[drivingpairs] Re: biiiig truck

Noel wrote:
 > I also wonder if alerting the driver to slow down and such may have helped to
 >  panic the horses, since they had not done this for you in the past?
You could be so right, this does make sense.  Certainly I didn't start to worry
myself until I heard my friend yelling at the driver.  But it would be nice to 
figure out how I could mimic that big, empty, bouncing trailer, I think it was 
that, more than the airbrakes or the truck itself that did him in.  I had an 
interesting response from a friend of mine who is a truck driver:
> People driving vehicles just do not
> understand that a horse can become out of the driver or rider's control
> in a heart beat and right out in their path. I bet that truck driver was
> really taken aback and then probably not sure what to do. He probably
> never thought they would take off. I can only imagine what he was
> thinking when you and the two of them began passing him up!  I had a
> similar incident with an Amish buggy once only I was driving a school
> bus full of obnoxious high school kids. I started around the Amish
> horse, wich are usually pretty used to traffic and off the horse went at
> full gallop racing my bus the  kids yelling and being idiots didn't
> help. Of course they thought it was hilarious. I backed off and the
> horse eventually slowed down. But around here I think people really get
> to thinking that since they pass Amish horses all the time and the
> horses just keep pacing or trotting along that all horses are like that.
> I also think people think that "oh there is a rider on that horse or a
> driver in that cart so that horse won't do anything it will stay right
> there on the side of that road" I don't think it ever occurs to them
> that the horse could at any time jump sideways right into their path.
> Which is why I think they don't slow down sometimes. Now if that horse
> was loose on the highway I know the majority of people would slow down
> but put a rider or driver into it and they figure they can rocket on by. 

I found it interesting to get the driver's point of view.
Stephanie
Blasted Rock Farm


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