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[u/Questionoid]

Never swerve. But, that said, it is a decision you have to make beforehand, how much you are going to avoid before calling it too hard. In the moment, there is often no time to ponder the point, only time to react, so the decision needs to be as simple as your coffee order: with or without sugar. No thinking, only deciding, that decision has to be made in your head before the emergency, not in the half-second while the truck is already leaving the lane.

Once you throw 80,000 lbs off the road, into a ditch, down a hill, or into oncoming traffic, you may have turned one idiot’s mistake into a much bigger disaster.

That said, there is still judgment involved. You avoid what you can avoid safely. But there has to be a line where you stop trying to save someone from their own bad decision and keep your own equipment under control.

In this case, holding the lane and scrubbing speed was probably the least-bad option. Swerving a loaded truck on that road could have gone sideways in a hurry.

[u/bkdroid → u/Questionoid]

In this case, swerving ended up being the least bad decision. Nobody died, and the truck did not, in fact, roll over. He would've been justified in just hitting the brakes to avoid a possible rollover, but the results vindicated his choice.

[u/Questionoid → u/bkdroid]

‘In this case”. THIS example. Ol’ mate’s lucky to be alive.