The Big Guy has the opportunity to travel a lot.

The Big Guy thinks Dallas has some of the worst drivers in the USofA.

Here are the list of the worst offenders (in no specific order)

1) Soccer Moms in an SUV talking on a cell phone.
2) White work trucks
3) Under 25 bleached blond dingbats on cell phones.
4) Dump trucks and gravel trucks
5) High-end pick up trucks with a bass boat on the trailer
6) DFW Taxi Cabs

In addition, The Big Guy has identified a classic traffic maneuver call the "Dallas Move"

The "Dallas Move" is the last minute rapid swerving to exit a freeway. This can be of the 1-lane, 2-lane, or even 3-lane variety. The Big Guy awards extra points for how close the driver comes to any traffic barriers, and how litte of the triangular exit stripe painted area is covered

I agree with the Big Guy. I too have lived in a number of western cities from Oklahoma City to L.A. and Dallas is the worst. Drivers here know just enough to make them dangerous. Even the immigrant drivers are usually better if not, at least predictable, drivers than the natives. Let me add to the “You are a driving douchebag if:” list.
1. Drivers that don’t signal changing lanes.
2. Drivers that automatically speed up when someone (signaling or not) is switching lanes in front of them.
3. Drivers that cruise slower than cars around them in the fast lane on free/highways aka PASSING LANE. (If traffic on the lane to the right of you is going faster than you, you probably need to move over to the right. Likewise, if you feel the need to show off your douchebaggery in some fancy car you think others will be impressed that you are driving fast with, stick to the far left please.
4. People who will not let others on or off the entrance ramps because they deliberately adjust their speed.
5. People that enter a freeway going slower than the speed limit.
6. People that don’t allow lane changes as a road narrows for construction.
7. People that wait for the last possible moment to change lanes when a road narrows for construction.

The goal here people is for everyone to MERGE in traffic, not to outrace, bully or block others from getting from A to B because you think your in a hurry. For some reason Dallas drivers seem to have big egos when they get behind a wheel. It really isn’t necessary or safe.

Amen to The Big Guy and JB, well said. People, put down the damn phone if you can't drive properly.

I just watched a guy in his SUV, on his phone, get into a left turn lane then change his mind and sit straddling the turn lane and the lane next to it thereby blocking both. Oblivious to the horns and fingers offered, douchebag finally moves forward and goes thru the intersection....yes, thru a red light.
If you can't be bothered to put the phone down and drive, you too are a phonehole.

Big Guy and JB are gods. The one Dallas Driver they missed (probably because they are not bikers) is the 'look over at the lane occupied next to them by a motorcycle and still make the lane change' moron. I had a lady do it to me last Saturday and I had to hit the horn and kick my boot into the side of her BWM (thin metal by the way) and even after we pull off the side of the road, she still was yacking on her cell phone to 'Joanie'. BTW her insurance had expired two months before and I left while she was calling her sugar daddy to get it renewed.

Then two days later at a store I had the classic over-bleached blond scream at me that she need the parking space where I was parked because cars have more rights than motorcycles. And as soon as she drove off, a pot bellied Miata driver tried the same crap. He then said he would move my bike as soon as I entered the store. Then I informed him that touching my bike would earn him a six 13 boot proctological experiment. The poor bastard had to actually park fifty feet away from a 7-11 instead of ten feet away.

Every day a wreck occurs at 635 and Marsh. It usually involves at least one truck driver hauling ass like he is in a mazda miata. He nearly always takes out an SUV or a dually pickup with a "Bad Boys Drive Bad Toys" windshield sticker.

It's kind of like the movie Groundhog day but not funny at all.

The last three times I've nearly gotten creamed, it's been by a DART bus.

Is signaling a lane change really that important? I find that signaling triggers the person in that lane to speed up and therefore block your lane change (see douchebag move no. 2 on the Big Guy's list).

Correction: (see douchebag move no. 2 on JB's list).

Too many drivers in Dallas are starring in their own movie and can't be bothered to think about anyone else.

Regarding getting over at the last minute, if you take the same route to commute in the morning and afternoon should it take more than two trips before you memorize and anticipate where you have to exit, merge, etc.? A lot of Dallas drivers must wipe their memories every night so that they forget how the hell to get to work in the morning.

Lane change signal is important and it's the law. 'douchebag speeds up to block' is no excuse to ignore the law. Most people that don't signal a lane change either believe they are too important to be bothered, or on the DAMN PHONE.

Has anyone noticed that the drivers we all hate really seem to come out between the hours of 7:45AM to about 9:00AM? They always seem late.

I've started to leave the house around 6:00AM to avoid all those people that are obviously more important than me. Hopefully my little life will not get in their way anymore.

It's true. The idiots-per-mile (IPM) number increases dramatically after 7:30 AM.

Telecommute baby, telecommute. Makes life much better.

You all left off the drivers I have the most issue with: Lexus drivers - I don't know why this is, but it is true. I don't have issue with the drivers of any other "luxury" car. I can't count the number of times I've nearly been killed by Lexus drivers though. I've got to the point that I try to avoid getting near them on the road.

I wish they had published Bay Area statistics (I didn't see any). Driving out there scares me 10 times worse than Dallas and the drivers out there are completely nuts.

GeorgeT, for me it's Corvette drivers. Something about that car makes them think that they're racing at TMS. I stay the hell out of their way.

"Among cities with more than a million residents, we rank all the way down at No. 167...."

Um, Bob, I don't think there are 167 cities in the US with more than a million residents.

I’ll be honest. In lane changing, I do the “California Lane Change” which is basically thus; as you are turning the wheel to leave your lane, you also flip the blinker stick. If done correctly, it signals that you are indeed intentionally swerving out of your lane to another but yet done fast enough that it does not give the guy behind you enough time to accelerate to block your lane change. It would be nice to give longer notice about said lane change but in Dallas, Brandon is correct.

People in Texas don't even know what "parking lights" are and why they might be a bad idea while "driving" or as it is known outside of Texas: "not parking".

I find the 3 worst drivers tend to be in these categories...

1) People with a Jesus fish
2) People with a "94.9 KLTY" bumper sticker
3) Douchebag Redneck with "Calvin Pissing" sticker on the back window.

I find it somewhat ironic that the dude with the Jesus fish just cut me off and flipped me the bird as he steps on the pedal and hits 90mph on the tollway.

Rondo, you reminded me of another one:

People with a MADD sticker on their car.

I have nothing against their position and never drive drunk so that's not the issue. I've run into several of them who weave down the road exactly like someone who is drunk.

I drive a dually and occasionally have a trailer. I only drive with the trailer during the middle of the day when most of you are behind your desks. But, it is really troubling when I am say merging from 35 onto LBJ. I am usually trying to get to the far right from the left lane.

And despite blinkers, crowding the lane I intend to enter, people just won't yield.

If a dude with a trailer is driving let him over, give him some room. He probably ain't racing through the streets, he probably doesn't want to be in the left lane, but may need to turn left. Sometimes we have to take the left lane for a city block, since ya'll don't want to yield.

But what drives me up a wall is the guy who takes the right lane at an intersection when no others are filled. Invariably, I will want to turn right on a red, but Nancy the North Dallas Housewife is oblivious to the world around.

That reminds me, my father would get livid when drivers would cut him off or wait five minutes for someone to carry their bags to the car, load them and eventually drive off. He would bark out epithets with color and vitriol, often racial gems like "pepper belly" but nothing carried the venom and hostility of the most reviled, "god dammed North Dallas Housewife."