Good Job Martin Transportation Systems MTS

I was driving east on Marshall Drive in Grand Prairie, TX when this fine example of a "safe driver" blew out of a driveway in front of me without ever looking or even slowing down.

What the video doesn't portray is how close I actually was since it a very wide angle lens (fisheye).

Truck 91076 / Trailer 536295

 

Nope, not a single car behind me, no need for him to beat traffic, he just didn't care.

I blew the horn at him as I went by then at the next light he pulls up alongside me, flips me off and starts cussing me like I was the one in the wrong.

 

I was on the brakes, to the point of triggering a critical event, so how was I making him sweat, he could have cared less about the traffic already on the road!

When was the last time you dynamited the brakes on a bobtail? Slowing/stopping doesn't happen very quickly!

 

You really don't have a clue do you. The video captured the entire event, I had just changed back to the right lane thus necessitating me to watch my right mirror so by the time I looked back he was out in the middle of the road and as EVERY study has proven numerous times it takes up to 2 seconds to realize there's a hazard and react. Only after I stopped and watched the video did I see that he came from the parking lot at speed and NEVER slowed down before blazing out into the road. What would have happened had I been driving the speed limit of 45 instead of 36? What would have happened had there been a motorcycle or some other smaller vehicle ahead of me since it's obvious he didn't see or pay enough attention to the fact there was a truck coming at him less than 3 truck lengths away??

As far as him not doing anything unsafe, when may I ask did blowing out of a driveway onto a public roadway without ever slowing or god forbid stopping become not unsafe?

And if you would read a little closer he pulled up alongside me at the next light where I was stopped and began flipping me off and cussing at me.

As for me being mad, your ##### right I'm mad, I'm sick and tired of the way drivers are acting and representing the rest of the drivers out here that actually give a flying **** how we are portrayed by the general public.

As for telling me that maybe I shouldn't be driving, I've been doing this 26+ years, have an impeccable safety and employment record and just to add to that, the last ticket I got was in High School. So I'm not going anywhere but when I observe another driver acting the way this driver did I will call the company out on a public forum.