Should he have swerved?

Yup! See this every day, yet we are the ones scrutinized by DOT

 

You should come to California. That happens every 14 nanoseconds

 

You're being way too generous with your time!

 

This is gotta be a NY driver a bunch of stupid idiots

 

You gotta react faster. A second quicker on the throttle and you could
have bagged him. Try harder and watch your six. You can see em coming..

 

I had that happen last week at ~50 mph. We were losing the hammer (going from 3 to 2) and Mr. Dumas decided he had to be in front of me. I missed him but I think he tagged a cone. Dash cam got it all.

 

Man, that happened to me yesterday. Crazy people.

 

I had 4 drivers do something similar to me on Friday. Unfortunately, I was able to take safe evasive actions to avoid all of them. You can be sure that if I couldn't have avoided them safely, one of them would have been crunched.

 

But then the car is sitting down low and doesn't have the view from above. The truck should be slowing down, expecting the cars to jump out of the left lane.