The Yellow Line is my Friend, and.....
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Tool TX
Posts: 115
Hobo
For what its worth the main reason the trailers seem to always track right is from bouncing over curbs on the right side ,because it lengthens the wheelbase just a little on the side that takes a good hit, it could happen to the left side as well but your right when you say seems to always be to the right. an alingment is the cure. I too notice that when I go to pass someone their lane position is great until they look in thr mirror and they come over on ya :shock:
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#12
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 600
Originally Posted by golfhobo
...Today, while passing another truck on a left hand curve, I could see that HE had drifted LEFT of the dotted line, and was encroaching on my lane. By focusing on the yellow line, I managed to maintain the safest position I could take (without risking running myself into the median,) and hoped that he got off his cellphone in time to avoid exchanging paint! Since he didn't, I took myself a few inches left of my "friend." By being as comfortable as I am with my "friend," I knew that I could still "track" the curve without making any wild jerks toward the median.
If that hadn't been enough, I would have held my "line," and let the trailers rub! I'm not about to radically "back out of it" and let his trailer contact my steer tires or fender!...
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