You can't pass my truck

While out driving in my Fiesta today, I got behind a fairly new Heavy Duty Ford pickup, single wheel. After following him for a ways, he was driving 45mph. Two lane road, no traffic. so I decided I would pass and as soon as I pull out he speeds up. I stayed on it for awhile and then the guy pulls into the left lane right in front of me. So as we both slow to a normal speed, he puts his arm out the window and shakes a fist. Something like "Yeah I won, I won't let no stinking economy car pass my truck". I even think he may have been driving 45 just to get me to try to pass. Takes all kind.

All you can hope for in that sort of situation is for him to roll off the road and smash into a large tree so you can sip an ice cold Arnold Palmer while you watch to see if he can manage to call the paramedics himself.

I hate guys like that. Though I've never had someone do that to me. Honestly, I hope it never happens. I worked, for years to get anger issues under control, but traffic is one thing that can push me. Think Andy Bernard from The Office....
I'd follow that dude home if I couldn't cool myself down.

I do notice this all the time. I'll be cruising on the highway, let's say 70 mph. I'll come up to someone doing 65. I'll slow down, and at the first easy opportunity I'll pass. I'll perform an easy pass, we're talking 3 or 4 lane highway here. Anyway, as soon as I move back over (now I'm 4-5 car lengths ahead of dude going 65) they'll do 75, pass me, then get in front of me. I think it's a sub-concious thing "you can't go faster than me".

Back when I was much younger, and a little less wise, a guy in a Grand Am tried that on me. I was driving my 81 Corolla wagon. Not enough power to pass, so I just changed lanes. Last I saw him, he was in a ditch.

Some tool in a Grand Am tried that same crap with me driving me M3 recently. What is it with Grand Am drivers? Like I said, he tried and I was in my M3

In my 24,000 miles per year of north georgia driving, I've learned a few things. One of those things is that every redneck who senselessly drives a pickup and is too stupid to figure out he's getting 8mpg firmly believes that he's in 2nd place in the last lap of the daytona 500.

Fwiw, the 'you ain't gonna pass me!' mentality is even more prevalant with black drivers in atlanta. Just statin' the facts.

Your car needs a P.A. speaker Tell him what you think of his tiny ding-dong for miles. He'll love it.

Last year I was driving to work in my Swift GT. I caught up to, and followed a very slow moving full size 4WD truck though a turn at an intersection. At the first opportunity I downshifted and went by him about 7500 RPM and 100 km/h. That slow moving truck suddenly learned how to go fast and stayed on my bumper for the next 10 minutes with his high beams on. If he'd driven like that in the first place I never would have passed him.

was towing the car trailer w/ PU through a commercial four lane 45 mph area, guy in a roll back kept thrashing it trying to beat me light to light... n I ain't even tryin'. Soon as the four lane opened up to 55 he pours on the coals blasting past... and right around the bend State Police pulls him over.

Maybe the SCCA and several motorsport stickers on the truck cap window = race me to him. His boss was prolly not happy... what a goob.

Appleseed wrote: Your car needs a P.A. speaker Tell him what you think of his tiny ding-dong for miles. He'll love it.

I'd prefer to have a horn that plays "Move bitch, get out the way, get out the way bitch" really loud. I'm thinking of designing a system to do that...

What's awesome is the fact that he saw your Fiesta and thought "there ain't no way any furrin' car is gonna pass me!"

I was beginning to think I was doing something to tick people off. Nice to see morons are just out to screw around with everyone and it's not just me.

He's obviously drunk you should call you friendly local authorities to report him!

I hear ya! I deliver pizza in a 91 Escort...in Texas.

Just spent a month delivering in a 2003 P71 ex-police car and the politeness/aggression difference is incredible!

Bruce

bluesideup wrote: What's awesome is the fact that he saw your Fiesta and thought "there ain't no way any furrin' car is gonna pass me!"

Or GNR's Back Off Bitch...

Just buy outdoor speakers, rig them to an amp, stereo, and a on/off toggle switch. My buddy did this in high school. You could hear that Caddy for blocks. Made gridlock traffic entertaining.

...and this is exactly why we should all carry cross bows. I'll follow you until the tire falls off.

Toyman01 wrote: Back when I was much younger, and a little less wise, a guy in a Grand Am tried that on me. I was driving my 81 Corolla wagon. Not enough power to pass, so I just changed lanes. Last I saw him, he was in a ditch.

Appleseed wrote: Your car needs a P.A. speaker Tell him what you think of his tiny ding-dong for miles. He'll love it.

Voted up for truth.

It's the chipped diesels around here that do that to me all the time.

I posted this in the "Do You Smoke?" thread, but last time they pulled this on me, they were on the receiving end of many fireballs pointed towards their door.

Just a small point iceracer: you don't mention what the speed limit on that 2 lane road was. Not to defend the ...driver(?) of the pickup truck, but perhaps he was doing the posted limit (you don't say if it was or not) and felt it was his duty to keep all other traffic at the limit or lower.

At least that is what I tell myself when I run (or try NOT to run) into idiots like this. When I travel home to visit the folks, the last 50 miles are winding, hilly, and even mountainous 2 lane roads. When I am unable, for any reason, to pass slower traffic I just pull off the road for a few minutes. What's the point of angering someone behind the wheel of a bigger vehicle?

I did this to a chipped diesel this weekend.

I was out in the Probe and was first at an intersection that lead to a nice twisty country road. On my right, there is a turn lane that most folks commonly use to pass people in the lane I'm in.

Chipped diesel truck guy is towing a boat, and spews smoke when the light goes green, in a huge hurry to try and swing his big ass truck and bass boat in front of me. I give him two gears of KLDE music, and stay a few car lengths ahead, and angry truck guy pulls behind me at WOT, blowing smoke the entire way.

I think he had a code brown moment when he tried to match my 45 mph speed into the first fun corner with his big-muddin' tires and boat trailer.

When I was younger someone pulled this on me in my 944, I don't even remember what he was driving. As I go to pass him he speeds up. It was a desert two lane round in BFE Texas, so I did the stupidest thing and decided to lay on it and pass him anyways. Long story short, got up to 100mph and I thought my POS was about to explode. Realized how stupid I was being, and I've never done it since.

integraguy wrote: Just a small point iceracer: you don't mention what the speed limit on that 2 lane road was. Not to defend the ...driver(?) of the pickup truck, but perhaps he was doing the posted limit (you don't say if it was or not) and felt it was his duty to keep all other traffic at the limit or lower. I sometimes do the pull off and wait thing also. At least that is what I tell myself when I run (or try NOT to run) into idiots like this. When I travel home to visit the folks, the last 50 miles are winding, hilly, and even mountainous 2 lane roads. When I am unable, for any reason, to pass slower traffic I just pull off the road for a few minutes. What's the point of angering someone behind the wheel of a bigger vehicle?

The speed limit there was 55, he as going 45 and I followed him for aways, then I saw a passing oportunity. I just wanted to drive the speed limit.

Many moons ago,when I was far less mature than I am now, A 'tard kept pulling into the left lane of the 401 every time I tried to go by. He'd slow down if there was a car in the right lane to block me from passing.This went on for 50 miles or more, so I started tapping his back bumper ! I had a Datsun 510 (the 2nd gen) and he had a Camaro (probably a V6) and he tried to outrun me after I hit him, but he couldn't get away and I kept tapping,even when he pulled into the right lane and slowed down. He pulled off at a rest stop and I followed him right in, so he kept on going. He eventually pulled off at an exit and I let him go. Not proud of it, never pulled a stunt like that again, but I'll bet he didn't do that crap again for a while.

I'm in my MINI on a 6 lane divided highway in the far right lane. In a 1/4 mile the right lane turns into an on ramp for the interstate which I'm going to take. The speed limit is 40 and I'm doing 48. This asshat gets right on my bumper and I mean RIGHT ON MY BUMPER. I maintained my speed until I got to the turn in for the ramp then I rolled into the gas and looked in the mirror just in time to see his nose dive from hittting the brakes. A few weeks later I took the same ramp and noticed a shiny new section of armco. Be careful of who you tailgate.