Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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VOICES Slow down for fellow drivers At a Walmart distribution center in Monroe, Ga., reported the local Walton Tribune newspaper in November, "an "86-year-old truck driver from Kansas died." His long life wasn't brought to an end due to any natural cause, however. He died after being "hit and drug by a tractor-trailer." According to reports posted to Facebook from the location the following day, another driver killed the victim while he was opening his trailer's doors. The driver who hit him apparently didn't know he'd done it. Blame the 14-hour rule if you want, some said, for a perceived increase in incidents like this in parking and loading areas. But all in all, other comments yielded the same message: Wear reflective vests, jackets, etc., and when behind the wheel, slow down in parking and Four-wheelers' most annoying moves | Drivers using cellphones ranked fifth in Insure.com's ranking of four-wheeler survey respondents' choices of the "most annoying driver habits" and other related factors. Find the full list via the Nov. 19 post on the Overdrive Extra blog: OverdriveOnline.com/overdrive-extra. loading areas already! It seems self-explanatory, taking a look at some of the responses to Overdrive Editorial Director Max Heine's Overdrive Extra blog post from Nov. 19 about Insure. com's survey ranking the "most annoying driver habits." You don't have to look long to find evidence that some out there just don't get it. Asked on Facebook for the most annoying driver habit, Ron Arguin noted truck drivers who "feel the need to go as fast as they can in parking lots and construction zones." Here are further thoughts on annoying driver habits: Rusty Evans: Drivers who park in the fuel island and stay in the truck stop a half hour. And don't get fuel! Maura Michaelson: Drivers using their brights to flash you over … I'd rather you did nothing! Robert J. Lockhart: Drivers who run bright fog lights in clear weather. It's like running your wipers on a sunny day – just doesn't make any sense to me. Fred Sarrach II: Middle lane runners! Keep right except to pass, not keep middle except to pass. The middle lane is not a travel lane! Terence Gunderson: The right lane is for entering or exiting the freeway – the middle lane is the travel lane. The left is the passing lane. Don't just hang out in the left lane. If you're going to pass, go on and pass, and return to the travel lane. It's not that hard. Mark Taylor: People on the phone and people who play road hockey by not using turn signals. You have to guess what they are going to do next. 4 | Overdrive | January 2014 Voices_0114.indd 4 12/20/13 10:06 AM