This Hot Load Is Worth More Than Your Life

You were in the right lane. The right lane was ending. So no, you didn't own the lane that was remaining.

This is so basic. You're coming to the end of the passing lane. There's a number of trucks behind you, atleast two closing the gap. You know they can't get by you before you run out of real estate. Get in the left lane and close the #### door.

You seem more concerned with being 'right' (in your mind) or in capturing you tube moments that you do in avoiding bad situations.

So basic.

 

You pass the last lane end sign
5 seconds later your lane has finished
5 more seconds I see the the truck at your tail in your mirror

You have failed to move over and left room for that idiot
It seems you like to put yourself in these positions for your YouTube

 

I just watched it again and you are absolutely right. This is just another classic example of Scottie being a stubborn, hardheaded, bullhead always right and everybody else is wrong.

 

An interesting addition to Defensive Driving by going on the Offense to actively minimize options or in this case bad options.

Good Point

 

I've been saying this for a while now. He does things to encourage bad behavior so he can get a video.

We've all been in similar situations (if you've been driving for more than a few weeks), but a seasoned professional, especially one who frequently brags about having superior skills, should be able to anticipate this type of scenario and avoid it before it develops.

@scottied67 has no business driving a commercial vehicle. If it were up to me I wouldn't even let him deliver a pizza until he has had some serious anger management counseling, maybe even electro convulsive therapy.

 

Some people avoid dramatic situations.

Some like to create them.

 

wow. Your own video would have put you LEGALLY at fault. As was said before, YOUR lane was ending. YOU failed to either get over earlier, KNOWING your lane was ending, or slowing to let the driver who legally had possession of the continuing lane to pass. For all this experience you say you have, your ignorance of basic traffic law is showing quite well.

 

Ok, so if you drive that stretch of road frequently, you should know that the lane ends, correct? Secondly, if you know there are guys wanting to get around you, maybe instead of complaining that they are ignorant and bad drivers, let off the cruise control? It didn't even look like you slowed down. So either slow down and let the traffic by well before the lane ends, or move over before the other driver has a chance to go around. Or even if you do neither of those things like you didn't do, if you know that he is coming around you fast, just go onto that nicely paved shoulder for a second. But instead you put that guys life in danger by "following the law" and being a lazy super trucker and not wanting anyone to get by you.

 

All I'm saying is that it gets old always getting stuck behind some slow rolling road block of a truck and I can understand why guys do what they do!

 

That is my road. I knew it.

That trucker in the middle will kill someone or many someones. Someone needs to collect information off that rig and get him turned in to the LAW before he does on that freaking road. There is no room for that ######## Im a telling you. Sitting here in my minds eye I can see that road even now, every inch of it.

NOT. Acceptable.

Hell back in my dollar truck days kicking my rig to 130 I never went down the middle like that. Never. Ever. Hammer Lane? Hell yes. But not the middle.

Companies are slowing trucks too much. Eventually the drivers must quit because they hate being whipped and abused by dispatch to drive like that. Eventually people must be killed. I hate that.

I have driven for DM Bowman out of Williamsport Maryland where our Company speed was 55. Yes exactly 5.5. I either fell asleep in that right lane looking at my watch like a schoolboy stuck in charlie browns waawaawaa classroom or I feared terror with some many people roaring by at 80 knowing #### well I am the blocking object for all three lanes past Fancy Gap praying until sweat that no one slams my trailer at 80.

I set it up where Bowman fired me so I did not have to quit. It was better to kick a restrictive company like that to the curb and find a much more sensible speed to run at. 70 is all you need. None of this ######## middle lane crap.