Posted by PJH on June 25, 2010 at 21:12:51 from (72.69.94.158):
In Reply to: ** Stupid Drivers ** posted by Dutchman on June 25, 2010 at 19:05:57:
What are you talking about??
I spent 33 years in road construction.
Your little incident was every day stuff for us.
We used to say, "99 out of 100 drivers are safe".
One day, while waiting for traffic to clear so I could mark a patch, I decided to time how long it took for 100 cars to go by.
4 1/2 minutes. 12 years ago.
This was at two o'clock in the afternoon on an ordinary day on Route 13 in Southern Illinois.
It's even worse today.
I started saying, "999 out of 1000 drivers are safe", even though I knew it was a lie.
U-Haul trucks and motor homes were our biggest fear.
The U-Hauls are driven by people who had never been inside of a truck cab, and the brakes are compromised so CDL's are not required.
The motor homes would not move out of the driving lane under ANY circumstances. Again, a heavy vehicle driven usually by an elderly person with very little heavy vehicle experience.
Sorry for the rant.
ALWAYS have your runnin' shoes on when you're within 30' of the edge of pavement.
I've got a hundred "stupid driver" stories, but I won't bore you.
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