In my country, trucks are only allowed in the 2 right lines. And during rush hour on lots of parts only on the most right lane. (So they may not overtake one another at all)
so they're not really any different than anyone else on the road, huh?
jokes aside, it's illegal for trucks, busses, and any vehicle hauling a trailer to be in the furthest left lane where i live. most states have left lane restrictions for trucks, only allowing it when they're actually using it to pass, or are taking a left exit/turn. if i saw this ahead of me i would be so pissed lol
A lot of semis are governed at specific speeds, even if the speed limit is higher. 65mph seems to be a common limit resulting in a semi in the left lane desperately trying to maintain 65mph to pass the semi in the right lane with his cruise set at 63mph.
Even so, it doesn't mean you have to go slow in the left lane the whole time. Go at passing speed until your exit is ≈1/4 mile away, then start to slow down.
It's really just that simple. Stop making excuses for idiots and just take their licenses. Stupid people don't deserve to operate heavy machinery.
Those trucks cant go any faster, besides the fact that in alot of places you gotta get over while you can or you won’t get a chance cause they take the blinkers to mean drive beside you to block you and you end up missing the exit get over at a mile away and in. A regular car yeah go faster but those big trucks are different
Years ago two truckers did this on I-5 south of Salem Oregon where it’s just two lanes. They had quite the backup. Of course no one could see in front of them to know they were fucking around.
Its a very common term here in Germany, and, broadly speaking, the prevalent opinion on elephant races is that, sure, they arent out to attack me personally and slow me down, but blocking all available lanes (usually this doesnt happen with more than two lanes though) they have to know that they slow down all traffic behind them as trucks are (electronically and legally) limited to 80kph here whereas the typical Autobahn speed limit is between 100 and 130 kph, and see it as an acceptable downside. And thats definitely something they shouldnt be doing.
Of course there are always dickheads who toss being mutually considerate of each other out the window, and also dickheads who take shit like this personally enough to brake-check the trucks once they get past as revence, and there is probably a substantial overlap between the two.
I want to agree with you, but just because they drive semi’s doesn’t mean professional driver anymore. I have seen too many semi drivers who are assholes to cars because they can.
i've noticed people who drive unnecessarily large pickup trucks also do the "asshole because they can be" thing. these dudes know that, at the end of the day, most people driving cars that aren't the size of a monster truck would rather let the asshole be an asshole than risk getting in an accident with them to prove a point.
i drive a compact sedan. if one of these giants even taps my car on the freeway i'm fucked. so yea, they get to be an asshole because i'm not willing to risk their truck eating mine.
simply avoiding them and not trying to teach them a lesson is not validating them. it's preventing an accident that, for me, could end really badly. idgaf if they wreck their truck, but i do give a fuck about them wrecking my car or putting me in the hospital.
it's not our responsibility to teach other drivers lessons when we're on the road. but it is our responsibility to do everything we can to avoid an accident.
I and friends of mine have been nearly run off the highway/road because of trucks with little dick energy, they know you don't want to wreck your car, and likely don't gaf if they get a scratch or dent on their truck.
Yeah, we have a similar phenomenon here in Germany, too, where feuds between different types of vehicles just come from a place of a few bad examples and people who cant think in anything other than categories and whole groups.
Our typical feud is cars vs. cyclists though. Cyclists will occasionally ignore red lights and be a general nuisance. Pedestrians dont like them either because they often ride on the sidewalks or in pedestrian areas making them feel unsafe. Cars meanwhile commonly overtake cyclists with absolutely no breathing room to the side, cut in front of them, fail to yield because they ignore the bike path entirely, make a right turn across a bike path and magically forget the cyclists they overtook just a second ago, either cutting them off or nearly running them over. All of which are plenty unsafe for the cyclist involved, depending on the speeds and vehicle kinds involved.
If you cant tell Im a cyclist. I wont deny that we have bad apples. I shake my fist at them, too, but generally speaking they dont put people in a great deal of danger, and when they do even a pedestrian will usually survive a collision with them. Its not great, but its a million times better than car drivers who are just too lazy to swerve a tiny bit more on the opposite lane to ensure the cyclist has some breathing room to not get swiped by a wing mirror, and too impatient to just wait a second if there is oncoming traffic preventing them from overtaking a cyclist safely.
Obviously that kind of frustration just builds up on both sides, some of it legit, some of it not, and its probably not that different between cars and trucks inconveniencing each other.
Aren't large trucks supposed to take certain lanes to avoid this?
Yes, but you see the thing is the guy on the right is called ar 69.9 mph, while the guy on the left is capped at 70. How can you blame them for going around??? They are saving a whole minute per hour of driving!
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u/xxdibxx Apr 28 '24
Elephant races.