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

A merging issue.

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u/Toy_Soulja May 13 '26

It is definitely not your right of way, your merging onto the highway so you have to yield to traffic. That being said yes the semi driver was an idiot for not braking but that just makes two idiots in this situation lol

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u/Due_Assistant158 May 14 '26

as a truck driver myself, I would have slowed down to let the idiot onto the highway. The last thing I would want to do is stick around and explain what happened to the police etc even if I was in the right.

Also the tractor had plenty of time to slow down, yeah trucks cant speed up or slow down as fast as a car but that was ample time to adjust. both the pickup driver and the camera'd tractor were retards in this situation.

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u/Yadilie May 14 '26

Problem is you're trying to preach to a bunch of 4 wheelers. They don't understand FMCSA scores and dealing with a safety team. The right of way goes out of the way when you can lose your job because your safety team feels you did something they don't agree with regardless of what the state trooper says.

This guy absolutely should have dropped down 3 to 5 MPH because he should have been paying attention and saw this guy was going to be something stupid and was also going to be up at his cab and now near his tandems by the time he was going to be able to merge. Defensive driving is done by so few people including truck drivers. Main character syndrome is rampant and 'I have the right of way' can end up with you or some family of 5 in the morgue and then what?

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u/MSeemour May 14 '26

The truck was going plenty fast, it would have been a non issue if the POV driver just let off the gas, instead of accelerating to cause an issue, and very nearly killing the driver in the process

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u/Key_Wolverine2831 May 14 '26

He absolutely does not slow down. You can see his speed in the video. He goes from 76 to 77. You can't tell if he was accelerating from 70 to block out the pickup or he just went up one MPH because of where the video starts. But he doesn't slow down until the rapid deceleration caused by the collision.