Cars merging onto highway

Thats what im thinking... Say you are hauling triples, and some 4 wheeler comes merging onto the freeway toward you... You yank the wheel and number 3 decides to head for the hills... You flip and land on some other 4 wheeler, NO ONE is going to blame the guy merging... Hes long gone...

 

Correct is, as a professional, to do what you can to avoid contact w all morons.

 

It’s not a requirement. That’s something we did out of courtesy for a guy that might be heavy and trying to get going. More for our own convenience really. Not everyone was schooled in staying out of the way of the faster trucks. Like when Punkin’ hauled out in front of you at 80,000 with his 290’s tongue out on the ground. Never been a requirement, as much as some entitled #### in a 4 wheeler might like to think so.

 

I can say, from experience seeing who paid, due to the basshole drivers from NJ who can't merge; it all depends on what you say.

"The four wheeler hit your side, never saw, just heard it hit me".

Anything else could indicate you saw the vehicle and that may open the door to you having some fault.

I've seen the difference play out on the loss runs; remember that most police officers do not understand your blind spots.

The report is completed, often sounding like something 50/50 but how the officer completes the report tells his take on the matter.

NJ reports, the 'at fault' is usually vehicle #2 so when the statements from the drivers each blame the other party, vehicle #2, in the officer's opinion is the at fault party.

Never say you hit the vehicle merging into traffic or you will be vehicle #2 on the report; guessing that there is some standard to how all the PD accident reports are formatted.

 

Not all states have the exact same legal codes.
Most do operate on the principal of the entering traffic is to yield to the existing traffic of the road to be entered.

 

The red triangular yield sign means the same thing anywhere in the nation. Just like stop signs, red lights and crosswalks.

 

Then please, by all means, find one that doesn't.

 

Driver’s manual do not generally assign fault, there are just too many factors considered before fault is applied.
Someone mentioned Illinois 50/50, here it is.


Illinois Compiled Statutes 625 ILCS 5/11-905 – Merging traffic
Current as of: 2021 | Check for updates | Other versions
Notwithstanding the right-of-way provision in Section 11-901 of this Act, at an intersection where traffic lanes are provided for merging traffic the driver of each vehicle on the converging roadways is required to adjust his vehicular speed and lateral position so as to avoid a collision with another vehicle.

There is at least one other state with a similar law.

 

If memory serves me, Illinois does not place a yield sign along the entrance to a controlled access roadway (freeway).

 

In the scenario you’re describing the car would be 100% at fault. But even still they’ll still cry that nothing is my fault, everyone has a delusional sense of entitlement these days, and the truck company/driver will still probably get sued and the 4-wheeler will probably still get a settlement just to avoid a jury of non truck drivers who will probably side against the 18 wheeler no matter what.