MVV Crazy Driver.....

[jabird56]

Just a note: A friend of mine is a WERNER truck driver (with a million+ miles behind him as a driver). I was just talking to him and a comment he made I thought should be posted here. It seems he was making a run from Atlanta to Brunswick Maine, and as he was coming northbound on I95 through the Springfield, VA interchange he saw a black MM weaving in and out of traffic. As that MM was weaving in and out, he/she almost had a run-in with another 18 wheeler in front of this friend of mine. This friend doesn't normally comment on things like this, but he said he hit the brakes because he thought there was going to be a real mess in front of him, luckily there wasn't.

Bottom line: Ya have fun with the car, but LET'S BE SAFE OUT THERE!......
You not only have to be aware of your surroundings while driving but you are also responsible for preserving these cars, which by comments on this site...are definitely less that the 11,052 due to attrition.

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

I live in Springfield VA but certainly don't drive nuts with this car, it's too big for that. It sounds like I almost had some extra Marauder wheels rolling towards my apartment. Hmmm...

[Marauder386]

ASSHATS TARNISHING OUR REPUTATION...I say we stake them down and when we all get new rears, obliterate the old set on their backs...:mad2:

:cool:

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

LOL I don't know, there is a guy around here with a maroon Marauder that drives like an ass. He saw me in traffic w/ my MM, thumbs up'd, then had to show me his awesome driving skills cutting in and out on local roads at WOT. Maybe it's contagious.

[offroadkarter]

Maybe it's contagious.

maybe its possessive!

[SC Cheesehead]

LOL I don't know, there is a guy around here with a maroon Marauder that drives like an ass. He saw me in traffic w/ my MM, thumbs up'd, then had to show me his awesome driving skills cutting in and out on local roads at WOT. Maybe it's contagious.


rayjay??;)

(NOT!):D

SCCH

[Breadfan]

Wasn't me for sure I try to avoid the interchange, pretty much for that reason. :)

[rayjay]

rayjay??;)

(NOT!):D

SCCH
Nope, wasn't me :D I find it interesting though that this is alleged to have happened during MVV since we as a group were not on I95. IIRC, some folks on the Skyline tour had a problem with a moron trucker on I81. People do drive like idiots on I95, both auto and truck drivers. I used to have a lot of respect for 18 wheel drivers until I started going south on vacation a few years ago. I've seen them pull some real boned headed stunts on I95. I have never seen this type of idiot driving on the Thruway. Maybe people who pay tolls are more responsible truckers.

[jabird56]

Just a note: A friend of mine is a WERNER truck driver (with a million+ miles behind him as a driver). I was just talking to him and a comment he made I thought should be posted here. It seems he was making a run from Atlanta to Brunswick Maine, and as he was coming northbound on I95 through the Springfield, VA interchange he saw a black MM weaving in and out of traffic. As that MM was weaving in and out, he/she almost had a run-in with another 18 wheeler in front of this friend of mine. This friend doesn't normally comment on things like this, but he said he hit the brakes because he thought there was going to be a real mess in front of him, luckily there wasn't.

Bottom line: Ya have fun with the car, but LET'S BE SAFE OUT THERE!......
You not only have to be aware of your surroundings while driving but you are also responsible for preserving these cars, which by comments on this site...are definitely less that the 11,052 due to attrition.

Let me amplify a statement here: When I say a million+ miles behind this driver, that is a million+ miles driving an 18 wheeler without ONE accident. WERNER keeps track of things like that, and rewards drivers that surpass 1, 2, 3, and even 4 million miles without an accident....

[jabird56]

Nope, wasn't me :D I find it interesting though that this is alleged to have happened during MVV since we as a group were not on I95.

As he was telling his story and when it happen, by coincidence it coincided with MVV. Granted there are a few more MMs in the beltway area that are not aware (or don't participate in the site), thus not aware of MVV that was taking place north of DC.

[Bluerauder]

It seems he was making a run from Atlanta to Brunswick Maine, and as he was coming northbound on I95 through the Springfield, VA interchange he saw a black MM weaving in and out of traffic.

I question the assertion (title) that this incident was MV5 related. Marauderville V was held some 80 miles north & west of the infamous Springfield Interchange. Even on our trip/convoy to Alexandria, VA for the Potomac River boat cruise (up past the Chart House we ate at), the MV5 avoided Springfield "Mixing Bowl" like the plague.

That said, the Springfield Interchange is notorious for the bobbing, weaving, and lane changing that occurs there. This is due mostly to the "excellent" signage put in place by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). Even though it is a complicated North-South/East-West intersection of I-95/I-395/I-495, there is inadequate advance notice of the exits. People unfamiliar with the area routinely travel in the right lane to go toward Baltimore and find out that the exit is on the left -- so they cross 3 lanes of traffic to get there at the last minute. Its the same for folks headed to Tyson's and I-66. That exit goes west but the exit is on the right. People headed to Washington, DC have to guess and try to avoid cars crossing in front of them because they miscalculated their own exit. It is a mess. The recent reconstruction has made it better; but it is far from perfect because of idiot & inadequate signs to help sort things out 1, 2, or 3 miles before the Gordian Knot of Springfield.

Sometimes I wonder whether folks in VDOT are brain dead or whether that is just a desired qualification. ;)

Everyone and anyone passing through the Springfield Interchange needs to be "extra" careful and vigilant no matter what you are driving.

[ctrlraven]

Nope, wasn't me :D I find it interesting though that this is alleged to have happened during MVV since we as a group were not on I95. IIRC, some folks on the Skyline tour had a problem with a moron trucker on I81. People do drive like idiots on I95, both auto and truck drivers. I used to have a lot of respect for 18 wheel drivers until I started going south on vacation a few years ago. I've seen them pull some real boned headed stunts on I95. I have never seen this type of idiot driving on the Thruway. Maybe people who pay tolls are more responsible truckers.

Yeah that was me with the problem with the trucker. Mofo cut me off (no turn signal with no room) where I had to slam on brakes, it scared the crap out of my wife and freaked her out for the rest of the trip back to the hotel. After he finally got back over into the right lane he had the bird already waiting for us in the window which my wife graciously returned the favor. I usually don't get road rage :mad2:but don't do some crude like that and then top it off with a bird. All I know is :censor:x9999999999 and still angered by it.

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

I thought he said a black MM?

[rayjay]

I thought he said a black MM?

He did and the incident above happened on I81, not I95.

[Haggis]

Yeah that was me with the problem with the trucker. Mofo cut me off (no turn signal with no room) where I had to slam on brakes, it scared the crap out of my wife and freaked her out for the rest of the trip back to the hotel. After he finally got back over into the right lane he had the bird already waiting for us in the window which my wife graciously returned the favor. I usually don't get road rage :mad2:but don't do some crude like that and then top it off with a bird. All I know is :censor:x9999999999 and still angered by it.

The Truckers were on the CB complaining that those Marauders, us, would not let anybody over. And that we were a rolling 'Road Block'.

[ctrlraven]

Rolling road block? LOL Charlie was the lead car and I was behind him, I don't know how two cars that were going faster than he was after watching him cut in and out of traffic before we even came up on him were blocking anyone.

[High-C]

LOL I don't know, there is a guy around here with a maroon Marauder that drives like an ass. He saw me in traffic w/ my MM, thumbs up'd, then had to show me his awesome driving skills cutting in and out on local roads at WOT. Maybe it's contagious.

That definitely wasn't me as I was in Ocean City... Plus mine is DTR, not "maroon"... :twocents:

[Haggis]

Rolling road block? LOL Charlie was the lead car and I was behind him, I don't know how two cars that were going faster than he was after watching him cut in and out of traffic before we even came up on him were blocking anyone.

I wasn't with Charlie's group heading north on I-81 after Luray Caverns. But, one of the Marauders in our convoy got cut off as well.

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

Plus mine is DTR, not "maroon"... :twocents:

I know what DTR is, I call it maroon.

[CRUZTAKER]

Yeah that was me with the problem with the trucker. Mofo cut me off (no turn signal with no room) where I had to slam on brakes.....


I drove for years in the late 80's. Truckers still refer to cars as 4-wheelers, and love to group all within the same catergory as some of the bad ones. The motto still exists, and most truckers still do it...one blink of the signal and they're coming over regardless of traffic, knowing the 4-wheeler will back out of it.

I have a cb in my MM and it is on everywhere I go. The Focus as well. I listen and participate daily. Some of these drivers are asshats, particularly the dump drivers.

Don't sweat it. Atleast this driver did not do what many 4-wheelers do and immediately call 911 crying of their space being invaded. :bigcry:

This thread was useless. Here say regardless of whom knows whom.

[Bluerauder]

Rolling road block? LOL Charlie was the lead car and I was behind him, I don't know how two cars that were going faster than he was after watching him cut in and out of traffic before we even came up on him were blocking anyone.
And, I was running at 75-80 the whole way. :D We were actually passing him on the left and I guess he didn't want to wait for the on-coming parade to pass. He would have had to be 10 foot shorter to get in front of me. ;)

[Aren Jay]

Let me just reiterate "Why Johnny can't speed" by Alan Dean Foster 1971.

It would solve all these problems.

[jabird56]

I question the assertion (title) that this incident was MV5 related. Marauderville V was held some 80 miles north & west of the infamous Springfield Interchange. Even on our trip/convoy to Alexandria, VA for the Potomac River boat cruise (up past the Chart House we ate at), the MV5 avoided Springfield "Mixing Bowl" like the plague.




OK...I apologize for the Title of this thread, I was a bit tired last night when I created it. If I could change it I would, but it appears to be hard coded for me at this point. This incident just happened during the same timeframe, and yes it happened at the Southern end of the DC/beltway area...on the other side of town from the MVV festivities....

[Bluerauder]

OK...I apologize for the Title of this thread, I was a bit tired last night when I created it. If I could change it I would, but it appears to be hard coded for me at this point. This incident just happened during the same timeframe, and yes it happened at the Southern end of the DC/beltway area...on the other side of town from the MVV festivities....
Ok, no problem Jay !! Just trying to disconnect this from Marauderville V (MV5) activities and even the MM.Net for that matter. Even if we have 3,000 members here ... that still leaves alot of MM drivers in the hands of the uninitiated.

Alternatives ...

1. Springfield Interchange Crazy Drivers = so what else is new?
2. Northern Virginia Crazy Drivers = hey they passed the test, I think. ;)
3. I-95 Crazy Drivers = that covers about everyone in the area. ;)

As for the MV5 drivers ... we were all in bed by 9 PM every night .... I swear !!! :rofl:

[jabird56]

As for the MV5 drivers ... we were all in bed by 9 PM every night .... I swear !!! :rofl:

Charlie, I DO believe you that everybody was tucked in at 9 everynight!.......:lol: