Please let me know if this was dangerous or not...

He done a good job.

 

I see that the car changing lanes fought the slush in the between briefly. If there was going to be a problem it would have been at that point in the video. The rig appeared to be loaded so thats very good. You can roll a little bit but for me that would be the upper limit. The cars are doing what they can do somewhat slower which is about what I would expect to do in our car in those conditions.

I'll rate the driver in the video at the upper end of what is possible without being too outrageous once past that lane changer. Driver did not allow or slow for any potential problems seeing as how that car, again; fought the slush between both lanes.

The one thing I do not possess is that fog, it is cold enough to potentially be a ice fog. You can only see so much in a video and do not have the feel of the pavement under the steers or the trailer back there. Or even the amount of power you can put on the drives without breaking traction. To me that would be the key that determines the upper end of speed. If there is a problem with breaking traction then it becomes a RPM Bound problem in a lower gear making for a somewhat slower situation.

I'll give this one about 6 of 10 anvils. It's again a little bit speedy for me. But eh... again I don't see anything too outrageous beyond that one moment.

 

IDK, if the truck was loaded, I don't see anything wrong.

 

The cars were doing great, almost all in the right lane with A bit of following distance so they all were doing fine.

 

That would be what strikes me more than anything. ALL the cars were doing really well together. Which is really something special when you do see it.

 

Looks okay to me. Not perfect,* but nothing terribly egregious either. As far as the claim "[t]here was not sufficient distance around 24-27 seconds to brake in time to avoid an accident." Unless the car hits an invisible, immovable wall, there is plenty of time and space, even after the car signalled its intent to change lanes.

*Perfection is unattainable.

So, tell us a little more about yourself. What is your interest; just casual or something else? Not wishing to jump to conclusions, but yours is kind of an unusual first post, IMO.

 

Driver needs to either dim lights or shut off the moose lights... other going by slower traffic a bit quick to stop if someone changes lanes but misjudges how fast the truck is going he’s under control no problem

 

Well said. However I will disagree somewhat regarding the bold faced portion of your post.

I spend a fair amount of time watching dash cam videos. One thing that really hit home with me is how frequently vehicles can either come to a sudden stop OR ricochet into your path or your side.

There's a guardrail to the right side. It wouldn't take much during that car's lane change to cause it to veer into that guardrail, then come out at a trajectory approaching 90° to the trucker's direction of travel, spinning and out of control.

While I can't say the dashcam shows egregious driving, it's leaving little room for error, not any error by the trucker, it's the expectation of four wheeler error. That's why in my initial post on this thread after my first view of the video I noted that my own instinct would have been to start backing out of it 10 seconds in, when the merging car started to slow. Those dash cam crash videos haunt my driving hours

As others have noted, we can only see the video. We have no idea how the general traction felt. What looks like might could be deeper snow between the ruts might only be thin, well scraped snow with great traction.

 

Difficult to tell what the traction was like. Could a four have spun out and ricocheted off the guard rail and been rear ended by the truck? Absolutely. One thing I know is objects can get in your way really #### quick out there but I see worse than that 50x a day. Every driver thinks they can stop until they need to.

 

Beat me to it. That deep slush/snow definitely called for a bit more space until that car was safely in the right lane.