Vehicle registration records should be freely available to the public...

I know witnesses mean nothing around here. Most of the time there are witnesses matter-of-fact. If you're enraged enough, you don't even think about the consequences.
Not worth your life UA.

Yeah, 'cause THAT never happens.

My first thought: Get the license plate #, name of the company on the truck if you can. Call the police and tell them just how dangerous this fuck is and file a complaint. With the license plate, they've got him.

On following: Don't do it. I've been followed a couple of occasions, and I pretty much assumed the guy was going to try to hurt me bad. If I hadn't lost them, I was contemplating methods of fucking them them up as bad as possible, up to and including ramming, to protect myself. You'd be the agressor, and thus the fuckee, in that situation.

He doesn't need a gun, he has an eighty thousand pound weapon already in use.

Look, I'm not bustin' yer chops, I'm just sayin'...
It isn't just you in this. Don't let the aggrivation lead to an issue that will lead to a widow.

Why not? What are you going to do to him if he stands in front of you, looks you in the eye and tell you to shove a pumpkin up your ass?

Is it worth going to jail and/or getting your ass kicked just to prove a point to someone who clearly doesn't give a fuck what you have to say?

Are you truly willing to make your wife a widow because someone cut you off in traffic?

I call dibs on Beth!

I would never want a confrontation with a total stranger that could turn violent.

Most people actually fight people they know. Fight a stranger....no way, not me. Not if I don't have to.

I think we're out of the running due to previous commitment.

Yup. Which is why you pull out the cell phone and report him as a probable drunk driver to the cops.

If you want her you'll have to share her with your wife.

Most people would find what I'd say to that individual to be....highly provocative.

Worth an ass-kicking, definitely.

Not worth jail or death, though.

Bah. Almost two hours ago, now. Dude was on an interstate with Oklahoma plates.

It would certainly add a whole new dimension to road rage.

Or maybe it wouldn't. Maybe people would be more inclined to mind their fucking manners if they knew everyone around them could easily track them down.

That's why you do it when it's happening...

Then you get the schadenfreude of seeing him pulled over as cops are on him like white on rice.

Perhaps, but at any rate, you wouldn't want some psycho who saw Mrs A driving home in all her teh hawtness having access to those records.

That would mean endangering everyone around me by using a phone while I drive, and I don't fucking DO that.

Everything I was doing, I did safely and deliberately. I was just pursuing unsafe ends.

Definitely not, and I would want some severe penalties for mis-using the information in such a manner.

Some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Not this ignorant bullshit again.

Cell phones divide your concentration, period. Don't even fucking try to argue it. This has been verified with more than my own anecdotal evidence. Dividing your concentration compromises your ability to react, and endangers others. Just as with drunk drivers, I'm not willing to wait until your luck finally runs out and somebody dies. If you want to engage in risky behavior, you need to do it in a place you don't share with other people.

Beyond that I'm not even willing to tolerate the additional annoyance caused by people who are too preoccupied with their phone to notice a green light or my presence in the lane into which they're trying to merge.

And I know cell phones aren't special. I've horn-berated countless women who were too busy digging through their fucking purses to pay attention to what is going on around them. Or old people with paper maps. Or kids with fancy stereos. Or soccer moms yelling at a van full of kids while she hauls ass down the road late for something. I don't care what it is. Either your full and undivided attention is focused on the road, or you are fucking up.

Normally, I agree with you and I very rarely use my phone in my car.

But if I'm driving and I need to dial 911, I'm doing it no matter what. Period.

There are exceptions, but you'd need a damned good reason for why you couldn't pull over first. And emergencies are one thing. Calling to ask your boyfriend what he wants for dinner is another. I don't need to be stuck behind some dumb shit who absolutely fucking HAD to get caught up on all the latest gossip before they got home. Safe driving is not something to be compromised for convenience, laziness, or pleasure. The first time you refuse to use a turn signal because your free hand was filled with a cell phone should be enough to require some kind of short-range jammer installed in your car. One where you could still get out and walk 20-30 feet away to make an emergency call.

I use a bluetooth headset when I'm in the car...

In this instance, Your instance, the driver of a semi is suspected of being intoxicated, and your intervention may well save someone's life. Perhaps he's nodding off.
Plus, if your exit isn't the next one, may be interesting to see the outcome for your own satisfaction.

I agree 100%. I got stuck behind some yokel here Friday when I needed to get to the wife who was having an issue with the Mopar. I finally got passed him, and he was oblivious just yucking it up going about 22 in a 40 on this dual ditched two lane FM road with traffic backing up quick.

The sooner laws are passed to hit these people in the ass pocket the better.

This is just silly, though I share your rage at this problem.

Was it Flashlight?

Bah. He wasn't drunk or sleeping. He just didn't fucking care. He was going wherever the hell he wanted, and everyone else could just get the fuck out of his way.

Filing a complaint with his employer is all well and good, but if you were to track him down it is you that would be guilty of harassment. He doesn't have to listen to you bitch just as you don't have to listen to anyone else bitch. Period.

I won't deny that there is a revenue generation aspect, but the truth is that speeders are easier to catch and it's easier to prove in court that they were speeding.

The only way to catch someone driving stupidly is to witness it or get tipped off by another driver calling in a complaint on their cell phone, and you know as well as I do that when people that are otherwise doing stupid things see a cruiser, they slow down, pay attention, and get paranoid.

I can't tell you how many times I've gotten pissed off when I was behind someone in a cruiser because they'd slow down well below the speed limit because they were scared of me.

Something about mass and speed seems appropriate.

No, but he can "accidentally" merge over on top of you when you're up against a concrete barrier. After it's over, your jeep will be about the size of a king size mattress and there won't be enough left of you to put in an envelope.