Road Trip from Florida

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

Hope Taka gets home OK.  Our own trip changed my driving patterns. I stay
away from open bed pickups and dump trucks, and flatbed trailers behind
pickups. I either speed up and pass them, or slow down and let them
disappear in the distance. And I notice how loads are secured on everything
around me in traffic. LOTS of stuff is just sitting there, not tied down.

Doyt Echelberger

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>At 12:48 AM 12/01/2001 -0500, Doyt W. Echelberger wrote:
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>>Hello Taka......We were almost killed about 3 times along that speedway, by
>>stuff falling off of (and out of) open-bed pickups......snip..............
>>Don't follow pickups, and watch out for flying lawn mowers!

At 10:38 PM 12/1/2001 -0500, Kneale Brownson wrote:

>Just survived a N. MI-to-FL roundtrip and experienced the same sort of
>circumstance while "cruising" at 75 with the traffic through
>Atlanta.  Red, fortunately plastic, fuel can comes flying into the five-
>or six-lane traffic from some fool's pickup bed.  It made it across three
>lanes and then came back to bounce off  our passenger door.  Nice scratch
>and dents.