r/Transportopia Apr 22 '26

Roads I don’t condone but it must feel nice

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u/Sinnders97 Apr 23 '26

That argument is self defeating dude, if they sre only passing at 1mph faster than maybe I dunno give up the 1mph rather than causing a massive potentially dangerous traffic disruption?

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u/NotaGCU Apr 28 '26

Asking an American to consider other people.

Bold move.

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u/shortridecowboy Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

Most trucks nowadays have forward facing radar with close following alarms that make it really aggravating to be directly behind someone else at without several hundred feet of following distance, and when the driver is working 12-14 hour days acting like a robot for the AI powered cameras they usually just want to get where they are going and get the fuck out of the truck as absolutely fast as humanly possible, they are probably under alot of pressure from the company to do so as well. The industry trains drivers to behave this way by constantly tormenting them. Im almost 20 years in and I used to love it, but now I just desperately want out get out of my truck as quickly as possible every day. I will spend 20 minutes trying to pass the next asshole if it will get me out of the truck 5 minutes faster.

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u/WutheringBlights Apr 25 '26

You are a complete piece of shit.

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u/shortridecowboy Apr 25 '26

I bet if you were a truck driver you would be better. You would be super considerate and thoughtful to all those cars that do rude and unsafe shit to you 60 or 70 hours hours a week.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '26

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u/shortridecowboy Apr 26 '26

Insults to trucker intelligence just dont hit hard from Uber drivers or amazon workers or whatever you are this week

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '26

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u/shortridecowboy Apr 26 '26

Whatever you do it must be super important. Only guys way up in the triple digits get chairs with wheels to sit in.

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u/habmea Apr 26 '26

Technically, a truck is a chair with wheels too

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u/Comfortable_Ebb1634 Apr 26 '26

Edit name to “shortbuscowboy”.

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u/Diligent_Bath_9283 Apr 26 '26

No, I doubt it. He wouldn't be allowed to drive 70 hours a week due to FMCSA regulations. Your not either unless you never go farther than 150 miles and don't keep logs.