Is changing lanes approaching on-ramps a good habit?

My friend tried your tactic of not allowing a merge, even though he admittedly had room to do so. The guy hit him and got a ticket for it. His small company's insurance paid the ####ty driver for his car and "ER" visit. My friend lost his job because the insurance disallowed him as a driver, even though they agreed with the police officers report.

Moral of the story, sometimes it pays to be courteous.

 

Courteous yes, but theres also a limit when it comes to a 80,000 lb truck...my thinking is your in a little car and can stop a heck of a lot quicker, so sometimes they just have to eat the shoulder im sorry....

 

On ramp yield signs are there for aesthetic purposes only.

 

Pulp Fiction.
I love it.

 

There is no such regulations of allowing merging.
With that being said there is not such law to be able to write a ticket for failure to allow merging.
It is up to the driver coming down the on ramp to merge in to traffic safely.
If you can not merge safely in to traffic from an on ramp you must give the right of way to highway traffic till you can safely do so.
Using you logic it’s like pulling in to an active intersection while making a right on red turn thinking the drivers with a green light should stop and allow you to turn.

 

Yeah, I'm kinda like 'if I can, I will', but I'm not doing anything funny to make your life better.
The frustrating thing is, most of the time, if they put their foot in it, it wouldn't be a problem. Its that great moment of indecision that messes them up.

 

Here in the state of denial, the law is clear, the merging traffic yields to traffic they are merging into.

Had a driver a couple months back get hit by some idiot hot shot driver with a trailer because the idiot didn’t adjust his speed and the idiot expected my driver to get over but had no where to go, so the idiot hit the trailer when he rant out of road. The cop gave the idiot a ticket for failing to yield and the idiots insurance company tried to get mine to pay, didn’t go far.

 

Amazing......
"Well, F it. I'll just hit that truck."

Um.....ok.

 

I agree 100%. You can't always get over safely and sometimes shouldnt. My friend had the opportunity and a free lane to get into, but, he wanted to be a dick. When he told me that, I lost all sympathy for him losing his job.