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   From: mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net   
      
   On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 06:40:38 -0800, Liam O'Connor wrote:   
      
   > Yea[r]s ago, I was stuck on a highway back east, and changing   
   > a tire, and I was appalled (and scared) at how close the   
   > cars (and especially the trucks) passed by me at high   
   > speed.   
   >   
   > It even seemed that the truckers purposefully passed me far   
   > too closely than they needed to ...   
      
   It *seemed* so ... only because a big rig on East Coast Interstates isn't   
   likely to have more than about 9" of free play between tires on either side   
   and adjacent lane-stripes.   
      
   That said, for changing a tire, or whatever, when I pull out of traffic, I   
   don't stop *on* the shoulder, I pull *off* the shoulder and onto the grass   
   verge just *past* the shoulder before I stop. That way I have the whole   
   shoulder-width as buffer zone against speeding right-lane traffic. What   
   sane person would ever dream of doing otherwise :-) ? Cheers, -- tlvp   
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