Level Crossing Idiocy

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I take your point, Aktung, but I am the world's number one defensive driver, always telling Moira to beware that the other driver may do this or that. I always allow a good gap the other side before crossing, and I have to go sometime, don't I, to avoid getting honked at by those behind. I can't see how I am culpable in this at all.

U just made my point again! You do all of what is necessary to achieve getting safely across the track before the train comes along. Less than 100% off the track is unacceptable!!! The pudding proof is U did not! Nor have I; apart from actually killing or injuring someone, I've made every error there is myself including thinking I am a defensive driver : to wit: If I'm thinking I am, I'm probably not defensive enough...and that includes with a co-driver just out of truck school with under 100 hours of error free driving; in an Iowa blizzard on a typical 1000 mile day ..."Hi forget everything they taught you; this is reality." In those days I did all the adverse condition driving and falsified both logbooks...Visibility is 20' at 10mph for eight hours passing other vehicles that have fared poorly. As the big-rig's 'Master and Commander': "it was the lesser of two weevils" as pulling off the freeway is not an option; the I-80 offramps nor the truckstops are not plowed out and stopping will get you rear-ended by the idiot behind you in whiteout conditions. Pudding proof: two of my co-drivers did not survive their careers... and I'm 66 and still get paid for long hours behind the wheel.