can tractor trailers make a right turn on red?

yes, this is the mentality we have to deal with

especially at TTR

 

Sometimes it's safer and easier in congested areas to let the cars clear out of the street you're turning onto and then turning right on red when you can use the whole street.....otherwise more cars will pile up in the left-turn lane of that street and make it a tight squeeze. You just have to use good judgement as to what is the easiest and safest for everyone. My advice is to use as much of the street as you can instead of running over the curb, a car , or the light pole on the corner. Most drivers will be helpful if they know what you're trying to do.

 

Exactly this. When I need to make a right hand turn in a tighter area, the light doesn't mean much to me at all, I need to wait for the proper lanes to be cleared.

Know what gets you in more trouble than a right on red (which is none 95% of the time)? Running over curbs, busting rims and swiping cars.

If the lanes are clear, make your right?

 

I don't do it too often but when I do I only do it mt. When loaded it takes me so long to get to speed I don't like to slow traffic on that street down.

 

I turn right on red. Sometimes I even stop.

 

Post of the week.

Like a lot of trucking, there isnt always a hard fast rule on safety. I never went to school and never had an instructor who had to cover his arse and tell me not to do something and imply it in a way that I would think it's a law. When I took the CDL driving test at the DMV, the state tester told me that I wasn't supposed to shift gears during a turn. What???? I asked her about that and she said that rookies normally can't shift well enough to get through an intersection without missing a gear. Okay, that made sense to me. I didn't read it in the states manual where you couldn't shift while making a turn in an intersection. Ever been behind a truck who doesn't shift during a turn? Yes, we all have. You don't say anything because you know that odds are it's a rookie.

If you are familiar with the truckstops in Laredo, there's the TA and the J on the west side of 35 and the Peelot on the east. The whole town is like a truckstop terminal. Around rush hour, it's wall to wall trucks. There are two intersections with traffic lights, a railroad track that runs parallel to the northbound service road, between the service road and the pilot. Traffic gets extremely heavy, and then you have rookies who can't make a right turn on red. What a mess.

 

I had always wondered about no shifting during turns. Keeping both hand on the wheel for control purposes is important, but if I'm just running down a highway and there's places I have to stop, it's more comfortable for me to leave a hand on the shifter... Not to mention I hate keeping an engine on high rpm for any period of time. (I'll shift during a turn if it's not a tricky turn, but I'm curious what the SNI lackys will say when it's time for my yearly, "did you pick up any bad habits" exam.)

One hand on the shifter. One on the wheel was how I learned to drive standard anyways.

Anyways...
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im an Internet kid, but I'm sure everyone knows this guy.

 

One thing to keep in mind while we're on this subject though.....do not mess with a red light camera no matter what is posted.....the owners of those are not concerned about safety, only generating income.