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Old 08-24-2018, 04:36 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by humfrz View Post
Well, I suggest you just "get back up on the horse" and drive again.

Yep, I learned that "getting behind a truck" lesson at a RR crossing back in California. I just took delivery of my brand new 1970 BRG MGB-GT. I was on a two lane road approaching a RR crossing and there was a large county gravel truck stopped in front of me. Yep, I tucked in right behind it -

Well, when the train came, the trucker figured he was too close to the tracks and decided to back up - his trailer hitch ground into the AL hood of my precious car, although I was laying on the horn. I couldn't back up because a pickup truck was stopped right on my ass.

The gravel truck finally stopped, pulled forward a few feet and backed into me again, although my horn was blaring again (well, so was the trains horn).

I jumped out of my car and ran up to the trucker, jumped up on his running board and grabbed him by the shirt and yelled at him to STOP.

As I was dragging him out of his truck to show him what he had done, he was trying to explain that he didn't see me in his mirrors and just saw the pickup behind me.

My lesson learned -

Do you feel any better now?


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