I have been a truck driver for 23 years and drive for Walmart. I have never even thought about brake checking in a big rig. People that do this need to have their CDL revoke permanently.
First things first come thank you so much for driving cross-country or how far you drive to deliver the foods and stuff like that to Walmart to make sure that everybody has food for their tables and I know you guys don't get that thank you and credit enough despite how much it means to the backbone of this country. And my great uncle drove an 18 Wheeler and I would always hear him talking to my mom about what it was like and how many idiots he encounters on the road and when it's in bad weather he just dreaded going and driving around But I never once heard him say he was gonna break check somebody when things got bad or when somebody was acting like a jerk.
If a driver that does that stuff in front of you, just slow down. They’ll take off. They think speeding or driving reckless is going to get them there quicker. Because at the end of the day they will eventually have a bad accident and they won’t be driving anymore anyway.
@Lawliet1987 "Any trucker that pulls the crap like what they did in #3 and #7 should be fired and have their CDL immediately revoked..." Exactly, the two trucks who blocked the cammer from switching lanes at 0:50 and the idiot F&M driver from all of clip #7.
Man, number 15 is a real Chad. Turned on his hazards and protected the lane so the other car could get onto the shoulder and sort out their problems. Kudos to him.
When I got my CDL, we were told that we were to be exemplars of professional correctness & goodwill ambassadors on the roads. Courteous, respectful, alert, & above all, safe. The non-commercial drivers on the roads ought not to ever have to worry about the safety of the truck drivers. When you see truck drivers playing stupid games against each other or against the general public, you know things are getting out of control.
Retired truck driver here; #1 Semi trucks need to be in the furthest lane from the turn(outside) in a left or right turn to insure sufficient room for the truck/trailer to negotiate a turn. (That truck was in the wrong lane making a left hand turn... safest way to do turns is to "SPLIT" lanes as most non commercial drivers in vehicles have NO idea of the room needed for trucks to negotiate turns... IF the insurance paid for the damage... that trucker was just lucky.
Thanks for speaking up, I was wondering about that. I once had a semi line up to my left on a double lane left turn once, luckily I was aware and accelerated through the turn by the time he even hit the gas, but I always wondered why semis would ever line up on the inside of a turn if they have to turn wide
When I saw that the pickup was deemed at fault I thought it was one turn lane only, but looking a second time I see the arrow. That was a bad choice by the trucker, sometimes you have to make it but it is still a bad choice.
@@Snakehad95 What rules did he break? He was passing, and then the govenor kicked in, and dropped him out. The other truck cut off cammer, brake checked. blocked both lanes and brake checked again.
A few years back I was driving on I85 in GA when 2 truckers were raging at each other. My wife took a video and called GA HP. 2 troopers pulled them both over. My wife sent a copy of the video to both companies. WALMART didn't care until the video showed up on their social media pages. They updated us saying the driver was given disciplinary actions and asked us not to share the video anymore LOL Our attorney made them pay for that! The other truck driver (i don't remember the company they drove for) returned my wife's call and said the driver was terminated and CDL license was revoked.
The reason for the long merging lane onto the interstate is that people are supposed to be up to speed when they merge in. Not to merge into a 75mph interstate at 35mph.
@danielrn133 "The reason for the long merging lane onto the interstate is that people are supposed to be up to speed when they merge..." They never do, they consistently fail to understand a 70 MPH highway speed vs 40 MPH merging speed means they're 30 MPH faster.
I think the idea with metered ramps is that they are used during heavy traffic hours when speeds are already reduced. They work pretty well in Phoenix for that. If you aren't in a semi you might check if your vehicle has a way to get a faster acceleration. My Ford Transit Connect has "sport mode". I pop it down into that in the mountains and when I'm city driving so I can move out a little quicker.
@@ReeseL4D "70mph is max speed not min speed. Can you read English?" Hey genius, the MAX speed of 70 is NOT the point. Slowpokes merging at a leisurely pace of 40 while highway speed is 70 MPH or faster means mergers behind the slowpokes needs to not only account for slowpokes but the rapidly gaining traffic.
I can't even figure out what's going on over the horn. It doesn't make sense. He noses up to her and then demands she get out of the way? How? I'm a fan of the long honk in certain situations...this doesn't seem to be it. If I'm the only car on the road and you cut me off...you're getting a long honk until you speed away. Brake check? Definitely a long honk.
Same guy as #7, #13, and #15. He has been featured on this channel in the past (I think under a different name) but the whiny voice and unhinged attitude are definitely him and it's always him in some sort of road rage incident.
@@gb1613 Pickle! The Great Zit himself! It certainly sounds like, acts like and treats women (I checked some of his clips on his page) the same way Pickle did. I knew Pickle's ego wouldn't let him stay away too long.
HEY, BUDDY. WHY DID YOU PULL OUT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME?….. “Sorry sir. I’m deaf and blind from falling out of a helicopter while I was in my wheelchair.”
@@adammiller9179 We do, but we've seen truckers do really stupid stuff. We lost patience just like everyone else. "Looking out for each other" doesn't mean turning a blind eye to stupid/dangerous driving behavior.
I can confirm that a slow driver deciding as you're in the middle of paasing them, deciding to speed up, is extremely annoying and fustrating when you got a govenor plated truck. Have had people do 20kmh below the spees limit on the highway, do this crap constantly.
@@whitexeno While this is true, I've come up to many intersections or turns where I thought I was in either the outermost turn lane or the ONLY turn lane and it turns out I wasn't. It's not like 100 feet of traffic will move out of your way and let you turn like you need to. So if you don't set up in the correct lane the first and only chance you get, you are screwed. When this has happened to me I watch my mirrors and wait for a gap in that traffic turning and poke my nose out. Might piss off a 4 wheeler or 2 but I won't hit anything with my trailer.
I would say 85% truckers fault. The pickup did cut the turn a bit and it looks like the road splits 200 ft from the intersection. Their could be a left lane for interstate sign or domething dumb like that. I had a route a few years back where I had to take the inside left because I needed to take the first left and no one would let you over in such a short distance. But like me, the drive should have swung into a gap or just roll over the curb instead.
I'm a old fart and drove semis back in the 1960s and 70s for a short while. That was in the pre-CDL days and it was almost unheard of for truckers to rage with other truckers like I'm seeing in these videos nowadays. We always worked with each other and it seemed like almost a brotherhood back then ...I miss the constant chatter on the CB and the ICC flash of lights to let each other in and thank each other for letting the other in, etc. I'm just astounded by the animosity and rage I see between truck drivers today.
Because you all drove violating HOS. You didn't care that you were held up by some idiot doing 55 in a 70 because you ran 3 logbooks and ran coast to coast without stopping. We can't do that. Every second of our lives is monitored by an ELD. So it suddenly becomes very important to make good time to try to make half decent money.
It's amazing to me how many "stupid moronic" drivers there are on the roads. I've been driving for 52 years and in the last 20 it has gotten progressively worst on the roads.
Yep. When I came over here from the UK in the early 1990s this was a better place to drive. Not anymore; and the accident rates show it. We've gone from a lower death rate than theirs to probably quadruple their death rate. And the same with non-fatal accidents too. And what's happened to insurance rates here versus the UK proves it.
That’s cause of the trucking mill and the automatic transmission. They train em well enough to not roll over and they don’t have to shift gears anymore. The no brakes guy clearly has no idea you need to gear down and let the motor do the work or you’ll be in an 80,000 unguided bomb just trying to find a runaway truck sand pile. The other problem is drivers just slinging loads inside the trailer. We had 2 where I work in under a year. First one didn’t speak English very well, had 45,000 plus pounds of copper scrap smashed into the front right corner of his trailer. We rejected the load and told him to get it reworked at a local scrap yard. The most recent one had 45,000 plus of pounds of copper scrap in 4 big boxes all flattened and busted open. We rejected the load again and cost her an extra day to get it reworked so we could accept it. It’s the lowering of standards to get more into the industry, that and the Covid pandemic lead to an over abundance of drivers who are all desperate to run faster and harder to get that next load, rules of any kind be damned
@@matthewcaughey8898 The no brakes guy just looks like a distracted driver that drifted onto the dirt then overcorrected. The only lack of brakes was because the driver was watching TV or something
The trick to driving a governed truck is having the patience to stay out of the passing lane. You’re probably not gonna pass anybody completely, and will end up camping in the hammer lane while everyone else passes you on the right. Accept that you’re a poke, and stay in the poke lane.
@jethroPDiddy "The trick to driving a governed truck is having the patience to stay out of the passing lane..." 0:42, 0:43, 0:44, 0:45, 0:46, 0:47, 0:48, 0:48 was actively passing until the dummies at 0:50 sped up to prevent changing lanes.
@@donotneed2250 "...and when my governed truck goes to pass them they sped up. Totally illogical..." Even MORE illogical is the idiots who defend the morons who suddenly speed up to prevent leaving the passing lane.
@@ITBOILSMYBLOOD, one night in North Carolina I had an idiot Crane driver try to run me off the road. I'd been doing 55 in a 60 when he started tailgating. When the speed went up to 70 he stayed on my butt instead of going around so I slowed by letting the transmission do it. He still stayed there. When decided to go around he tried to hit my tractor with his trailer. I couldn't get his tractor or trailer numbers to call Highway Patrol. Apparently he was/is stupid enough to think because I drove a truck I automatically had a CB in it. The truck not having CB antennae should told him if I did or not.
@@donotneed2250 "one night in North Carolina I had an idiot Crane driver try to run me off the road. I'd been doing 55 in a 60 when he started tailgating. When the speed went up to 70 he stayed on my butt instead of going around so I slowed by letting the transmission do it. He still stayed there. When decided to go around he tried to hit my tractor with his trailer..." I can sum all of that up in 3 words, "he was butthurt." It's so ridiculous how drivers behave in modern culture as if to say "screw you for being there."
@6:19 apparently it is NOT the only exit... also I noticed all the other trucks facing the opposite direction then you... so maybe it is YOU that is blocking the exits
my two cents is that a lot of almost racist profanity is missing from the audio. As for the whom is right, i think we need to see the facility from air view to understand routing and parking placement...
Even if he wasn’t wrong, there’s a way to tell someone to move without being a dick. I 100% guarantee he wouldn’t be acting like that if it was a white man. Just a racist POS. Poor lady, can’t imagine the nonsense she deals with everyday.
There are some companies that don't install jake brakes and disable the johnson brake (trailer only brake) and still send their drivers to mountain regions. I worked for one before becoming a mechanic.
It looked to me like the driver was doing a good job of keeping the runaway rig under control. You only saw the truck onscreen for a second or two, and you have no idea whether or not the jake brake was engaged (I suspect that it either was or soon will be; the driver doesn't want to die). Brake failure on an incline is every trucker's worse nightmare.
@@jeffcoil6181… Of course we have far too little information to know for sure how that driver came to be in the situation he/she was in… I just want to point out that… The most common cause for “brake loss while descending”, is a driver’s failure to maintain a proper descent speed in the first place. Once a safe “control speed” is surpassed… the driver proceeds to “smoke the brakes”, and then the only things that can stop the truck are either the bottom of the hill… or an immovable object 😂
#13: Man shut that horn up. You are a TRUCK DRIVER! You know darn well how hard it is to reverse a truck. You know how to resolve this situation? “Hey, you’re blocking the exit. Would you mind pulling up?” SIMPLE! Although, personally, with all those trucks there, I’m not so convinced that was actually an exit!
@@paulgrey8028 No, I haven't. It's irrelevant, though. The driver in this clip was also driving a semi. I'm not comparing the ease of reversing between cars and trucks. I'm saying that no matter what you drive it is hard!
@@alexflosho no, ignorance is not irrelevant. I've had my truck license for over 30 years and have driven just about every type and combination of trucks with trailers and I'm here to tell you that backing a semi-trailer is not at all difficult for a COMPETENT truck driver.
Man props to 15. Great guy helping the stalled vehicle and clearing traffic up. Though those guys who passed in the shoulder are so freakin impatient. You couldn’t’ve used the left lanes? Any of them?
The best thing to do with misbehaving truck drivers is call the company they work for. I work in logistics and we've had to fire drivers in the past when citizens call complaining of erratic behaviour. It's all about optics and reputation. The companies don't give a s*** about the drivers.
Unless it's a New Brunswick Power truck then they'll say "Not our truck" even if it has NB power plastered on the side. They love playing off attempted murder.
These bad drivers make me so stressed. If you're a 18 wheeler driver, don't you have to let 99% of the "no harm, no foul" stuff go? Seems so stressful.
@@freedomwillneverdie6600 So it’s the pickups fault for maintaining his lane and getting hit by the semi who was in the wrong lane to begin with and hit the pickup? Stfu up dude.
#2: You are so fortunate that other truck did not jack knife right into you at the speed it was going. When I was watching I was like "this is a sure shot this innocent trucker is not going to make it" but the other truck driver some how stopped it from happening I'm glad it did not turn out worst for you or anyone else !! 👍
I was thinking that other driver had some skills to keep from losing it. Hope he made it through all that okay. It's a nightmare scenario to lose your brakes.
Recently had my brakes go out on me in my normal sized truck. It's an experience realizing you basically cannot stop your vehicle at all really. Luckily she lasted just long enough to get to work my last day of the week. And the drive up to the shop is like 5 minutes and very few stops.
Doesn't seem like a lost brake scenario. Looks more like drifted to the right (not paying attention maybe), and then over-corrected. Almost all trucks today have engine brakes, and the grade didn't look that severe.
@mimiprays8288 "3. If you have a governor on your vehicle shouldn't you be in the right lane..." 0:42 to 0:49 he WAS passing until the 2 dingdongs decided to speed up at 0:50 to prevent switching lanes.
How did the insurance company find #1 at fault? All truckers are trained to always take outside lane, when available, for a turn. They turn to wide and need more room. I call BS!
Totally agree. There were 2 left turn lanes and the trucker crossed into the pick up truck driver's lane. The truck wasn't straddling the two lanes at the beginning, he was in the left lane in the dual turn lanes.
@@neutralcommenter7800 Because a Truck needs both lanes to turn and I bet that SUV thought he'd speed up to get in front of the truck instead of understanding the "Do not overtake turning Vehicle" sign most likely on the truck. Even if the truck was in the outside lane that SUV 100% would have still been collected by the truck because they were trying to get around the turning truck.
In Australia, it is illegal to overtake a turning truck, this is even displayed on warning signs on the truck itself. The first clip is the perfect example of why this law was put in place, another reason is that when an articulated vehicle is turning, they can't see anything in their mirrors. Australia does have road trains that have 3 or more trailers, so the driver can not see if a vehicle is level with the last trailer or behind it.
Local cargo truck inspection station has found mechanical problems in over 60% of the trucks they pull in, mainly with brakes and tires ... also discovered excessive and/or unbalanced loads in over 75%. State has determined that big cargo trucks are responsible for well over 90% of wear-and-tear on our highways (including interstates), but they don't pay for any of that despite all the profits they get from doing damage.
Unbalanced loads are usually caused by inexperienced drivers who jam the brakes on too hard or jerk the trailer. Where I work that’s usually copper scrap in containers that get busted open or shoved into a front corner cause the drivers flip flop got stuck
Perspectives vary, but generally profits can be pretty slim in the trucking industry. Every $1 of revenue had more than $0.95 of expenses, was a figure I some years ago. And yes, they do pay a larger share of highway, fuel, and other taxes too. I know about it first hand. Started & ran a trucking business for several years.
#7 why do you keep letting him get in front of you? #8.1 maybe don't flash your high beams over someone barely tapping their brakes. Roads look like shit and i wouldn't be surprised if your lights were strobing in his mirror
#15 Can't believe the idiots driving on the shoulder with a stalled vehicle trying to get over. They could have easily have rammed into that vehicle and seriously hurt someone. Props to the trucker for blocking the traffic so they can get over.
No way the pickup is at fault in number one. Trucker didn't maintain his lane at all. He turned into the other turn lane and should not have been in the left most turn lane if he couldn't make the turn from there.
@@solomonmandebvu Yes, they do, but it is still their responsibility to not hit other vehicles. He should have straddled the lines to make sure that he had room. The SUV "should" have known but the Truck driver "must" know. There is a difference.
Right off the bat - the truck driver was in the wrong lane to make a left turn. I guarantee he lied when he said "pickup truck driver was deemed at fault" because the truck drivers law says he was at fault.
While I agree that he was in the wrong lane for the turn (hey we’ve all done it) it did look as if the pickup cut it tight and crossed over into his lane.
How can you guarantee anything that happened days later from a few seconds of video? The pickup hit the semi while the semi was in his own lane. Being in the outside lane there is MORE dangerous for the semi since idiots have a tendency to pass on the inside not realizing that the trailer is going to clip the corner. Physics is hard.
The truck driver that continued honking, could have been a little more polite. He kept his hand on the horn and was saying bad words before she even got out to say anything to him. Like come on just talk about it nicely. I'm sure if she knew she was in the wrong, she would get out of your way but you decided to be a complete ash about it.
4:15 What is that truckers problem? Ute/truck was indicating their intent to change lanes, they slowed as to not rear end the cars already in the lane waiting to exit the highway/freeway and you had ample time to slow down. So what you had to slow up a little, get a grip and be a more considerate Truck Driver. The last one is the exact reason that you are not allowed to drive on the shoulder. Wish there was a Karma Cop for those two impatient drivers.
In the situations where it’s abundantly clear the trucker is being aggressive or raging, with proof on camera, has there ever been a confirmed case where they’ve been complained on and faced any punishment from their employer?
9.1 I feel for you brother. As a four-wheeler, I encounter struggles at that exit too. I can't imagine the difficulty for an 18-wheeler with a full load.
#13 at 6:15 the cammer was being an ass. Instead of laying on the horn like a douche you could have gotten out of the truck and asked her to move. You sir were not professional
#1 clip: The intersection had two left turn lanes. The semi went into the other turn lane while making the left. I don’t understand how it was the other driver’s fault.
#6.1) Exactly! If you’re getting on a controlled access road that big trucks go 60-80 mph on, put your foot in the carbeurator! Something my brother taught me many yrs ago when learning to drive!
@brmam1385 "#6.1) Exactly! If you’re getting on a controlled access road that big trucks go 60-80 mph..." And when idiots creep along at a leisurely pace after merging, they fail to realize why faster traffic gains on them so rapidly.
Pulling out onto a 70mph hi-way right in front of me and going about 40-50mph for a half mile is routine where I live. It's as though they are the only vehicle on the road, totally oblivious!
#1 0:06 isn’t the first thing you learn when driving any size commercial vehicle, especially a semi you use the outside turn lane? He wasn’t even using up both lanes, am I missing something?
A few of these clips were showing incredibly unsafe roadway systems that should not exist, such as very short on-ramps, and road crossings without lights, etc. The road crew that was parked in the middle lane without sufficient warnings and lane deflection barriers had me screaming, that was asking for a death to happen. Unreal.
This was painful to watch. So many bad drivers. So many bad Truck drivers, camping in the passing lane, brake checking each other, changing lanes without looking, on and on.
Truckers can be among the biggest as shats out there, even worse than 4-wheelers. DOT needs to allow videos like that to cite if not pull the papers of any trucker pulling that shiite.
#2. No, trucker didn't lose brakes going down hill, what hill? to start with. That driver was texting while driving, veered off the road, over corrected, nearly killing not only himself, but a fellow trucker as well.
this is why i gave up on any type of delivery job. i got tired of all the a holes on the road. especially the semi truck drivers. bunch of small dix 50 year olds
Some people don't know how to merge properly so often I don't want to mess up my brakes having to decrease speed so abruptly. I never cut anyone off though. If I don't have a clear lane, my brakes just take the L.
@@Scoots1994 People on motorway have priority over those coming on, only move over to let the peeps coming on if you have the space in the next lane, otherwise, continue in the first lane, and make the ones coming on slow down as they're supposed to slow down and slot in, or speed up and get ahead
While brake checking a truck in a car is truly idiotic, I've never seen a bigger jackhole towards a semi than another trucker. Some of you guys are unbelievable. 😡
Hang on, in #1, why would the pickup be at fault? He was in a dual turn lane and stayed in his own lane. The dumpster truck left his lane and hit the pickup.
#1 trucker got lucky that the pickup cut into the left lane a little when the contact was made. Otherwise, truck was in the wrong lane and obviously went out of their lane to make the turn.
Yep. And while we feel bad for blocking traffic when trying to pass we also can't just stay in the far right lane going well below the limit all day either. And worse than limited trucks passing limited trucks is limited trucks passing a fleet of charter busses since they don't want to be separated they tend to get vengeful and it can really take a lot of extra time to do it. There should be a button you can press to remove the limiter for 2 minutes every 30 minutes or something for situations like this.
@@jamooree What irritates me sometimes is when a car is passing me going half a mph faster than I can go while I approach a truck going 1mph slower than I can go. If the car would just speed up a liiiiiiiiitle I'd be able to go around without slowing no problem :) Most cars on highways are just barely paying attention, so it's not like it's uncommon when people act like a truck doesn't exist and doesn't have somewhere to go too :)
The things and boil my blood are those that merge onto the highway going too slow and not looking for a place to merge but assume they will be let it. Its one of the few times I use my air horn. The other thing is how many people texting while driving in traffic. Its almost more shocking to see someone with a phone or vap in their hands.
It's extra smart to merge onto the highway while texting. They tend to match my speed right next to me. I don't get over or slow down if a see a phone, I just blast the horn.
Why is noone talking about #1 being truck drivers fault??? Trucks are supposed to stay in outer lane if two lanes are turning… Video mentioned insurance company deemed pickup truck’s fault. How was it pickup trucks fault???
Companies are so hard up for drivers: walk away from the ones with ridiculous governors. Who needs to deal with a 66 governor where you either get nowhere all day or it takes you ten minutes of blocking the hammer lane just to make a pass. You can’t do better than to work for a loser outfit like that?
