Close call with a dump truck 3922

I understand that driving a truck takes different angles than a car, but some of these drivers are just f***ing nuts when it comes to making a right turn. I had to take a Chevy Cavalier over a median to avoid getting hit by a semi that decided to use the left lane to turn from a 2-right turn lanes to 2 lane road, on red. (In fairness, it was a Mexican truck in the US.)

Several weeks ago I almost got hit by a flatbed truck who "missed his turn" and needed to U-turn ASAP, so he merged lanes where I was until I stopped dead in a 50mph zone. The apology was given by his supervisor, after talking to the driver about my complaint. The driver's immedaite response was to point to the sky with one finger. I'll hope he was praying for a safe merge in a strange manner rather than being a MFFY.

I've seen drivers do what you described both safely and unsafely, and without having seen the specific incident can't really say who f***ed up.

These types of drivers are the ones many of us complain about when we mention "truckers" BTW. It's not the intelligent long haul guys that understand if I flash my headlights while approaching in the L lane, it means I'm telling them go ahead and pbutt before me, I'm in no hurry and there's nobody else in sight. It's the short haul guys who have to pick up as many illegally parked cars as they can in a day, or the guys who get paid by how many cubic feet of poo they haul in a day.

The biggest problem with "truckers" is the ones that have no idea what the f*** they're doing. They're probably not the type to bother reading a newsgroup, since I think most must be illiterate the way they ignore EXIT ONLY and RIGHT LANE MUST TURN RIGHT signs.

Dave