Utah drivers
I've also got another to tell about Texas drivers, but that's another story.

So after I was hired by IBM, I move to the location from California. For those of you who know the US highway system, I'm taking I-15 north up from San Diego to the I-80 east and going from there. I-15 goes through Nevada, around Las Vegas, then down to Arizona and back up to Utah. I spend the first night in Mesquite, Nevada as I had a late start and was finishing packing. I get an early start the next day (roughly 0500 local) and get on the road, while it's still dark thanks to it being late spring.

I drive through the mountains into Utah, and I'm about 15-30km out from St. George, the first major town in Utah you'll run into along that route. This part of I-15 is still fairly mountainous, and like most interstates, used heavily by truckers. This part of I-15 is also two lanes. I'm in the left-hand lane as truckers are going slow through here thanks to the terrain. I'm also going the speed limit as I don't know the local customs of pushing the speed limit and don't want to get any tickets.

As I'm passing some 18-wheelers on the left, a Utah driver gets behind me. He is obviously desperate to pass, knowing the customs, and starts tailgating me. Very, very close, to the point where I can't even see his bumper anymore (note: I'm in a Toyota sedan, he's in some kind of SUV or pickup, I forget the exact car). But I can see his lights, which he makes sure of by flashing his high beams at me repeatedly.

So, to recap: driving in mountain terrain (with a good 20m drop on my left past the guardrail), next to some 18-wheelers, with some asshole Utah driver driving so close to my rear bumper that he's about to force me off the road with physical force alone, and he's also flashing his highbeams, which are practically blinding me since the sun is barely peeking over the horizon.

Thanks a lot, you thundercunt.
(Magus Zeal reloading since, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 6:41, 5 replies)

Arizona drivers
Back in the early 80's I was approaching the Mazatzal Mountains while driving from Payson to Phoenix on the Beeline Highway. I decided to pass an 18-wheeler on an uphill grade, but just as I was pulling past, the uphill road inverted and became a steep downhill road. I drove faster and the 18-wheeler drove faster; I drove faster still, and so did the 18-wheeler. Pulling in front of tons of barreling death in order to avoid a head-on collision with the car approaching from the other direction took serious balls!

Then they re-engineered the road and made it wider. Arizona drivers are still twats, but are now cosseted by engineering marvels.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 9:04, closed)

Is your name...
David Mann?
(Schindler's Wrist Brimful of asha and a P45, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 9:46, closed)

Australia is real bad for truckers as well
Think of 18 wheelers with another 18 wheel carriage on the back, these things are more like trains than trucks. I Was travelling up from Brisbane to Fraser Island a few years ago when we noticed two of these behemoths with a little white car in between them, they left no space for this little white vehicle and you could see the guy trying to get out of the situation but he couldn’t because the road was to narrow, the weather was tropical to say the least and a thunderstorm had just kicked in, so the road was getting drenched by chubby rain. Remember commenting to the Mrs. that the situation looked hairy to say the least. Anyway didn't think anything of it until we reached our hotel destination and switched on the TV. The news was on and to my surprise they had reporters on exactly the same stretch of road we had gone down. They were showing what was left of this little white car, It had been flattened and the driver had been killed instantly...Apparently the first truck had aqua planed, causing the car to smash into the first truck and for good measure the second truck smashed and crushed this little Japanese car into what can only be described as a ball of metal......Poor bastard didn't stand a chance.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 9:49, closed)

One of my previoous cars had rear "fog lights"
All it was was an extra set of rear lights. Annoying in the fog, but very useful for making tailgaters back the fcuk off as turning them on made it look like I was breaking.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 10:38, closed)

Tailgating is easy to fix
JUST FUCKING MOVE OVER......
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 11:17, closed)