Having a CDL it is drivers like you that I hate. Just riding my *** in my blind spot, while cars in front are just cutting me off. Just grow some ***** and pay a few extra bucks for gas and go 70. As well as like talked about above, debris, sudden stops and everything it semis throw up. What if one blows a tire? That damage that will cost you is certainly alot more than the few measly dollars you save riding my ***.

 

This. And op would be the first to be on the message forum bitching about a dirty truck throwing a cap through that pickup windshield. People come down hard on street racing on this forum. The op's post is just as stupid.

 

Didn't mythbusters do that one a few years ago? Basically it ended up that yes it works, but it is crazy to do it.

Have fun. Stay safe!

 

Somebody's small mans complex is emerging in this thread....

Yes being in traffic actually increases mpg vs being on a country road. 30 seems awfully good but I imagine that's not repeatable often without being very close to the semi.

 

Yikes. This thread got out of hand!

I know it's the internet and all but it would be OK if you guys treated the people you're taking to like humans.

Tailgating is very dangerous, and staying in blind spots is also dangerous. So I would never do either of those. The point I was trying to demonstrate was that I was surprised by how big of a difference in mileage I saw merely by being behind a semi. AT A SAFE DISTANCE. So please put away your pitch forks and stop the name calling.

For what's it's worth, I'm also a CDL driver.

 

Having a CDL myself there should be only one area you should be the most concerned about and the only one you have the most control of, the area in front of you. Tailgaters will be tailgaters, people riding on your side blind spots for miles what can you do. Of course you have to be concerned with everything that goes on around you but I sure as hell would rather be rear ended in a semi by a tailgater then slamming into the back of another car from focusing about the person behind me in my mirror. Some people just don't have a clue about what it takes to drive a truck and how dangerous they can be whether you're driving one or being next to one when something happens.

 

Oh thanks for the information buddy, I didn't have to take written or driving tests to get my CDL, so I wouldn't know that paying attention to what in front of me is important at all. His post didn't say he went slow in front of semis and braked at random times, we was talking about tail gating, so I am not sure any of this is relevant.

 

Yup, still not going to draft anything for any mpg increase.

Didn't mythbusters prove that to be bull****? Not to mention risky?

I see people follow semis into weigh stations and wonder how the literal f* they function on a day to day when they can't think for themselves while driving.

 

According to my records, there is a Morann Pennsylvania, no Moran.

Either way, I'm surprised that your phone's spell check has the name of a little town in Pennsylvania in it's database, especially the incorrect version.

 

*Its database, there Webster.

Now you boys stop tailgating and learn how to read and write!