[drivingpairs] Re: biiiig truck
- From: Dona Love <donalove@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:40:59 -0400
As far as horses being unpredictable, I have a story tho not exactly a
driving horse. Maybe call him a diving horse. I was peacefully going
down a county road with a pickup and 2 horse trailer. On the other
side of the road coming towards me was a kid galloping a horse. I
slowed down. A lot. I was almost stopped. That horse made a beeline
for me and came over the top of my hood throwing the kid under a wheel.
Horse (scrapes), kid (broken arm), me and my vehicles were all
basically o.k., fortunately.
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Stephanie Sher wrote:
> 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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