Was the trucker at fault?

You should keep traffic on your drivers side. It's the same as turning right on a single lane, if there's oncoming traffic in the lane you need to swing into you have to wait for it to clear. If there's traffic turning in the outside lane you have to wait for it to clear.

 

Well, while y'all are waiting for traffic to "clear ", I'll be swinging my wide turn whilst staying in my lane , and truckin' on down the highway.......

Roll On.......

One last thing. ...If y'all need to keep traffic on your port side so you can see them, what do you use your passenger side mirror for? Just wondering. .....

 

Are'nt mirrors there for decoration and possibly just a suggestion kind of like signs?

 

It looks to me like the trucker is in both lanes, so the car should not have been to the right anyway. I watched it on my tablet to see a little better. The car started moving before the truck & stopped when the truck started to go. This was definitely a bone-headed move by the car driver. Who doesn't know that trucks make wide right turns?! I'd bet the car driver was somehow distracted or was just in a hurry. If the driver was in a hurry, this move back fired on him/her. It also appears that the car is over the crosswalk before it stopped. Surely the trucker was looking to the left, would not have seen the car come up on the right, & likely could not see the car when trucker proceeded to go. The vehicle with the camera does appear to be in a lane of traffic & seems to have been at least part of the reason the trucker is not in the far right lane. Would be interesting to know the outcome of this incident.

 

You don't see anything wrong with the trk drivers move in the video?

 

There are several factors that aren't known here. Where did this occur? Is it legal there to make a right turn on red. Is the truck with the camera in a lane of traffic, blocking traffic? If so, had he contacted local police? I didn't would like he was talking to police or even somebody from his company. It also appears he didn't even notice the incident.
It does look to me that the trucker is in both lanes, with turn signal on, to make the turn. I think the driver of the car made a stupid move in this situation, especially since I seems that the car started to turn before the truck & then stopped. If the car could see & was clear, that driver should have gone & honked when the trucker started to move. I do think the truck was in both lanes, which puts where the car was as not being but about half a lane of traffic. May be just me, but I value my life & those of others. That & I need my vehicle intact. I would not risk pulling beside that truck. I do not Have a CDL, but was taught that you better pay attention to what other drivers are doing because they may not be paying attention to you. It was like not legal for either driver.

 

We all see something different from this video.What I see is even if this 4wheeler honked and honked the trucker wouldn't have even heard him.Chances are both his windows were up and probably had his radio on jamming to tunes.I don't know for the life of me why the trucker used both lanes to make a turn.What I see is that turn was wide enough in the outer lane to make the turn smoothly.

 

First of all, there was MORE THAN ENOUGH room for that truck to get into the right lane, even with the camera truck parked where it was.

Second, the truck is a good 12 to 15 feet off the curb...enough room for another big truck, so it's no surprise a car went there. If you don't want a car to go there, you need to hug the curb. If you're going to leave 12+ feet of lane between your trailer and the curb, EXPECT it to be filled!

1000% driver error. 1000% preventable. And if you worked for me? You'd be out of a job. No excuse for not knowing how to drive a truck when you're a truck driver.

 

The car driver in this instance still made a stupid move. Probably trying to rush somewhere only to end up with a wrecked car. Like I said, it would be interesting to know the outcome. Unless the trucker had a good lawyer, he/she probably lost the case & job. Still surprised that the driver of the truck with the camera seems not to have noticed a thing. Too busy hacking away to whoever.

 

When I got my CDL my instructor told me that it is up to you to control the space around your vehicle. If you don't want cars pulling up on your right side, swing the truck over but leave the trailer in the right lane. Accident prevented. I'm willing to bet the insurance company put fault on both drivers since the dash cam shows the trucks right turn signal on which the argument would be made that the driver was intending to turn right and the car should have driven defensively and waited behind the truck, just in case.