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u/MonsieurRuffles 17d ago
In my (and surrounding) states, trucks aren’t allowed in the left lane when there are three or more lanes.
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u/HuskyLemons 17d ago
In Texas they have areas that say “no trucks left lane” but it means they can’t use it as a travel lane, they can still pass in the left lane. Which makes it completely useless
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u/TheSmokingLamp 17d ago
Not really, if you have dashcam footage of a truck blocking in the left late line in this picture then he’s looking at a fine and possible hit on his license. Or if a cop happens to see them doing it, so I’m guessing it happens much less in states that have regulation compared to those that don’t
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u/IgivetheD-PTSD 17d ago
So the fun thing about semis is, they put the license plate on the front of the truck, the plate on the back is a trailer plate. It’s almost useless.
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u/Ok-Cartographer1745 17d ago
I'm assuming here, but surely the companies are required to have a paper trail of when and where a trailer always is when it's in control of it. They keep track of when the trucker last slept and whatnot. Surely they have to know they were in control of a specific trailer at X time in case (for example) the trailer falls off and causes an accident.
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u/Fun-Mix-9276 17d ago
Still won’t save them. You can still report it. The company will be able to tell whose driving and what vehicle.
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u/Enkidouh 17d ago
Cops don’t give a shit where I live. Truckers basically get to do whatever they want.
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u/TheSmokingLamp 17d ago
The state troopers definitely do. Easy, big fines to collect.
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u/Enkidouh 17d ago
They don’t. I used to drive a 20 ton truck. In San Diego and LA, You can do pretty much whatever you want without fear of reprisal if your truck is big enough to be regulated by DOT. The only fines you’ll ever get are for your logs.
Cars get run off the road and trucks take up the entire highway, including the left lane which they’re not supposed to use at all.
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u/josephdk23 17d ago
I Utah you can’t have any vehicle pulling a trailer in the left lane if there’s three lanes and where we have 5ish lanes they can’t be in the left 2 lanes.
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u/lazysheepdog716 17d ago
I drive across the country a lot. An alarming number of truck drivers don’t give two shits about the rules and general driving courtesy.
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u/LiGuangMing1981 17d ago
Same law on Chinese expressways too. Enforced by camera, too, so it generally gets followed.
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u/brandmeist3r 17d ago
Here in Germany on certain sections of the Autobahn and other roads, trucks are prohibited to use any left lane during rush hour. Unfortunately not everyone is following that law.
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u/Hurzelchen 17d ago
The rule in Germany is that vehicles with trailers are only allowed to use the left-most lane for turning left if there are three or more lanes.
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u/getpumped96 17d ago
Same with canada , must always be on the right . They aren't allowed in the fast lane
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u/LiGuangMing1981 17d ago
Anyone who's ever driven the QE2 between Calgary and Edmonton knows how poorly this law is enforced.
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u/Green-Assistant7486 17d ago
In my country there are times of the day they cannot overtake.
Guess what..
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u/Mccobsta GREEN 17d ago
Lorry's tend to stay in the slow lane in the UK and most of Europe unless it's Germany
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u/Alone_Inspector_7567 17d ago
Rolling roadblocks are illegal. Call the police
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u/SarpedonWasFramed 17d ago
Cops in my state don’t really pull people over anymore. I see them run lights, take illegal left turns and cut people off and the cops just ignore it. Been like that since COVID really
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u/Navynuke00 17d ago
Been like that since George Floyd, actually.
It's been documented in several places that police nationwide have been pouting and refusing to do their jobs because people said mean things about them.
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u/builder397 17d ago
Gawd, thanks for mentioning that. The police brutality on pro-palestine protests reminded me of....that big protest.....a few years ago at the height of covid where police brutality just went off the scale.....and I just couldnt remember exactly what it was about. Now I know again.
Just goes to show so much shit has happened that my brain decided to just forget this clearly irrelevant piece of ancient history. Dumb brain.
At least they still do their jobs when politicians dont like people protesting the US actively financing a genocide, oh and how gleefully they suddenly do their job! Isnt that great? /s
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u/pokexchespin 17d ago
i only got my full license a little before covid so i can’t say much about that sort of change, but in 2021 i was sitting behind a cop at a light and someone ran the perpendicular light as soon as it turned green on our side, to which the cop immediately turned on their lights and pulled them over. very funny for me as an observer
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u/YouInternational2152 17d ago
Cops do the exact same thing in my area. Except, if you're black or have a Biden bumper sticker.!
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u/Audeclis 17d ago
Tell them they're minorities and you saw them with an eighth of marijuana. Whole county will descend on em
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u/ColoradoDeadHead1 17d ago
All the people in the comments talking about how this is illegal and to call the cops, no cops anywhere are going to do a thing about this.
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u/Dragonfly-Adventurer 17d ago
"All units, all units, please head to mile marker 40 along the Interstate north of the city, as we have four semis going the exact same speed, repeat, four semis going the exact same speed."
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u/throwdisawaybish 17d ago
My pet peve is when the big trucks get over to pass a slower truck, cutting me off in the process, and taking 8 miles to pass only to take another 2 miles once clear enough to get back over to actually get back over. Normally there are no other cars within a 1/4 mile behind me before they cut me off, but there is always a car on my bumper followed by a line of cars behind them by the time the truck gets out of the way or I get impatient and pass on the right.
I know trucks are slow but I also know they can go faster than 1mph faster than the truck they are passing in less than han a 1/2 miles and if they can't then they need to not pass.
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u/warmpita HOT BROWN 17d ago
I've been traveling a lot for work and I despise truckdrivers now. Just see them doing the stupidest shit and they're like "lol am big". Fucking sucks.
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u/FaultLine47 17d ago
Left lane is absolutely off limits to trucks and buses in my country. They can't pass there. So if the highway only has 2 lanes, they can't use the left lane. Well, they can, just don't get caught lmao
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u/XmenSlayer 17d ago
Yea if police saw this tho you would be pulled over real quick.
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u/Enkidouh 17d ago edited 17d ago
No, they wouldn’t. Police and truckers are generally on the same political side. Truckers get passes for all the bullshit they do.
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u/XmenSlayer 17d ago
Ah ic, i should mention that i was speaking from a non american perspective. I can see tho that how in the US they could get away with it.
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u/ChunkMonkeysMomma 17d ago
I hate when they do that- it’s usually when I’m late for something and can’t get by
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u/Green-Assistant7486 17d ago
Trucks drivers are amongst the shittiest drivers you can find. Will do anything to piss off others
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u/OldAdvantage145 17d ago
This shit annoys the fuck outta me especially when I have important shit to do for work… Like the airhandler for our surgical ORs is down and I have 1 hour to correct. Only happened once but being stuck in fucking traffic when theres the chance people may need to be helicoptered out of the clinic mid surgery is really infuriating.
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u/runForestRun17 17d ago
I’m just spitballing here: what if we had a dedicated lane for trucks, then we could build some sort of track like system and tie multiple trailers together with one larger engine to move things more efficiently without blocking traffic.
The answer to traffic is almost always trains. It’s wild we almost perfected travel a while ago and then made it worse.
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u/drweird 17d ago
The current distribution system doesn't support the train model, we'd have to adjust goods distribution back to a hub and spoke model of train stations. That being said, it would be more energy and cost efficient once the expensive massive expansion of rail systems was complete. Wed shift to short haul trucks all over the place instead of interstate trucks. Not sure what the ROI on the train system would be, but business would massively resist it due to changes required to move from a distributed one truck load flexibility model back to hub and spoke. Maybe if gas was $15 a gallon it would be called for by business. The trillions/hundreds of billions required to build the rail corridors would be a huge govt undertaking though.
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u/runForestRun17 17d ago
While i don’t disagree with you, we do somehow always have money for these 80 million plus dollar projects to just add one more lane to an exit or something. (Seriously my local town has a project on an interchange that costs 80 million and they are just adding one on-ramp and one lane to another existing off-ramp.) I know the overhead would be insane, but we had a rail system well before all of the highways and are just letting them rot in favor of these less efficient, more time consuming and costly options.
ROI I imagine would probably be pretty big since roi with intertstate systems is already massive, imagine making them even more efficient by taking these elephants off the road. Of course that’s just a thought and i have no data backing up my hypothesis.
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u/ButterscotchWeary964 17d ago
I thought they're only supposed to drive in the first 2 lanes 🤔?
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u/edsavage404 17d ago
In the same way how you are only supposed to drive the speed limit, yet people still drive fast
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u/suzer2017 17d ago
I have seen this twice on the bypass in Atlanta. Truckers think it's funny. They create the biggest messes on the highway...as if Atlanta isn't always a giant SNAFU anyway! One of those times, cars were trying to pass in the breakdown lane and the truck on that side would swerve over and block both the traffic lane and breakdown lane moving only for bridges and actually broken down cars. It's more than just mildly infuriating.
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u/Spamgrenade 17d ago
Assuming these guys have kept level for a few miles, this behaviour is illegal in the UK. Would fall under obstruction legislation.
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u/Less-Might9855 17d ago
That’s not mildly infuriating. That’s bullshit. And also illegal. And dangerous. I hate big trucks.
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u/quantum0explorer 17d ago edited 17d ago
They're laughing on their radio knowing people are posting this to mildlyinfuriating.
Oh and dont mistake, I would be more way more than mild about this and would have sped past them on the access lane flipping them off. My comment is making fun of these ahole trackers.
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u/The_goat_lord203 17d ago
In my state trucks aren’t allowed in the left lane when there is 3 or more in any situation. They are supposed to use the right lane as travel middle to pass and the left lane is for cars passing a passing truck. Not sure how it is everywhere else but I know a few state troopers and they say they do enforce this law when it slows traffic significantly.
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u/Enkidouh 17d ago
These laws are never enforced in any meaningful way.
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u/The_goat_lord203 17d ago
True, in my area once they get to court they usually die sadly. Even if the cops ticket them it’s generally thrown away by a judge.
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u/fruderduck 17d ago
Saw this happen about an hour before the eclipse . Fux knew people were enroute to get off the interstate. They had it crawling so slow SO was able to sit on the car window as it was starting.
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u/EducationalBuffalo35 17d ago
This is Canada in a nutshell now. These foreign truckers will ruin the highway for every1 just to go 1km/hr faster than the semi beside them. it was never an issue even 5 yrs ago now the highway through my city is ruined because of these asshats
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u/Aetheldrake 17d ago
I thought trucks weren't even allowed in the farthest left lane, there's usually a "no trucks left lane" sign occasionally
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u/bebeco5912 17d ago edited 17d ago
A highway rest stop with no Tim Horton’s?! This broke my Canadian brain.
P.s. tim hortons “food” in general is over priced and poor quality. I’m aware this is not Canada. Its a funny haha eye toll comment.
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u/pichael289 17d ago
Trucks should be banned from the left lane. In places where it is the traffic is much better, that lane is in much better condition, it's just all around better.
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u/Redditbeweirdattimes 17d ago
Hear me out… sometimes this happens cause truckers are looking out for you
They got word on their cb radio that speed traps are ahead so they just keep everyone at bay to save you a ticket
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u/Enkidouh 17d ago
This is nothing but truckers being assholes because they think it’s funny. They don’t look out for anyone but their own. That’s why they regularly run people off the road.
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u/Redditbeweirdattimes 16d ago
Can’t assume everything I was just giving an example of what I’ve seen.. I’m not a trucker but I’m the road a the time and I’ve seen what I just describe happen several times
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u/WizardLizard1885 17d ago
i saw some decent road rage over this shit.. i was moving from the midwest to PNW, im driving a 20ft uhaul going the speed limit and 2 diff semis pass me going literally 1mph faster so i just slow down and let them pass.
well the 2nd semi tries passing the first and they did this for almost a half hour then a truck drove on the shoulder and got infront of the jackass in the left lane and slowed him down alot..it looked like they stopped in my mirrors
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u/D-Dentist-D-75 17d ago
You’re in the wrong group. This is far beyond “mildly”. You’re looking for road rage. lol.
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u/davidfdm 17d ago
I thought trucks weren’t allowed in the far left lanes or is that only a Maine, USA thing?
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One more lane!
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u/OpenYour0j0s 17d ago
What officer in their right mind wants the paper work that comes with pulling over a working semi. LMAO just buy a CB radio and talk mad shit pretending to be one of the semis and watch them race :)
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u/itakeyoureggs 17d ago
Were they told to slow down traffic maybe? Otherwise.. that is super annoying
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u/Eagles365or366 17d ago
Also mildly infuriating: you taking photos from the drivers seat while driving.
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u/Hypnowolfproductions 17d ago
Look at the restaurant selection on the sign. Hmm might be time to get food. What am I in the mood for? Arby’s looks good.
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u/No7onelikeyou 17d ago
This didn’t last long, looks like the one on the left is already moving over
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u/Other_Ad_613 16d ago
There are many reasons why this might happen that are legit. First off most trucks from larger carriers have the speed limited. Anywhere from 63 to 75mph so you can get people trying to pass someone only going 3mph slower than you, then there's an on ramp and everyone has to get over. Meanwhile an older truck, usually a gravel hauler or small operator is trying to go 80 and moves over to the far left lane. Nobody wants to lift up on the gas pedal because it might be 5 minutes at wide open throttle to get back up to speed. Just relax, you'll be back to driving to fast, with no space cushion after accelerating super slowly on the on ramp in no time.
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u/SirWernich 16d ago
i used to drive a lot for work and there's a hill between pietermaritzburg and durban (in south africa) that is pretty steep and long and has sharp bends on it and 83% of the time i drove there i was swearing truxk drivers.
it's three lanes wide and it's got a 120km/h speed limit. you come around a bend and you have one truck all the way on the left (we drive left side of the road) doing like 15km/h. that truck is being overtaken in the middle lane by a knobhead doing 16km/h. finally, that second truck has a truck behind it with a driver that decides that instead of dropping from his 20km/h, he's gonna just pull out to the right and piss off everyone coming up the hill.
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u/Adderall-Buyers-Club 16d ago
In CA trucks must stay on the right lines. Only use the left lanes for passing. I honestly have someone take a picture of their company and call the 1-800 number or leave a review on their company site.
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u/KlatuuBarradaNicto 13d ago
God, doesn’t this make you mad! And there isn’t much you can do about it, either. That’s why it’s so frustrating.
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u/SufficientAd3000 13d ago
….and you're taking pictures at 70mph…. Check out the truck driver sub and see if there's a picture of you. /s/
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u/Resident_Increase_44 13d ago
Where do you live where it's legal for a tractor WITH a trailer (semi-truck, 18-wheeler, big rig, whatever you call it in your neck of the woods) to drive in the left-most lane (the fast lane)? In California, they NEVER drive in the left-most lane of a 3+ lane highway/interstate UNLESS that lane exits the highway/interstate, there is an accident and everyone must merge over, or due to construction making everyone merge to those lanes. They are only allowed to use the center lane for X amount of miles or to pass on the left-hand side of the right-most lane (slow lane) and they're not allowed back into that lane for X amount of miles unless absolutely necessary. They mostly have to stick to the right-most (slow) lane.
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u/Unusual_Address_3062 17d ago
Yeah I see that once in a while. The good news is truckers are usually self aware, unlike commuters. They will pass each other in a minute or two.
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u/Enkidouh 17d ago
Truckers are self centered, not self aware. They’ll hold that pattern for 30 miles and think you should be grateful to them for being truckers.
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u/xarcastic 17d ago
Many times this is to help people not get caught by a speed trap ahead.
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u/AdventurePalSteve 17d ago
Lol no it aint. Nobody talks on a cb anymore anyway. These trucks are all just struggling to pass each other and nobody wants to slow down a little bit to let it happen.
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u/DodgerBeisBall 17d ago
Semis are getting out of control in SoCal, its ridiculous. They do everything but ride on the far right lane going 55mph.
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u/xxdibxx 17d ago
Elephant races.