Best Driver Stories

This post is not for you to hear me, but for me to hear you. If you have a favorite story from the road about a perilous trip or some other adventure that you have experienced, please post it in the comment section below. I look forward to hearing your stories.

Please keep it clean for the sake of our readers. Thank you.

Why Are We Stopping? This is a Freeway.

I understand traffic. When you have a lot of people on the same road, going in the same direction, in different sized vehicles, at different speeds, with different driving styles, there will always be congestion. However, some of the reasons for congestion are completely unwarranted. And I mean completely.

For example, as I was traveling today, traffic suddenly slowed from its normal breakneck pace to a snail's pace and then a complete stop. I began wondering why and as we crawled forward at less than 25 miles an hour, I began to realize the reason for the slowdown: a sign. Like this.

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Yes, a sign. For some reason, many drivers cannot read a DOT readerboard at any speed faster than 25 miles an hour. But of course, as soon as we were out of view of the sign, traffic resumed its freakish speed. Soon, drivers were back to passing, cutting one another off, and doing other things that should only be attempted in video games.

But back to the point, when you are traveling down the road and you see a sign, please continue at your normal speed. After all, the problem was 14 miles ahead of us anyways, and had no immediate effect on traffic. Remember: they're called freeways for a reason.

Be safe wherever the road takes you.

A Professional Driver's Pet Peeves

As a professional driver, you are constantly surrounded by hundreds of other motorists. From other truck drivers to daily commuters, the decisions of these motorists affect you day-in and day-out. Part of the purpose of the RoadRunner 2K blog is to allow truckers to share what they know with other drivers.

My question for you in this blog post is: What Behaviors Frustrate You Most on the Road?

For me, nine actions I see commonly are on my list of irritations, but I want to hear yours in the comment box below.

1. Easing up to a traffic light or stop sign.
2. Failing to stop at a stop sign.
3. Going through a traffic light a millisecond before the light changes to red.
4. Refusing to travel at the speed limit on a two-lane road with no passing.
5. Running along the road beside another vehicle as both head toward a merge lane.
6. Passing in the slow lane at speeds faster than the fast lane.
7. Matching another vehicle's speed so as to travel neck-and-neck down the highway.
8. Turning too sharply on a double-lane turn, forcing the inside vehicle to stop or slow down to avoid a collision.
9. Merging onto a freeway at a speed far below the speed limit, so as to slow down traffic.

A bonus: Preventing another vehicle from passing by accelerating when the vehicle accelerates and slowing down when the passing vehicle slows.

If you have any other pet-peeves that you would like to pass along, please leave them below. Thank you for reading the RoadRunner 2K Blog.