What's With The Unprofessional Drivers?? Almost Crashed Today...

I don't know, maybe because most box, or straight, trucks are driven by lesser trained Class B drivers? Maybe they are lesser trained because they work for cheap people that only want to pay them slightly more than minimum wage, so they have a hard time finding "professionals" for $10/hour??

Maybe the driver just moved from Pakistan, and that's how it's done over there.

 

Now,I didn't say I agreed with him did I? I know if I hit someone while changing lanes they would hang me from a tall tree and use me for a pinata. But I have tried it with the 4 wheels, and it does work if you wiggle the trailer! Won't work with the 18 wheels though. They just keep you blocked so your stuck out in #2.

 

I am saying you have cleared my front end and I am prepared (aka light footed and ready to break if needed ) that's it I might do it a second time incase you was not looking the first time. The choice to come over is yours

 

Some guys do it then stop, the second time kinda bugs me because at night if your mirrors are properly adjusted you can see the brights (for the dummies) or the lights shut off (that's what thems smart dudes will do) without actually looking at the mirror. But that I can deal with. It's the third time and so on that really get to me lol

At night on a deserted highway there's no hurry to change lanes IMO therefore no point in any of this signaling business, just wait til there's a nice big gap then come back to the granny lane.

In traffic however, having a driver let you know your clear to come over and knowing he's expecting you to swing over with only 20 feet between the trucks can make things much easier when trying to maneuver through traffic. If I see someones trying to move over and nobody is letting him I'll close the gap between me and the cars in front of me (putting myself beside the truck) then ease on the binders and make a hole for him. Signal him over so he hopefully cuts in as soon as I clear him (before some dumb 4wheeler jams himself in there) then I stay on the binders to regain my following distance and everybody happy .

 

Hit someone with that move and that same cop will be writing you up for an unsafe lane change.

I'll turn on my signal, but I won't move over until I have the room to do so safely.

 

I'm with gov on this one I travel around Toronto also and I'm seeing this more and more. 2or3 flashes and then they're coming over hell or high water. That's bs that he was going too fast also. I'm guessing he fishtailed because the lane he went into wasn't plowed /salted as well as the lane he was forced out of. The person making the lane change is supposed to ensure the way is clear before changing lanes. He would have been ticketed if gov had run into him. Been there done that.

 

I think you're being a little melodramatic here, you mention dying, losing your life, being dead etc no less than 6 times in your 2 posts. If you posted to vent then fine, but if you drive the GTA as much as you say you do and it's as bad as you say it is then I think that you'd be a little more suspect of all the bad drivers as you call them. I mean if any one that runs in around the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth area posted and whined every time someone didn't signal and just about took the front end off their truck there wouldn't be enough space for them all. Get over it, carry on.

 

don't blame the buy becuase you were going too fast for existing condtions. he had enough room to merge, and he took it. maybe a little too soon. but the, you should have slown down.

i look, if enough room. i signal and merge.

not many look, signal, and look again. if there isn't eough room. in the first place.

your a professional driver. it's your job to think and act like a professional driver. for your safety and others around you.

it's also a must that you realize your surrounded by stupidity. that's comon knowledge. and to anticipate the moves of others around you.

people cut me and the rest of us off all the time. when we're on ice. but WE'RE NOT FISH TAILING.

 

Your suppose to have YOUR VEHICLE UNDER CONTROL and the GTA is not as bad as MONTREAL for non signalling lane changers