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Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart
Drive Test talking to you today about
driving more efficiently and more safely
on freeways. Two things we're going to
talk about today: 1) we're going to talk
about on-ramps; 2) and we're going to talk
about traffic signs along freeways. If
you take note of where the on ramps are
you'll be able to look farther down the
road determine what kinds of vehicles
are coming out onto the freeway and
adjust your driving accordingly if it's
a bigger vehicle it's going to be slower
in terms of its acceleration and that
will allow you to move over and move
around the vehicle more or less
seamlessly as well if you take note of
traffic signs along the freeway it will
allow you to predict the movement of
other vehicles along the freeway and
we'll see that today so you don't just
want to take note of the road signs that
direct your movement speed signs and
curbs and those types of things but also
different kinds of signs that will give
you information about what other
vehicles are doing and we'll talk a
little bit more about that in the video
as well and the other thing that I'll
just mention here that I mentioned
everybody is that making greater
distance over a long period of time on a
freeway is not about a higher rate of
feet but maintaining a higher average
speed over the course of the day so if
you can predict the movement of other
traffic along the freeway and adjust
your driving accordingly you're going to
have less slowdowns and you're going to
maintain a higher average speed over the
course of the day so stick around we'll
be right back with that information
drivers welcome back with smart drive
test talking to you today about driving
along a freeway as you can see here
we're driving west along the
trans-canada highway from hope to
Vancouver and I am in the fast lane
passing this vehicle in front of us
we're coming up to an overpass and
there's an off-ramp on the right and you
can see the pickup truck moving over to
the left because there is a huge truck
superbee so super beasts here pulling
out onto the on-ramp and the car in
front of me I actually let off the
throttle I disengaged the cruise control
and you can see the car here moving
forward and instead of moving over to
the lane so that he could get out and
around the big truck applies the brakes
and in this situation you should feel
incredibly uncomfortable because at the
last moment that person may decide that
they're going to come around and move
out into your lane so you should be
slowing down and with extreme caution
usually covering the brake because that
person may move over into your lane on a
freeway interstate or motorway if you're
driving along the freeway so that's one
of the things that you need to be
cautious of on freeways when you're
traveling and the vehicle could move out
into your lane especially when you have
an on-ramp and their vehicles coming out
onto the on-ramp lorries and big trucks
and those types of things that have very
slow acceleration and are going to cause
you to need to move over and pass and
merge into the other lane so that's one
of the things that you need to be
conscious of when you're driving and
take note of where those on ramps are
and looking down the road and seeing
what kind of traffic is coming out on
the freeway because it's a larger
vehicle an RV a truck a bus it's going
to be slower in terms of its
acceleration and you are going to have
to move over and get out and around that
vehicle and as you saw in the video
there the pickup truck did a really good
job lots of advance notice the driver
was looking far down the road and moved
the vehicle in front of me I let off so
that view could move over the vehicle
didn't move over because he or she the
driver didn't look in the mirror or
check the traffic or whatnot so driving
along freeways I said again you want to
maintain a higher average speed over the
course of the day to make more miles
here you can see the vehicle move over
in front of me and I simply again let
off on the throttle to accommodate that
vehicle moving over and I'll put a card
up in the corner here for you for
driving on freeways merging onto
freeways and that driving on a freeway
is a social activity so the truck here
the pickup truck moved over to pass the
big truck and this driver is quite good
he is scanning he or she is scanning far
down the road and taking note of the big
trucks on the road that are going to be
traveling at a slower speed because many
of these trucks are governed and
unfortunately the pickup truck made the
air that he pulled back in in front of
the big truck here behind the pickup
truck that's actually going slower and
again I'm being very cautious I've got
my foot over the brake I'm covering the
brake because that vehicle may move over
now there's several warning signs again
we have another off-ramp here so that
means that we're probably coming up to
another on-ramp but here on the left you
can see the engine brakes prohibited
signs and this means that large
commercial vehicles buses and trucks are
going to be slowing down here and that's
what that sign indicates to you it tells
truck drivers and bus drivers that they
can't use their engine brake because
apparently they're noisy but for you as
the passenger vehicle driver this sign
tells you that large vehicles are
slowing down and the reason why they're
slowing down is not readily apparent it
could be a hill and it could be some
other reason but the reason here is that
they're slowing down for the scale house
there's a way scale and large commercial
vehicles have to pull into the weigh
scales and get weighed and sometimes get
inspected and you can see here there's
another large commercial vehicle here
and you can see that this driver is
moving into the scale house because he
or she has their turn signal on to
prepare to move into
the ways Gail and this truck in front of
us has moved around the big truck and
accommodated that the other thing that
you need to be conscious of when you
come up to a weigh scale is that not
only are their trucks going into the
weigh scale but there will be trucks
coming out and you can see here that the
weigh scale is open there's the weigh
scale sign indicating that in fact the
weigh scale is open and we continue down
here we can see that the weigh scale is
there on the right and very short
distance here we're also going to see
trucks coming out onto the highway
because they've gone through the weigh
scale and they've been released and just
quickly here there is the cautionary
sign on the right that indicates that
there is merging traffic coming back
onto the highway
so those are a couple of things that you
need to take note while you're driving
on freeways to highways take note of the
off ramps because there's going to be an
on-ramp take note of the traffic that's
coming out on to the freeway and as well
take note of signs along the freeway to
indicate the movement and traffic
patterns of other vehicles along the
freeway click review driving along
freeways and highways that have on ramps
off ramps and obviously traffic signs as
all highways do now as you saw in the
video there the big truck coming out
onto the highway was going slow and the
pickup truck actually got out and around
that large truck early which was the
indication to me that the vehicle in
front of me that I was sort of tailing
there a little bit was going to move
over as well so I backed off to let that
vehicle over but that vehicle executed
unpredictable action hit the brakes and
stayed in that lane which really if that
happens to you should really be cautious
about that because they could in the
last second just move over and cause the
collision so look farther down the road
and see the big vehicle coming out onto
the highway and know that they're going
traveling slower as well have a look for
the on-ramps in the off-ramp know where
they're located as well look up over top
at the overpasses that will give you
some indication of where your are along
the freeway and whether the truck stop
you're in an industrial area type of
places that larger vehicles will be
coming out onto the roadway as well when
you're driving along the freeway take
note of all of the traffic signs and
that will give you information about
traffic patterns along the freeway and
as you saw in the video there the engine
retarder the Jake brakes I'm prohibited
engine brake that gives you an
indication that big truck large vehicles
along the freeway are actually slowing
down and if they're going to be slowing
down there's a reason either there's a
downhill or they're going into the scale
as they were there the weigh scale for a
commercial vehicle they have to go in
there and if they're slowing down often
times are going to be over into the
right-hand lane or they're trying to get
over into the right-hand lane and you
can just you're driving accordingly so
know that if you start reading the road
signs and taking note of the road signs
that will allow you to predict traffic
at a higher level and if you can predict
the movements of other vehicles on the
roadway you can adjust your driving
accordingly and maintain a higher
average speed over the course of the day
and if you can maintain a higher average
speed over the course of the day you're
going to make more mild question for my
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