slickest1
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wny_pat wrote:moisheh wrote:For all thosw who claim they are or were truck drivers: In any legitimate truck driving school you are taught the difference between an at fault accident and a preventable accident. Refusing to allow a merging vehicle onto the freeway and having an accident WILL go against your driving record with your employer as that accident was preventable.
Moisheh I never went to a truck driving school, but ended up being a driver trainer for the company I retired from. But they should have gotten that the at fault and preventable accident when they took their CDL testing. And we trained guys even if they had lots of experience with other companies. Did not want them bring in their old habits. And as to the truck driving schools that are putting out truck drivers today, I think that they are very lacking in what they do!!! I am not impressed!
Couldn't agree more!!
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Another thing that does not make sense to me is blasting your air horn at some goof trying to get on the highway. Add startled to stupid and who knows what will happen.
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wagonmaster2
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W4MBG wrote:i have never seen a trucker try to bully his way onto a highway. i have seen lots of people who have no business driving on a highway try to merge at the end of a ramp after putting along next to an opening until the last second. idiot, meet mister gravel.
I've never seen a trucker coming down an on ramp that didn't bully his way onto the highway. Any time I see one on the on ramp ahead of me I get ready to either speed up or slow down if there's no room to move over to the left cause I know he's coming onto the highway when he reaches the end of his lane regardless who's already there. I've had them do that to me during side by side traffic inching along in highway construction. When he turned on his turn signal he started moving over into my lane even though we were side by side, naturally I had to hit the brakes and wait till he got over ahead of me.
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Francesca Knowles
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How about them...whoever's playing this week/month/year?
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DogPatch wrote:What is the law concerning vehicles entering Interstate Highways? When the traffic is heavy on a two lane road, what is the responsibility of the vehicle on the highway towards the vehicle entering?
You are doing 60 + MPH and the vehicle entering just putts along, begins to run out of on ramp, and then the driver wants to pull into the lane you are in. Often times, you can not pull over into the left lane due to traffic. Are you expected to hit the brakes, to allow him into the lane in front of you?
In other words, who has to yield to whom?
The vehicle entering the highway is supposed to safely merge into the traffic on the highway so technically you would have the right of way. This is the way I look at it. For the most part mergers can't really see you and you can easily see them which makes you the one in control of the situation so it comes down to a simple choice. Do you want to hold your lane and speed, potentially damaging your RV and ruining your vacation or slow down a little or move over (if you can) and continue on your way to a nice vacation. Me, I would rather lose a few seconds and have a nice vacation.
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wagonmaster2 wrote:I've never seen a trucker coming down an on ramp that didn't bully his way onto the highway. Any time I see one on the on ramp ahead of me I get ready to either speed up or slow down if there's no room to move over to the left cause I know he's coming onto the highway when he reaches the end of his lane regardless who's already there... And just what other choice does he have? At 80K lbs, once he starts down the ramp, he is committed to enter the freeway at the end of the ramp, regardless of what is in the lane. Its not like he can change his speed quickly. In stop and go he may have a choice, but if traffic is moving, physics rules the day.
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I've had the opportunity to use my air horns several times to wake up the driver trying to merge into the side of the motor home. If I can I'll move over one lane or slow down/speed up a few miles per hour. But if merging driver is making no effort to safely merge, so be it...
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Summarizing 8 Pages...
Some people are givers and some are takers.
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Some people are considerate and some are not.
The laws are written for those who can't figure out how to deal with other people. The difference in time to reach one's destination might be decreased by 10 seconds if you bull your way through based on right of way while risking damage to yourself or someone else and their family.
If I can't move one lane to the left when I see a vehicle on the on-ramp I slow down for them. It's not only courteous it's safer for all concerned.
I simply cannot understand why this should be an issue for anyone. The badge that the "takers" (taking a mindless claim of right-of-way) want to pin on their chests can often look exactly like crumpled body-work. 
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Maddawgs wrote:DogPatch wrote:What is the law concerning vehicles entering Interstate Highways? When the traffic is heavy on a two lane road, what is the responsibility of the vehicle on the highway towards the vehicle entering?
You are doing 60 + MPH and the vehicle entering just putts along, begins to run out of on ramp, and then the driver wants to pull into the lane you are in. Often times, you can not pull over into the left lane due to traffic. Are you expected to hit the brakes, to allow him into the lane in front of you?
In other words, who has to yield to whom?
The vehicle entering the highway is supposed to safely merge into the traffic on the highway so technically you would have the right of way. This is the way I look at it. For the most part mergers can't really see you and you can easily see them which makes you the one in control of the situation so it comes down to a simple choice. Do you want to hold your lane and speed, potentially damaging your RV and ruining your vacation or slow down a little or move over (if you can) and continue on your way to a nice vacation. Me, I would rather lose a few seconds and have a nice vacation.
Todd
Its not that the entering vehicle cant really see...its that they DONT...because they DONT EVEN LOOK. I see down into their vehicles...they dont look in their rear view mirrors.....dont look in their driver side rear view mirror...and dont bother to turn and look over their left shoulder. They putts along oblivious to the real world. Seldon do I not have sufficient room for a vehicle to get in front of me...IF THEY ONLY WOULD....but they dont even make an attempt to accelerate. and there isnt a car in the world that cant out accelerate my motorhome.
Lay blame where blame is to be laid and thats right at the feet of the dipsticks that drive blindly
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Francesca Knowles
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DogPatch wrote:What is the law concerning vehicles entering Interstate Highways?
The Law of The Jungle, I guess...
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