Why Would You Do This?

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guyjax(Guy Hodges)'s Comment
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I drive a 62 mph truck. I like my truck. 95% of the time I have 15000lbs or less. I run from Arkansas to Pennsylvania and back hauling toilet paper. I maintain 62 mph up ALL the hills no matter how steep they are.

What's the first thing people do when they see a J B Hunt truck? They try and pass me. No big deal. I am used to it. What gets on my last nerve is people trying to pass me on a hill and get stuck beside me ....

OR and this is the worst.....someone with a 63 mph truck trying to pass me and they seem to want to match speed with me once they get along side of me. Not only are they holding up traffic in the left hand lane but they start making me nervous. If it takes more than a mile to pass someone cause you can only go a mile or two faster than the truck you are trying to pass then do everyone a favor out here and JUST DON'T PASS.

I like my 62 mph truck. Its relaxing. I get to see things around me while driving instead of rushing around. I am in no hurry cause my FM plans my trips around ME and what I can do and not what they think should happen. 62 is my top speed. I can't go faster.

Today I did 545 miles in 9 hours. I am not fast but I stick with it. I was enjoying my day till one truck decided he wanted to pass me more than 15 times through the mountains on I81 and I77. He would run up beside me and finally I would get sick of him riding on my left hand side so I would slow down and let him pass while on flat ground and once we hit a hill I would drop a gear and pass him going up hill. He was heavier than me. Finally after putting up with him for almost a hour I had finally had enough and told him so on the CB.

The next time he tried to pass in the flats and matched my speed once I set my cruise at my normal speed of 62 mph and ignored him. And he sat there holding up traffic in the left hand lane for 15 minutes. Normally I would have backed down but this guy was being a ******. After about 5 more minutes of this I hear a police siren and low and behold Virginia's DOT was behind the guy wanting to have a talk with him and I went down the road.

The more I thought about it the more I know he was doing it on purpose. On flat ground he could come up beside me which means he had a faster truck than I have yet he matched my speed every time and waited for me to reduce speed. All I can say is I guess he will not be impeding traffic again.

DOT:

Department Of Transportation

A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.

State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.

Fm:

Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager

The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
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