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Tarhe Driver

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Yes, look far down the road and let your peripheral vision take care of everything in between, and to the sides.

And, fixating on the car far ahead impairs depth perception appreciably. Constantly looking left, right, and in the mirrors provides better depth perception.
 
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Tarhe Driver said:
Yes, look far down the road and let your peripheral vision take care of everything in between, and to the sides.

And, fixating on the car far ahead impairs depth perception appreciably. Constantly looking left, right, and in the mirrors provides better depth perception.
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Agreed!-It takes practice and with every mile it becomes a natural part of driving, which will carry through for the rest of ones life, and in return will save your life
and others. Being tense behind the wheel is probably one of the worst things a person can do-there already distracted and reaction time is slow and or it causes
a over reaction. Be aware but be relaxed, you will handle a situation much better.
 
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DMiller said:
My 'Bubble Area' encompasses up to 1/2 mile ahead in daylight, what can see in mirrors in daylight and all the lanes activities going on anywhere near to me. At night I do not fixate but monitor headlamps and tail lamps around me, watching for signal lamps. Wife is always asking why I slow down when nothing immediately around us, then she will spot the incident occurring not far down the road and go 'Oh'.
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Little things like a truck a half mile ahead moving left. We know why he is doing it, and move over without even seeing why.
 
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No doubt
Oversize combine and grain carts on the roads self propelled or on trailers have really increased here, clouds of dust too thick to see thru appropriately blowing across the highways, grain trucks or tractors entering and leaving the roads where warning or indication lamps may not be enough visible, and the impatient turds that have to blow around, know their car or pickup is faster than it really is or their response capabilities are over valued and they really do not have to be anywhere all that important.
 
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One thing i dont like is at harvest time farmers moveing their stuff after dark. Its hard to tell just how much of the road they are taking up with all their super bright lights and flashers. I like to eat so every one needs to work together on the road but around here most dont start combining till the dew burns off so i would move my circus right after sun up.
 
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There's new combine setting along side hyw 12 just west of here at Lowden. A car hit
it head on in the left dual set broke the axle housing, not sure if it killed the driver of car but
combine had no pilot cars.
 
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Around here farmers do what ever they want. 4 axel manure tanks that have so much crap on the backs that you cant see the back lights all night and the tank blocks the tractor lights. Really fun coming up in those at night doing 90kmh. Combines been moved at night with the head on and no pilot cars. I love when you see a mini van pulling double hay wagons. I work for and with lots of farmers and cant stand what they get away with just because they have slow moving triangle on the back of the tractor.
 
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Bumpsteer said:
A friend met a car in the middle of the freeway overpass. He had a Stieger, disk and packer...The woman got out screaming...."You have to back up!!".
Tom calmly told her it wasn't going to happen and he had all day....she turned around. Lol.

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That happened to me on a narrow back road. Steep ditches, barely wide enough for my 8650, cultivator and crowfoot packer. Older couple pulled right up to me in an old crown vic and just stared. I slowed to a crawl, started pointing for him to go backwards. He stopped, I stopped. I was about to get out when he relented and backed up a bit to a nearby driveway. I passed and got the evil eye the entire time.
 
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colson04 said:
That happened to me on a narrow back road. Steep ditches, barely wide enough for my 8650, cultivator and crowfoot packer. Older couple pulled right up to me in an old crown vic and just stared. I slowed to a crawl, started pointing for him to go backwards. He stopped, I stopped. I was about to get out when he relented and backed up a bit to a nearby driveway. I passed and got the evil eye the entire time.
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About the same response when a semi is at a four way signaling a right turn and a car to his right wants to make a left and won't move.
 
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That road job I did last weekend, there is no way I would want to live up that 3/4 mile "driveway".
It got put in with no thought about that, and is single track wide and on a grade. There is not a single decent turnout for 1/4 mile in one area. Two trailered rigs meet on that and it will be a bad day.
 
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The first thing I would have to do is have a meeting, get $$ for dozer and finishing rock, and carve out/cut/fill/balance a few turnouts. I would not be popular :D
 
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Not to knock Fords but they and others didnt think about rust. A little rust and theres nothing connecting the body to frame. Years ago some friends came to town in a hurry they didnt make the corner at the city park. They were driving a earyly 70s F150. The cab came off the frame the front clip came off and apart it was in several pieces covering a big area.
 
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Truck Shop said:
About the same response when a semi is at a four way signaling a right turn and a car to his right wants to make a left and won't move.
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And when you recognize this situation and hold back the sitting in the seat cuts off the oxygen to their brain driver behind you drives around and forks it up.
 
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Old Doug said:
Not to knock Fords but they and others didnt think about rust. A little rust and theres nothing connecting the body to frame. Years ago some friends came to town in a hurry they didnt make the corner at the city park. They were driving a earyly 70s F150. The cab came off the frame the front clip came off and apart it was in several pieces covering a big area.
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kind of like what we used to call a yard sale on the ski slopes when all your gear just comes off in a large debris area.
 
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colson04 said:
That happened to me on a narrow back road. Steep ditches, barely wide enough for my 8650, cultivator and crowfoot packer. Older couple pulled right up to me in an old crown vic and just stared. I slowed to a crawl, started pointing for him to go backwards. He stopped, I stopped. I was about to get out when he relented and backed up a bit to a nearby driveway. I passed and got the evil eye the entire time.
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LOL. One time we rented a 300 Kobelco with hammer for a gas station project. Lowboy driver picks machine up in Memphis and makes the 3-4 hour trip to central AL. Project was at a signalized intersection on a 4 lane divided highway.

Truck had more flashing lights on it than a rear wheel steer fire ladder truck. Driver had to pull through the intersection then back into site using both lanes. Of course none of the cars behind him gave him an inch as they all rushed up to the lowboy crosswise in the street with all the lights flashing as the truck was backing up.

Driver set the brakes, got of the truck yelled “I have to use the real estate your sitting on to back in, you can all back up or sit here, I’ve got all day”. We laughed our ass’s off watching those folks try to back up. Since it was a divided hwy with curb and median they couldn’t go around. :p
 
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