Who would you pick?

I didn’t watch the video but your blanket statement rubs me wrong.

Example:
Truck A in the right lane grossing 80,000 is slowed from 75 to 65 while pulling a hill. Truck B in the right lane grossing 50,000 has slowed from 70 to 67 while pulling the hill. Having reached the DOT bumper of Truck A, Truck B now pulls into the hammer traveling 2 mph faster than Truck A.

Tell me why Truck A owes anything to Truck B. If Truck A backs out of it, all of a sudden 7 cars and 4 trucks behind him will now pull into the hammer requiring Truck A to let them in as well. No good deed goes unpunished.

Truck B can back out of just as easy as Truck A. Truck B made the wrong call. Truck B needs to nut up and fall back in line.

Does Truck A have an obligation to Truck B? NO! Truck A has an obligation to the vehicles following Truck A.

My $.02

 

Of course he has no legal obligation. No one said he did. But it’s a professional obligation to be courteous and keep the road safe. None of the drivers did this. As I said, they were ALL wrong. The guy on the left got too far into it, the guy on the right saw the guy on the left too far into it and instead of being a professional he stepped in it and refused to let him finish his pass.

These 2 guys caused a dangerous situation for everyone. Sure, the guy on the left could’ve backed off and got back over. But the quickest way to getting rid of the bottleneck they BOTH created would’ve been for the guy on the right to lift for 3 seconds. Situation cleared up, no lunatic passing on the shoulder and no brake checking endangering the 4 wheelers.

They were ALL wrong, ALL 3 of them. Someone needed to be the professional- none of them chose to do it. All 3 were wrong

 

I say the driver in the granny has a professional obligation to maintain his speed. Case in point, Did you see how those 4 wheelers cut into the hammer when right lane swifty slowed down? That isn’t keeping anyone safe. All it takes is one 4 to block and now you’ve got a wreck. Nobody ever talks about your obligation to traffic FOLLOWING you but it’s part of the equation

 

I don’t disagree with you. Everything you say is correct. But at some point one of these “professional” drivers has to actually be a professional.

Sure, the guy on the left could’ve back out- maybe even should’ve- that’s a fair point on your part. But when you see he’s not doing it, and it’s causing a dangerous situation, the correct response from righty is NOT to hammer down and get involved in a 5 mile turtle race.

IMHO, they were all wrong

 

You got it, Boss. Will do.

 

ill put my 2 cents in this. The guy in the left lane trying to pass and cant, should back down, get back in the right lane. I had this happen many times with my gov. truck. if he wont let me pass, back off, let the crowd go around, and get in the right lane. Now for the guy passing on the shoulder, he should not be on the road. Never in my days driving would I do something like that.

 

The Truckers Report has been very peaceful in quiet a long time. it`s rare I see verbal attacks on anyone here anymore, I like that. We discuss things, and have our own opinions, which we should, and in the end we still have good conversations. Good response to Mack E-6.

 

this whole thread was focused on the guy in the left lane, when the real trouble was the guy passing on the shoulder. NEVER do that.

 

I know this is an old thread, but imho everyone in this video needs a good smack in the head. As discussed the three truck drivers are guilty to various degrees - as are ALL the car drivers! All through that video I was thinking "back off back off back off!"

Whenever someone does something stupid I front of you you need to give yourself distance to stop. But all of these idiots were either maintaining a close following distance or worse, rushing forward. Those trucks could have easily collided and spread themselves across the highway leaving zero escape routes. Why on earth would you want to be right behind that? That's how pileups happen.