Looking for advice (insurance fault)

So...You got in a trucks blind spot and sat there long enough to get run into and now you want to blame the driver for your screw up? What on earth does that have to do with guns? You are not dead so apparently it takes more than "a semi and a signal to kill someone" YOU ARE TYPICAL OF THE TYPE THAT DO THIS...You screw up and then try to blame the truck driver for your own stupidity.

Cool! I hear that CR England is hiring team drivers...You'll fit right in.

 

LMAO... that's a good one!

I agree with Big Don—I smell a troll.

 

I agree, the truck driver is responsible for checking his mirrors, he should have used his turn signals, and he should have put his trailer partially into the right lane to keep cars from coming up into the lane.

One of my drivers had an accident like this. He was in the left lane to make a right turn but someone came up on the right and drove into him just as he was making the turn. The cop told him to always put his trailer at least part way into the lane so cars will know that he is turning, and to block them from coming up on the right.

Sorry drivers but you need to be more responsible when you are driving a vehicle that size. Everyone wants to blame the car for every accident but we all know that most car drivers won't know that you are trying to make a turn in a situation like that.

 

Yup!!!

Anyone else notice how many times he refers to us as PROFESSIONAL drivers (all caps!)? Yet he talks down to us like we are morons! Typical!

 

since you don't drive truck, and we didn't see what the intersection looks like, I am going of my own experiences and opinions here.

I have had to turn from a busy 4 or 6 lane divided road onto a smaller side street. I need more than the turning lane to make my right hand turn, button hooking it doesn't always work since cars coming out from there pull up too far.

I have taken both lanes (turning and next one to the left), waiting to get either a green light, or just my turn to go, just to have someone sneak in there, right side of vehicle on the curb, because they don't want to take there turn to wait behind me, even though I am showing my intend to turn, and do what I am supposed to.

If you didn't see his turn signal, and he is sitting there for as you said a few seconds waiting to turn right, he is scanning the area, and he may have looked to the left as you went past him in that lane, it is entirely possible he didn't see you, wouldn't have seen you because now you are in his blind spot, and won't see you until he is just about all the way turned on the new street.

While it does not give a truck driver the right to commandeer the roads, if you see one, with his blinker on, sitting there, even though he is a lane over the turning lane, chances are he is trying to make that turn.

WE CAN NOT TURN LIKE A CAR. We have to make split second decisions on how to approach a turn and execute it. Sometimes I don't set up exactly right, heck, every turn is different, and sometimes I misjudge how far I should swing.

While it is our (truck drivers) responsibility to safely do our job, at times, YOU, the motoring public need to do your part, and give us the room to do our job safely. It is my job to make sure I can turn safely, but if you pull in beside me, as I am looking to the left to check if I can safely turn, it is possible you are in my blind spot when I start to turn. So whose fault is it now? You put yourself in harms way, and I as the driver thought I was in the clear, can't see you, and don't know that there is an issue until it is too late.

Again, I wasn't there, but you were in the blind spot of a truck making a right turn, and if he did signal the intent of doing so, you were at fault. After all, you didn't see the turn signal blinking, but they could have been on.

 

From what I see the driver of the truck is an idiot, apparently he admitted that he didn't look in his mirrors. Just because someone drives a truck for a living doesn't mean that he is a good driver.

 

I'm also on that Canadian forum and that statement is a total lie. Would you like me to cut and paste some of those responses onto this thread for you?

It seems to me that you are trolling the trucking forums trying to find someone who will give you the answer you want to hear about your situation. Why you are so adamant about finding a sympathetic ear is something you have yet to explain. Is your lawyer not doing all the legwork for you?