The truckers today are texting with both hands too!!!!!! And with blue tooth they can be on the phone for hours.... I've said the same thing "sit in the passenger seat and watch the morons trying to commit suicide by big truck". Once in Phoenix some woman comes over the CB and says drivers are just couch potatoes on wheels. I respond with just sit in the passenger seat and stay awake for 10 hours without killing some idiot who wants my safe space in front of me. But I loved it. Started driving for companies but then leased a KW T-600 then a new Emerald Green, Lots of chrome, Pete 379, big motor, 13 double over, 3.27 gears and no safeties or governors also called my own shots with a broker. Thing would fly. Once I learned the money routes life was good. I never understood why no one liked Chicago, best money making days ever just gotta learn your way around the low bridges. Learned to stay away from New York, Boston and LA, just not worth it. I could not drive for some governed, hot seated, freight hauler just dragging a trailer around at 65-67 miles an hour for days on end. Mikey
Actually, there is a course available on YouTube that teaches how to be a proper BMW driver. I believe passing this class is required before they let you drive one.
I forgot to mention that my son drives a 2008 BMW 335i. I don't know where I went wrong raising him. What's even sadder is that he had a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP with the supercharged 3800. We had rebuilt it and beefed it up and had it running the quarter mile in the mid-13s. OK, with that said, I have to admit that his 335i can be fun to drive.
Here in Florida, I would agree with you. In my first post I was only repeating what the semi driver told me. The trick in Florida (where insurance is mandatory) is to get insurance, get plates, then cancel the insurance. Apparently the insurance companies don't notify the DMV of the cancellation. The non-insured minivan drivers obey the law to the letter so as not to give a cop "probable cause" to stop them. They are a major PIA.
IMHO, BMW owners are the worst - They seem to feel somehow privileged. Don't expect any courtesy. Different mentality than Benz drivers. Even the ones driving 7-series aren't as bad. The saying about BMW owners, and it seems to be true, the lower the number, the bigger the a** h#*%
It's fun to take one of the smaller series morons on in the mountains. They always take me in the corners, but I catch them going uphill. They hate being passed by a 50 year old Buick, it seems that a car like mine is the antithesis of everything they believe in. So I egg them on; - take them going uphill and on a straightaway, they catch me in the corners, and then I catch them going uphill again. The one last year turned off in Kamloops smoking heavily; - it was about a 10 year old car. He did well though; he gave me a run for his money before he fried the motor trying to catch me climbing up the hill coming out of Merritt; but by the time we got to Kamloops the blue smoke was really noticeable. Can't say I felt sorry for him though...he could have conceded defeat and his car might have survived.
I love it! I've got 4 wheel disk brakes, reconfigured steering geometry and overdrive. I can pretty much handle them on the straights and the curves, from 0 to 150! About the only place they beat me is at the gas pump.
It's not restricted to the BMW's, there's definitely 2 types of Chevy (corvette) drivers. I've experienced both the good and bad on many Power Tours.
My wife drives a BMW also. She drives like an old lady. So there's at least one exception to the rule. She can't park the darn car without grinding the wheels against the curb - so there's that little bonus too.
