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mattofvinings 03-10-2009 17:38:07 67.142.161.34 3210 Report to Moderator

Gotta agree here, the average Joe or Jane has zero clue about what's involved in a long & heavy tow & trailer combo vehicle. I try to keep a big margin of clear road ahead of me when pulling (I only have 3 gears) but people have cut me off similar to above. There is another class of driver who darts, stabs, and crowds when I'm trying to negotiate a tight gas station or shoehorn the trailer into someplace in reverse. My worst close call was leaving my neighborhood in the city...only place to turn around the gooseneck in the neighborhood was to execute a 3 point turn in a sort of a Y-intersection that started with as much of a circle as I could make before running out of road. Granted this is a residential neighborhood with 25mph speed limit, and I had the trailer jacked around making this turn, nobody in sight. I got it reversed where I had enough road to finish out the turn, put it in Drive and gave a little gas to straighten out without much thought on focusing ahead, after all I was occupying 90% of the road, when a speeding car passes my front bumper with what looked like about 6" of clearance! Guess he thought he'd just gun it and get by...that type of thinking could have been very costly for all involved. [Reply]   [No Email]