How would you do it ??

Lets pretend you are in a truck governed at 62, you're rollin' along, you KNOW an on-ramp is coming up, you have a 4-door sedan to your left coming up in the fast lane, 100ft behind them is another 18 wheeler. You see another 18 wheeler on the on-ramp, yet another governed 62 truck, pretty much up to speed going downhill, yet you're slowing ever so slightly going up a slight grade. You've got about 5 - 8 seconds to make up your mind....what do you do?? Do you stay in the gas, and be a 'bully' and not let the truck on the on-ramp in, just to be a 'richard'? Or do you do what a professional driver ought to do, lift for a few seconds, slow just enough to allow the truck on the on ramp to blend in without any difficulty??

 

Simple solution... don't be in a truck governed at 62....

 

How would a truck be up to 62 on an on-ramp going downhill when you are approaching the on-ramp up a hill that is causing you to decelerate? Maybe I misunderstood, but that seems to be a place where I would expect everyone to be weary of merging into traffic.

Personally, for me it depends... would I think I'm a bully because I didn't? Um... no. I believe it is the law that the person coming up the ramp is merging into traffic.

If it were a 4 wheeler would you feel different? I've seen many posts where someone was saying that they don't slow down and will even go to the point of laying on the air horn if the offending 4 wheeler doesn't yield. Sure it is polite to let him out, but you are becoming a hazard to the flow of traffic by slowing down and forcing the people behind you to do the same. That person on the ramp, however, has the ability to slow down and let you pass as well and if traffic is heavy and there is no acceleration lane, then I would say it's his responsibility to slow down as he has less risk of getting into an accident.

Now, in saying this, do I then uphold that you should not yield for other trucks moving into traffic? I will move over and even slow down for them on occasion, if at all possible, but not to the point that I could cause an accident.

I've had it happen to me where I've moved into the acceleration lane and had traffic on the highway that would not permit me to merge... I slowed down and stopped at the end of the lane until I could merge safely. To me, it was the right thing to do and I didn't feel jaded at all about having to stop.

 

Would depend I guess. How long is the merge lane? Am I slightly ahead or is the other truck? Since the other truck is getting up to speed pretty quickly and I'm losing speed on a slight incline I have to be pretty heavy so if we're going to be at pretty much the same place at the same time I'm probably going to lift a little. I do it often. Even if there weren't people right there in the left lane I would probably lift a little instead of having some 'richard' that I move over to let on hang me out in the left lane where I would have to lift anyway.

 

ha, not that simple.

 

kind of answered it. but i was talking about two 18 wheelers, one on the interstate/highway going up the slight grade, and the one on the on-ramp going downhill. Yeah, the letter of the law says the on-ramp must yield and on-road traffic dont have to, but what is the PROFESSIONAL thing to do??

i move over for any vehicle, regardless how many wheels it has....if i can. If i can't, ill slow down a bit, until they show me they dont know what they're doing, then its back on the pedal.

To me, any driver who COULD slow down and lift for a few seconds to allow a faster truck ahead fo him, but doesn't, just has an ego problem.

now to change the subject a little, why when you get two trucks side by side on the highway/interstate, the driver in the slow lane has a hard time slowing down and running 61 for 15 seconds. There is obviously a faster truck behind them, they whip out to pass, and then you start going up/down hill, and the slower truck that weighs more/less starts to accelerate, then starts pacing the truck in the fast lane. Why is it so hard for drivers to just let faster trucks by?? why do some see it necessary to be an AH

 

Sure it is.......

 

Perfectly put. Exactly what I would do.

 

just slow down and let them by pass. My grandpa was IL state police he says trucks should be 12 under the limit on the ramp so not to roll over because if your consistent with that 12 under rule you won't roll your truck!