Hammerlane Ticket Because of A-Holes

I live stream my trucking day 12+ hours every day I drive. Plenty of good drivers documented in my live streams. I often make comments that those drivers are doing it right. I find it very interesting that truckers are more triggered by a guy legally filming illegal behavior in other truckers rather than the illegal behavior that has the potential to adversely affect their ability to make a living.

But I do get it, it is the ancient lizard brain response programmed into our DNA to go after the legally filming "snitch" rather than the person who is actually doing the illegal thing.

 

And there you have it, from the horse's ###.... you think (somehow) that you're better than the rest of us.... (This isn't news, I've seen some of your videos)

 

Maybe that driver sitting in the middle lane is thinking about his wife who is fighting cancer, and if he is just a selfish child I don't want to waste more than thirty seconds worrying about him because there will be another one in a hundred miles.

 

He acts like he does everything by the book and follows every law when in reality he left his OTR reefer job when they switched from AOBRD to ELD because he couldn’t cruise around under 25mph any longer without tripping to drive. Unless the speed limit in the work zone was 75 then when he hung the speeding truck out in the left lane to make a video and prove a point then he’s also speeding and isn’t doing anyone any good. I went around with him last year or the year before because he gets money from YouTube and according to the letter of the law he should’ve been logging on duty any time he was doing anything related to his channel. But he’s above the rest of us. Rules for thee but not for me.

 

I get paid only when people watch my channel; not for making the videos, just like fox and cnn do. They stir up their viewers to keep them tuned in so they will watch the ads which is where the real money is.

A few weeks ago a trucker in Sacramento ran over 12 cars hurting several and killing one. It was caught on video but everyone here condemned the trucker for his actions. I just marvel at the name calling and snide snarky remarks I get for trying to clean trucking up with my gopro camera.

 

You made the situation in the construction zone more dangerous for a few pennies you make on views. Truck driving next to jersey barriers at allegedly 75 and you speed up to make their life more difficult.

If you’re ever in an accident, it will serve you right when the opposing attorney figures out you go online, brag, and proud of yourself for adding to dangerous driving situations.

Being a passive aggressive driver is just as dangerous if not more dangerous than texting and driving.

Get a life.

 

It wasn't an alleged 75, I paced the driver and showed my speedo on the hat mounted gopro. The trucker was in the hammer lane and I also showed multiple signs we passed that tell people who have 3 axles or more that their speed is limited to 55 and all vehicles towing are also limited to 55. We also know as truckers that California limits truckers to the right lane or two right lanes if there are more than two. How can you take that driver's side when all this evidence of their breaking the law is presented?

I find it interesting that a lawyer for a trucker going 75 (20 miles over the speed limit in California, a reckless charge) would be able to twist the narrative that a guy recording him breaking the law is the one at fault lol.

Passive aggressive. Very interesting choice of words. Now I have heard it all. One person even said I was a Karen, another said I was a beta and a horse's ### lol. All because they don't like one of our own calling some of us out who are openly breaking the laws and regulations. You guys don't want cameras mandated pointing at your while you drive? Why would you not get on my side and help me clean up this industry? These truckers openly breaking laws every day are doing the rest of you no favors.

 

Speed limit for passenger vehicles is what... 65 to 70?

So you engage in reckless behaviour.

This behaviour isn't doing anything except feeding your own ego. You're not accomplishing anything positive and you're endangering the public in your self-styled crusade. Some of your videos had a point, but this is nothing more than the actions of a money-grubbing parasite.

 

Yep, ###### behavior means you’re an ######.

 

I agree, about that trucker but how much more money do truckers really make running 20 miles over the speed limit in California in the hammerlane in a work zone with one second or less of following distance? I would think the risk for a few extra pennies would not be worth it.

Again, my point in making videos like that is an effort for us on the trucker level to do something about the bad behavior we see to head off the government doing it for us manifested in driver facing cameras, speed limiters, and front bumper auto braking following distance radar mandates. I refuse to just bury my head in the sand this time and allow it to happen without doing something. We all did that concerning ELD and look what we have to deal with today because a few bad apples were falsifying their logbooks.