Most Aggressive Driving Cities

Above, trucks on Interstate 40. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Last Sunday, while driving on Interstate 40 to Albuquerque, I almost had to shoot out a trucker's tires (or worse) as he had a fit of road rage near Laguna.

He made aggressive moves with this truck and trailer at me (swerving) and threw an object at my motorhome. He apparently didn't like the speed I was traveling. 

I make it a practice to bring my 9mm pistol whenever I travel and this was the closest time I ever had to use it. It was at the ready just in case. Fortunately, he sped off and the incident was over.  

Aggressive drivers is the topic of an RV Travel article. It provides a list of what cities that have the most aggressive drivers.

They begin it with:

Aggressive driving—fast acceleration, hard braking, speeding. GasBuddy, a PDI Technologies company, released the results of its annual aggressive holiday driving study. It reveals that U.S. drivers are up to 48% more aggressive on the roads during the holiday season. The study ranked the top 50 U.S. metros from most to least aggressive, placing Tucson, Arizona, at the top of the “naughty list”, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the city with the “nicest” holiday drivers, rising six spots from 7th in 2022.

What is road rage? 

Here's a legal definition:

In the United States, road laws differ from state to state. But all state adopt the official definition of road rage as described by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA, which is “An act of assault with a motor vehicle or other dangerous weapon by the operator or passenger(s) of one motor vehicle or precipitated by an incident that occurred on a roadway.”

In terms of road accidents, road rage is referred to as “Aggressive driving.” NHTSA defines it as an individual committing a combination of moving offenses that puts other persons and properties around him/her in danger.

To read more, go here. 

Recall: LP Gas Danger On New RVs

There's a dangerous problem with some new RVs. It is the LP (liquid propane) fittings that are cracked or porous, allowing LP gas to escape.

According to RV Travel:

Eight RV manufacturers, 37 models and 22,021 RVs from model years 2021 and 2022 have dangerous RV cracked and porous LP gas fittings that can lead to a fire, and they don’t know it. Worse yet, almost all of the RV factories say they will not send notices to tell dealers or the public about it until July 1st.

The recalls were quietly announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, but virtually all factory warning letters to the RV dealers and owners of these RVs will not go out until July 2022, according to filings with federal safety regulators. Meanwhile, they say 100% of certain models of Cruiser RV, DRV, Heartland, Highland Ridge, Jayco, KZRV, Thor, and Starcraft have cracked gas fittings on recall.

The article also includes a list of the makes and models of the RVs affected.

To read more, go here.