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Old Sep 21, 2014 | 07:00 PM
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Junk trucks? You mean like Chevy's?
 
Old Sep 21, 2014 | 07:05 PM
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Stay away from dump trucks and give them as much room as I can when they are approaching me.
 
Old Sep 21, 2014 | 07:16 PM
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I'd rather not have anything big enough to block my view of the road ahead of me.
 
Old Sep 21, 2014 | 07:18 PM
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Junk trucks? You mean like Chevy's?
 
Old Sep 21, 2014 | 07:23 PM
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I'll pull over or fall back for trucks hauling garbage, hay, coal or gravel, if it's sifting/leaking.
 
Old Sep 21, 2014 | 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Halojumper
Junk trucks? You mean like Chevy's?
LOL! Yeah, I never get too close to em. Something might fall off...
 
Old Sep 21, 2014 | 09:23 PM
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Trailered boats. Had a big old white bucket come flying out of one. Went to the left, went to the right. I split the difference and went down the middle and successfully missed it.
 
Old Sep 21, 2014 | 09:36 PM
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I avoid following trailers of any sort, and that includes 18 wheelers.
 
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Old Sep 21, 2014 | 10:34 PM
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IMO I just use Common Sense.... either pull over or change routes...
 
Old Sep 21, 2014 | 11:44 PM
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Hell yeah. I get past or WAY behind scrap haulers, trailers of any type but especially the homemade or sagging in the middle kind, pickups hauling anything in the bed, cars with anything on the roof even if it's in a carrier. I REALLY like the guys trailering 50' "campers" with a 1/2 ton pickup or suburban and the front wheels are barely on the ground....

FL is the land of the unsecured load... In the last year I've dodged a metal patio chair from the bed of a pickup on a causeway and a 30' aluminum extension ladder that slid off a flat, no gate trailer on A1A. That's just the stuff that's fallen off in front of me. Plenty of other crap just sitting in the road.... and don't get me started on the phuking recaps all over the place.....
 



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