Formation Tactics on the Highway

[cav58d]

VUD-  As bad as the roads are, at least we have one thing to gloat about!

"Our bridges that were built upside down (old sikorsky) are better than yours that are right side up!" MWAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA:noid

[Yeager2]

Even though China is a 10th world (not even third world) country, it does do one thing better than the US.

The roads here simply have no rules.. it is utter chaos. Drive where you want, how you want and if someone wants to cut in, just cut him out more, he'll go onto a curb, or maybe you will, but in the end it all works out just fine.

Hell, if you feel the need, you can also drive into on-comming traffic in the opposite lane just to avoid the need to people who are busy cutting each other off in YOUR proper side of the road, *** it.. who cares it's normality here. The funny thing is that although it's utter ridiculousness, it seems to work.

Oh, and street lights / signs don't mean anything here,..they are just decorations.

[Geary420]

Originally posted by Vudak


Glad someone got it

<------ See avatard. lol

I had never heard that term before, but it is now entrenched in my vocabulary.

[rpm]

Way back in my early trucking days I was driving a rock truck around Dallas. The roads were very congested and you always had road ragers in this one particular area that had overgrown the country roads. It went from cowpastures to condos overnight.

One morning it took a very long time (about 15 minutes) to get thru a light because of the congestion. I'm in the middle of the pack of bumper to bumper traffic that has cleared the light on this 2 lane road when I see a car flying past everyone on the right shoulder. He was about about 500 ft behind me.

 <- YES  NO ->
I put on my flashers, whipped over on the shoulder and slammed on the brakes. (Oopsy, I have an air leak)

The guy had milliseconds to react. He was driving a black 1969 ElCamino. He yanked hard right and went sliding sideways down a steep slope of dew covered grass running about 90. It must have been Dale Earnhardt because somehow this idiot managed to keep his foot in the gas and powerskid back up onto the highway barely missing a roadsign in the process. I'm pretty sure he didn't try that maneuver again any time soon.

[john9001]

i think it's funny that people driving on the roads complain that it's all the "other" cars that are causing the traffic jam.

[moot]

Hording gangers.. 2:1? WTG!

[Curval]

When I lived in Toronto it was always a pet peeve to watch people who were getting onto a highway drive all the way to the last possible few yards of the on ramp and then squeeze into traffic.  Similar thing to the original post, just no accident.

One day I refused to budge for a BMW or Mercedes (can't remember which) and the guy almost hit my car because he simply assumed I would give way.

I could see he was upset...lots of foaming at the mouth and arm waving.  I returned his gestures with one of my own...a single finger salute.

Well, road rage got the better of this guy and he climbed out of his car and headed for mine.  He got about 5 or 10 feet from his car and the log jam of traffic that was present when he got out disappeared.  Suddenly his car was blocking a major highway and everyone in the immediate area started to honk their horns at him.  Mine was blaring the loudest.

As I drove off I gave him the double single finger salute.  Both hands.

Then I realised that I was on my way to meet a client and wondered with horror if this guy was the person I was supposed to meet.  Fortunatley it wasn't...but that would have made for an interesting end to the story...and my job at the time.

[68ROX]

Four lane highway...'Left Lane Closed Ahead--2 Miles"

"Left Lane Closed Ahead--1 Mile"

"Left Lane Closed Ahead--1/2 Mile"

There are still prettythanghats in the left lane at >100 yards...signalling to get into the right lane after most everyone else has mover over to the right lane a mile ago....

IDIOTS....yes, I repeat....IDIOTS LET THEM IN.....

I NEVER let them in.

Please....do not REWARD IDIOTS.

After they sit there signalling a couple of hours, they might actually LEARN something.


68ROX

[rogerdee]

we got the same thing in england
the ones i find the worse are the mothers in there 4x4s with little jonny standing on the back seat.

believe me they soon go white when faced with a 26tonne refuse truck that aint gona give a crap if they are late for school or not.
When will people learn a little politeness works and it gets more done then being a *******

i was stoped in a road,cars parked either side with a line of cars behind me
with a line infront pulled to one side so i can move forward when a silly tart in her 4x4 can flying past the other cars and stoped on my front bumper.
 then proceded to tell me to reverse down the road so she could get past.

that was so much fun watching her reverse not only past the cars she had overtaken but all the way to the end of the road because no one would let her in a gap

[ChickenHawk]

I thought it was bad in the states till I went to Mexico.  On a highway with 1 and a half lanes (yes, they have half lanes) going either direction, there was some construction going on that stopped traffic for a little while.  What normally held two lines of cars suddenly became seven lines abreast with oncoming traffic having to use the shoulder to get by.

[whiteman]

I block people off that try to cut just like that, hang out just enough to block. My friend in his 4x4 f-5billion ford just runs them off the road or forces them to miss the exit.

[Geary420]

Originally posted by 68ROX

IDIOTS....yes, I repeat....IDIOTS LET THEM IN.....

I NEVER let them in.

Denying those jerkoffs is one of lifes simple pleasures.  It makes my blood boil when the car in front of me lets one in though.

[Vudak]

Originally posted by john9001
i think it's funny that people driving on the roads complain that it's all the "other" cars that are causing the traffic jam.

You stay in line...  It moves...  Yes, you start off a bit further back...  But, the line moves...

Every single time someone tries to cut the line...  It stops...

The logical conclusion is that it is the "other" cars (ie, the line cutters) that are causing this particular type of traffic jam.

[LePaul]

Originally posted by Curval

Then I realised that I was on my way to meet a client and wondered with horror if this guy was the person I was supposed to meet.  Fortunatley it wasn't...but that would have made for an interesting end to the story...and my job at the time.

Oh groan...one day I was late for Guard weekend at the base.  I got stuk behind a guy who was doing 35 in a 45.  I was on this jerk's bumper hoping he'd get the clue to at least do the speed limit.  He'd just glare in his rear view mirror while I drummed my fingers on the steering wheel, glaring back.

Then he turned onto the road to the base.

Then he turned onto the base

Uh oh, then the guard saluted him

Then he parked by the hangar I work at.

Long story short...it was the Lt Col above my boss with his wife's car.  My boss got a phone call then ....well, you know  

[rpm]

Did you ask him why the Col. was scared of the car?