Looking for advice (insurance fault)

I have had people like you try to pull up when they thought I was not making the turn or would not make a turn. If you missed the blinkers, sorry.


But you are at fault.

It is hard to see in the blind area there.

 

So just because the truck didn't have the signs all over it saying it makes wide turns you thought the laws of physics didn't apply to this truck? I really don't get people like you! You are the reason they have to put CAUTION HOT COFFEE on the side of coffee cups!

 

I don't get it. The insurance company has agreed to fault. There probably was a ticket.

I guess if the truck had not been there, the wreck would not have happened.

I guess if the sign was there, the driver would have known.

Where and how do these people get licenses?

 

Yeah, if the car wasn't there this wouldn't have happened either!

Couldn't have just waited behind the trailer to see which way the truck was going?

I put my trailer tandems on the hood of a sports car in Detroit in 1990 because someone tried to sneak around me while making a right turn. Luckily a cop witnessed the entire thing.

 

I had one in San Francisco, that I saw his stupid move and kept moving in my turn. When I had him so he could not get through, I set the brakes. I got out and asked him to back up. This idiot said I needed to backup. We waited for the CHP. The CHP asked him how dumb he was to have missed 6 turn signals. He said I did not use them and when the witnesses told different, he admitted to not seeing them.

End result, he had to backup and got a fine.

 

Cheesie, there are blind spots on the side of a truck that you can not see in a mirror, there are billboards big ones, that are all over the place letting 4 wheelers know of this, maybe you need to go back to drivers training to learn this, sounds like you were in that blind spot, beware there are no signs needed on trailers for this or for wide turns. Do you seriously think a semi truck with a 53 foot trailer can go around a corner without making a wide turn? Maybe next time you will pay more attention and not be in the blind spot.

 

Ok, my fellow truck drivers are going to kick and scream about this. But if they stop and think before they do they will know I am right. A professional drivers is ALWAYS responsible to make sure there is NOTHING on his right side (or left for that matter) BEFORE he starts the turn. He is to insure he is in the correct lane WITH his turn signal on. He checks the mirrors on BOTH sides of his truck to see where any danger may be and continues to check them to see where his trailer is going. 99.9% of trucks have 3 mirrors on the right side which should give him a clear picture of the right side.

From what you have written, The truck driver was in the wrong lane to make a right turn. Did not have his turn signal on and did not look in the mirror. If these statements are true then he is so wrong it's not funny. HE should go back to driving school.

 

I believe for the car owner's insurance to come forward with the liability charge to the car, leads me to believe that the lane they were in was not a proper lane, but a lane that people try to make to bypass traffic.

 

I think this is a mute point since his insurance company has decide he was in the wrong.

Also how many times have cars come up and been in your blind spot drivers? I think it's interesting he knows it was exactly 10 seconds....uh how does he know that?

Our truck doesn't have the blinker in the middle of the trailer or the sign on the back that says wide turn but I've pinned more than one car against a pole or smashed it and had the same response I didn't know you were turning right....uh gee I have blinkers on the tractor and on the trailer. Me thinks he was caught where he didn't belong and when in doubt accuse the truckdriver.