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DANGEROUS MOTORISTS * USA - High country driving puts trucks in risky position
On the side of a snow-packed I-70, trucker Mike Martinez's nerves are shacking like the fiberglass fender of his 18 wheelerSummit County,CO,USA -9NEWS (Denver,CO), by Colleen Locke -21 Oct 2007: -- ... The reason he's nervous? He's attempting to put chains on his rig while only feet away, a trail of traffic is trembling by at a decent rate of speed... It's a risky place truckers often find themselves on snowy days, when chain laws go into effect, because Martinez says there aren't enough places for chaining trucks up or down... A few days earlier, a trucker died after being run over while taking his chains off on the side of I-70 in Vail. So during the next winter storm to hit the high country, troopers with the Colorado State Patrol, like Sgt. Sean Wheeler, say they had a number of goals. One was to make sure truckers where chaining up by enforcing the state's new chain laws...
* Car drivers should give truckers more respect
Bloomington,IL,USA -The Bloomington Pantagraph, by Kathy Ellis -22 Oct 2007: -- I am disgusted about how little respect four-wheelers - cars - have for others on the road... I drive a semi and have for 24 years. Every day I have to deal with ignorant drivers... I-55 in the construction zone is the worst. So many four-wheelers think they have to be first into the lane closure. When they hit the barricades, they flip us off, among other things... Ninety-five percent of the time, we are in the right lane ahead of time. We can read and follow directions. Obviously, they can't... Yes, a truck will kill. Do the math: 2-ton car vs 40-ton truck. Now, who do you think will come out ahead?... This is our job. Don't mess with us when we are working... But, next time I come into a construction zone and I am following the rules and you think you must be first and pull one of your stupid tricks, don't expect to get in. You can just eat the barricades and deal with it...
Bloomington,IL,USA -The Bloomington Pantagraph, by Kathy Ellis -22 Oct 2007: -- I am disgusted about how little respect four-wheelers - cars - have for others on the road... I drive a semi and have for 24 years. Every day I have to deal with ignorant drivers... I-55 in the construction zone is the worst. So many four-wheelers think they have to be first into the lane closure. When they hit the barricades, they flip us off, among other things... Ninety-five percent of the time, we are in the right lane ahead of time. We can read and follow directions. Obviously, they can't... Yes, a truck will kill. Do the math: 2-ton car vs 40-ton truck. Now, who do you think will come out ahead?... This is our job. Don't mess with us when we are working... But, next time I come into a construction zone and I am following the rules and you think you must be first and pull one of your stupid tricks, don't expect to get in. You can just eat the barricades and deal with it...
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