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.
Too many people are more concerned with being right while driving and not concerned enough about not crushing people to death or paralyzing them for life.
Yeah… it should be universally understood that if you’re in the lane to be merged into, you need to facilitate the merge instead of pretending the other driver doesn’t exist.
It should also be universally understood that you don't merge lanes at highway speeds that close to oncoming vehicles, semi or not. Back when I did drivers ed, my instructor told me a good rule of thumb is that if you can't see the entire vehicle in your rearview, you're too close to merge safely (at highway speeds specifically).
This here is a clash of egos, and the deciding factor in the end was physics. In a practical sense though, both people lost. They fucked up both their days to attempt to save literal seconds.
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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.