Ever deliberately stopped in the middle of the street to make a turn?

expedite_it · May 20, 2024

MACK E-6 said: ↑

Perhaps, but the hypothetical truck driver illegally impeded the flow of traffic. Had that not happened, neither would the hypothetical accident.
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The truck driver might have needed to impede the flow of traffic or she might have been there all day

MACK E-6 · May 20, 2024

expedite_it said: ↑

Since I made a thread asking about stopping in the middle of the street to make a left-hand turn, I thought that this might be a good time to create another thread asking about stopping in the middle of the street to make a right-hand turn.

About a week ago, I deliberately stopped out in the middle of the street (blocking traffic) to make a right-hand turn. I think that this is the only time in my ten year career that I have blocked traffic to make a right-hand turn.

Here is a drawing that shows what I did:

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The only tractor-trailer in the drawing is my tractor-trailer. Jabroni Boulevard is an undivided highway with no median. Those yellow lines in the traffic are just the yellow paint on the street to make the lanes.

So let me narrate this from the beginning. As I approached the intersection of Oak Street and Jabroni Boulevard, the traffic light was red. So I stopped at the intersection. There was so much traffic coming from both the left and right that I could not make the right hand turn when the light was red.

Then the traffic light turned green. But I did not drive forward the first time that the traffic light turned green. I did not do a good job in making the drawing to scale. So you might not be able to see the key to this. The key to understanding this is the following: I had to pull my tractor-trailer in the West bound lane of Jabroni Boulevard in order to clear the curb at the intersection of Oak Street and Jabroni Boulevard. I colored the area where the curb was with a green line. I had to buttonhook the turn into the west bound lane of Jabroni Boulevard in order to not hit the curb. So I could not make my right hand turn until there was no traffic coming from BOTH the left and the right because I had to buttonhook onto the westbound lanes of Jabroni Boulevard. When the light turned green, there was no traffic coming from the left (because the eastbound traffic on Jabroni Boulevard had a red light), but I did not make the right hand turn because the westbound lanes of Jabroni Boulevard were filled up with cars that had the right of way. I was not going to bully my way through the intersection. So the traffic light turned red again. There was too much traffic coming from both the right and the left to make the right hand turn the second time I was stopped at the intersection with a red light.

When the traffic light turned green the second time, I planned ahead of time to pull my truck into the hammer lane of the eastbound side of Jabroni Boulevard and just stop there (as depicted in the drawing), blocking traffic. The cars on the westbound lanes of Jabroni Boulevard blocked me from completing the buttonhook turn. So when the light turned green again for the cars on Jabroni Boulevard, I was blocking the eastbound traffic on Jabroni Boulevard. I just waited on Jabroni Boulevard until the westbound lanes of Jabroni Boulevard were clear, and then I completed my buttonhook right-hand turn. I feel like if I did not block traffic like this, I would have been at that intersection all day, and I feel like I would have blocked the traffic behind me all day too.

Have you ever pulled your truck out into the street and deliberately stopped and blocked traffic to make a right-hand buttonhook turn?
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Never done this one either. I pull a 48’ so I need 3 lanes to make a right, at least without having to take any of the lane on my left side. Usually that’s not a big problem.

Kyle G. · May 20, 2024

expedite_it said: ↑

The truck driver might have needed to impede the flow of traffic or she might have been there all day
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Aren't you used to taking all day to figure out simple problems!?

expedite_it · May 20, 2024

MACK E-6 said: ↑

Never done this one either. I pull a 48’ so I need 3 lanes to make a right, at least without having to take any of the lane on my left side. Usually that’s not a big problem.
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I think my scenario of blocking traffic from the left to make a right hand turn is safer than my scenario of blocking traffic from the left to make a left hand turn because in my right hand turn scenario, the traffic from the left is ALREADY stopped due to their being at a red light.

Kyle G. · May 20, 2024

Kyle G. · May 20, 2024

Where's Last Call anyway? Did he finally get himself banned? Won't even let me tag him.

gentleroger · May 20, 2024

expedite_it said: ↑

The truck driver might have needed to impede the flow of traffic or she might have been there all day
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Then they sit there all day.

Impeding traffic is an automatic fail on the CDL test. If one of my guys does something like that they're going to hear about it from me, in great detail, at great length.

There are times you need to get assertive, and there are times when your gap disappears, but intentionally pulling out to block traffic so you can make a left is a big no no.

Sons Hero · May 20, 2024

Kyle G. said: ↑

Where's Last Call anyway? Did he finally get himself banned? Won't even let me tag him.
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Unfortunately he rests in peace in TTR graveyard

Crude Truckin' · May 20, 2024

expedite_it said: ↑

What about my posts makes you want to scream?
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The fact that I think you know that you troll.

Then my compassionate side thinks you’re really that inquisitive, but you look wayyyyyyyyyy too deep into stuff.

Crude Truckin' · May 20, 2024

Sons Hero said: ↑

Unfortunately he rests in peace in TTR graveyard
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Oh snap! I gotta go do some digging.

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