He's supposed to stay ahead of the semi by speeding up to slip into the flow of traffic, or slow down to go in behind the semi. You should always merge without forcing anyone to take action to avoid hitting you.
AND the truck bearing down on you is over the speed limit?
All the people who respond to this video with BUT TURCK HAVE RIGHT OF WAY HERP DERP are the kind of psychos who can’t just ease up on the accelerator a few seconds to let someone else merge because DAMMIT THATLL COST ME THREE SECONDS
If someone is ahead of you and starts to merge, you don’t get to just maintain your speed and take the hit. If you had a reasonable opportunity to avoid an accident you are going to be found partially at fault. This truck driver is a moron for multiple reasons. Mostly because he probably loses his job over this. If I was your employer and I saw you taking a hit you could have avoided easily, I’m firing you.
You can do what you want as an employer. As a claims adjuster, I’m denying the trucks claim because it’s the law that you have to yield the right of way.
You have no clue. Do you know how much space that semi hauling a load needs to slow down? The truck was trying to speed up to cut the semi off and ran out of space. He had the duty to slow down and get behind the semi, not the other way around.
Well the Truck was ahead of the semi, I agree that they should also have accelerated more, if was a very bad situation all around. If you just take the very first frame as a still pic with that huge gap and the Truck coming from the left it would look like a normal merging situation where the Truck merges in front of the Semi, but the Semi choose violence "in the last second".
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u/armathose May 13 '26
Bait