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Originally Posted by SiberianDVM
2 douchbags. Ladder truck is partially at fault for NOT PASSING the semi or moving over. He's not a traffic cop; it's not his job to keep people from speeding.
Camaro should have dropped back and passed semi on right shoulder if he couldn't wait; it appears wide enough that he wouldn't have dropped a wheel.
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Yep, Camaro is gunning for king DB. Work truck guy was then a DB for intentionally farking with DB Rex which caused DB Rex to really pull out all of the stops.
I once saw what looked like a soccer mom and an old dude going for a DB award. They were 1 and 2 at a 4 lane divided rd traffic light. Light turns, and both toodle along at roughly the same speed. The problem is that a couple/few hundred feet from the light, the two southbound lanes turn into one (right lane has to merge to the left). Soccer mom can't/doesn't get in front of the guy, so they end up sharing the lane. The crazy thing is that there's no shoulder to speak of and no middle lane. So for a while, she's got her right hand tires in the grass and he's got his left hand tires in the oncoming lane. I was flabbergasted. She's got kids, and he's old enough to know better (and she should be).
I was once turning right in the left lane where there are 2 right turn lanes. Soccermom in her Expedition, turns from the rightmost turn lane, but as she pulls through the corner, turns into the left turn lane (the one that I'm in) as I'm along side. I was lucky that there was a wide, paved median for me to use. I dropped back and then in behind her. I was just hanging, but then saw a gap, so thought I'd go around. As I came past her, she gunned it, so I dropped back again. Then she pulled the same move as the work truck in the video above. She shadowed a car in the other lane. I stayed behind here and didn't tailgate. A mile or two down the road at the next light, she pulled into the left turn lane while I was going straight. She rolled her passenger's side window down and screamed out the window at me. I couldn't hear what she was saying. I did find it amusing that she'd run me off the road (I suspect on accident) and probably had no clue.
To go along with that story. In Florida, if you turn onto a road with 2 or more lanes going the direction that you are going, then you must turn into the nearest lane to where you came from. I was shocked when I learned that in Texas, if you turn onto a road with multiple lanes, you can turn into any one of those lanes that you want. I suspect the chick in my second story above, was using that rule without realizing that there were 2 turn lanes (probably hadn't looked at the sign).
Years later in a different car but within 1/2 mile of that incident, I had a young girl do the same, me in outside turn lane, girl in inside turn lane, she clipped my front fender. I took video of the intersection showing 2 turn lanes and sent it to my insurance. And double turn lanes like that are NOT rare around here. It's actually very common, so I'm always surprised when someone screws it up.