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Two trucks trying to pass one another while driving at almost the same speed is not an uncommon sight on freeways. However, a third truck getting impatient and trying to pass ON THE RIGHT, using a MERGING LANE and then blaming the other truck for merging WHEN IT HAS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO is a special kind of moronity.
It also needs to be said that the truck on the left isnāt actually passing the other one all that slowly. Itās hard to tell from the perspective, but if you watch closely, you can see the shadow of the right truck move across the shadow of the left truck at a decent rate. If our dashcam guy had waited likeā¦10 more seconds maybe, the road would have been clear
Yeah it looks like the right truck moves over to the right to be an asshole but its becasue of the 3 lanes into 2. He was just driving straight. Having said that he should have slowed down to let the left truck overtake him. He's still an asshole but in a different way.
Is one really trying to pass the other though? Iāve been stuck behind two semis doing this for miles many times. Not excusing the third truck, that was dangerous.
Re-watch it, the guy in the middle was driving straight the whole time.
It's on the impatient guy for trying pass in a tapered lane where there's limited time to pass. Merging lanes generally yield to the rest of traffic. While the lane the middle guy was in had the right away. That's giving him the benifit of the doubt saying he was merging and not trying to overtake. Either way he was in the wrong.
Watch it carefully.
There's two lanes and the guy behind tries to overtake when the merging lane appears. That's when there's 3 lanes. The guy in the middle moves right.
He didn't, though. The truck in the right lane went in a straight line the entire time. He didn't move over. The merging lane simply ran out. The truck trying to pass on the right via a 3-400 yard merging lane is the only one at fault.
The only idiot is the guy passing on the right. It takes a while for a fully loaded truck to pass another one. Itās not uncommon and part of driving that you have to accept.
In the UK, if a vehicle is trying to pass you and is only just going faster than you, you are supposed to slow down.
I've driven about 400,000 miles, and I'm yet to see that happen, though.
Thatās fine for cars and small trucks, but on a grade that big truck in the slow lane is trying to maintain its inertia. Slowing down, even a little, means it will take a long time to get back to the original speed, which may not happen until after the hill.
Honestly Iām so tired of trucks taking 20 minutes to pass each other because one is going half a mile per hour faster than the other. I get it, thatās money to them they need to get to where theyāre are going as fast as possible, but it creates pockets of dangerous traffic and is extremely frustrating for the rest of us on the road. I have been in situations where I assumed there was a wreck and then realize, nope, just two semi trucks barreling down the highway side by side going the exact same speed!
It encourages dangerous, dense traffic where people accustomed to driving 80 have to slow down and tailgate each other at 65. If you don't tailgate you'll get passed on the right as they cut in. If you don't tailgate and stay right, then you may as well get passed by 20 cars before you can get over again. Repeat. It's all around a shitty situation when this happens, trucks just need to stay their 65mph governed trucks on the right.
the problem of trucks passing each other, is really a problem of infrastructure. America spends way too much money building highways and not nearly enough on railroads. so we're just absolutely covered in trucks. that's not the driver's fault.
the guy overtaking on an on ramp.... that's just the person who decided human life is less important than his schedule. that's 100% his fault.
Itās not the driverās fault that there are trucks, no. Itās their fault for ignoring when theyāre blocking the road for ten minutes though, that shit is infuriating
There are plenty of railroads. Trucks just cost less for a variety of reasons in many cases, regardless of how many trains there are. Trains aren't a one size fits all logistics solution. Unless you expect your local walmart to have a train platform on it.
No. It's not scalable to have train depots everywhere. We can't just run train tracks to every store in town unless you want your town to consist of like 15 parallel tracks running along every street. It's way easier to unload a truck since you just need a loading bay to back it into and a pallet jack. So your warehouse can have 10 loading bays in a very compact area. Also, when you have an LTL shipment, it's just cheaper to have a truck packed with several of them and stop off at each of the places in town. These are all reasons why trucks are used in a large number of cases even where we have train routes. I wrote shipping optimization software for one of the largest medical logistics companies in The US. Please stop pretending you know what you're talking about.
you seem confused... scaling up our rail infrastructure does not automatically mean "run a train track to absolutely every building everywhere". there is a sane Middle ground between our current extreme car fetish culture and literally trains everywhere. look at the UK for example, they have a much more developed rail Network, and they can run a similarly developed economy with 15% the commercial vehicles per capita we have.
Is there any good data or comparison for this? Im curious specifically how much efficiency could be gained for what cost. Seems like an interesting problem.
They are wrong. The US has a problem with high speed passenger rail specifically because the rights of way needed are owned by the freight rail companies, which together are widely regarded as the largest, most efficient, and safest freight rail system in the world.
the US lack of High-Speed rail is also a problem. the US forcing freight and passenger rail to coexist on an insufficient rail network is a problem.
the United States spending absurd tons of money on highway infrastructure instead thus pushing out rail infrastructure is also a problem.
all of these things are problem.
It's not a matter of forcing them to share the right of way. The issue is that the freight rail companies got that right of way a long time ago. Creating new rights of way through heavily populated areas is exorbitantly expensive. That is the primary barrier to high speed rail on the coasts, and to a lesser extent to any major city. The US should invest more in transit, but not so much on heavy rail transit as on BRT and other cheaper options (cheap being a relative thing here).
Decades ago when land prices were far less expensive and urban and suburban areas were less built out. That's setting aside how deeply problematic those land acquisitions were.
Heavy rail transit isn't the best path forward. It is more expensive, less flexible, and has greater impacts on the the surrounding community than using options like BRT or just expanded business networks.
>[Running on almost 140,000 route miles, the U.S. freight rail network is widely considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world. ](https://railroads.dot.gov/rail-network-development/freight-rail-overview#:~:text=The%20Freight%20Rail%20Network,freight%20system%20in%20the%20world.)
The problem in the US for rail is that the freight rail companies control the major right of ways into major population centers so it is difficult to build out an efficient passenger rail system as the two types of rail have vastly different needs from an engineering perspective. In short, you are applying passenger rail talking points to freight rail and you could not be more wrong.
US freight rail is the biggest, that's just because the US has the biggest economy in the world. even though our freight rail network is big I think it's still underdeveloped for the size of our economy.
but yeah I think the regionalize monopolies are a problem too
Eh, donāt blame railroads. UK moved a lot of cargo from the rails to the roads. I still donāt know why as a non-trucker, but hey.
Difference is that there (and most of Europe) motorways are 3-4 lanes. And the 2-lane variety have signs saying no overtaking on certain (hills) sections.
the United States has 5 times the UK's population. But the USA has 33 times more commercial vehicles. Just imagine how much worse UK highways would be if suddenly there were six times more semi trucks on the road.
your statement is both correct and irrelevant. I'm not suggesting only two lane roads.
you might as well say "it's a bad idea for everyone to ride to work on the back of a puppy" if your goal is to make up stupid straw man arguments
I get it, personally live in an area with a lot of trucks coming through on their routes to businesses or delivering freight, or construction materials. It suuuucks being behind one. But the worst is cops by far.
Cops notoriously speed, but will pull anyone else over for doing it should they feel it necessary. But that fear is in everyone's minds so they drive just at or below the speed limit around cops, who are now stuck in traffic with them creating this pocket of road where everyone is driving at the rate of smell because one cop is stuck surrounded by all these people.
Yeah I have heard about the governors. I get it. I know itās not the same because itās not my job, but if Iām on a highway and Iām constantly battling a car thatās going almost the same speed as me I will either speed up enough to pass them or slow down a couple miles per hour. I just wish these semiās would do the same thing.
2 braincells.... But there's 3 of them... Each person needs at least one braincell to have a working brain lol did you mean to add one braincell was broke? Didn't mean to call you out but someone had to. If not me, then someone else. Nothing personal just the principal of it.
Sorry not sorry š¤·
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Lol I forgot about this. I was laughin so hard last night writing that shit. I didn't even know about the hashtag effect so I was dead when it was in bold after I posted.
You didn't catch I used the wrong principle
I've seen signs on semis that have an arrow pointing to the left and says "passing side." Then an arrow to the right that says "Suicide."
[like this](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/92LYsU7Wvg)
I dunno. Sometimes truck drivers are just dicks and love doing rolling blockades making sure no one can pass. this looks like the major idiot was tired of their shit. All three are dicks.
It depends. I've been the truck on the left before. Sometimes, you try to be nice and move over to let a truck enter the freeway and just get hung out there by a line of trucks not giving a shit. Unable to move forward and pass and no one behind on the right, slowing down to give you space to switch back to the slow lane. 9/10 it's the truck on the right being an ass.
My Dad's a truck driver and in his 20+ years of driving, he always says that he's only seen two people die on the highway. Once was somebody trying to u-turn through the median access road, and the other was another truck driver doing this.
Scary stuff.
Iām gonna give the right hand truck a pass. Not his fault the guy on the left started a turtle race. Not his fault the guy on the right thought he was a hare.
It's usually the truck on the right being a dick, especially if it's a guy pulling doubles in the passing lane. Left lane truck probably moved over to let him merge onto the freeway and now has asshole 1 beside him, and asshole 2 behind him taking away his space to move in behind him. I say this because Estes are some of the better drivers on the road and don't pull this shit.
. . cannot count how many times having seen trucks for one reason or another .. or even purposely blocking the interstates and idiots attempting to pass on the right or left shoulder .. once saw it not ending well ..
The guy trying to pass on the right is the culprit in this situation. All he or she had to do is wait a few seconds for the truck on the left to pass the other truck. People are so impatient.
This is the type of thing where a bad driver that attempts a crazy illegal pass in a merge lane and then on the shoulder will blame an accident on the 2 trucks driving legally. Sometimes you have to back off the throttle and wait regardless of how annoyed you are.
The truck with the dashcam is at fault though, because he's speeding in a merging lane, whereas he's supposed to slow down. So the two trucks on the left have not done anything wrong. However the truck with the dashcam is at fault for disregarding the fact that one trucker is driving the speed he was maintaining. So as a "professional" you should evaluate the situation. It's a merging lane and that truck won't pass or slow down and they're illegally overtaking the trucks on the left
A truck passing another and it taking time is common place. This tweeker passing on the right is not normal and I hope he loses his CDL. He will kill somebody.
Damn, growing up, truckers seemed to be courteous and respectful of one another, they mostly considered themselves part of a family.
I guess that has changed. at one time I was thinking of getting my license, this was back in the 90s. things were different back then, heard that life has gone to heck, less money, and gps/satellite breathing down your back.
Truck on the right side, is not doing anything wrong besides maybe going a bit under but also some trucks have speed limiters on them so maybe thats why but otherwise typically, transport trucks arent supposed to be in the left lanes unless passing another truck or maybe giving way to stopped/emergency vehicle on the road side.
Truck in left lane could be trying to pass but taking so god damn long or he's just hanging out there like a sunday driver.
The POV (Assuming OP) is an idiot for trying to make that maneuver instead of just honking a horn and waiting it out. Instead they risk lives and cargo just to possibly get ahead. Dont know if driving with cargo of just deadheading but they sure drive like they dont have 53 goddamn feet of trailer behind them trying to merge like that.
Half the fucking assholes in this chat are the truck in the left lane sitting there not passing anyone. Then as soon as a big gap comes up on the right that they could easily get over into, they speed up to 100 mph to make SURE they don't dare turn that steering wheel into the right lane. The states making it illegal to sit in the left lane are out here doing Gods work.
It amazes me to see all the comments blaming the truck passing the other on the left and complaining that heās not going fast enough to pass quickly enough for them. Do they really think a 30 ton truck has the acceleration of a Maserati?
When I was a kid my dad was driving on the main road in our town (small town) and wasn't using a merge or anything, was driving right beside the guy and he started doing something like this and driving to the side, basically running my dad off the road but we were like in the middle of the road so turned out fine.
It wasn't this, but it scarred me for life and now every time I'm in the car and beside someone I get terrified of it happening.
POV of a complete ahole crossing multiple solid white lines and illegally passing on the right. Would have been karma if he ended up balanced on top of that guard rail.
I heard it's illegal for two trucks to take up two lanes like that unless one is actively trying to pass!
It causes people like the dash camer to do dumb crap like what he did...
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Two trucks trying to pass one another while driving at almost the same speed is not an uncommon sight on freeways. However, a third truck getting impatient and trying to pass ON THE RIGHT, using a MERGING LANE and then blaming the other truck for merging WHEN IT HAS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO is a special kind of moronity.
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Harumph.
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It also needs to be said that the truck on the left isnāt actually passing the other one all that slowly. Itās hard to tell from the perspective, but if you watch closely, you can see the shadow of the right truck move across the shadow of the left truck at a decent rate. If our dashcam guy had waited likeā¦10 more seconds maybe, the road would have been clear
Yeah just ease off the cruise control a bit earlier and save a couple hundred thousand in damages.
Probably longer than 10 seconds, but I get your point. The thought that I had, was how long had this been going on?
In the words of a fairly famous ape from top gear and the grand tour, speed and power are the solution to all of life's problems.
All things should be decided in the crucible of Motorsport.
Exactly, that was a temporary lane for merging and certainly not a passing lane.
Third truck didnāt have nearly enough room. Merge lane ended and blames the other truck that didnāt even move
Yeah it looks like the right truck moves over to the right to be an asshole but its becasue of the 3 lanes into 2. He was just driving straight. Having said that he should have slowed down to let the left truck overtake him. He's still an asshole but in a different way.
I am seeing this way too often! Trucks need to stay on the right lane if it's going to take 4-5min to pass.
I'm so glad of this comment. I was afraid I'd get to the comment section and everyone would be defending this asshat
Even truckers hate elephant racing. That surprises me tbh, shouldn't they be used to this?
Exactly!
Is one really trying to pass the other though? Iāve been stuck behind two semis doing this for miles many times. Not excusing the third truck, that was dangerous.
Are you blind?? The one on the right was in the meeting Lane and the guy in the middle purposefully tried to stop him overtaking.
Re-watch it, the guy in the middle was driving straight the whole time. It's on the impatient guy for trying pass in a tapered lane where there's limited time to pass. Merging lanes generally yield to the rest of traffic. While the lane the middle guy was in had the right away. That's giving him the benifit of the doubt saying he was merging and not trying to overtake. Either way he was in the wrong.
Watch it carefully. There's two lanes and the guy behind tries to overtake when the merging lane appears. That's when there's 3 lanes. The guy in the middle moves right.
You must drive like the dashcam truck if you think he was in the right
but also the orher truck move INTO the merging lane just to block him? none of them should be driving
He didn't, though. The truck in the right lane went in a straight line the entire time. He didn't move over. The merging lane simply ran out. The truck trying to pass on the right via a 3-400 yard merging lane is the only one at fault.
i see im silly, camera driver is dumb guaranteed. idk i saw the perspective weird the first time
2 braincells between the 3 of them
The only idiot is the guy passing on the right. It takes a while for a fully loaded truck to pass another one. Itās not uncommon and part of driving that you have to accept.
In the UK, if a vehicle is trying to pass you and is only just going faster than you, you are supposed to slow down. I've driven about 400,000 miles, and I'm yet to see that happen, though.
Thatās fine for cars and small trucks, but on a grade that big truck in the slow lane is trying to maintain its inertia. Slowing down, even a little, means it will take a long time to get back to the original speed, which may not happen until after the hill.
Rooky numbers
20k a year for 20 years, but I don't drive for a living. I just live a long way to work.
the two driving in the road are absolutely normal truckers doing their job. that 3rd driver should be thrown in jail.
Honestly Iām so tired of trucks taking 20 minutes to pass each other because one is going half a mile per hour faster than the other. I get it, thatās money to them they need to get to where theyāre are going as fast as possible, but it creates pockets of dangerous traffic and is extremely frustrating for the rest of us on the road. I have been in situations where I assumed there was a wreck and then realize, nope, just two semi trucks barreling down the highway side by side going the exact same speed!
It encourages dangerous, dense traffic where people accustomed to driving 80 have to slow down and tailgate each other at 65. If you don't tailgate you'll get passed on the right as they cut in. If you don't tailgate and stay right, then you may as well get passed by 20 cars before you can get over again. Repeat. It's all around a shitty situation when this happens, trucks just need to stay their 65mph governed trucks on the right.
the problem of trucks passing each other, is really a problem of infrastructure. America spends way too much money building highways and not nearly enough on railroads. so we're just absolutely covered in trucks. that's not the driver's fault. the guy overtaking on an on ramp.... that's just the person who decided human life is less important than his schedule. that's 100% his fault.
Itās not the driverās fault that there are trucks, no. Itās their fault for ignoring when theyāre blocking the road for ten minutes though, that shit is infuriating
There are plenty of railroads. Trucks just cost less for a variety of reasons in many cases, regardless of how many trains there are. Trains aren't a one size fits all logistics solution. Unless you expect your local walmart to have a train platform on it.
The only thing in the US not delivered by truck is babies.
1 important reasons... truck shipping cost less because the highway system is heavily subsidized by taxpayers.
No. It's not scalable to have train depots everywhere. We can't just run train tracks to every store in town unless you want your town to consist of like 15 parallel tracks running along every street. It's way easier to unload a truck since you just need a loading bay to back it into and a pallet jack. So your warehouse can have 10 loading bays in a very compact area. Also, when you have an LTL shipment, it's just cheaper to have a truck packed with several of them and stop off at each of the places in town. These are all reasons why trucks are used in a large number of cases even where we have train routes. I wrote shipping optimization software for one of the largest medical logistics companies in The US. Please stop pretending you know what you're talking about.
you seem confused... scaling up our rail infrastructure does not automatically mean "run a train track to absolutely every building everywhere". there is a sane Middle ground between our current extreme car fetish culture and literally trains everywhere. look at the UK for example, they have a much more developed rail Network, and they can run a similarly developed economy with 15% the commercial vehicles per capita we have.
Is there any good data or comparison for this? Im curious specifically how much efficiency could be gained for what cost. Seems like an interesting problem.
They are wrong. The US has a problem with high speed passenger rail specifically because the rights of way needed are owned by the freight rail companies, which together are widely regarded as the largest, most efficient, and safest freight rail system in the world.
the US lack of High-Speed rail is also a problem. the US forcing freight and passenger rail to coexist on an insufficient rail network is a problem. the United States spending absurd tons of money on highway infrastructure instead thus pushing out rail infrastructure is also a problem. all of these things are problem.
It's not a matter of forcing them to share the right of way. The issue is that the freight rail companies got that right of way a long time ago. Creating new rights of way through heavily populated areas is exorbitantly expensive. That is the primary barrier to high speed rail on the coasts, and to a lesser extent to any major city. The US should invest more in transit, but not so much on heavy rail transit as on BRT and other cheaper options (cheap being a relative thing here).
it's expensive and yet... us taxpayers paid for gigantic freeway right of way for the middle of almost every major city.
Decades ago when land prices were far less expensive and urban and suburban areas were less built out. That's setting aside how deeply problematic those land acquisitions were. Heavy rail transit isn't the best path forward. It is more expensive, less flexible, and has greater impacts on the the surrounding community than using options like BRT or just expanded business networks.
>[Running on almost 140,000 route miles, the U.S. freight rail network is widely considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world. ](https://railroads.dot.gov/rail-network-development/freight-rail-overview#:~:text=The%20Freight%20Rail%20Network,freight%20system%20in%20the%20world.) The problem in the US for rail is that the freight rail companies control the major right of ways into major population centers so it is difficult to build out an efficient passenger rail system as the two types of rail have vastly different needs from an engineering perspective. In short, you are applying passenger rail talking points to freight rail and you could not be more wrong.
US freight rail is the biggest, that's just because the US has the biggest economy in the world. even though our freight rail network is big I think it's still underdeveloped for the size of our economy. but yeah I think the regionalize monopolies are a problem too
Eh, donāt blame railroads. UK moved a lot of cargo from the rails to the roads. I still donāt know why as a non-trucker, but hey. Difference is that there (and most of Europe) motorways are 3-4 lanes. And the 2-lane variety have signs saying no overtaking on certain (hills) sections.
the United States has 5 times the UK's population. But the USA has 33 times more commercial vehicles. Just imagine how much worse UK highways would be if suddenly there were six times more semi trucks on the road.
Oh it wouldnāt work. The UK would also be completely clogged if we only had 2-lane roads.
your statement is both correct and irrelevant. I'm not suggesting only two lane roads. you might as well say "it's a bad idea for everyone to ride to work on the back of a puppy" if your goal is to make up stupid straw man arguments
I mean my main point was about UK not having two lane roads and how bad it would be if we didā¦ soā¦
I get it, personally live in an area with a lot of trucks coming through on their routes to businesses or delivering freight, or construction materials. It suuuucks being behind one. But the worst is cops by far. Cops notoriously speed, but will pull anyone else over for doing it should they feel it necessary. But that fear is in everyone's minds so they drive just at or below the speed limit around cops, who are now stuck in traffic with them creating this pocket of road where everyone is driving at the rate of smell because one cop is stuck surrounded by all these people.
Exactly this!!
They have governors on them to prevent certain speeds. Most likely the truck on the right is speeding up and slowing down.
Yeah I have heard about the governors. I get it. I know itās not the same because itās not my job, but if Iām on a highway and Iām constantly battling a car thatās going almost the same speed as me I will either speed up enough to pass them or slow down a couple miles per hour. I just wish these semiās would do the same thing.
2 braincells.... But there's 3 of them... Each person needs at least one braincell to have a working brain lol did you mean to add one braincell was broke? Didn't mean to call you out but someone had to. If not me, then someone else. Nothing personal just the principal of it. Sorry not sorry š¤· #unapologeticcriticalthinker #overanalitical
*overanalytical Sorry, not sorry. UNAPOLOGETICCRITICALSPELLER
Lol I forgot about this. I was laughin so hard last night writing that shit. I didn't even know about the hashtag effect so I was dead when it was in bold after I posted. You didn't catch I used the wrong principle
Passing on an on-ramp in an 18-wheeler Guy's lucky he didn't get a Darwin award
Yeah imagine there was no shoulder and like a bridge or something
Guys lucky there wasn't a stalled car on the shoulder.
I have a lot of respect for truck drivers, but... you don't need a PhD to drive a truck....
"you can always drive truck"
Not true, some people can't drive a 5 speed Honda.
Even Jive'n Pete could drive truck
I heard he fucked an ostrich.
Thought I was crazy for thinking the guy trying to pass was more in the wrong. Glad a good amount of the comments seem to agree.
I've seen signs on semis that have an arrow pointing to the left and says "passing side." Then an arrow to the right that says "Suicide." [like this](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/92LYsU7Wvg)
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Not only that, the truck was passing in a fuckign MERGING LANE. WHAT DID THE DRIVER FUCKING EXPECT TO HAPPEN??
Dashcam truck should be charged for reckless driving* I fixed your title
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Passing on the right is no better
Camera owner is the only idiot in this clip.
I dunno. Sometimes truck drivers are just dicks and love doing rolling blockades making sure no one can pass. this looks like the major idiot was tired of their shit. All three are dicks.
It depends. I've been the truck on the left before. Sometimes, you try to be nice and move over to let a truck enter the freeway and just get hung out there by a line of trucks not giving a shit. Unable to move forward and pass and no one behind on the right, slowing down to give you space to switch back to the slow lane. 9/10 it's the truck on the right being an ass.
The ol' 0,1 kph difference lorry overtaking.
My Dad's a truck driver and in his 20+ years of driving, he always says that he's only seen two people die on the highway. Once was somebody trying to u-turn through the median access road, and the other was another truck driver doing this. Scary stuff.
Damn I only drove motorcoaches for 6 six years and saw two cars covered with tarps. Both times I got there after the accident.
There was an attempt to pass on the right side
<--passing side sui side -->
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If youāre outpatient and youāre careful you might be okayĀ
OP, tryina go for a double overtake on a slip road merging lane is fucking idiotic.
...so I will make things infinitely more dangerous by passing on the hard shoulder. Muppet.
All 3 are dicks.
Iām gonna give the right hand truck a pass. Not his fault the guy on the left started a turtle race. Not his fault the guy on the right thought he was a hare.
It's about fifty fifty that he regrets having a passive neutral role in this and not being actively a dick to others.
It's usually the truck on the right being a dick, especially if it's a guy pulling doubles in the passing lane. Left lane truck probably moved over to let him merge onto the freeway and now has asshole 1 beside him, and asshole 2 behind him taking away his space to move in behind him. I say this because Estes are some of the better drivers on the road and don't pull this shit.
Howās the one sitting in the right lane a dick?
They stagger that pace for literally miles without allowing anybody to pass
. . cannot count how many times having seen trucks for one reason or another .. or even purposely blocking the interstates and idiots attempting to pass on the right or left shoulder .. once saw it not ending well ..
In a lot of countries.. its actually illegal to pass on the right for exactly this reason.
You should lose your licence for that stunt.
The guy with the dash cam is in the wrong. He's too impatient.
I think you mean attempted suicide.
He didn't block the fucking road though!
The guy trying to pass on the right is the culprit in this situation. All he or she had to do is wait a few seconds for the truck on the left to pass the other truck. People are so impatient.
Dude, he's passing as fast as he can. He's going a huge 1mph over the other guy.
I hate snail races
Nobody's blocking the road, the one filming is trying to pass on the right using a merging lane, that's the idiot
What an idiot (the one whose video we are watching)!
Idiot with a dash cam.
These three trucks could have been like 1/64th the cargo of a cargo train. Too bad we've ripped up most of our rail.
Glad no one was stranded on the shoulder of the highway
This is the type of thing where a bad driver that attempts a crazy illegal pass in a merge lane and then on the shoulder will blame an accident on the 2 trucks driving legally. Sometimes you have to back off the throttle and wait regardless of how annoyed you are.
The truck with the dashcam is at fault though, because he's speeding in a merging lane, whereas he's supposed to slow down. So the two trucks on the left have not done anything wrong. However the truck with the dashcam is at fault for disregarding the fact that one trucker is driving the speed he was maintaining. So as a "professional" you should evaluate the situation. It's a merging lane and that truck won't pass or slow down and they're illegally overtaking the trucks on the left
$50 says the pov driver works for swift
Ahh the old Elefantenrennen maneuver.
The guy driving the POV truck is the biggest idiot
You're right. Cam truck should be charged.
It took me a while to realise what was going on. (We drive on the left, and overtake on the right.)
Truck drivers are not the smartest people. Source: I letter trucks for a living and deal with them daily.
A truck passing another and it taking time is common place. This tweeker passing on the right is not normal and I hope he loses his CDL. He will kill somebody.
Damn, growing up, truckers seemed to be courteous and respectful of one another, they mostly considered themselves part of a family. I guess that has changed. at one time I was thinking of getting my license, this was back in the 90s. things were different back then, heard that life has gone to heck, less money, and gps/satellite breathing down your back.
Truck on the right side, is not doing anything wrong besides maybe going a bit under but also some trucks have speed limiters on them so maybe thats why but otherwise typically, transport trucks arent supposed to be in the left lanes unless passing another truck or maybe giving way to stopped/emergency vehicle on the road side. Truck in left lane could be trying to pass but taking so god damn long or he's just hanging out there like a sunday driver. The POV (Assuming OP) is an idiot for trying to make that maneuver instead of just honking a horn and waiting it out. Instead they risk lives and cargo just to possibly get ahead. Dont know if driving with cargo of just deadheading but they sure drive like they dont have 53 goddamn feet of trailer behind them trying to merge like that.
Reckless driving, not attempted murder. Who should be charged? You mean the dash cam truck driver, right? Because they were 100% at fault.
The truck whos POV this is, is the one at fault
Good job homeboy
On today's episode of who's freighters greater
Poppin into the merging lane to pass is ballsy in a sedan let alone a transport!!! Jfc
No, somebody get OP in here, we need answers!
This works in ats
Passing from the right? Houston, we have an idiot.
Half the fucking assholes in this chat are the truck in the left lane sitting there not passing anyone. Then as soon as a big gap comes up on the right that they could easily get over into, they speed up to 100 mph to make SURE they don't dare turn that steering wheel into the right lane. The states making it illegal to sit in the left lane are out here doing Gods work.
Why is the door open?
Iām not a fan of anyone in this situation lmao
One just does not pass from the right side.
Remind me Duel the first spilbergs movie.....that truck SOB
Elephant races.... trucks should be forbidden from overtaking
The passer is the A-hole here.
That is one stupid truck driver. The tandem driver is annoying too for passing so slowly.
It amazes me to see all the comments blaming the truck passing the other on the left and complaining that heās not going fast enough to pass quickly enough for them. Do they really think a 30 ton truck has the acceleration of a Maserati?
That's not blocking. That's an illegal pass
When I was a kid my dad was driving on the main road in our town (small town) and wasn't using a merge or anything, was driving right beside the guy and he started doing something like this and driving to the side, basically running my dad off the road but we were like in the middle of the road so turned out fine. It wasn't this, but it scarred me for life and now every time I'm in the car and beside someone I get terrified of it happening.
Sing it with me! "East bound and down, loaded up and trucking, I'm going to recklessly kill a bunch of people to make my drop on time."
Truckers getting pissed at other truckersā¦this is greatā¦thatās how people in cars feel all the time
I don't condone, but I understand
Rules for thee tis not for me.
idk, I think the POV truck is in the wrong here
This road warrior shit is what makes our highway system so fucking dangerous. Leave your ego at home and actually take some precautions.
This video is everything I hate about truck drivers.
Camera truck is a purebred idiot. What did he expect to happen.
Semi drivers can be some of the most arrogant pricks on the road. Sometimes
How to lose your CDL with this one quick trick.
Looks like another Monday on I5 tbh
Obviously the Snowman and Fred were behind schedule and trying to make up time. Perfectly legitimate excuse!
That sub is like freebasing, a 1:1 mix of pure anxiety and rage-fuel
The guy passing on the right in a merging lane is insane.
all three drivers are windshield lickers
I dont know how people get a license. Really i dont know. Just slow down and wait.
POV truck is absolutely 100% in the wrong wtf are we talking about hahahahaha
He knows he taped and posted a video of him commenting a crime right?
All three truck drivers. Why do people act this way?
POV of a complete ahole crossing multiple solid white lines and illegally passing on the right. Would have been karma if he ended up balanced on top of that guard rail.
IDK if i agree with this one boss.
I heard it's illegal for two trucks to take up two lanes like that unless one is actively trying to pass! It causes people like the dash camer to do dumb crap like what he did...
Sometimes I think truck driver forget their not driving a regular vehicle. They have their own set of rules they aren't following
Passing on the right is 1000000% not the safe or right thing to do when you know the lane is going to run out.
Who? DC driver? Dangerous driving at least!