On a recent trip to God’s Waiting
Room, also known as: Florida
They are large, reaching back
some 70-feet, and a challenge to handle on a good day without traffic.
Still, those operators are called
professional drivers because that is what they do for a living, drive. The operative word here is “professional.”
But nobody I’ve heard has accused
most of them of driving well or courteously.
We are constantly being harped
upon to “share the road” with motorcyclists, and to “move over for emergency
vehicles.” Yet, no one calls for those
arrogant truckers to share the road with “common folks” operating
non-commercial vehicles.
Speed limits on I-95 are
generally 70 MPH. It occasionally
fluctuates in high-population density areas where drivers usually make their
way on the highways while eating, shaving, and texting.
Yet, as a rule of thumb, the
travel speed is generally 70 MPH.
Now some of these truckers are
likely bored, and some are also a bit touched in the head.
I’ve never been accused of
driving much under the speed limit – probably never. So when you see me coming up behind you on
the highway, it will be quickly.
Invariably, one of these
professional drivers will pull out in front of me forcing me to slow down to
somewhere in the vicinity of 60 MPH.
This artificially created
bottleneck has been caused by the touched-in-the-head semi operators who will
now poke along adjacent to the semi they “are trying to pass” for fourteen
miles.
Those professional drivers appear
to be playing a deadly game on the highway with total strangers. You see, the car behind them may be on route
to the hospital, or some other emergency.
It’s clear they don’t care about
the rules, and they even make it apparent they are “Kings of the Road.”
So, when you see one of these
mentally ill truckers operating their vehicles in an unsafe and noncompliant
fashion, I encourage you take action.
Many legitimate trucks have
stickers on the trailer that proudly invite other drivers to call a specific
phone number and tell them about the professional trucker’s driving abilities.
You also have the right to
contact local police and state police to report anomalies in their driving
techniques.
If those inconsiderate road hogs
refuse to “play nice” with cars and other drivers, perhaps it’s about time to
help them find a job at which they can excel.
Truckers, beware.
