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So when you escort, what sort of hand signal do you use to get people to realize a truck is coming around the corner?
Thanks Mark you could have unknowingly saved a life that day
Thanks for saving alot of headaches and possibly a few heartaches
GPTtuners: I ride VERY close to the center line, sometimes on it, and point to the other side of the road...suggesting they pull off if possible. Just stopping them often causes a jam because the truck needs their space to get through the corners. Stay JUST close enough to catch a glimpse of him exiting his turn when you enter each turn. (In the photo he's a little close, but it's probably done for the sake of the photo op and getting the message across.)
Also, watch your temps! Keep the RPMs as low as possible by using high gears.
I do both the get-to-the-edge-of-the-road finger point and I do the classic hey-there-trucker!-blow-your-horn-for-me! honking motion to get the point across that there is a truck coming and I am not just having so much fun that I need to sit on my hands to keep from waving at everyone.
Yea, I admit it. I wanted the front page. However, I see many escorts get too far ahead of the truck and by the time the warned traffic meet the rig, they have assumed that the escorting vehicle is just crazy.
That day we counted 14 rigs northbound! These two said, "Gawleh! Forty's closed westbound and they sent us this way!?! We'll never be back. Thank yuh!"
Mark, sure wish you had been escorting the ones that ran us off the road that day.....we were in the cage that day but were watching for the escorts and signs. One truck obscured our view of the one behind him and that's the one that ran us off the road.....THANKS TDOT for paved pull off or we wold have been off-roading....
Thank you Mark.
When I rode through one day, the person escorting the truck only gave the slow down signal and a few seconds later the truck almost ran over me because I was just slowing down. When in that position, there's nowhere to go and the truck does not give you time to think of an out.
You should have your "outs" planed reguardless if there is a truck there or not. Then when the need comes, its almost natural.
""THANKS TDOT for paved pull off or we wold have been off-roading....""
Many of those pull-offs are for the trucks to make it around the corners
I Stop the oncomming traffic by Throwing Rocks and other garbage litterd along the road... Keep on Truckin!
J...not according to the original announcement about the pulloffs being paved...some corners were shaved to make them safer. If it had not been for the pulloff we would have likely gone down the mountain.....the truck that ran us off the road was obscured by the truck in front of it.
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