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I once had a lady in Baltimore who refused to yeild to my milk truck down by the dairy at a light. I needed her to back up just a hair because I was on green and needed the room to swing at that corner. <br /> <br />She refused to budge. I could not back up due to traffic stacking behind me. Finally light changes to green for her and she started to yell at me saying that she has the god given right to use the road and now I was blocking her. <br /> <br />I whistled up a street cop who sees this all the time, he whistled up a large 3 Axle tow driver who tows big trucks... that rig loomed up behind screaming lady's car and dropped a hook big enough to carry her mercury. Cop asks nicely "Lady, settle down and please move or we will move you" Lady moved. It was the sight of the tow truck big enough to tow MY rig dropping the hook on her car that made her move. <br /> <br />Was that all necessary? No. But people sometimes feel that they are sovereign right to rule the kingdom from the wheel of a car and we have alot of fun situations because of that. <br /> <br />Perhaps we can train drivers to run as Engineers do. With firemen to assist in signal recognition and dispatchers to issue track (road) warrants from point A to point B across the city. Run the road system like a railroad. <br /> <br />Imagine if trains were allowed to drive up and down the rails whenever they wanted to.
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