Something to think about while driving

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Oberon

I believe my grandfather once said to my mother when she was learning to drive that one should drive as if there was the possibility to run into a copulating elephant around the next corner.

"MUSTH" we really go that route?

[Garion]

At the Scottish Police College we were taught that 'Green meant GO, but only if it was safe to do so'.

This lesson I have passed on to my family as they were learning to drive.

The ones I really hate are the pedestrians who just walk out onto a Zebra crossing without looking. I have locked horns with a few of them with my trusty Highway Code Book

Cheers

Gary

[MH]

The reason here in Israel there is this blinking green light before it changes to yellow and red.
This is the signal to accelerate and run over.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Garion

At the Scottish Police College we were taught that 'Green meant GO, but only if it was safe to do so'.

This lesson I have passed on to my family as they were learning to drive.

The ones I really hate are the pedestrians who just walk out onto a Zebra crossing without looking. I have locked horns with a few of them with my trusty Highway Code Book

Cheers

Gary

Not forgetting the stupid buggas who jump the light even though your within fifty yards of them with blues and twos sounding and flashing.

I always reckoned they ga,bled that the patrol car was going to something far more urgent and serious than their traffic offence.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Shame there was not a red light camera taking pictures so a violation notice and fine could be mailed to the owner of the truck. What I don't understand is drivers who depend on their CDL to survive drive like idiots. It does not take much to lose their safety rating and get black balled by companies offering loads to transport.

I did not notice any cameras at this light at least in this area of Kentucky I was in which was around Hopkinsville there do not seem to be many of the cameras.Just down the road in Clarksville,TN they have them at most intersections.

This guy was most likely a local and knows what lights have a camera.

The truck I was driving does have a crash camera that records in a loop so it did get recorded but of course got over written 15 or 20 seconds later whatever the loop setting is.

Here is one recording a driver not paying attention to what is up the road (both trucks and the cam one is going a bit fast for snow) anyway the run on a loop and then record over again.they also record inside sound that way you can tell I guess if the driver was asleep as well as their preferred cuss words.



I was thinking about getting a go camera and mounting that in the cab some place to record stuff for the heck of it.I got the idea from a guy in Washington that drives a log truck course he has much better sights to record driving up and down log roads.

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Here is one recording a driver not paying attention to what is up the road (both trucks and the cam one is going a bit fast for snow) anyway the run on a loop and then record over again.they also record inside sound that way you can tell I guess if the driver was asleep as well as their preferred cuss words.

That was in northwestern Ontario. I run that road almost every day in the summer time. The guy passing the plow was charged, after the cops found him.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

That was in northwestern Ontario. I run that road almost every day in the summer time. The guy passing the plow was charged, after the cops found him.

That looked pretty scary, the outcome could have been a lot worse.

[swamprat69er]

IMHO the guy passing the plow had no business being where he was and should have waited until there was a better spot to pass. Guard rails on both sides with fairly steep drop off. Those guard rails are to keep cars on the road, not trucks. They only come up to your knees.

[Jimbuna]

I bet the crap in the cab came up to the knees as well

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I bet the crap in the cab came up to the knees as well

No doubt.