RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Gas prices.. was a weird forward..

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, McFarland, Jason M. wrote:

> Try driving an F-350 with a full load around just once.  Count the
> number of times tiny little cars pull right out in front of you and
> hit their breaks. I can guaranty that there aren't brakes on this
> earth that can stop a 4 ton truck and load moving at 35 miles and hour
> as fast as a compact car.

No, there is no end to people driving like idiots, in cars of all sizes.
(Especially around campus, he whispers.)

But the big problem I have with many of the "new to trucks" crowd is that
*they* don't realize that their breaking ability, um, sucks, and drive
much too fast for prevailing road conditions...even when those conditions
are warm and sunny under a cloudless sky. :-)  Then there's the quaint
Missouri habit of driving 75 in the right hand lane even where there is
an on-ramp.  (And that trick is probably no more fun for somebody driving
a big loaded truck, except that the perp might be more likely to respect
your authoritas.)

jking


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