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Originally Posted by PKI
I'll give the thread a split.
Our Loves out on I5 has an Arbys. Really like their roast beef and special sauce. So we stop there on occasion. No problem using the car pumps. Rig parks in a double car space, so that works. Leave the truck side for the truckers. They have a hard enough job without dealing with the holiday travelers.
Now I told you that, to tell you this. While traveling on I40 through Tennessee, we had truckers pull out directly in front of us without signaling. Not at all what we have grown to expect from professionals. The reason was likely that we hold a bit of space between us and the next car. The left lane on that section is wall to wall traffic running at or just above the limit. The trucks need to pass, but can't get out without forcing their way into the left lane. Our practice is to let them in when they turn on a signal, but they don't know or maybe don't care. Too close for comfort on too many occasions. So no I40 in TN for us. Too busy with cars and trucks.
Hope to see your smile down the road. Pat
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Some if these "pros" are neither Christian nor can speak English and can be literal slaves chained to the truck, brought over by H1B "family" working peanuts for years to repay "cost" of bringing them over.
Welcome to the NEW America!!
Don't get me started on ghetto.
IH40 is something of a funnel. Trucks going East, and others that will turn North. Too many. Lots of regional, not just cross-country. Thus contempt by familiarity also in play.
Cars are flat bad about allowing trucks over in areas with no industry. Selfishness. And, it's always stupid to get ahead of a truck when one could be behind.
Easier to consider that it's a space maintenance problem. Backing off soon becomes second nature when spacing is king. Run five under the posted. Or less. Just below flow.
In a metro area, Lane One is usually forbidden to trucks. Therefore, Lane Two is "the fast lane" they think.
I'd use Lane Three or farther out.
(You don't have a VPP hitch, do you? Times like these when hard braking and rig going askew in tight quarters is when they pay for themselves.)
FWIW, I park my 63' personal rig with the big trucks. But farther out. Never on an end where someone turning could hit it. The truck ingress/egress doesn't have mommy-on-a-phone, either. P
I can only fuel at Loves or Pilot/Flying J. And I love Arby's, ha! McDonalds and Subway burnout takes only a few visits. I can run on Arby's a week, but there aren't many of them in my region.
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