Dealing with pissed off 4 wheeler drivers

It seems that no matter what I do, at least once every trip or two, I piss off a 4 wheeler.

On this past trip there was an onramp and this 4 wheeler wanted to come on so I moved into the left lane to give them room. After they safely entered the lane, I put my blinker on to move back to the right. In the time it took me to look at them, put on the blinker, check ahead of me and to the sides of the rig, they had mashed the gas and so when I started moving to the right they got up right behind me. I move to the right and turn off my blinker. Then they speed around me on left side laying on the horn the entire time.

Why do people do stuff like that? Do they realize I moved over for THEM, and that I am not required to do so? I was being nice, next time I'll just run their azses onto the shoulder when they can't get on.

I had one guy ignore my blinker when I wanted to change lanes to make an exit. He had an empty lane next to him that would take him in the same direction on the exit that he was going. I didn't, I was going to miss my exit. I put my blinker on, it blinked at least 10 times and he just sat there. Well I started to "nudge" my rig over to see if he'd move. He immediately flipped me the bird and layed on the horn.

What ### holes.

 

Yep. I had a critical event report because a 4 wheeler didn't merge onto the interstate even when I flashed my lights and my ACC gave them 375 feet of room to do so. They slow down instead of speed up and all of a sudden come flying over into my lane right even with my passenger door. I lay on the brakes and the horn and the qualcomm reported a critical event. The safety guy calls me and says that the video showed that I should have changed lanes or slowed down even more. I told him there were cars behind me and to the side that you can't see and that I told the car to come by flashing my lights. He didn't write me up and said in court he would have argued that the 4 wheeler had time to get on, but that I "could have done better."

That pissed me off, I was told in CDL school to maintain lane and speed, that you have the right of way, not them. And I even slowed down a bit for the stupid 4 wheeler and what did they do, slowed down even more. And acted like crossing the white line for the lane merge would mean their car would fall off the planet.