SEPTEMBER 18, 2007 @ 2:55PM - SB 405 at Studebaker Road Off-Ramp

Here's a shout out to those hard working people at JjK Roll Offs. These guys provide those huge roll off garbage containers you see at major construction sites.

In order to get these huge steel multi-ton receipticals to and from the sites and the garbage dumps, rather large diesel tractor trucks are required to muscle them from here to there.

Oh sure, they take up extra space on the freeways, drive slower than the rest of traffic, and usually have a vile stench about them. But it's the subtle things that make these trucking giants the 'welcome' traffic additions they are.

JjK Roll Offs, if you would be so kind as to check the California Vehicle Code and it's passage concerning commercial trucks and their loads. TO give you the thunbnail sketch of the code; YOU HAVE TO COVER YOUR TRUCK BINS WITH A TARP TO KEEP THE CRAP IN THE BIN YOU ARE HAULING FROM BLOWING OUT AND INTO TRAFFIC!

Today one of your trucks was cruising SB down the 405 Freeway just before the Studebaker off-ramp. Large cardboard boxes (more than a couple, more like dozens) were flying out of the top of the bin being transported, and into traffic and the path of the drivers following your truck. This un-expected rain parade of cardboard was causing all the cars behind it to take drastic action to avoid hitting the boxes. One driver in a Nissan Pathfinder looked to have gotten the attention of your truck driver to alert him as to his problem, but there seemed to be a communication error; your driver just smiled and continued on.

So, JjK Roll Offs doing business in Torrance CA, I hope that one day a CHP officer actually witnesses one of your trucks dumping trash into traffic, causing a major accident which after a legal trial, you business is found liable and is closed down forever.

It doesn't pay to be a Highway A-hole Jjk Roll Offs.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007 @ 1:23 pm – SB 405 Fwy at Sunset Blvd

Driving in Los Angeles has been called a lot of different things, but boring isn't one of them.

Here's Super Mom driving her newer silver-grey Mercedes E350 in the number 1 fast lane on the 405 freeway SB approaching Sunset Blvd off-ramp. Traffic was flowing amazing quick for this time of day. I was driving a few cars behind her in the number 3 lane at a brisk 60 mph.

All of a sudden, traffic ahead of me started to hit their brakes hard. Red lights lit up faster than dusk on a Saturday night in Amsterdam. Some tires screeched and rubber was laid to pavement as dozens of cars tried to stop. Fortunately, it didn't appear that any bumper tagging occured.

As I crept forward, I was passed the offending instigator - the silver-grey Mercedes Super Mom was driving was at a full halt haly way between lanes 1 and 2. The car was slightly sideways and their were skid marks trailing the Mercedes to where it stopped.

In one hand Super Mom held a cell phone as she yelled into it and at her very young child in the back seat jumping in and out of car seat. In her other hand she was holding a large paper Starbucks coffee cup in a paper sleeve.

It appeared that the loose kid in the back seat may have distracted her a tad bit more than the converstaion she was having on the phone. She must have hit the brakes (whick I thought would have been anti-locks, but I guess not) and slid into her current position dead in traffic across two lanes.

See, even Super Moms can be Highway A-holes.