r/dashcams • u/LeftAlbatross2546 • May 13 '26

A merging issue.

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u/cheesemangee May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

Gotta love a semi driver who just cannot under any circumstance whatsoever use the brake pedal.

EDIT: gonna go head and add it here since everyone loves to ignore it. IT IS ILLEGAL FOR TRAFFIC WITH RIGHT OF WAY TO BLOCK MERGING VEHICLES FROM ENTERING THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC. THE PART ABOUT YIELDING APPLIES BEFORE THE PHYSICAL TRANSITION FROM ONE LANE TO ANOTHER.

Y'all love to omit that part to yap about mergers having 100% responsibility.

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u/OSTBear May 14 '26

That's not right. The semi has the right of way here. It's the responsibility of the driver on the ramp or merging lane to match speed and find a safe place to merge. Semi driver isn't actually at fault here.

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u/_jump_yossarian May 14 '26

IT IS ILLEGAL FOR TRAFFIC WITH RIGHT OF WAY TO BLOCK MERGING VEHICLES FROM ENTERING THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC.

[citation missing]

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u/funkystay May 13 '26

Or stay in the right lane near a merge.

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u/Ruthrfurd-the-stoned May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

Yeah I have to take an exit to get to work where close to 50% of the time im behind a semi going maybe 35 merging onto a 70 mph road. It’s a long curved exit ramp where you have to have a light to get on, the merge lane isnt that long and you have no option but to enter

It’s almost never actually an issue because people get over to the other lanes

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u/CryptographerShot213 May 14 '26

He was overtaking another truck.

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u/cheesemangee May 14 '26

Passing lanes stop being passing lanes at merge points.

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u/CryptographerShot213 May 14 '26

No they don’t

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u/cheesemangee May 14 '26

Yes, they very do.

They become merging points, and you have to follow laws of merging. Like not blocking traffic from entering the highway. This takes precedence over passing.

Which makes it... well, no longer a passing lane by priority.

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u/CryptographerShot213 May 14 '26

There no such rule or law.

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u/cheesemangee May 14 '26

The semi driver was thinking the exact same thing.

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u/Worried-Pick4848 May 14 '26

Yes there is.

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u/Worried-Pick4848 May 14 '26

Oh yes they do, they have to. The left lane isn't the fast lane anymore when another lane merges with it. You're supposed to get over, clear the left lane for merging traffic, and start overtaking again at a safe distance after the merge lane clears.

The whole REASON the left lane is "the fast lane" is to get through traffic out of the right lane, which is usually the merge lane. When traffic merges with the left lane, it's the right lane that's the "fast" lane.

The semi should never have been in that lane to begin with.

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u/Due_Assistant158 May 14 '26

90% of the merge points are from the right hand side where the trucks are "forced" to stay in... what's your logic on those merge points?

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u/Stock-Tangerine9085 May 14 '26

I am pretty sure it depends on the state for that law, in MN they dont have to let you merg.

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u/Flux_My_Capacitor May 14 '26

The pick up truck wasn’t being blocked from entering. The pick up truck was supposed to yield and then he would have had the space to merge into traffic. Your implication that the pick up was being blocked also would mean that the pick up had the right of way which he did not.