[BlackTalon]

Bob:

What is the name of your company? Are there any distinguishing graphics on your trucks?

Originally Posted by roundel

Oh boy Van stories!

I was driving a work van north from New York Ave on a street with 2 lanes each way. The north bound side was stopped. A female pulled out in a RAV4 from a parking lot on the left and sat perpendicular to the south bound lanes waiting for traffic to move so she could pull into the northbound lanes. She was perpendicular to the truck in front of me. While waiting a fire truck came southbound with lights lit and horn blaring. She did not back up into the parking lot. She continued to wait. When northbound traffic started to move, I plastered my truck inches from the truck in front of me and smiled at her as I went by. The person behind me let her in. She raced up my right side and slid infront of of me in the gap that was now between me and the truck in front of me, and she nailed her brakes. Knowing there was no way I could stop a van in time, I never touched the brake and passed her on the right and then pulled back into the left lane as she tried to accelerate to block me. She then tried to pass me on the left in the oncoming traffic lanes but I was again on the bumper of the truck in front of me so she could not pull back into the northbound lanes. Uh oh! now there is southbound traffic heading toward her so she nails the brakes to pull back behind me but she cuts it too close and catches her bumper on our big iron truck bumper removing the whole front of her vehicle. She followed us for a while with the whole front fascia flapping and my boss wanted me to brake check her now but she finally realized she lost and pulled over. We were called by a lawyer but we kept asking him to explain how damage to the front of her car was not her fault. Nothing ever came of it. Some drivers think they are ready for Varsity but are simply at the Fresh-Soph level.

Originally Posted by roundel

My boss was driving a BIG box truck down 95 with me riding shotgun at about 1:00 AM. South of Philly construction has only one lane open. There is a on ramp entering from the right. Nice and civilized one car from 95, one from the ramp, one from 95, one from the ramp. My boss lets one car in and is timed to pull right behind that car. An arrogant lady flaps her hand out the window as if to say "you hold on!" (with amazingly long finger nails BTW) and tries to slip in as the 2nd car from the ramp. Without changing anything like braking or steering my boss asks "what is she trying to do?" and proceeds to grind down the side of her car with the large Ben-Hur style lugnuts on our truck's front right wheel. I hang out the window to make sure I don't miss any of the fun while she has now lodged firmly in the traffic barrels. You could see the hole car bounce as she threw a tantrum in the car. Since stopping would have brought all of I95 South to a complete stop, I suggested to my boss that we continue on.