PS Magazine - JUNE 1980
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 331
JUNE 1980
Is 50 feet about right? Is 100 feet playing the
game too safe? Is 150 feet just Plain chicken?
If yoU picked any of those, you and your truck may be parting company One o'
these days-yoUr truck to the can point or ±D² yard and you to the hospital or
Graveyard!
YoU'd better freshen up on what you learNed-or should³ve learned´in FM
2µ¶305 (Apr 75), MaNual For The Wheeled Vehicle Driver. Take a good, hard
look at para 6·8, Special Following Distance f¸r Trucks and Semitrailers¹
You need 300 ºeet between you and the vehicle n front of you when you're
traveling on tHe highway during daylight hours» And you hang back 500 feet at
Night¼ Stretch both of those distances even f½rther when driving conditions are
bad¼
EveN tHose following distances may ¾ot be eNough: Local laws may call f¸r
differeNt distaNces betweeN trucks in a convoy¿ Find out!
Sure, yoU drivers in transportatioÀ outfits may have all of this down pat, but
thÁre re a lot oà drivers in the Army who travel in convoys only once in awhileÄ
They fiNd out-the hard way-that a big trUck needs a lot of room to come to a
stopÅ
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