Question For The Experienced Drivers Hug The Yellow Or The White

Lol I've driven on roads like this and they were indeed truck routes.. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, etc. anyone? Luckily for only a very few miles to access a customer location.

I'm going to be going slow with my 4ways on in curves and taking enough of the opposing lane to make sure I don't lose my tandems off the edge of the road. If a vehicle is approaching from the opposite direction in a curve, just take it on a case by case basis. Usually they're used to it when a busy customer is nearby and will stop to let you get around the curve and back centered in your lane. One place I went to.. OMG you were praying another truck wasn't coming on that winding mountain road in and out of the plant. The people there just laughed about that road and remarked it had been widened recently :-0 it would make your butt pucker bahahaha.

On a road like this, what's the right answer? Slow down and use some of the other lane, or make sure you don't end up going down it in the first place?

The primary rule is common sense: keep your vehicle in your own lane. But if you need to use more lane space, you can as long as it's safe and you won't damage any property. "Everyone" had made the right turn from or into a single lane, and had to drive into the right side's oncoming traffic lane.

In the case like the photo, you still use the roadway you need. Once going to the Georgia Pacific plant in Big Island, VA, all I had was a winding two lane road. I could not avoid setting off the lane buzzers. So I partied down that road setting off the alarms every few seconds and automatically sending video of my reckless behavior to Swift. Never heard a word about it.

I drove School bus for three years before I made the jump to tractor trailer. When I went through school on my training drives out of habit I'd keep the truck pretty much riding the white line the instructors would always tell me to center myself in the lane. Even now I still find myself keeping close to the right side of the lane / road.

Chris, if you're ever on a 2 lane with no shoulder when it's been raining recently, you'll want to stay off that white edge lol.. blacktop can get soft and it can get ugly quick.

@Errol. At least you weren't eating oreos too. The crazy places they send us lol. I'll see if I can dig up a photo of the road I had to take to an amish lumber company that made oak pallets..

Look up Yoder and Sons at 1639 Slanesville Pike, Points, WV. That road is a beast. I was there one year ago. It's horse and buggy narrow but trucks use it daily.

Packrat says:

You're on the right track, though. See what I did there.

I like it.

Here in the parts of Ohio that I frequently drive that are truck and weight legal, these roads are similar. Ohio St.Rt. 83 South through Wayne and Holmes Counties is similar in spots, not to mention other routes. There is no way of avoiding them, unless I want to add much more time and miles to a route. Thankfully, I know where along the routes to be more alert.

On a road like this, what's the right answer? Slow down and use some of the other lane, or make sure you don't end up going down it in the first place?

I'd bet money that particular example was not a legal truck route, and/or highly restricted by either weight or total length.

We were taught to never be a bully and stay centered. If you hug the right you might bully a bicycle lane, hug the left you’re bullying oncoming traffic. Like Goldilocks, the middle is just right. As mentioned the only time to borrow is in a curve or turn.

But then there’s always do what your told and don’t argue with an instructor. I’ve seen a lot of that this week and it’s no bueno.

I've had trainees actually tear up and quit soon after when they realized some of the roads we must navigate.

It's not all interstate or wider highway driving. It's also not this screwed up most of the time either, but you need to be mentally prepared for the certainty that you will operate a big rig on roads like this.

And them dang round-a-bouts. I hate those things lol got flipped off and honked at by a couple 4 wheelers because I took em slow n easy.....Well they are too dang small lol