I agree with both of you. I still travel in the carpool lane if there are 2 in my rig. Trailer or not. I have been pulled over once for drivig in the left lane with an empty horsetrailer and I was passing the lane on the right of me. I didn't get ticketed, but if you refuse to get to the right lane except to pass and are holding up traffic, you should be ticketed no matter what you drive. They don't enforce that rule properly and IMO that's a great deal of the reason we have such crappy traffic problems. Oregon traffic seems to flow just fine on a 2 lane freeway because people GET OVER and let others pass. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img]
OK, rant over.

 

It's gotta be that way One Fly, most of the folks that can spend enough money to buy a big RV, be it self propelled or towed, would never pass the DOT physical let alone the skill and knowledge tests involved. This would put the RV business out of business. You see on the news all the time how we attempt to kill each other on the roads. Around 40,000 a year die and a pretty small percentage of these are RV involved. No really good way to get more taxes by requiring CDL's for non commercial vehicles.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img]

 

Just because the RV wasnt in the collision the statistics don't say how many Unqualified persons at the wheel of one of the missles of death have caused someone else to get in a terrible accident in an attempt to get outta the way.. The roads are a skerry place.. people eatin cereal and reading a book and smokin a cig and talkin on the cellphone.. too much multitaskin while driving goin on. and i drive down the road and watch peoples heads and eyes in their vehicles.. they never move.. they are lik zombies stairing at the bumber in front of them.. not down the road and keepin a periferal look out for an out should a hairy situation arrise or for someones blinker nicely asking to change a lane.. I have become an asssshole on the road anymore. I turn on my blinker and if someone speeds up i make them slow way down[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] Sick if the lack of roadway curtesy round here.

 

Preach it brother OFC! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] People really do need to learn the art of MERGING properly. That includes the Arseholes that scream around those that merge nicely to cut as far up the line as they can go. That whole extra 3 cars ahead.

 

Or turn on their turn signal after they are halfway into their lane of choice.

 

Don't get me started on the douchebags that run up the carpool lane by northgate :@ oooooo i could kill them

 

Wouldn't it be fun if paintball was legal? We could color code it according to offense. Red for cutting people off, Green for tailgaiting, purple for failure to merge properly, etc. Then we would at least know what to look for from the doorknobs.

 

indeed.. I dunno what the hell the deal is. But im sure all the truck drivers can biatch about the retards on the road way more than me.. they are 60' long and have their blinker on and some dum dum pulls along side.. I say hit the tard.

 

I can ride Friday. Thursday is still iffy at this point.

The only 250 I know of with IRS in the rear and with a front locker is no longer made in favor of a non-locker front axle version. The Arctic Cats from about 1998 until 2002 (I think it was 2002) had the locker in addition to the 4X4 version of my 2X4 250. But AC dropped the model with the locker front axle in favor of a non-locker in 2003 and dropped the 250 IRS model totally after the 2005 model year. A real stupid move prompted my doing what the rest were doing rather than produce a better produce the worked a whole lot better than the others. They also had a 300 version. The 4X4 250 and 300 also had, in addition to High and Low Range, a Super Low Range that was like having an old Dodge Powerwagon in low range. About 1 mph in super low in first gear was max speed.

 

Thanxs Randy. We will have to tech talk at Horsefalls. The 700R will be used in sand, mud, and dirt so I don't want it to be modded heavy for just one type of riding(kinda what happended to the KGB). After break-in at Horsefalls I will probably do the "3 Mods" along with some skids and that will be it[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img](yeah right)


Oh by the way was seventy two hundy good for OTD with a set of Sand Stars and tie downs thrown in?