Moral of the story for the rest of us?
When merging and there is traffic in the potential merge area, assume they will not (or can not) move over, and that they will make no attempt to slow or speed up.
Why should they be anywhere other then the far right lane? Half the drivers will demand a "slower truck" (everybody other then them) stay glued to the right lane on 3-lane freeways, and deal with the whatever flack comes there way, so the "faster trucks" can progress unimpeded and unbothered.
Who caused this collision? With Poll
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by tucker, May 29, 2017.
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scottied67 Thanks this.
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I hope we don't have another @scottied67 in the makingtinytim, 4mer trucker, sealevel and 1 other person Thank this. -
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Merging truck is at fault. Failure to yield right of way and/ or illegal merge.
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I wasn't able to vote.
I didn't see a "It was them dang ELOGS" option.....scythe08 Thanks this. -
It is very easy to disprove Prime's claim that s/he slowed down to 45 mph. In the beginning of the video, it took ~9 seconds for 20 dashed highway lines to go by. Towards the end of the incident, it took the same ~9 sec for 20 dashes to go by.
Each dashed white line is 10' long, with 30' in between, so Prime went 40' × 20 = 800' -- in 9 seconds.
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I suppose you could walk into a bar, stand in front of the door refusing to move, but it isn't a good idea.Lepton1, tinytim, sealevel and 1 other person Thank this.
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