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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I drove over here, and this was and I'll get
to some calls here about this, because I want to
talk about it from that perspective. But I'd made the
drive a lot last year, but for some reason, my
drive this time, which I made last night. I finished
the show in Omaha, got in my car to drive
over here to spend time for the Iowa State Fair
while I'm broadcasting back to Omaha here in the afternoons,
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and I was on the road, traveling eastbound on Interstate
eighty pretty much the whole way, and you could go
to a pretty good cliff on Interstate I don't complain.
I know that our friends in Western Nebraska. It's quite
a drive that you gotta make when you're going through
Western Nebraska, and there's not a whole lot of stops
that you're going to be able to make city wise
while you're along the highway. But I feel like seventy
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miles an hour. I've been going like fifty five on
two lane highways, sixty five on four lane highways most
of my adult life. The big interstates like I eighty,
you can go seventy when you get out of town.
That's nice. I like doing that now. I'll be honest,
I'm a little bit of a rule breaker. I'm going
like seventy five seventy seven most of the time. But
I do feel like, in general, I don't have much
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of a problem when I'm out there on the roads. However,
like many people who probably get quite angry when something
doesn't go exactly right on the road, or somebody cuts
them off, or somebody's going too slow in the left lane,
or somebody doesn't move from the left lane to the
right lane when nobody's over there and you have to
pass them in the right lane. All sorts of stuff
like that that frustrates you. That frustrates you. So what
happened to me was I pulled into the highway. I
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got probably near Underwood, you know the big jack Links
building they have there on my way towards Des Moines,
And there was a guy in a semi and he
was approaching the semi in front of him, and I
was coming behind him. I wasn't quite there yet. There
was no way like he would have had to slow
down at least a little bit. I mean, like he
would have had to probably touch the brake if he
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was gonna slow down. Based on his speed and the
semi in front of him, and if I was gonna
be able to complete the pass on him, and I'm
not the kind of guy that's gonna like gun it
to eighty five or ninety complete a pass. I'm just
not I don't want to get tagged for that. I
haven't knock on wood. I've told you this. I don't
like getting tickets. I do everything I can to follow
the rules the best that I can, even if I
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color outside the lines just a little bit of my speeding.
I don't like to go super fast. So I went
ahead and recognized that I wasn't gonna get there in time.
I touched my brake to allow this guy to get
to the left lane and pass the semi in front
of him.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
He gets into the left lane and kind of gets.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Halfway there, halfway to complete in the pass, and then
we start going up a hill and all of a sudden,
he is crawling like I am now down. I was
going probably seventy five seventy six or so. I'm going
a bit faster than he was. He was probably going
like seventy two, seventy one, seventy two at best. As
a guess, we were going probably about sixty two. As
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we started going up this hill. My other problem was
the guy in the right lane was also struggling to
get up the hill. And I know that gravity works
against you, but these guys just kept staying in the
same spot, basically right next to each other, for what
I felt like forever. I mean, it really felt like
I was behind these two for like five, seven, ten minutes.
Maybe I don't know. I lost track of time. I
felt like I was falling into an abyss of driving.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
To be honest with you, I'm on a highway. I
just want to go to Des Moines, and I'm being
slowed down by two semis. Neither guy is willing to
slow down. Neither guy is willing to just you know,
move over and get into the right lane. So this
stack of cars now behind me, which had grown to
probably twelve fifteen cars when there was nobody out there,
really slow and finally it took a while, but we
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eventually were able to keep completed the pass, and then
I went past him. And I don't like to, you know,
show my displeasure while I'm on the road, because what
good is going to come out of that. It's just
going to make more people angry, including myself more angry,
and I'm not interested in doing that. But it frustrated me.
And I got to thinking, these two guys absolutely know
they are only two lanes here, So what are they
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doing and what are they thinking when they know they
are just blocking both of these lanes for the better
part of five to ten? Maybe you can help me out.
Four two five five eight eleven ten is the phone number.
Four two five five eight to eleven ten. Jeff on
the line, Jeff, thanks for the call today. Can you
help me out with this?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I've been a truck driver for about fifteen years,
and I can tell you that there there's actually a
lot of different variables as the widest happens. But I
can also tell you that these truckers I here know
if there's a truck coming up on them, whether that
truck is able to pass them or not, and they're
just being stubborn. The guy in the right lane should
just slow down and.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Let that truck go by.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Anyhow, there's different sized motors. Some of those trucks with
the smaller motors, when they hit a stiff head wind,
we'll slow them down. Some of those trucks. Obviously some
of them are loaded heavier than others. You could tell
which ones are loaded heavier. If those tandemaxles on that
trailer all the way to the rear end, that truck
is loaded heavy. And if the tandemaxles are a little
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bit farther forward, then it's loaded it loaded a little
bit lighter. But the deal is is that, like I said,
with those motors, when they're going up those hills, a
truck could be heavy loaded and be faster than a
more light loaded truck. But once they start going up
that hill, they slow down, so that allows that lighter
truck to catch up. So it's just a constant battle.
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But like I said, some of those drivers out there
are just so fricking stubborn. They just don't want to
slow down and let the other truck go by when
they know they should.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So you're a truck driver, Jeff, does that happen frequently
on your end?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
God, yes, oh god, yes?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And why is that?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Why don't they Because in my vehicle, my passenger vehicle,
it's an SUV, like I am expected. If I'm not
making a pass in the left lane, I need to
get to the right lane. So I'm not holding traffic
up behind me. Why do truck drivers play by different rules.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, that guy in that left lane knows that he
should be able to pass that guy in the right lane,
and if he can get in front of him. Like,
those guys are traveling for so many miles, okay, now
just think about it. They're traveling for five, six hundred
and seven hundred miles in a day for an instance,
So they want to get in front of that truck
so they can make more you know, get to where
they're going a little bit fast after And honestly it's
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not always that much faster, but in a truck driver's mind,
if I get past that truck, I'm going to get
there a little bit faster. Yeah. And like I said,
that truck in that right lane should he Usually everybody
knows which trucks and how fast they can go. And
that's another thing. A lot of those trucks out there,
they are regulated at a certain speed. Some of them
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are sixty five, sixty eight, seventy seventy two. And if
the truck driver has been out there long enough, they
know which trucks and how fast they go and whether
or not they can get buy him or not. So,
like I said, there's a lot of different variable it's
just some of them truck drivers are just too stubborn.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Right, But in this instance, the guy I should be
blaming isn't the guy who was in the left lane forever.
It was the guy in the right lane that should
have just eased up.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, you know it's not always the guy in the
left lane, because the guy in the left lane, you know,
usually could pass that guy in the right and guy
in the right was just being stubborn, just wouldn't let
him go.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, Jeff, this is good. Thanks for calling in and
thanks for listening to us today. You bet all right,
let's go to Stew. Stu's on the phone line. Stew,
what do you got for me today?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I'll preface this by saying I don't speak for everyone,
but yes, I'm a truck driver and I'll agree with
Jeff on every point. But I'd like to give some
pointers to four wheelers. Okay, okay, if you want to
be around a fast truck, they got a long notes. Okay,
so if you plan on going slow, follow something with
the short notes. And yeah, a lot of the trucks
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out there are regulated they have governors on them, so
they can only go up to seventy or sixty five,
and those are generally the shorter notes.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Okay, right, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
A good rule is if you get around a big truck,
get around them and get gone. Don't play around.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Is there a way to keep in mind there.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Still is starting interrupt.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Is there etiquette as far as when you pass the truck,
because I know I've talked to truck drivers before and
they really just hate it when you're kind of sitting
next to them for some reason.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Oh yeah, don't sit in that hip pocket. That's how
a lot of accidents happen. That's how people get cut off.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, how how good is your vision? Like how far
to the back of the truck? Can you see out
of the mirrors?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Out of the mirror if if you're five foot from
my from my dot bumper, my man's filled on the
back of the trailer, I can't see you unless you've
got camper mirrors on something like that, or unless you're
another semi then I can see the back end. But yeah,
just just get by him, go around them. And one
thing to remember is at this time a lot of
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us are older and you know, a lot of us
are retiring, but the industry has flooded with new, inexperienced,
rude drivers who drive that truck like it's a car.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
And in your situation, driver A and the right should
have lifted off of his saddle a little bit, help
traffic flow a little better up that hill. And the
driver B in the left lane shouldn't have tried to pass.
He should have he should have saw.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah, you could see it common.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That was my fear, and my fears were realized very
quickly as well when when we hit that He'll, hey, Stu,
this was good stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Thanks so much for calling and listening to our show today.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Have a good day, Mary.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Absolutely, we'll get to more calls. If you have some
experience as a truck driver. You want to explain to
me some of the bigger picture stuff that truck drivers
deal with that I would not know, And maybe you
could illustrate to me why that kind of thing is happening. Uh,
And we are getting frustrated in our four wheeled cars
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that we're getting stuck behind these big monstrosities that can't
pass each other. I'd love to hear your information. Go
ahead and call us at four roh two five five
eight to eleven ten, news Radio eleven ten KFAB and.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Rise Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Teresa's on the line at four h two five five
eight eleven ten as we talk about semi drivers blocking
both lanes when you're on the highway and the reasons
that could happen or our personal experience with that. Teresa,
what you got for me?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Oh, I got two pointers for cars or as we
call them, four wheelers, the merge lane to get up
on the Interstate. It might stay fifty mile an hour.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Us.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
You got to remember when you get up on that interstate,
cars are going anywhere from sixty five to seventy five.
Make your merge, keep your butt going. Get out of
our way because sometimes we can't get over to let
the cars on because we've got cars on our left.
And if you're a car on the Interstate and you
see a big truck something up front in the ramp,
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do the get over. I believe it's the law in
the Grafton they have with in Iowa. It's a get
over law. Let us in. We don't want to be
in your way and we don't want you in our way, right,
everybody just has to have common servicey and common usage
to be out here. You know, we're out here to
make a living. And we get it that you guys
driving you away from making a living, don't We're still
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out here doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, And Teresa, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I hope this doesn't come across like I'm like I
dislike truck drivers in any way.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But I hopefully you heard my story.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Of the guy that was trying to pass a guy
and couldn't do it because they were going up a
hill and both guys just seemingly were going the same
speed together for it felt like five to ten miles.
I mean, I lost complete track of time. What say
you about how that works? And is there a way
that we can you know, like at least let traffic
flow there? Who was in the wrong or am I
just being I don't know, me and the fifteen cars
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behind me were being right.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
The truck on the right should have got off the field,
settle and let the other one over. Okay, they're just
being stubburns. And some of them out here, and I've
had a couple of friends may think gets funny when
they're neck and neck and holding traffic up.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So can you guys, like I know, I know cbe radios,
you know, like you guys still use those? Can you
talk to each other while you're out there?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Yes, a lot of people don't run nineteen. I'm a
local truck driver. I got a signed up and we
have our channel that we run on for our company.
But Channel nineteen on the CV is.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Nothing but chatter about stop dumbing up the and add Okay, Well,
I was just wondering, you know, like if that stuff
was happening and those two guys didn't know each other
and they didn't think it was funny, Like could they
be like yelling at each other, cussing each other out,
trying to make each other mad by like doing that stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I don't know, it could be interesting. I always wish
I could talk to like a car that's making me
angry on the interstate or even in town, just to
be like, hey, you know, you jag a loon, like
get out of the way, or hey, maybabe look over
your shoulder next time before you merge without looking you crazy?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Yeah, dummy, I don't want to do that because you
never know what stuff you might run into that river
at Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I guess that's true too. You might actually have to
face that person again. All right, this is good. Thank
you so much for listening to our show and for
calling in. Hey, thank you so much. Really appreciate that.
Real quick, let's get to Randy. Randy, thank you for
being on the show today.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What's up, Emory? Thanks for letting me on. I was
just gonna sit and listen, but they yell. It was
just on.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Oh we're losing Randy. Okay, there you go, go ahead,
go ahead, Randy.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Have to maintain. Our job is to maintain our speed
and stay in our lane. A truck is never supposed
to move over at a merge point except to avoid
an accident. So if a car's coming on a truck
does not move over for you, you have to adjust
your speed to merge in or in front of or
behind that truck. If that truck leaves that lane to
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let a call, and then there's an accident, it's automatically
its fault. And that is the law in the breasth
cut yeah, everywhere else. Yeah, and protecting state.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And I just feel like, you know, the four wheelers,
like you guys call them, they can adjust their speed
much easier than a truck could anyway. So it just
makes sense for the car to adjust to the truck
coming anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But as far as the truck do not move over right.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But as as far as like my situation, Randy, what
do you think? What's your opinion about that? In the two.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Truckers, these guys are right, it's multifaceted. What you have
is you have a lot of governed vehicles out there.
The companies set the speed so the truck can't go
to the full speed, and they put the power back
because of the me or a fuel mileage or whatever,
thinking that they're they're gaining ground that way. And what
happens is when one truck tries to go around another,
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they may be governed at the same speed and they
don't have the power to break the wind to get
by that truck. You have to have more power to
get past it, and all they can do is get
up beside it, and then it's what I call a
drag race. And your first guy was right. They do
what I do, which is you just kick your crews
off and let that guy go and then kick it
back on and go back to your speed. I have
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an old truck, a fast truck with a long nose,
and I can drive eighty five mile an hour if
I want, I don't. I drive sixty five mile an hour.
And I don't have to fight. And nobody has to
fight to get around me. And if somebody can't getting
around me, I let them go because I'm an old
man and I'm not in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well, and Randy, and Randy, the people that are in
the four wheelers around you absolutely love you because you're
very predictable and not trying to slow anybody down.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And I always look in my mirror if there's a
car coming. I don't whip around another truck and try
and pass. In your situation, I would let you go.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, Randy, you're my friend I and I'm glad that
you called in. I'm glad that you listened to the show,
and I thank you so much for being a part
of our conversation today.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Em Marie Song on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Steve Steve, Oh, well that's good. I'm glad for Steve.
Happy for Steve. I told my semi truck story.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You got to hear that, right, Yeah, I did. Yep. Yeah,
And I know that it's a.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Little different because we're not in the same room, you know,
so we can't just like bounce stuff off of each
other that easily. But what do you think and like, uh,
how would you react in that situation. I didn't want
to honk my horn. I didn't want people to like, like,
I don't want anybody to be upset out there. I
like sometimes I eyeball on somebody as I passed them.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's like, you know, just give them them a good.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Side eye of like, hey, I hope you know that
I'm not real happy with the way that you've handled
your situation here kind of thing. Yeah, you can't do
that with a semi They're too high. So it's like,
how would they even know?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
They kind of run.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
I mean, yeah, unfortunately, they kind of run the road
and they act like it a lot of times. And
I'm right there with you. I've been in that same situation.
My uncle has a funny story about a time where
he got visibly frustrated with a semi driver and that
semi driver followed him for quite a ways, and so
that was his cautionary tale of you know, like, don't
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mess with the kings of the road.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well, and even if it's like a regular person, right,
I don't want to be like I don't want to
you know, sometimes I really wish I could just like,
you know, show one of my falangies, some of my
falangies too, very select group of my falangies to a
driver as I passed them or they passed me.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I see, and.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Let's just be let's just be honest here. How often
does that work out for anybody?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Rarely? Like it's just not worth doing, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
The last time I got angry at a driver and
got had showed some visible frustration, I felt bad instantly
afterwards because it was a guy and I saw his
license plate afterwards, and you know, and he was from
New York and he clearly was in town, didn't know
where he was going. He'd got in a lane where
people were going fast and he wasn't, And I had
to put on the brakes and gave him gave him
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the old frustrated shrug you know.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh yeah, like the like the what are you doing
kind of thing? Yeah, basically that Yeah, well that's a
little different than the finger.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So so here's another couple of stories of road rage
or surprised road rage. I was in Florida rent I
rented a car and was driving around in Florida with
my wife. It was Miami area. It's pretty busy down there,
and I was in the middle lane and it was
getting to nightfall. And yet you know, like I don't
know that I have maybe an irrational fear of this,
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but I always know that, like people will drive right
next to you and stay right next to you if
they want to like race you or something like that. Right,
And I just like, when somebody pulls up next to me,
I just trained myself, I'm never gonna look at them.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I'm never gonna acknowledge them. I'm gonna act like they're
not there.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Right right, Well, there was this guy and he pulled
to the my left and he was sitting there and
he just there and I could see in my peripheral
vision he was there. But I'm not gonna look at him.
I'm in Miami, I don't know where I'm going. I'm
just gonna stay on my lane. I'm not gonna ignore him.
I go to the right. I like there's like seven lanes.
It's busy, right and I'm like, I move a couple
of lanes over and I'm just like, I'm just gonna
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pretend like this guy's not here as we're on this
busy highway, and he caught back up to me and
sat right there, and again it was obvious at this
point this guy is following me around, and I'm just like,
what is this guy doing?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
You know?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And I asked my wife and I was like, Hey,
can you just like peek over at this guy, like
is he looking at me? And She's like, yeah, he's
looking at you. And so I turned to my left
while I'm driving, you know, on this busy highway I've
never been on before Miami, and I do the two
hands palms to the air thing like what kind of
thing right?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Mm hm?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And he points up at his light in the uh
in the cab of his vehicle and I'm like, what
does that mean? And he's mouthing lights, lights, and I
look down and my lights weren't on ah, and it
was almost nightfall. So I felt like a real you
know what after that, like, oh, now I feel like
a loser and a jerk.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
One time I was driving into Moine and I do
know the highways there, and somebody literally just pulled, like
from the right lane to the middle lane. It's a
three lane highway, pulled right in the middle lane, right
in front of me, like barely missed my bumper. They
obviously were not looking behind them when they wait. They
swapped lanes, and it made me mad, Like I think
I had a long day, I was ready to go home,
and I was just I was instantly infuriated, and so
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I caught up to their back bumper. I went around
them as close to you to them as I possibly
could without hitting them, immediately cut them off, and it
was like a It was probably like a thirty thirty
five year old woman. Probably I got a barely a glimpse,
but I wasn't gonna get fingers or anything. I was
just like, I'm gonna make her drive a living hell,
Like she's not gonna get where she wants to go
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without getting angry as well. I'm gonna make her drive terrible,
and I'm never gonna do it again. I felt stupid afterwards.
In the moment, though, I was so mad. I was
just like, if she wanted to throw down, I might
have thrown down. Okay, if she have decided to hit
my car and came at me like throwing her purse
or like starting to throw hands.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I was in that kind of surly mood. That is
no way to make news, you're right, and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Thankfully she's behind me, right, and so I cut her
off right. I cut her off in the lane in
the highway basically turns into two lanes when you get
into kind of more of the residential area that's where
I was living. And I was like, until I get home,
this car is not passing me. I am not letting
her pass me. And so I basically slammed the brakes
like I'm just like it's forty five miles an hour
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on that road at that point, I'm going like thirty five.
And every time she tries to pass me, I jump
in front of her in the left lane, like literally
like three times I jumped in front of her in
the left lane and just wouldn't have let her get
past me. And I finally got to a point where
I needed to turn off, and I like went ahead
and turned off, and we never saw each other and
made eye contact once again, and I'm sure she was like,
you know, like mess I wanted to let her know
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that she was.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Wraw Did I handle that? Okay?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
You know what is great about forgiveness. It gives you
and them a gift of peace.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't know what that's supposed to mean in this context,
Like she messed up and she wasn't watching, but I.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Mean, okay, and she can't apologize to me, So how
do I know she really knew she messed up?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
No, I'm saying that you forgive that act because, like
I mean, everyone's gonna make a mistake. Yeah, she wasn't
watching closely enough. Okay, it happens.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It happens. What if I would have gotten a wreck?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Yeah exactly, that would have been a major bomber. People
make mistakes and bad things happen all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You just never know.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And you just want me to like actively forgive that
person for not like paying any attention and nearly getting
me killed.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yes, well you're a bigger man than I am.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
No, But what I'm saying is, emory, is that what
good does it do to hold.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
On to it?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well, I'm not holding onto it obviously. I've not thought
about it even one time since since it happened. But no,
I look, I want people who make mistakes, to know
they make a mistake. Now I feel like I've grown
out of that. That was a few years ago. I
went home and told my wife what had happened and
how heated it had gotten me, And she's like, do
you realize how stupid that probably to everybody else on
the road? And you know, if a police officer would
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have had happened to, you know, like witness it, I
probably would have gotten pulled over for erratic driving.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
And you would have said, officer, I was only trying
to teach her a lesson.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I would have said, officer, I'll give you the license
plate of that. You know what B word that was,
you know, trying to kill me out here? And you
can go arrest her now.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
But was she trying or did she just make a mistake?
Who's to know? Who's to know?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Matt? Can you go find her? Can we go like
track her down and be like, hey, remember that guy
that you cut off? He was driving that one car
that one time in Des Moines and he decided he
was going to make your drive home a living hell
after that?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Remember that guy? Did you mean to cut him off?
Were you sorry that you cut him off?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You know, if I realize how closely you got almost
got into a wreck there.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
If I was doing my job as a producer, I
would do you have the license plate? Maybe we can
make this happen. That would be a great interview.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, me, interview this lady that nearly killed me like
four or five years ago in a city that were
not even in anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And it's your first question should just be how dare you?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
My first question is quite literally going to be so
you still have your driver's license?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Your big dummy. And then after she answers every question,
just say shame on you and then keep.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Going yeah exactly. It's just like I don't believe you.
You're not sorry at all. Get out of my sight.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
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say poke like poke Poke city? Poke? Is it pronounced
poke poke Nebraska?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I think it's polk. I like to say polk, but
I also say folk, and people say that's.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Wrong, So I don't know. Well, doesn't Biden say he
says folks? Folks?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, like f o k e s folks. I like
to say folks. You know why because it's spelled that way. Yeah,
sue me anyway, that's the end of the tickets.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Right, yep, that's all of them.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
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in trafficstation News Radio eleven ten KFAB
I drove over here, and this was and I'll get
to some calls here about this, because I want to
talk about it from that perspective. But I'd made the
drive a lot last year, but for some reason, my
drive this time, which I made last night. I finished
the show in Omaha, got in my car to drive
over here to spend time for the Iowa State Fair
while I'm broadcasting back to Omaha here in the afternoons,
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and I was on the road, traveling eastbound on Interstate
eighty pretty much the whole way, and you could go
to a pretty good cliff on Interstate I don't complain.
I know that our friends in Western Nebraska. It's quite
a drive that you gotta make when you're going through
Western Nebraska, and there's not a whole lot of stops
that you're going to be able to make city wise
while you're along the highway. But I feel like seventy
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miles an hour. I've been going like fifty five on
two lane highways, sixty five on four lane highways most
of my adult life. The big interstates like I eighty,
you can go seventy when you get out of town.
That's nice. I like doing that now. I'll be honest,
I'm a little bit of a rule breaker. I'm going
like seventy five seventy seven most of the time. But
I do feel like, in general, I don't have much
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of a problem when I'm out there on the roads. However,
like many people who probably get quite angry when something
doesn't go exactly right on the road, or somebody cuts
them off, or somebody's going too slow in the left lane,
or somebody doesn't move from the left lane to the
right lane when nobody's over there and you have to
pass them in the right lane. All sorts of stuff
like that that frustrates you. That frustrates you. So what
happened to me was I pulled into the highway. I
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got probably near Underwood, you know the big jack Links
building they have there on my way towards Des Moines,
And there was a guy in a semi and he
was approaching the semi in front of him, and I
was coming behind him. I wasn't quite there yet. There
was no way like he would have had to slow
down at least a little bit. I mean, like he
would have had to probably touch the brake if he
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was gonna slow down. Based on his speed and the
semi in front of him, and if I was gonna
be able to complete the pass on him, and I'm
not the kind of guy that's gonna like gun it
to eighty five or ninety complete a pass. I'm just
not I don't want to get tagged for that. I
haven't knock on wood. I've told you this. I don't
like getting tickets. I do everything I can to follow
the rules the best that I can, even if I
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color outside the lines just a little bit of my speeding.
I don't like to go super fast. So I went
ahead and recognized that I wasn't gonna get there in time.
I touched my brake to allow this guy to get
to the left lane and pass the semi in front
of him.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
He gets into the left lane and kind of gets.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Halfway there, halfway to complete in the pass, and then
we start going up a hill and all of a sudden,
he is crawling like I am now down. I was
going probably seventy five seventy six or so. I'm going
a bit faster than he was. He was probably going
like seventy two, seventy one, seventy two at best. As
a guess, we were going probably about sixty two. As
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we started going up this hill. My other problem was
the guy in the right lane was also struggling to
get up the hill. And I know that gravity works
against you, but these guys just kept staying in the
same spot, basically right next to each other, for what
I felt like forever. I mean, it really felt like
I was behind these two for like five, seven, ten minutes.
Maybe I don't know. I lost track of time. I
felt like I was falling into an abyss of driving.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
To be honest with you, I'm on a highway. I
just want to go to Des Moines, and I'm being
slowed down by two semis. Neither guy is willing to
slow down. Neither guy is willing to just you know,
move over and get into the right lane. So this
stack of cars now behind me, which had grown to
probably twelve fifteen cars when there was nobody out there,
really slow and finally it took a while, but we
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eventually were able to keep completed the pass, and then
I went past him. And I don't like to, you know,
show my displeasure while I'm on the road, because what
good is going to come out of that. It's just
going to make more people angry, including myself more angry,
and I'm not interested in doing that. But it frustrated me.
And I got to thinking, these two guys absolutely know
they are only two lanes here, So what are they
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doing and what are they thinking when they know they
are just blocking both of these lanes for the better
part of five to ten? Maybe you can help me out.
Four two five five eight eleven ten is the phone number.
Four two five five eight to eleven ten. Jeff on
the line, Jeff, thanks for the call today. Can you
help me out with this?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I've been a truck driver for about fifteen years,
and I can tell you that there there's actually a
lot of different variables as the widest happens. But I
can also tell you that these truckers I here know
if there's a truck coming up on them, whether that
truck is able to pass them or not, and they're
just being stubborn. The guy in the right lane should
just slow down and.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Let that truck go by.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Anyhow, there's different sized motors. Some of those trucks with
the smaller motors, when they hit a stiff head wind,
we'll slow them down. Some of those trucks. Obviously some
of them are loaded heavier than others. You could tell
which ones are loaded heavier. If those tandemaxles on that
trailer all the way to the rear end, that truck
is loaded heavy. And if the tandemaxles are a little
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bit farther forward, then it's loaded it loaded a little
bit lighter. But the deal is is that, like I said,
with those motors, when they're going up those hills, a
truck could be heavy loaded and be faster than a
more light loaded truck. But once they start going up
that hill, they slow down, so that allows that lighter
truck to catch up. So it's just a constant battle.
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But like I said, some of those drivers out there
are just so fricking stubborn. They just don't want to
slow down and let the other truck go by when
they know they should.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So you're a truck driver, Jeff, does that happen frequently
on your end?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
God, yes, oh god, yes?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And why is that?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Why don't they Because in my vehicle, my passenger vehicle,
it's an SUV, like I am expected. If I'm not
making a pass in the left lane, I need to
get to the right lane. So I'm not holding traffic
up behind me. Why do truck drivers play by different rules.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, that guy in that left lane knows that he
should be able to pass that guy in the right lane,
and if he can get in front of him. Like,
those guys are traveling for so many miles, okay, now
just think about it. They're traveling for five, six hundred
and seven hundred miles in a day for an instance,
So they want to get in front of that truck
so they can make more you know, get to where
they're going a little bit fast after And honestly it's
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not always that much faster, but in a truck driver's mind,
if I get past that truck, I'm going to get
there a little bit faster. Yeah. And like I said,
that truck in that right lane should he Usually everybody
knows which trucks and how fast they can go. And
that's another thing. A lot of those trucks out there,
they are regulated at a certain speed. Some of them
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are sixty five, sixty eight, seventy seventy two. And if
the truck driver has been out there long enough, they
know which trucks and how fast they go and whether
or not they can get buy him or not. So,
like I said, there's a lot of different variable it's
just some of them truck drivers are just too stubborn.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Right, But in this instance, the guy I should be
blaming isn't the guy who was in the left lane forever.
It was the guy in the right lane that should
have just eased up.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, you know it's not always the guy in the
left lane, because the guy in the left lane, you know,
usually could pass that guy in the right and guy
in the right was just being stubborn, just wouldn't let
him go.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, Jeff, this is good. Thanks for calling in and
thanks for listening to us today. You bet all right,
let's go to Stew. Stu's on the phone line. Stew,
what do you got for me today?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I'll preface this by saying I don't speak for everyone,
but yes, I'm a truck driver and I'll agree with
Jeff on every point. But I'd like to give some
pointers to four wheelers. Okay, okay, if you want to
be around a fast truck, they got a long notes. Okay,
so if you plan on going slow, follow something with
the short notes. And yeah, a lot of the trucks
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out there are regulated they have governors on them, so
they can only go up to seventy or sixty five,
and those are generally the shorter notes.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Okay, right, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
A good rule is if you get around a big truck,
get around them and get gone. Don't play around.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Is there a way to keep in mind there.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Still is starting interrupt.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Is there etiquette as far as when you pass the truck,
because I know I've talked to truck drivers before and
they really just hate it when you're kind of sitting
next to them for some reason.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Oh yeah, don't sit in that hip pocket. That's how
a lot of accidents happen. That's how people get cut off.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, how how good is your vision? Like how far
to the back of the truck? Can you see out
of the mirrors?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Out of the mirror if if you're five foot from
my from my dot bumper, my man's filled on the
back of the trailer, I can't see you unless you've
got camper mirrors on something like that, or unless you're
another semi then I can see the back end. But yeah,
just just get by him, go around them. And one
thing to remember is at this time a lot of
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us are older and you know, a lot of us
are retiring, but the industry has flooded with new, inexperienced,
rude drivers who drive that truck like it's a car.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
And in your situation, driver A and the right should
have lifted off of his saddle a little bit, help
traffic flow a little better up that hill. And the
driver B in the left lane shouldn't have tried to pass.
He should have he should have saw.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah, you could see it common.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That was my fear, and my fears were realized very
quickly as well when when we hit that He'll, hey, Stu,
this was good stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Thanks so much for calling and listening to our show today.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Have a good day, Mary.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Absolutely, we'll get to more calls. If you have some
experience as a truck driver. You want to explain to
me some of the bigger picture stuff that truck drivers
deal with that I would not know, And maybe you
could illustrate to me why that kind of thing is happening. Uh,
And we are getting frustrated in our four wheeled cars
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that we're getting stuck behind these big monstrosities that can't
pass each other. I'd love to hear your information. Go
ahead and call us at four roh two five five
eight to eleven ten, news Radio eleven ten KFAB and.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Rise Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Teresa's on the line at four h two five five
eight eleven ten as we talk about semi drivers blocking
both lanes when you're on the highway and the reasons
that could happen or our personal experience with that. Teresa,
what you got for me?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Oh, I got two pointers for cars or as we
call them, four wheelers, the merge lane to get up
on the Interstate. It might stay fifty mile an hour.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Us.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
You got to remember when you get up on that interstate,
cars are going anywhere from sixty five to seventy five.
Make your merge, keep your butt going. Get out of
our way because sometimes we can't get over to let
the cars on because we've got cars on our left.
And if you're a car on the Interstate and you
see a big truck something up front in the ramp,
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do the get over. I believe it's the law in
the Grafton they have with in Iowa. It's a get
over law. Let us in. We don't want to be
in your way and we don't want you in our way, right,
everybody just has to have common servicey and common usage
to be out here. You know, we're out here to
make a living. And we get it that you guys
driving you away from making a living, don't We're still
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out here doing it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah, And Teresa, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I hope this doesn't come across like I'm like I
dislike truck drivers in any way.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But I hopefully you heard my story.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Of the guy that was trying to pass a guy
and couldn't do it because they were going up a
hill and both guys just seemingly were going the same
speed together for it felt like five to ten miles.
I mean, I lost complete track of time. What say
you about how that works? And is there a way
that we can you know, like at least let traffic
flow there? Who was in the wrong or am I
just being I don't know, me and the fifteen cars
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behind me were being right.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
The truck on the right should have got off the field,
settle and let the other one over. Okay, they're just
being stubburns. And some of them out here, and I've
had a couple of friends may think gets funny when
they're neck and neck and holding traffic up.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So can you guys, like I know, I know cbe radios,
you know, like you guys still use those? Can you
talk to each other while you're out there?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Yes, a lot of people don't run nineteen. I'm a
local truck driver. I got a signed up and we
have our channel that we run on for our company.
But Channel nineteen on the CV is.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Nothing but chatter about stop dumbing up the and add Okay, Well,
I was just wondering, you know, like if that stuff
was happening and those two guys didn't know each other
and they didn't think it was funny, Like could they
be like yelling at each other, cussing each other out,
trying to make each other mad by like doing that stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I don't know, it could be interesting. I always wish
I could talk to like a car that's making me
angry on the interstate or even in town, just to
be like, hey, you know, you jag a loon, like
get out of the way, or hey, maybabe look over
your shoulder next time before you merge without looking you crazy?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Yeah, dummy, I don't want to do that because you
never know what stuff you might run into that river
at Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I guess that's true too. You might actually have to
face that person again. All right, this is good. Thank
you so much for listening to our show and for
calling in. Hey, thank you so much. Really appreciate that.
Real quick, let's get to Randy. Randy, thank you for
being on the show today.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What's up, Emory? Thanks for letting me on. I was
just gonna sit and listen, but they yell. It was
just on.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Oh we're losing Randy. Okay, there you go, go ahead,
go ahead, Randy.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Have to maintain. Our job is to maintain our speed
and stay in our lane. A truck is never supposed
to move over at a merge point except to avoid
an accident. So if a car's coming on a truck
does not move over for you, you have to adjust
your speed to merge in or in front of or
behind that truck. If that truck leaves that lane to
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let a call, and then there's an accident, it's automatically
its fault. And that is the law in the breasth
cut yeah, everywhere else. Yeah, and protecting state.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And I just feel like, you know, the four wheelers,
like you guys call them, they can adjust their speed
much easier than a truck could anyway. So it just
makes sense for the car to adjust to the truck
coming anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But as far as the truck do not move over right.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But as as far as like my situation, Randy, what
do you think? What's your opinion about that? In the two.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Truckers, these guys are right, it's multifaceted. What you have
is you have a lot of governed vehicles out there.
The companies set the speed so the truck can't go
to the full speed, and they put the power back
because of the me or a fuel mileage or whatever,
thinking that they're they're gaining ground that way. And what
happens is when one truck tries to go around another,
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they may be governed at the same speed and they
don't have the power to break the wind to get
by that truck. You have to have more power to
get past it, and all they can do is get
up beside it, and then it's what I call a
drag race. And your first guy was right. They do
what I do, which is you just kick your crews
off and let that guy go and then kick it
back on and go back to your speed. I have
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an old truck, a fast truck with a long nose,
and I can drive eighty five mile an hour if
I want, I don't. I drive sixty five mile an hour.
And I don't have to fight. And nobody has to
fight to get around me. And if somebody can't getting
around me, I let them go because I'm an old
man and I'm not in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well, and Randy, and Randy, the people that are in
the four wheelers around you absolutely love you because you're
very predictable and not trying to slow anybody down.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
And I always look in my mirror if there's a
car coming. I don't whip around another truck and try
and pass. In your situation, I would let you go.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, Randy, you're my friend I and I'm glad that
you called in. I'm glad that you listened to the show,
and I thank you so much for being a part
of our conversation today.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Em Marie Song on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Steve Steve, Oh, well that's good. I'm glad for Steve.
Happy for Steve. I told my semi truck story.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You got to hear that, right, Yeah, I did. Yep. Yeah,
And I know that it's a.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Little different because we're not in the same room, you know,
so we can't just like bounce stuff off of each
other that easily. But what do you think and like, uh,
how would you react in that situation. I didn't want
to honk my horn. I didn't want people to like, like,
I don't want anybody to be upset out there. I
like sometimes I eyeball on somebody as I passed them.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It's like, you know, just give them them a good.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Side eye of like, hey, I hope you know that
I'm not real happy with the way that you've handled
your situation here kind of thing. Yeah, you can't do
that with a semi They're too high. So it's like,
how would they even know?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
They kind of run.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
I mean, yeah, unfortunately, they kind of run the road
and they act like it a lot of times. And
I'm right there with you. I've been in that same situation.
My uncle has a funny story about a time where
he got visibly frustrated with a semi driver and that
semi driver followed him for quite a ways, and so
that was his cautionary tale of you know, like, don't
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mess with the kings of the road.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well, and even if it's like a regular person, right,
I don't want to be like I don't want to
you know, sometimes I really wish I could just like,
you know, show one of my falangies, some of my
falangies too, very select group of my falangies to a
driver as I passed them or they passed me.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I see, and.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Let's just be let's just be honest here. How often
does that work out for anybody?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Rarely? Like it's just not worth doing, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
The last time I got angry at a driver and
got had showed some visible frustration, I felt bad instantly
afterwards because it was a guy and I saw his
license plate afterwards, and you know, and he was from
New York and he clearly was in town, didn't know
where he was going. He'd got in a lane where
people were going fast and he wasn't, And I had
to put on the brakes and gave him gave him
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the old frustrated shrug you know.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh yeah, like the like the what are you doing
kind of thing? Yeah, basically that Yeah, well that's a
little different than the finger.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So so here's another couple of stories of road rage
or surprised road rage. I was in Florida rent I
rented a car and was driving around in Florida with
my wife. It was Miami area. It's pretty busy down there,
and I was in the middle lane and it was
getting to nightfall. And yet you know, like I don't
know that I have maybe an irrational fear of this,
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but I always know that, like people will drive right
next to you and stay right next to you if
they want to like race you or something like that. Right,
And I just like, when somebody pulls up next to me,
I just trained myself, I'm never gonna look at them.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I'm never gonna acknowledge them. I'm gonna act like they're
not there.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Right right, Well, there was this guy and he pulled
to the my left and he was sitting there and
he just there and I could see in my peripheral
vision he was there. But I'm not gonna look at him.
I'm in Miami, I don't know where I'm going. I'm
just gonna stay on my lane. I'm not gonna ignore him.
I go to the right. I like there's like seven lanes.
It's busy, right and I'm like, I move a couple
of lanes over and I'm just like, I'm just gonna
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pretend like this guy's not here as we're on this
busy highway, and he caught back up to me and
sat right there, and again it was obvious at this
point this guy is following me around, and I'm just like,
what is this guy doing?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
You know?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And I asked my wife and I was like, Hey,
can you just like peek over at this guy, like
is he looking at me? And She's like, yeah, he's
looking at you. And so I turned to my left
while I'm driving, you know, on this busy highway I've
never been on before Miami, and I do the two
hands palms to the air thing like what kind of
thing right?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Mm hm?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And he points up at his light in the uh
in the cab of his vehicle and I'm like, what
does that mean? And he's mouthing lights, lights, and I
look down and my lights weren't on ah, and it
was almost nightfall. So I felt like a real you
know what after that, like, oh, now I feel like
a loser and a jerk.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
One time I was driving into Moine and I do
know the highways there, and somebody literally just pulled, like
from the right lane to the middle lane. It's a
three lane highway, pulled right in the middle lane, right
in front of me, like barely missed my bumper. They
obviously were not looking behind them when they wait. They
swapped lanes, and it made me mad, Like I think
I had a long day, I was ready to go home,
and I was just I was instantly infuriated, and so
(19:25):
I caught up to their back bumper. I went around
them as close to you to them as I possibly
could without hitting them, immediately cut them off, and it
was like a It was probably like a thirty thirty
five year old woman. Probably I got a barely a glimpse,
but I wasn't gonna get fingers or anything. I was
just like, I'm gonna make her drive a living hell,
Like she's not gonna get where she wants to go
(19:47):
without getting angry as well. I'm gonna make her drive terrible,
and I'm never gonna do it again. I felt stupid afterwards.
In the moment, though, I was so mad. I was
just like, if she wanted to throw down, I might
have thrown down. Okay, if she have decided to hit
my car and came at me like throwing her purse
or like starting to throw hands.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I was in that kind of surly mood. That is
no way to make news, you're right, and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Thankfully she's behind me, right, and so I cut her
off right. I cut her off in the lane in
the highway basically turns into two lanes when you get
into kind of more of the residential area that's where
I was living. And I was like, until I get home,
this car is not passing me. I am not letting
her pass me. And so I basically slammed the brakes
like I'm just like it's forty five miles an hour
(20:32):
on that road at that point, I'm going like thirty five.
And every time she tries to pass me, I jump
in front of her in the left lane, like literally
like three times I jumped in front of her in
the left lane and just wouldn't have let her get
past me. And I finally got to a point where
I needed to turn off, and I like went ahead
and turned off, and we never saw each other and
made eye contact once again, and I'm sure she was like,
you know, like mess I wanted to let her know
(20:53):
that she was.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Wraw Did I handle that? Okay?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
You know what is great about forgiveness. It gives you
and them a gift of peace.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't know what that's supposed to mean in this context,
Like she messed up and she wasn't watching, but I.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Mean, okay, and she can't apologize to me, So how
do I know she really knew she messed up?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
No, I'm saying that you forgive that act because, like
I mean, everyone's gonna make a mistake. Yeah, she wasn't
watching closely enough. Okay, it happens.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It happens. What if I would have gotten a wreck?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Yeah exactly, that would have been a major bomber. People
make mistakes and bad things happen all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You just never know.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And you just want me to like actively forgive that
person for not like paying any attention and nearly getting
me killed.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yes, well you're a bigger man than I am.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
No, But what I'm saying is, emory, is that what
good does it do to hold.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
On to it?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well, I'm not holding onto it obviously. I've not thought
about it even one time since since it happened. But no,
I look, I want people who make mistakes, to know
they make a mistake. Now I feel like I've grown
out of that. That was a few years ago. I
went home and told my wife what had happened and
how heated it had gotten me, And she's like, do
you realize how stupid that probably to everybody else on
the road? And you know, if a police officer would
(22:03):
have had happened to, you know, like witness it, I
probably would have gotten pulled over for erratic driving.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
And you would have said, officer, I was only trying
to teach her a lesson.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I would have said, officer, I'll give you the license
plate of that. You know what B word that was,
you know, trying to kill me out here? And you
can go arrest her now.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
But was she trying or did she just make a mistake?
Who's to know? Who's to know?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Matt? Can you go find her? Can we go like
track her down and be like, hey, remember that guy
that you cut off? He was driving that one car
that one time in Des Moines and he decided he
was going to make your drive home a living hell
after that?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Remember that guy? Did you mean to cut him off?
Were you sorry that you cut him off?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You know, if I realize how closely you got almost
got into a wreck there.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
If I was doing my job as a producer, I
would do you have the license plate? Maybe we can
make this happen. That would be a great interview.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, me, interview this lady that nearly killed me like
four or five years ago in a city that were
not even in anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And it's your first question should just be how dare you?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
My first question is quite literally going to be so
you still have your driver's license?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Your big dummy. And then after she answers every question,
just say shame on you and then keep.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Going yeah exactly. It's just like I don't believe you.
You're not sorry at all. Get out of my sight.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Emery Sunger on news radio eleven ten kfab. Didn't somebody
say poke like poke Poke city? Poke? Is it pronounced
poke poke Nebraska?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I think it's polk. I like to say polk, but
I also say folk, and people say that's.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Wrong, So I don't know. Well, doesn't Biden say he
says folks? Folks?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, like f o k e s folks. I like
to say folks. You know why because it's spelled that way. Yeah,
sue me anyway, that's the end of the tickets.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Right, yep, that's all of them.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
All right, awesome, we're able to get those in. Congratulations.
If you're going there, get up with other KFAB listeners
at John Fogerty on Sunday or Sugar Ray on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Be sure to say hey to them.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You're all part of the same KFAB family, especially here
in the afternoons we head.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
To the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Here we'll touch base once again on some of the
big political news of the day. I want to kind
of talk just a little bit about this Noah Lyles
COVID nineteen him running a race while knowingly being sick
sort of thing, and how far we have come from
being able to, you know, go say that working sick
(24:33):
is smart and now you know, it feels like it's
a bit different. We'll do that, and we'll also give
you another keyword that you need a text A two
hundred two hundred to have a chance to win a
trip to the iHeartRadio Music Festival coming up there as well,
So you're definitely going to stay tuned as we roll along.
My name is Emry Songer. Thanks so much for listening.
You're tuned in live local here on Nebraska's news weather
(24:54):
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