Does Anyone Else Call About Bad Driving?

I wish I was able to call about other drivers. But usually every time something happens, it's some independent driver with a piece of paper duct taped to the truck door, so it's rather pointless.

Like today for example. I was being tailgates by not one, but two separate trucks. The first one passed me the first time I slowed way down to get him to pass.

But the second was a bobtail and he tailgated me for 50 miles. I slowed down multiple times to try to get him to go around but I couldn't maintain a slow speed for long enough due to traffic. I finally got a break in traffic and slowed all the way down to 45 and he FINALLY went around me! What doesn't make sense is he followed me for that long at my speed, yet when he passed me he was obviously doing at least 70. I guess he though Teddy had a cute butt!

I had pointed him out several times in the mirrors so hubby was aware of what was going on so he could be a witness if the guy rammed into my trailer. I was getting pretty irritated and was going to get the truck number and company, but it was a beat up old red truck with a piece of paper with dot numbers taped to the door. Pretty pointless...

He was probably riding your slipstream trying to save on diesel.

Still incredibly dangerous and stupid. He was only about 6 feet off my bumper. If I would have had to stop suddenly for whatever reason there is absolutely no way he could have avoided hitting me.

I don't care what reason you come up with, it's irresponsible and potentially deadly. It most likely would have seriously hurt or killed tha driver if he had hit me, then I have to live with knowing that I had a hand in someone else's death. Would you want to live with that? That's why I did what I did.

I wish I was able to call about other drivers. But usually every time something happens, it's some independent driver with a piece of paper duct taped to the truck door, so it's rather pointless.

Like today for example. I was being tailgates by not one, but two separate trucks. The first one passed me the first time I slowed way down to get him to pass.

But the second was a bobtail and he tailgated me for 50 miles. I slowed down multiple times to try to get him to go around but I couldn't maintain a slow speed for long enough due to traffic. I finally got a break in traffic and slowed all the way down to 45 and he FINALLY went around me! What doesn't make sense is he followed me for that long at my speed, yet when he passed me he was obviously doing at least 70. I guess he though Teddy had a cute butt!

I had pointed him out several times in the mirrors so hubby was aware of what was going on so he could be a witness if the guy rammed into my trailer. I was getting pretty irritated and was going to get the truck number and company, but it was a beat up old red truck with a piece of paper with dot numbers taped to the door. Pretty pointless...

He was probably riding your slipstream trying to save on diesel.

Still incredibly dangerous and stupid. He was only about 6 feet off my bumper. If I would have had to stop suddenly for whatever reason there is absolutely no way he could have avoided hitting me.

I don't care what reason you come up with, it's irresponsible and potentially deadly. It most likely would have seriously hurt or killed tha driver if he had hit me, then I have to live with knowing that I had a hand in someone else's death. Would you want to live with that? That's why I did what I did.

Whoa there... I wasn't condoning what this driver was doing and we all know that's it's a very dangerous and foolish thing to do. I just tried to answer your question about it not making sense that he followed you for as long as he did. My apologies.

Anymore, I worry more about idiots in the parking lots more than I do drivers on the road lol.

I wish I was able to call about other drivers. But usually every time something happens, it's some independent driver with a piece of paper duct taped to the truck door, so it's rather pointless.

I was getting pretty irritated and was going to get the truck number and company, but it was a beat up old red truck with a piece of paper with dot numbers taped to the door. Pretty pointless...

This is when you call the state patrol to report an aggressive driver. They can make the point for you to an O/O with one truck and no boss.

Yes. I did it two times on road...

If there was a button to push to instantly record a tractor / trailer number and transmit that info to the respective company's safety dept., I'd be pushing that button. It's not that I don't want to report an irresponsible driver - and there are many - it's that I don't feel like trying to remember an equipment number, trying to find the appropriate number on some company's website, and then weeding through multiple, convoluted call menus to reach somebody that is willing to take down my info and hear my complaint. I have a dashcam rolling 24/7, and have been tempted more than once to send footage to a safety department, but just ran out of steam to do so. As I've said many times before on this forum, it's not the 4-wheelers that irritate me, as annoying as they can be, it's the other truck drivers that are supposed to know better.

Eh I guess. It's not too hard with Google these days. My phone has a feature that allows me to look things up and make phone calls without ever touching my phone, even to turn on the screen, so I look up the company and call their phone number. The tractor or trailer number is the only number I have to remember and I am usually just transferred to safety when I tell them what I'm calling about.

I still don't have a DashCam, except the company DriveCam. I probably would only send videos for the worst offenders, but there have been days when almost every single truck for hours on end cut 50 ft or less in front of me after passing. I was so ****ed I probably would have sent videos to every single company.

I'm sure most TT members are cautious drivers but have any of you every had a call from safety because someone reported unsafe driving? I sometimes think those numbers are just there to make the public feel like they can do something about it.

Then on the other hand, trucking companies probably get a lot of calls from the public complaining about something that one of their drivers is supposed to have done and it must be nearly impossible to follow up and rap someones knuckles unless there is some kind of proof.

The Swift driver I called about got off at the next exit after I called, even though there wasn't much there. It may have been unrelated but I strongly suspect he got call from safety.

In my first few months out, I received a call from safety that I was speeding in a work zone (I don't do it anymore). The only thing that makes sense to me is that someone called me in.

I wish I was able to call about other drivers. But usually every time something happens, it's some independent driver with a piece of paper duct taped to the truck door, so it's rather pointless.

I was getting pretty irritated and was going to get the truck number and company, but it was a beat up old red truck with a piece of paper with dot numbers taped to the door. Pretty pointless...

This is when you call the state patrol to report an aggressive driver. They can make the point for you to an O/O with one truck and no boss.

Do you just call 911?

I'm sure most TT members are cautious drivers but have any of you every had a call from safety because someone reported unsafe driving? I sometimes think those numbers are just there to make the public feel like they can do something about it.

Then on the other hand, trucking companies probably get a lot of calls from the public complaining about something that one of their drivers is supposed to have done and it must be nearly impossible to follow up and rap someones knuckles unless there is some kind of proof.

The Swift driver I called about got off at the next exit after I called, even though there wasn't much there. It may have been unrelated but I strongly suspect he got call from safety.

In my first few months out, I received a call from safety that I was speeding in a work zone (I don't do it anymore). The only thing that makes sense to me is that someone called me in.

That is interesting... Thank you Paul :)

Do you just call 911?

Yes. Some states have a special number for the state patrol / highway patrol if you're on an interstate , but 911 will pass along the info if you don't know the number. (Colorado is *277.) Make sure you have some kind of description of the vehicle and a truck / trailer / tag number if at all possible.

It's kind of interesting this came up. Last night I was passing a four-wheeler and saw them almost turn into my trailer. They were going really slow. Then the got behind me as I moved back over to the right lane once I passed them. In other words, they got over to the middle of the road and rode the zipper once I got past them, following dead center behind my trailer. Then they nearly went off an exit ramp that just happened to be there as I completed moving over to the right, swerved back, drove on the shoulder a while.

I called 911 but didn't have a very good description of the car. I had to scale at a weigh station about five minutes after that, and as I was coming back onto the interstate another driver called on the CB about this car. They were just passing as I got back on the road, so I called 911 again with a better description and a full tag number including state. State patrol dispatch called me back for more info, then stopped and said they had just pulled them over. My stop for the night was a mile from the scale, so I didn't get to see them pulled over, but that car was empty and parked on the shoulder about a mile up from the truck stop this morning.

Personally, I think it's our job as professional drivers to report things like this to help keep the roads safe. Not little annoyances, but seriously dangerous driving.