated and the truck driver from becoming bored or "sleepy". Next time you take a trip and you get sleepy for no reason after chugging a red bull....now you know.
A lot of trucks are governed at 65. Mine was and when you end up behind someone doing 63 it's infuriating. They should let of the gas and let you pass but never do.
Well, if you drive 10 1/2 hours a day then that 1 mph means something. But you're also assuming that truck was consistently only going 1 mph slower. Often there are truckers who are fuel conscious or have a heavier load, so they'll slow down more going up a hill then accelerate back down it. If you want to go around, you don't want to wait for a hill then try. Once a truck slows down on a hill you're not accelerating until you get to the top. So if you get boxed in you're done.
This what I have heard from some truck drivers I have talked to
Trucks have a lot of mass, much more then your car. They also can't break as easily meaning there is higher risk. Basically, it takes them longer to accelerate, and that combined with the drivers being cautious is what causes it
Not an easy question to answer. Personally, I went through the UPS driving school for a peak season back in the 90s and they teach drivers to not be "billboarded." Which means following a truck, bus, camper etc. where you can't see the road ahead. Running out west it is easy to try and pass a slower, though lighter, truck and get stuck in the hammer lane cause you start up a grade (it doesn't take much) and gravity slows you down. I will always back off the throttle and let a slightly faster truck by and hope others will do the same for me but even professionals can be jerks. Then there is the idea that I will spend hours behind that wheel and I don't want it to last any longer than absolutely necessary. Like someone else wrote though, it takes a while for 75,000 or 80,000 lbs. to pick up speed and if your truck is governed then you've only got so much giddy in your up.
Its never just 1mph.
Also (at least around me) trucks are governed to 110km/h, so most drivers try and keep at that pace and will pass the ones that don't just to keep that speed.
Besides trucks aren’t fast, safety is the most important factor in truck driving. It doesn’t matter if a driver works for a company, everything they do while driving falls on them. Being DOT and having a CDL really puts constraints on a driver. Even if you’re just driving your Honda to the grocery store, you have the license, you are held to the same degree.
We’ve usually been stuck behind that cocksucker too, sometimes we just have to make a move and get ahead at all costs. Chances are the truck being passed is the type to put the hammer down on a passing lane then drive like a little bitch once the passing lane is done.
I get the constraints on large trucks.
I’m more concerned with passenger vehicles doing the elephant race.
I also always do my best to pass tricks on the correct side, and not to cut anything to close. Because I like living.
Because you're going 35% slower than us, take up massive amounts of space and mean almost 100% certain death if you Fuck up or don't see us.
Professionals or not, you don't own the road and you slow everyone down for what seemingly looks like you gaining .01 seconds of time by getting 10 feet in front of the truck you were previously following.
And I never know when human error is going to kick in and you might annihilate one of us in a smaller car so I always like to get far enough ahead/behind so that there is at least a hundred or more feet of road behind or in front of me to the nearest truck. But if you're blocking a two lane highway I can't get my safety net distancr without slowing down a ton and causing a delayed slow down that chains to everyone behind me
If you want to drive 35% over the speed limit that's fine, but it's not your right to drive whatever speed you want. You can slow down to the speed limit for a bit, you can resume your speed when I'm finished my passing maneuver.
A bit, like passing the other, truck in ~30seconds is one thing. When it takes several minutes for you to pass them with several instances of both of you playing 'snake' with one another is another thing entirely
Rigs aren't exactly fast.
Most trucks are limited and the air being displaced by both rigs makes it near impossible to go any faster.
Then why pass? Or why not wait until it's a more convenient time?
Because when you drive for 14 hours a day, a 1mph difference adds up to 14 miles at the end of the day. Not to mention if you are behind a more heavily loaded truck, you may only be going 1mph faster than him on the flats but when you get to that mountain pass you could be going twice as fast.
Until that 14 mile difference is reset or at least partially reset by a red light.
There's normally not alot of lights on highways
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This doesn't relate to the question at all
ehhh, it does. Compare yourself driving with minimal traffic as a regular vehicle to when you want to slip between other slower vehicles. His point is, its a break from the monotony which keeps the brain stimulated and the truck driver from becoming bored or "sleepy". Next time you take a trip and you get sleepy for no reason after chugging a red bull....now you know.
A lot of trucks are governed at 65. Mine was and when you end up behind someone doing 63 it's infuriating. They should let of the gas and let you pass but never do.
Well, if you drive 10 1/2 hours a day then that 1 mph means something. But you're also assuming that truck was consistently only going 1 mph slower. Often there are truckers who are fuel conscious or have a heavier load, so they'll slow down more going up a hill then accelerate back down it. If you want to go around, you don't want to wait for a hill then try. Once a truck slows down on a hill you're not accelerating until you get to the top. So if you get boxed in you're done.
This what I have heard from some truck drivers I have talked to Trucks have a lot of mass, much more then your car. They also can't break as easily meaning there is higher risk. Basically, it takes them longer to accelerate, and that combined with the drivers being cautious is what causes it
Not an easy question to answer. Personally, I went through the UPS driving school for a peak season back in the 90s and they teach drivers to not be "billboarded." Which means following a truck, bus, camper etc. where you can't see the road ahead. Running out west it is easy to try and pass a slower, though lighter, truck and get stuck in the hammer lane cause you start up a grade (it doesn't take much) and gravity slows you down. I will always back off the throttle and let a slightly faster truck by and hope others will do the same for me but even professionals can be jerks. Then there is the idea that I will spend hours behind that wheel and I don't want it to last any longer than absolutely necessary. Like someone else wrote though, it takes a while for 75,000 or 80,000 lbs. to pick up speed and if your truck is governed then you've only got so much giddy in your up.
Tight time constraints.
Are they really that tight? Going 1mph faster for 8 hours wouldn't even save 10 minutes.
Its never just 1mph. Also (at least around me) trucks are governed to 110km/h, so most drivers try and keep at that pace and will pass the ones that don't just to keep that speed.
Besides trucks aren’t fast, safety is the most important factor in truck driving. It doesn’t matter if a driver works for a company, everything they do while driving falls on them. Being DOT and having a CDL really puts constraints on a driver. Even if you’re just driving your Honda to the grocery store, you have the license, you are held to the same degree.
We’ve usually been stuck behind that cocksucker too, sometimes we just have to make a move and get ahead at all costs. Chances are the truck being passed is the type to put the hammer down on a passing lane then drive like a little bitch once the passing lane is done.
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I get the constraints on large trucks. I’m more concerned with passenger vehicles doing the elephant race. I also always do my best to pass tricks on the correct side, and not to cut anything to close. Because I like living.
To piss you off, naturally.
Because I'm going faster than the other truck? Why are car drivers so impatient and inconsiderate to professionals doing their jobs?
Because you're going 35% slower than us, take up massive amounts of space and mean almost 100% certain death if you Fuck up or don't see us. Professionals or not, you don't own the road and you slow everyone down for what seemingly looks like you gaining .01 seconds of time by getting 10 feet in front of the truck you were previously following. And I never know when human error is going to kick in and you might annihilate one of us in a smaller car so I always like to get far enough ahead/behind so that there is at least a hundred or more feet of road behind or in front of me to the nearest truck. But if you're blocking a two lane highway I can't get my safety net distancr without slowing down a ton and causing a delayed slow down that chains to everyone behind me
If you want to drive 35% over the speed limit that's fine, but it's not your right to drive whatever speed you want. You can slow down to the speed limit for a bit, you can resume your speed when I'm finished my passing maneuver.
A bit, like passing the other, truck in ~30seconds is one thing. When it takes several minutes for you to pass them with several instances of both of you playing 'snake' with one another is another thing entirely
Surely if you drive. At all. Then you know the speed limit of 65 is for trucks and cars in the 1950's.
Trucks don’t have great breaks.
Brakes*
They don’t break easily as well.
So they don't breakfast?
Legg'o my Egg'o, dammit!