[AT] Test

[charlie hill]

The truck drivers have a cure for that and I employ it too sometimes.
When the lanes start to merge the truckers pull over and split the
two merging lanes and make everyone merge behind them.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil R Bearden
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 3:59 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Test

It is definitely counter intuitive! And I have copied a note from
Wikipedia.......     Please note that this system of traffic management
is not in accordance with the laws of many jurisdictions and can, in
fact, earn one a "failure to yield" or "unsafe merge" citation, as
continuing traffic always has the right of way.

So...  This system comes from the same agency that gave us the DOT
registrations for farm trucks.....

I can legally put a 10,000 lb tractor on a 3 axle trailer and pull it
with a 1/2 ton pickup from coast to coast without  being stopped and
harassed.    However, if I put that same tractor on a dual wheeled
tandem gooseneck trailer and pull it with my 1 ton diesel, I cannot
travel over 150 miles from my home base.......

I have a lot of equipment that I hauled in from other states. Oklahoma
was so long in becoming settled as a state that we never had a lot of
industry to leave much in the way of used equipment.   I had to go out
of state in order to find something affordable.  Now that fuel cost has
dropped, still can't go due to the regulatory environment...

Cecil in OKla





On 8/6/2015 1:55 PM, Henry Miller wrote:
> When a lane is ending the correct, safest thing to do is continue in the 
> lane thay ends until the last moment and then take turns merging. 
> Counterintuitive, but the dot says it is correct and they have people who 
> study this stuff.
>
>
>
> On August 6, 2015 1:33:35 PM CDT, Ron Cook <ron at lakeport-1.com> wrote:
>> WHAT?
>> Ron Cook
>> Salix, IA
>>
>> On 8/6/2015 12:59 PM, Henry Miller wrote:
>>> This is why you need to take a class the guy who waits for the last
>> minute to merge is doing the right thing! Look up the zipper merge and
>> be enlightened.
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