[DAVID]

Worst offenders I find are people using the highway for just one exit within city limits as a short cut. They still behave like they are on city streets.

A few years ago, my daughter was following our bus down I5. As we entered Roseburg OR there are two on ramps just a few hundred feet apart. Cars on the on ramp hesitated, so my daughter slowed down quite a bit to let the car in. A mistake. Immediately, she was a nailed from behind by someone not paying attention. The guy she braked for left the scene.

With the bus, I move to the center lane within cities if possible. If stuck in the right lane I use the horn to wake the mergers if I anticipate a potential problem. So far so good.

[Archived]

I think the worst thing anyone can do is the unexpected. For someone in the right of way to slow down for oncoming traffic it is a clear invitation for pandemonium. At that point nobody is doing what is expected.

But that is the problem with some people merging. They somehow believe they can just meander into the traffic lane and expect everyone already on the interstate to adjust to suit their speed or rate of acceleration.

When trucks are merging everyone is crystal clear that they have to change lanes for the truck, or adjust their speed if they cannot change lanes or that the truck will delay entry. But trucks are big, easy to see and even the dummies can figure out how the situation will unfold.

But when some moron in a Prius that is more concerned with fuel mileage than safety is about to enter the interstate nobody knows what he is going to do.

After almost 30 years of owning my Prevost coaches, if I had a dollar for every merging car that ended up driving on the shoulder, along side of me because they did not know how to merge I wouldn’t need the dues money Tom is with holding from me. I could even afford to buy my own food instead of growing it.

[Jim]

Davy,

I feel your pain since I was on that stretch of road a month ago. Traveling from Tn to Nevada , arizona, new mexico , texas back to Tn encountered many merging drivers who were oblivious to my bus and much distance it takes to slow down or even stop. They do now know what my three train hohorns sound like.😁😁

[Archived]

In situations like this I always wish that I had a sign on the right side of my bus like the stop sign on the left side of school buses that would swing out and say, “Ok Bubba, you’ve got two pedals. Mash one of them, and I don’t care which.”

[Archived]

Good one John!