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

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expedite_it said: ↑

Morally, the wreck was the fault of the driver of the van, not the truck driver.
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Sorry, morality has nothing to do with it, the legally responsiblity in that and other cases have been with the one who caused the stoppage and the court agreed with that fact.

You seem to think this has to do with being able to get out and you have no culpibility but you have. IF you are a cause of an accident when you operate irresponibility then you need to deal with it. The real problem is while this is a common practice with some drivers, especially in the recent years, many think they have a truck and own the road.

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Crude Truckin' said: ↑

Oh snap! I gotta go do some digging.
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Didn’t go out with a blaze of glory or anything. More like a little to much sarcasm for the application

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Ya that’s what I gathered. Nothing like when Tall Joe left the building.

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Crude Truckin' said: ↑

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.
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I never troll.

Yes. I am inquisitive. If I wasn't inquisitive, I wouldn't even bother coming to this message board.

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Crude Truckin' said: ↑

Ya that’s what I gathered. Nothing like when Tall Joe left the building.
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I guess I missed that fun!

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Do whatever it takes to not have a wreck. Hitting something or someone is always a worse option. The traffic will forget you stopped them 5 minutes later.

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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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Your fist few millions of miles must have been some real easy runs if this is your first time having to force traffic to wait on you while you wait for the uninformed 4 wheelers to get out of the way so you can make a turn weather it be left or right.

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PaulMinternational said: ↑

Your fist few millions of miles must have been some real easy runs if this is your first time having to force traffic to wait on you while you wait for the uninformed 4 wheelers to get out of the way so you can make a turn weather it be left or right.
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Numerous people here have written that they have never stopped in the middle of the street and blocked traffic to make turns before.

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Stopped traffic.

Do it all day long at one intersection.

Make the turn at an angle like the pic. NEVER done that.

Going out straight and turn gives the trailer more spacing then doing it at an angle. Running over the curb.

I was taught to pretend kids are there. And to not run em over. OP's pic would result in manslaughter charges. (Kidslaughter)

Most cars do actually have a brain and will wait for the trailer to make the turn. Knowing that if they tried to turn inside the trailer. They'll get ran over. But occasionally an idiot does it. And they get trapped.

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Why would any of us drivers pass up an opportunity to inconvenience cars during their travels.

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