'I'm derping along at 60': Driver gets tailgated by aggressive 18-wheeler trucker, slows down and laughs in his face when they end up at the same red light

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jan 12, 2025 7:00 AM EST

If you live somewhere with dramatic seasons, then you understand how to drive according to the weather. It's not just a fun little tip and tricks the locals pick up, it's actually a very important skill to have. For example, you can't just go 20 miles over the speed limit in a blizzard. Like, that feels like common sense, am I right? Apparently no. Apparently, even hired drivers like truckers don't always know of this very obvious and very important fact. 

 

The skill is to know how to drive safely during these crazy weather situations, the tip is to spot someone on the road with local plates and follow what they are doing. If you are driving through a highway you have never been on and the weather is insane and most of the cars are going 10 under the speed limit, then maybe you should think about doing the same… They definitely know something you don't know and it's not a fun little prize at the end, it's for your safety. In this case, a local was driving slowly due to curvy roads ahead and the fact that it was snowing like crazy. But for some reason, an 18-wheeler trucker needed to speed right by. 

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  • The locals knew that the curves ahead were dangerous and that driving around them, even when the weather was nice, was taken very seriously. So when a huge intimidating truck pulled up quickly behind him and started flashing his lights, the car decided to slow even further down. At the time they were going the exact speed limit, but the trucker needed more—he must've been in a hurry. A fun little game developed where the driver slowed down immensely, the trucker had to slam his brakes, the car would speed up, and then the trucker would have to floor it just to catch up again due to the heavy load it was hauling. Finally, four lanes opened up and the trucker flew past the driver huffing and puffing. The best part though? They ended up at the same red light. A LOLable moment for the car driver. 

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  • "I hope I made this jœrk late"

    This is fairly recent, but not this week. I have to drive about 2 hours from one city to another about once a week. There is construction on one stretch of this not very busy highway through mainly forest. At the point where the construction is, the speed limit drops from 75 to 60 and from 4 lanes to 2. One for each direction of travel. This
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  • was on a foggy night. Lots of twists turns and the occasional hill. I have been pulled over there before for going 5 over, so I don't push it through there. And in those particular road conditions, I feel like the 60mph limit is appropriate.
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  • So, it's dark and foggy and I'm derping along at 60 with the cruise control on, being a good little driver when behind me appears a wild 18 wheeler hauling a load of something and apparently late for whatever is going on at the other end of the road because he came up on me very quickly and then turned his brights on. blinding the sh out
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  • of me. Every few seconds he would turn them off, then back on just to let me know it was deliberate. He really wanted me to speed up. Even though there road was pretty much deserted, passing was not an option, at least not without gambling with your life.
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  • After a while (a short while, admittedly) I became a little peeved. So I took my car out of gear and tapped the brakes to let him know I was slowing, then coasted down to 30mph. I heard him lock his brakes up behind me but I didn't speed back up, but I was ready to if was going to hit me. I figured he could tap my bumper and write me a check if he wanted to. He didn't.
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  • He rapidly decelerated and I sped back up to 60. It took him a while to get his momentum back and catch back up with me. I guess it was a heavy load. HE DID IT AGAIN! He came right up on my a and turned his brights on. So I did it again too, and heard his brakes screeching like a tortured soul and his trailer whipping around behind
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  • him. I was definitely ready to speed up if he looked like he was gonna lose it, but no contact was made, I took my speed all the way to 20 and thought about stopping. By the time he caught up with me again, the road was 4 lanes again and he blew past me doing at least 80. The next town we came to I was with him at the red light. I laughed.
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  • CatlessBoyMom Years back heading home from work I picked up a j that was in a hurry. Problem was we were on a twisting road that had picked up about an inch of new snow on top of solid ice and more was falling. I'm doing about 25 in a 35, I feel that's reasonable.
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  • Obviously he does not. We got to a curve where he felt safe passing and I slowed down to let him by (not going to put myself in harm's way). Within a couple minutes I can't see him anymore, but I'm still plugging along. A few minutes later I passed him as he was trying to figure out how to get his car out of the ditch.
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  • I had a tow hitch and kitty litter. It would have taken maybe 5 minutes to pull him out. Unfortunately for him, I was in a hurry to get home.
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  • That_Old_Cat Yesterday there was a lot of ice on the roads, so rather than my usual 5 over, I went the limit. Had some guy in a vroom- vroom pull up behind me on a one-lane through a forested area. Lots of hills and blind spots. He thought it was appropriate to use his brights while traveling a half car length behind me.
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  • It was icy, ya know? Had to slow down to 5 under for safety. He roared past me as soon as the road widened to a two-lane, just to get pulled over by Mr. Officer. My wife asked why I was grinning when I got home. I explained it was fun being "Karma's little minion."
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  • FreedomPretty6... Every time it snows here, we get those itty bitty little people with their oversized suvs and think they can do 60-80 mph in 4x4. Idiots!! They don't realize that they won't stop as easily
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  • ricktrains One night, about 3 am, along the interstate in Lake Erie snow-belt country (massive lake effect snowfall potential) it was a big snowstorm, about 2 inches per hour falling. (I was headed home from visiting a family member in the hospital who was not leaving alive, and we all knew it.) I am from the area, normally only 35 minutes from that hospital, and driving a four-wheel drive SUV.
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  • I'm traveling at about 40-45 MPH, as even at that speed visibility is sketchy, and there are very slick icy patches scattered everywhere. I can not see any other traffic in front of me, and only the right lane had tire tracks in it. Left lane is snow covered. Opposite side has a vehicle every now and then, but it's as deserted as that interstate ever is. (I actually was questioning if I missed it getting closed somehow until I saw another vehicle on the opposite side.)
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  • A tanker truck suddenly buzzed by me going about 75, in a 55 zone at the time, using said snow covered left lane. He's gone just as quickly as he appeared, in a blizzard of flying kicked up snow. About 10 miles later, I'm still puttering along, and come upon Mr. tanker truck, stuck in the snow off the side of the interstate, after busting through an interstate road sign and into a snow bank.
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  • I slowed, then gave a wave and horn salute on my way by. (Driver was out of the cab looking at his truck while holding a flashlight in one hand, his cell phone in the other up to his ear.) When the locals with four-wheel drive are slow, there's usually a good reason. Mr. tanker truck learned that reason the hard way.
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  • And with no injuries, no way I'm stopping at 3 am in a lake effect snow storm on the interstate. So the horn salute was all he was getting from me.
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  • OkAdministration... I was on a winding road coming back from the seaside. It was one lane both ways. I had a car full of teenagers tailgating me and as soon as possible they blew past me. I went around the next turn and didn't even see their taillights. They weren't going that fast so I always wondered what happened?
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