You ever send dash cam footage in on somebody?

Judging by the smoke, I think they realized they screwed up. Their vision was blocked by the other truck, and what was going on with the lowboy? Made a left in front of the daycab, and a different color sleeper would make me wonder. I think you might have made it, they were on the shoulder,,,still, nice going.

 

Day cab was waiting to turn left. the other guy in a hurry, got to the lane that turns right then made a left turn out infront of me, cutting infront of the lowboy stopped the stop sign. We went to same place, me to unload him to load, he did come out and say ‘sorry’ he couldn’t get loaded til I got there cause I was hauling the loader.

 

I had a weird one on Sunday night, driving from Dallas to Texarkana on I-30. I drive a company truck governed to 70 mph and I overtook a guy running 67-68 mph, so I moved over to the left lane and started to pass him. And of course, after I’ve gotten around a half a truck length past him, he sped up to, you guessed it, 70 mph. Which is a jerk move. I didn’t want to be in the left lane, I’m not one of those drivers who gets all crazy and blocks up the passing lane trying to pass someone going a hair slower than me. This guy was legitimately going slow enough for me to overtake and started to pass until that point.

So there we were, both going 70, my truck a half length in the lead, both going at exactly the same speed, me getting pretty irritated. And then he laid on his air horn! WTF?

And after maybe five miles of this, he finally had to slow down and get behind me because the right lane was closed for construction. On the other side of the construction zone, I moved back over to the right lane and saw that I had opened up a considerable gap which only grew BECAUSE HE HAD SLOWED BACK DOWN TO HIS EARLIER SPEED! He had only sped up because he didn’t want me to pass him.

 

Serious question. Why didn't you just back out of it and fall back in behind the guy, and pass when he gets behind another slower truck?

You held up the left lane for 5 miles.

 

I probably would have if there had been any other traffic on the road. There weren’t any other cars or trucks. Also, I knew that his lane was going to be closed up ahead, and like I said, I was halfway past him already. And even then, I still might have until he blew his horn at me!

 

What kind of "action" could you possibly take against the four wheeler in your story? I doubt most police agencies would do anything about it even with video footage.

 

So you just wanted to be in front of the line super trucker? I bet at the next hill your underpowered plastic pos would be holding the guy up behind you because he was lighter and could pull the hill better. Steering wheel holders like you are the problem. All in a hurry to do 2 whole mile per hour faster on the flats just to do 10 or more under later down the road.

Always have to be in front and end up stopping the free flow of traffic later or just end up sitting in traffic or parking at the same place anyway. You're not saving any time but instead increase the risk of an accident for zero benefit other than some sort of ego fix.

 

That’s all pretty funny, you gotta work on your reading comprehension skills though. I overtook him and started to pass and got halfway past him before he sped up. If he hadn’t, I would have been past him and back over in less time than it’s taking you to read this, even without you sounding out the big words.

As I have already noted, I wasn’t holding anyone else back, we were the only two vehicles on the road at the time.

 

I've got a button on the dash I can hit to record things like that with the forward facing lytx camera. And I've had that very same thing as what happened to you happen to me. One time they swerved from the left slammed on the brakes from 75+/- mph down to about 30mph about like you 5 or 10 feet off my front bumper. That one actually triggered the event and the video camera got it but I never heard a peep about it from the company.

The problem with these kind of things is that they happen so fast that if an event doesn't trigger and catch it on my truck it will be long gone before I can hit the record button. I think some camera systems record in a continuous loop and you can save certain times if need be. That's not how it works on the truck I'm in though.

At the end of the day what good does it do having video of it if there's no accident? A tiger don't change it's stripes. Stupid entitled people will continue to be stupid and entitled.