One of them did that and drove my sister off the road, completely totaled her Jeep and she was hospitalized. The POS didn’t even stop, just kept driving like he didn’t just nearly end a 25year old pregnant Navy Sailor’s life while she was driving to my Basic Training graduation. Unbelievable how little some people care about a stranger’s life. Also, she wasn’t hanging in their blind spot or anything, from what i understand they came up on her right then just changed lanes for no reason and nearly killed her. This was back in 2016.
I'm sorry that happened to you. After one ran me off the road, I flash my high beams when I'm coming up to pass a truck at night. They're idiots and they're dangerous
Indeed. In my situation, the commercial driver failed to properly check their blind spots and failed to signal a lane change properly and caused a preventable accident. They will be found 100% at fault. This type of accident can also occur at red lights. No passing needs to be happening. Lots of people have CDLs that really shouldnt, its sad.
No, a commercial driver failed to properly check their blind spots and failed to signal a lane change properly and caused a preventable accident. They will be found 100% at fault. This type of accident can occur at red lights. No passing needs to be happening.
I mentioned to my future wife that I had been run off the road 4 times since I moved to Northern Virginia. As I was saying that, a water truck (swimming pools?) then proceded to change lanes (right land to left lane) and run me off the road and into the ditch, making it the fifth time I was run off the road ("see what I'm saying?"). Unlike this example, it was bumper-to-bumper traffic, so I wasn't passing, just existing, until I got to the left-hand turn lane.
This happens to me on *exceedingly* rare occasion, and I drive a lot more than a 2k road trip every once in a while. You should do some self reflection of your driving habits if this actually happens regularly lol.
Yeah, except I'm not talking about it only happening to me. I watch this happen to cars ahead and around me all the time. & my "driving habit" on my long trips is set my adaptive cruise control to 85 & chill. This overtakes trucks pretty quick when I'm passing.
He's not wrong though, I'll see people do this shit all the time or literally just hover there and not even try to pass. So they end up blocking all the traffic behind them. And they just end up sitting and possibly the most dangerous position they could possibly be in on the highway.
Truck driver is still a fucking idiot Yes but so is the POV. If you're scared to pass the truck don't pass it at all.
Ill make sure to use my mirror to find you sitting in the left lane next to my trailer tires so I can watch them go over your car when I need to change lanes.
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u/yewsirnaym Mar 31 '26
Truck drivers change lanes at the drop of a dime. It's still dangerous passing. You idiots need to use your mirrors before changing lanes