When people tailgate me I just start going really slow. I don’t drive slow myself and I usually keep up with traffic, but people where I am are always in a hurry. I love seeing them throw their hands out the window when I slow down and I think to myself well get off m a**! People don’t understand hauling AT ALL either. Non haulers don’t get that you need to break early and drive carefully with live cargo. One time I was driving through a residential and a lady walking jumped out right in front of me on a crosswalk. No way I could have stopped and she gave me the finger. Only people that haul understand that you can’t just stop on a dime…at least without throwing your horse over the chest bar. Insert eye roll imogi.
I had this happen to me in NZ. We can go on-line and log the complaint on the NZ Police web-site (which my passenger found out when she 555’d them - our non-emergency #.) . For the police operator (555 is answered by the same people as our emergency #) to hear me yell "HOOLLLYY F****KKIIINNGGG SHHIIIIITTTT" as I braked very hard with my 4WD and my laden horse trailer - may not have ABS braking but I can hold that lot dead straight - and stopped 1 foot from the side of the idiot who decided to come on the on-ramp and go straight across in front of me and try to go into the next lane. Which was stopped. The tailgater certainly got a short sharp shock - and managed to stop just resting against the rear of the trailer. My profanity wasn’t finished at that point - I was still shaking when I got out of the car to yell abuse at the lane-hopping idiot. That was the closest I have ever come to an accident towing a horse trailer.
Was nice to hear the sirens coming - NOT. I heard from the phone the rather bitten off “KILL THOSE SIRENS!! LIGHTS ONLY!” The emergency operator must have had horses :).
I was glad that I had my old station horse on board - he was still asleep :).
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