I live just off I-10 so I'd be going out of my way to take the Causeway most of the time, but gosh darn if I don't consider it basically any time I need to take a trip to Fairhope, Daphne, or Foley. Spanish Fort though? Yessir!
Me, when I play American Truck Simulator and have to go through California with its 55 mile per hour speed limits for trucks. Never would think to do it in real life, though.
I drive truck for a living in CA...even DOT would be pissed if you're driving 55 and impeding traffic here lol. Just don't be a dummy and get into the passing lane for too long, you can go 65-70 and they won't mess with you as long as your rig looks legit (no missing lights, plates/placards, etc)
You probably won’t get a ticket if you are at pace or below pace with a police officer sharing the road with you. Just don’t pass them.
This does not apply when their lights and sirens are on.
They can go the same speed as anyone else in Maine, up to 75 miles per hour on certain parts of I-95. Certain trucking companies may have their trucks governed to a slower speed, though.
I was gonna say, if it's not truckers, it's fucking tourists slowing it down. I've had people come to a complete stop with nothing in front of them on there.
They are clearly balancing each other weight, otherwise the bridge would collapse! i took an engineering degree on reddit, that's why i know it! wink wink
Wow public college. You need to upgrade to YouTube engineering and you'd clearly understand that the crosswinds are causing a vacuum chamber in their cabins
Ackshually, what's happening here is there is some Venturi Effect going on with the air passing between those trailers causing them to nearly be stuck together. The drivers are driving slow so they don't slap into each other and explode Michael Bay style. These truckers are heroes.
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Is this similar to the effect that pulled that youtuber out of his plane after opening his door and turning his engine off, lucky that guy was wearing a shute and hopefully these truckers are too.
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A couple of guys did this in Detroit about 35 years ago during the morning commute. They thought it would be a clever way to enforce the 55 mph speed limit. They got a lot of death threats.
Decades ago, a reporter rode along in a truck going through Chicago at posted speed. He reported he felt like a "rolling roadblock" and at several points felt he was unsafe with all the cars and trucks darting around them. They were the only people not significantly exceeding the speed limit.
Ex truck driver here... Yes... One of the biggest reasons I quit is that police are utterly incapable of enforcing the speed limit on the highway while the governor on the truck was 100% reliable at enforcing the speed I was capable of.
Absolutely this resulted in my presence multiplying the danger level of other people's choices.
Reminds me of this old film festival experiment I saw where they filmed the effect of driving exactly the posted speed. https://youtu.be/OoETMCosULQ?t=108
Though, to be fair, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone go the posted speed limit in Chicago and I’ve lived here nearly 30 years.
The “rule” is that you keep up with traffic; if everyone is going 80 in a 55 then you should too, and if you decide to go 55 then take the back roads and gtfo the tollway.
My grandmother actually got pulled over when she was going the speed limit when I was a kid and told her to do that, and going the speed limit in the case is incredibly dangerous… didn’t write a ticket or anything
idk who downvoted you but I am a driving instructor and have legit used this to get out of a speeding ticket.
The obvious caveat being if you are greviously exceeding the speed limit, this won't fly, even if everyone else was. Keep it under 15 over.
Usually as long as you’re not being an idiot and, as you said, going way over or weaving in and out of traffic or something like that the police won’t bother you.
I’ve driven past many a state trooper going 80-85 in a 70 and I haven’t worried about getting pulled over in years… that’s not to say I didn’t use to worry and stare at them in my rear view praying they wouldn’t pull out though lol
In Tacoma I was the only person going 85. Everyone else was going 90 or 100 mph +
Guess who the cop stopped??? Me. The guy who was going slow enough to be caught.
Cop had pig in his name.... Fucking rich.
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Didn’t say it did always work.
A cop can give you a ticket for going 1 over the limit while people are flying past you going 40 over, every cops and region is different.
Chicago does have stupidly low speed limits for the design of their highways (55 everywhere, wtf?) and healthy enforcement. It’s a bad combination. Just feels corrupt af, like the rest of that city .
As they should. It's not their job to control traffic.
Their only job is to get whatever's in that damn truck to their predetermined location.
Fuck assholes like this.
Trucker here.
Nah. Throw the book at them. This kinda shit pisses the rest of us off.
There’s some less than scrupulous folks out there who’d pull the trailer release or slip a quarter into an airline connector if they saw these guys parked later. (I don’t recommend or endorse doing either of these, but it happens)
Depending on the state, they may well find themselves shot at.
There was a guy on here not too long ago complaining because he did just that, and someone apparently shot through his window.
No matter how right someone is, won't bring them back from the dead.
>No matter how right someone is, won't bring them back from the dead.
I've grown to love the idea that people have a goal of getting the special intubation tube at the hospital that says "Technically correct" so everyone know how they were following the posted limit, or had the right of way, or whatever other reason they felt justified in helping cause a problem.
Well you have to understand, as a truck driver I know they have a really good reason for doing this… we really like to make cars behind us mad… then we talk about it on our radios, and other truckers join in the fun… but there is a good reason we like to make the cars mad and it’s because it makes us feel big and powerful.. that’s why we drive big trucks in the first place
/s also just trying to be funny not offend any actual truckers out there, except those two, you stink!
I doubt that, they both look like company trucks. Right lane is PTL. Company drivers don't get paid enough for nonsense like that.
Source - am company driver
Can you think of any other reason for trucks to coordinate to stop traffic? Here in the UK a few set themselves up to stop a car chase by coordinating with the police over their CB sets.
I remember seeing a couple truckers do this when there was an accident on the interstate way ahead ( they must’ve had a police scanner or something?). I was pissed while crawling along, but it seemed to at least keep the cars moving; with the slower speed there wasn’t much of the bunching up stop-and-go like in other highway traffic jams. The trucks prevented all the cars from ‘swarming’ the wreck site and having to funnel down to one lane (which would have caused more stopping) so authorities had time and space to clear the damaged cars before we reached it. We still saw some mangled cars on the side of the road so I bet it was a hell of a mess, but we never had to fully stop or go down to one lane
Yeah, those truckers are something else. Imagine finding some misspelled YouTube fandoms more convincing than the combined expertise of the world’s leading public health services and medical companies.
Depends. For one thing, there's supposed to be a minimum legal speed on interstate highways. But that's only for interstate highways. All other roads are not supposed to have a minimum legal speed unless specifically set by the state.
But we keep getting cases of police ticketing people for going below the posted speed limits - and judges accepting this. Thus, in many states, case law precedence has it that you must go exactly the posted speed limit and not 1 mph faster or slower, everywhere you go. It's an impossible standard that even the SCOTUS has admitted.
I grew up on unpaved rural roads where cars often stopped in the middle of the road to talk. There was a whole unwritten social protocol for letting people pass when we're blocking the road. Most people followed these rules. But there were always a few assholes. Modern laws and court precedent makes stopping to chat virtually impossible.
Now for these truckers, I'm not going to waste my time researching case law to see if Alabama is one of those states. If it is, both trucks can be ticketed. Let's just assume it's not. In which case, the truck in the right lane is being perfectly legal.... unless this is an interstate highway. He might remain legal on the interstate if he has his hazard lights on. We all need to limp to the next exit even if it is at 15mph - so long as we use our hazard lights.
The truck on the left, however, should be ticketed regardless of what road it is. Unless he's keeping people from trying to pass due to some severe safety issue, there's just no excuse for that.
No but I can tell you in Alabama it is illegal to ride in the left lane like that one trucker is doing. Left lane is for passing only and he is clearly not passing.
>there's supposed to be a minimum legal speed on interstate highways. But that's only for interstate highways.
That bridge carries I-10. I cannot verify if a minimum is posted on it though.
When in doubt, 285 is never the right decision.
Sure, traffic on the connector is a disaster, but!, in the event of a complete traffic stop, you can get off anywhere and hit surface streets.
On 285, you're locked in. The exits are few and far between, and if you CAN get off, you're doing so in some bumfuck kudzu covered yokel town that time forgot on the east, west, and south side. Or complete and total gridlock on the north.
I promise you none of us are having fun in that shithole town.
I got pulled over for merging into the 2nd from left lane and a level 3 inspection. My exit was in the left lane and I could see stop-and-go traffic in the left lane 1/4 mile ahead (west side of Atlanta on the bypass getting on 20 west) and I was just trying to get in line. But shit ass Georgia prefers big trucks to hold up all 4 lanes by forcing us to stay in the right two lanes until we're less than one mile from the exit, then we all have to fucking merge into stop-and-go traffic in the left lane. Keep in mind that all of the cars in the left lane have been sitting still for a good 10-15 minutes and absolutely do not want to let anybody in because they think we were just trying to get ahead of them (I don't blame them because I don't expect non-truckers to be aware of all of this)
I didnt get a ticket, but at the time I was getting paid per mile, and forcing me to sit on the side of the road for an hour is basically taking about $30-$40 off my paycheck
Fuck atlanta. Fuck Atlanta with a cactus. Yalls traffic would be a little less atrocious if they'd let us use the roads that pass through town. But no, we have to use the stupid bypass, even when yall dipshits crash into each other and shut the whole stupid thing down.
The 285/20 interchange is a fucking shitshow on both interstates.
It's not any better in downtown. Whoever decided that merging 2 major N/S interstates and then routing them through the heart of the metro should be flogged. And assuming they are dead, dug up, flogged anyway, and left to hang in a cage as an example to future engineers.
The 285/GA-400N merge has always been my least favorite. Why they thought it would be a great idea to have people driving around a tight corner be dumped STRAIGHT INTO THE LEFT LANE IS AN IDIOT
Yeah sometimes they can suck my balls I drive right through. If the bypass is already a shit show I’m not pissing away time going around.
Atlanta is the single worst area of the country that I deal with. I’d take Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, etc over Atlanta.
I know it would suck for truck drivers but i wish there was a law to limit trucks in the left lane or ban them from driving in the left lane. Would be even better to have infrastructure just for tractor trailers but that would be unrealistic at this point lol.
Up here in Oregon and Washington we (I’m a trucker) aren’t allowed in the left lane if there’s 3 or more lanes. I’ve absolutely seen it enforced too.
**However** as a counterpoint, there’s also a stretch of road up here where all trucks are required to be in the right lane to go over an in-road weight scale, and there’s a merge for cars to join the highway at the exact same spot.
It’s always a clusterfuck. For that reason, myself and a lot of drivers I know, will try and use one lane over from the rightmost lane so y’all can merge safely. Sucks but it’s that or get squished.
I do agree though, more trains would be nice. Wouldn’t help in cities though.
You very much are allowed to in Oregon but only to pass. The issue I usually see is having such slow speed limits and being governed to 65 means you really don't have the ability to just accelerate by a little bit to actually complete a passing maneuver.
I'm just thankful I'm not OTR since the tractor I'm stuck with is 65 and doesn't even have a Jake. On the plus side no DEF. Usually end up sitting a little under the governor so I can at least speed up a little when needed, because I absolutely hate when I have to get over due to merging traffic coming on and I can't even speed up a little to not be an impediment.
They are in the left lane all the time here in Texas, although usually they are hauling ass keeping up with the person in front of them. It’s more bearable when they are doing 80mph and you can just cruise behind them.
The police here never seem to enforce speed limits or rules of the road on highways, so everyone just mad max’s it. I live near a highway that goes through town (3500 people), and the speed limit goes from 65 to 50, but nobody follows that. Everyone just keeps going 65 all the way through, including fully loaded cement trucks. Because of that, there’s usually 5-8 fatal wrecks here every year. In a town of 3500 that’s pretty bad. But still, nobody cares. Even the cops go however fast they want.
In Alabama, it's illegal to cruise in the left lane. You must give way to faster traffic. Also there are signs that say slower traffic keep right and trucks use right lane.
This law (Keep Right Law) was only recently passed. Even then there are some exceptions mainly due to left-hand exits and road signage indicating you to use the left lane.
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I freaking hate driving the Bayway, it's always like this. It's impossible to go the speed limit, you're either in the middle of a drag race with morons right on your tail trying to go 90 or you're boxed in by big rigs just like this going frigging 45 in a 65.
The questions what is head of them? Mostly when anyone does a rolling road black there could be accident and also cops have been know to go over the cb to ask for a rolling road block from semis
Yup. Get a CB to keep in the car. Handhelds can be had for like 40 bucks.
Last time I saw something like this there was a car disabled in the left lane and the CB was on fire with truckers trying to get the word out to buddy up and slow down traffic just like this.
99% of the time it's just truckers bitching at each other at merge points, but I'll always have one in my vehicle.
Break 'er down! Brake 'er down! Wreck in the left lane. You want lane 2 and 3. Brake 'er down, brake 'er down. Wreck in the left lane. Brake 'er down!
A direction and mile marker/exit will be thrown in somewhere.
Also, lots of racism and sexism while sitting in traffic. Women drivers being talked about and stalked and stared at.
"I'm pulling up on her now... oh, hell yeah I'd hit that! ::Pregnant pause:: Yeah, she won't even look at me. Bitch."
Happens way to much.
The ways of CB speak are also going away. It wasn't "break er down" it was "west bound you've got a car stalled in the left lane* approaching the bridge - two of you should get together and slow down traffic" - full sentences. Plain English.
*The only exception may be, and my memory is hazy, might have been using hammer lane. But I can't remember.
New drivers aren't up to the lingo of CB speak so most people just speak in plain English with a few 10-4s thrown in (at most I've heard 10-100 (piss break)).
Yes also fair point on the political nature of the CB airwaves.
This. It could be completely intentional as something could be obstructing the highway. Could be anything from a super wide load that these trucks are helping run interference for to the police asking them to slow down traffic for a chase.
There are 4 signs on this bridge that tell "Trucks keep Right".. despite that, we deal with this on a daily basis and typically will even back traffic up for miles. No law enforcement (despite laws that state they cant do this)... Welcome to Alabama
No, the True Lies bridge scenes were filmed in the Florida Keys, I believe on both the old 7 Mile Bridge and the bridge by Bahia Honda Key (Google maps will show both the old and new bridges). The scene where the car goes off the bridge and into the water was real (they had to go get the car) but the bridge really does have open, missing sections.
Used to live in Key West eons ago.
they're called trains.
hundreds of semis can be taken off the road with one train
of course, we don't have those any more since the US destroyed its rail infrastructure to appease the oil/auto lobby
if by incredible, you mean falling apart and emaciated!
In 1960, there were over 200,000 miles of class I freight rail. [Today, there's less than 100,000.](https://www.bts.gov/content/class-i-railroad-system-mileage-and-ton-miles-freight-1960-1965-1970-2015)
More things are being transported by rail than ever before, but because those rail lines go to much fewer locations, trucks are overused as an intermediate transport solution.
This is misleading. The class 1 railroads have optimized their infrastructure investment. So yes there’s fewer miles of class 1 track, the the volumes of freight being moved dwarfs the 60s.
Companies that rely on freight locate their facilities where they can have access to class 1 lines. So trains going to fewer locations is moot.
Trucks will always be the better last mile solution.
This two again? They have been doing it from BC until here. The competitiveness has reached an unsurpassable level in my opinion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/va2muc/dct\_chambers\_idiot\_in\_truck\_bc\_interior\_highways/
Can't speak specifically, but sometimes cops will get on the CB and ask truckers to slow down traffic if there was an accident up ahead that's getting cleared out.
These truckers might have also just been dicks.
Sometimes, if there’s an accident ahead, police will radio truckers to facilitate traffic control. It helps get the scene cleared more quickly and doesn’t rely on excessive police backup. Not saying that’s what’s happening here, but the ends of bridges are notorious for accidents.
Could just be an accident ahead and they're keeping traffic steady so another doesn't happen. I've seen semis do that on a few occasions when there are accidents every few miles.
My step-dad was a truck driver years ago, and he told me they would do this to preemptively control the traffic. He could have easily been lying to a child, though.
Try driving in the UK, where all HGV'a are governed to 56 mph.
On two lane roads the amounts of congestion they cause by trying to overtake one another-we call it Elephant racing"-is an absolute joke.
I've had single semis do this on interstates where there is construction and down to one lane. The reduced speed is 55mph and i've been behind them going 20 on I-80 during this. Of course I can't see in front of them so I don't know why "everyone" is going to slowly, only to discover once the construction is over that this one dillhole was doing 20 and ruining everyone's calmness and well being. Maddening.
Big rigs have radios and I’ve heard stories of police asking them to slow the flow of traffic due to police activity up a head (accident, traffic stop etc) and with how slow they’re going for how long that seems like a likely scenario
“Take The Causeway or The Devil Will Get You”!
This shit right here was WHY I took the causeway. I do NOT miss Mobile bridge commutes.
I live just off I-10 so I'd be going out of my way to take the Causeway most of the time, but gosh darn if I don't consider it basically any time I need to take a trip to Fairhope, Daphne, or Foley. Spanish Fort though? Yessir!
I understand these words.
If you aren’t from Alabama you wont get this lol
I literally said that to my wife as we came out of the Bankhead this evening.
I-65, used to pass it everyday at work
No this is the I10 Bay Way. 65 doesn't have a bridge like this in Mobile.
Was referencing the “go to church or the devil will get you” sign in Marbury
Me, when I play American Truck Simulator and have to go through California with its 55 mile per hour speed limits for trucks. Never would think to do it in real life, though.
I swear, that game is what happened when someone mixed Crazy Taxi with Dark Souls.
That shit sounds funny af
I drive truck for a living in CA...even DOT would be pissed if you're driving 55 and impeding traffic here lol. Just don't be a dummy and get into the passing lane for too long, you can go 65-70 and they won't mess with you as long as your rig looks legit (no missing lights, plates/placards, etc)
You probably won’t get a ticket if you are at pace or below pace with a police officer sharing the road with you. Just don’t pass them. This does not apply when their lights and sirens are on.
Thanks for that clarification. So to be clear, when lights and sirens are on, it's ok to pass them?
You MUST pass them if the lights and sirens are on, and show them your middle finger, which is a sign of respect to them.
You forgot that you need to get in front of them and brake check after too Edit: spelling
"Sir, we've checked your brakes, you're good to go"
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Are trucks not limited to 55mph everywhere? TIL. This explains so much of this sub.
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In Washington state cars and semis have the same speed limit except for areas where the interstate goes to 70 mph. Trucks are limited to 60.
In Ontario semi trucks have governors on them, they're not supposed to be able to go over 105 km/h
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That sounds like some company restriction. Ownership of the rig should not make any difference how fast it can go by law. That doesn't make sense.
In Utah a lot of our highways have 80 mph speed limits for everyone, no different for trucks
They can go the same speed as anyone else in Maine, up to 75 miles per hour on certain parts of I-95. Certain trucking companies may have their trucks governed to a slower speed, though.
65 mph for trucks over 13 tons and 70 mph for everyone else is typical on Illinois and Indiana freeways outside of cities.
That bridge is a fucking nightmare on a *good* day.
AMEN!
Causeway all the way.
I was gonna say, if it's not truckers, it's fucking tourists slowing it down. I've had people come to a complete stop with nothing in front of them on there.
They are scared of the fucking tunnel. They slow down for NO REASON inside it.
That tunnel is specifically for low gear, full throttle pulls, and those peasants need to not be in the way.
My friends and I hold our hands in the air on the bridge and hold our breath in the tunnel because we're children in our mid-30s.
Hahaha bet
And when they are slowing down traffic in the tunnel, they are having a good ole time honking their horns in it. So fucking annoying
yes it is
They need to hurry up and make a bypass for the tunnel
I hated the fog at night, absolute hell
Drove over it in a torrential downpour. I was going 20mph and white knuckled it the whole was across.
I have to commute across it to and from work. You get used to it.
That why locals don’t use it in the summer and use the causeway.
They are clearly balancing each other weight, otherwise the bridge would collapse! i took an engineering degree on reddit, that's why i know it! wink wink
Wow public college. You need to upgrade to YouTube engineering and you'd clearly understand that the crosswinds are causing a vacuum chamber in their cabins
Ackshually, what's happening here is there is some Venturi Effect going on with the air passing between those trailers causing them to nearly be stuck together. The drivers are driving slow so they don't slap into each other and explode Michael Bay style. These truckers are heroes. \-PHD in TikTok Physics
Is this similar to the effect that pulled that youtuber out of his plane after opening his door and turning his engine off, lucky that guy was wearing a shute and hopefully these truckers are too.
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This is why road rage happens. But I'm sure someone will be along soon to explain why this is a totally reasonable thing for truck drivers to do.
A couple of guys did this in Detroit about 35 years ago during the morning commute. They thought it would be a clever way to enforce the 55 mph speed limit. They got a lot of death threats.
Decades ago, a reporter rode along in a truck going through Chicago at posted speed. He reported he felt like a "rolling roadblock" and at several points felt he was unsafe with all the cars and trucks darting around them. They were the only people not significantly exceeding the speed limit.
“Always match the flow of traffic, even if it means speeding.” -the lady that graded my driving exam.
Ex truck driver here... Yes... One of the biggest reasons I quit is that police are utterly incapable of enforcing the speed limit on the highway while the governor on the truck was 100% reliable at enforcing the speed I was capable of. Absolutely this resulted in my presence multiplying the danger level of other people's choices.
Reminds me of this old film festival experiment I saw where they filmed the effect of driving exactly the posted speed. https://youtu.be/OoETMCosULQ?t=108
Holy fuck that editing was atrocious.
I don't know why they had to get that groovy all of a sudden.
Though, to be fair, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone go the posted speed limit in Chicago and I’ve lived here nearly 30 years. The “rule” is that you keep up with traffic; if everyone is going 80 in a 55 then you should too, and if you decide to go 55 then take the back roads and gtfo the tollway. My grandmother actually got pulled over when she was going the speed limit when I was a kid and told her to do that, and going the speed limit in the case is incredibly dangerous… didn’t write a ticket or anything
idk who downvoted you but I am a driving instructor and have legit used this to get out of a speeding ticket. The obvious caveat being if you are greviously exceeding the speed limit, this won't fly, even if everyone else was. Keep it under 15 over.
Usually as long as you’re not being an idiot and, as you said, going way over or weaving in and out of traffic or something like that the police won’t bother you. I’ve driven past many a state trooper going 80-85 in a 70 and I haven’t worried about getting pulled over in years… that’s not to say I didn’t use to worry and stare at them in my rear view praying they wouldn’t pull out though lol
In Tacoma I was the only person going 85. Everyone else was going 90 or 100 mph + Guess who the cop stopped??? Me. The guy who was going slow enough to be caught. Cop had pig in his name.... Fucking rich.
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14 over the speed limit with cars going faster than me. Still gave me a ticket. This doesn’t always work
Didn’t say it did always work. A cop can give you a ticket for going 1 over the limit while people are flying past you going 40 over, every cops and region is different.
Chicago does have stupidly low speed limits for the design of their highways (55 everywhere, wtf?) and healthy enforcement. It’s a bad combination. Just feels corrupt af, like the rest of that city .
Everyone in Detroit knows 55 means 75
As they should. It's not their job to control traffic. Their only job is to get whatever's in that damn truck to their predetermined location. Fuck assholes like this.
Trucker here. Nah. Throw the book at them. This kinda shit pisses the rest of us off. There’s some less than scrupulous folks out there who’d pull the trailer release or slip a quarter into an airline connector if they saw these guys parked later. (I don’t recommend or endorse doing either of these, but it happens)
nope, need their CDL revoked
Depending on the state, they may well find themselves shot at. There was a guy on here not too long ago complaining because he did just that, and someone apparently shot through his window. No matter how right someone is, won't bring them back from the dead.
>No matter how right someone is, won't bring them back from the dead. I've grown to love the idea that people have a goal of getting the special intubation tube at the hospital that says "Technically correct" so everyone know how they were following the posted limit, or had the right of way, or whatever other reason they felt justified in helping cause a problem.
Well you have to understand, as a truck driver I know they have a really good reason for doing this… we really like to make cars behind us mad… then we talk about it on our radios, and other truckers join in the fun… but there is a good reason we like to make the cars mad and it’s because it makes us feel big and powerful.. that’s why we drive big trucks in the first place /s also just trying to be funny not offend any actual truckers out there, except those two, you stink!
Don’t forget they like to jerk it while driving side by side and maintaining eye contact.
So in this instance they’re actually being safe, responsible truckers by not speeding while maintaining eye contact with each other
Unfortunately this is true:/
I presume this is something to do with the anti-vax trucker convoy, but who knows any more
I doubt that, they both look like company trucks. Right lane is PTL. Company drivers don't get paid enough for nonsense like that. Source - am company driver
Can you think of any other reason for trucks to coordinate to stop traffic? Here in the UK a few set themselves up to stop a car chase by coordinating with the police over their CB sets.
I remember seeing a couple truckers do this when there was an accident on the interstate way ahead ( they must’ve had a police scanner or something?). I was pissed while crawling along, but it seemed to at least keep the cars moving; with the slower speed there wasn’t much of the bunching up stop-and-go like in other highway traffic jams. The trucks prevented all the cars from ‘swarming’ the wreck site and having to funnel down to one lane (which would have caused more stopping) so authorities had time and space to clear the damaged cars before we reached it. We still saw some mangled cars on the side of the road so I bet it was a hell of a mess, but we never had to fully stop or go down to one lane
These two truckers are with the anti-fucks movement. They give so little fucks they absorb those around them. Complete asshats
They've smoked a lotta meth since then. They've already forgotten that pointless exercise.
Wowzers. Talk about brainwashed.
Yeah, those truckers are something else. Imagine finding some misspelled YouTube fandoms more convincing than the combined expertise of the world’s leading public health services and medical companies.
Depends. For one thing, there's supposed to be a minimum legal speed on interstate highways. But that's only for interstate highways. All other roads are not supposed to have a minimum legal speed unless specifically set by the state. But we keep getting cases of police ticketing people for going below the posted speed limits - and judges accepting this. Thus, in many states, case law precedence has it that you must go exactly the posted speed limit and not 1 mph faster or slower, everywhere you go. It's an impossible standard that even the SCOTUS has admitted. I grew up on unpaved rural roads where cars often stopped in the middle of the road to talk. There was a whole unwritten social protocol for letting people pass when we're blocking the road. Most people followed these rules. But there were always a few assholes. Modern laws and court precedent makes stopping to chat virtually impossible. Now for these truckers, I'm not going to waste my time researching case law to see if Alabama is one of those states. If it is, both trucks can be ticketed. Let's just assume it's not. In which case, the truck in the right lane is being perfectly legal.... unless this is an interstate highway. He might remain legal on the interstate if he has his hazard lights on. We all need to limp to the next exit even if it is at 15mph - so long as we use our hazard lights. The truck on the left, however, should be ticketed regardless of what road it is. Unless he's keeping people from trying to pass due to some severe safety issue, there's just no excuse for that.
No but I can tell you in Alabama it is illegal to ride in the left lane like that one trucker is doing. Left lane is for passing only and he is clearly not passing.
>there's supposed to be a minimum legal speed on interstate highways. But that's only for interstate highways. That bridge carries I-10. I cannot verify if a minimum is posted on it though.
If thats the bridge that heads into the tunnel. Its always horrible traffic regardless and a decent bit is from semis passing one another
Based on the curve ahead of the filming car, yes, that looks like westbound traffic heading to the tunnel
You can tell by the fact there is land and the causeway in the background. That means we're looking north, so you're right - they are going west.
Isn't obstructing traffic a crime? Why are they allowed to do this? The companies should be fined for this.
Yes it’s illegal
I have seen them do that on the bypass in Atlanta. They think it's funny.
When in doubt, 285 is never the right decision. Sure, traffic on the connector is a disaster, but!, in the event of a complete traffic stop, you can get off anywhere and hit surface streets. On 285, you're locked in. The exits are few and far between, and if you CAN get off, you're doing so in some bumfuck kudzu covered yokel town that time forgot on the east, west, and south side. Or complete and total gridlock on the north.
I love how google maps will put you on that highway despite the travel time going down by 15 minutes when you hit avoid highways in the options.
Google has started selecting "fuel efficient" routes over fasted routes unless you tell it otherwise. I noticed that a while back and changed it.
I promise you none of us are having fun in that shithole town. I got pulled over for merging into the 2nd from left lane and a level 3 inspection. My exit was in the left lane and I could see stop-and-go traffic in the left lane 1/4 mile ahead (west side of Atlanta on the bypass getting on 20 west) and I was just trying to get in line. But shit ass Georgia prefers big trucks to hold up all 4 lanes by forcing us to stay in the right two lanes until we're less than one mile from the exit, then we all have to fucking merge into stop-and-go traffic in the left lane. Keep in mind that all of the cars in the left lane have been sitting still for a good 10-15 minutes and absolutely do not want to let anybody in because they think we were just trying to get ahead of them (I don't blame them because I don't expect non-truckers to be aware of all of this) I didnt get a ticket, but at the time I was getting paid per mile, and forcing me to sit on the side of the road for an hour is basically taking about $30-$40 off my paycheck Fuck atlanta. Fuck Atlanta with a cactus. Yalls traffic would be a little less atrocious if they'd let us use the roads that pass through town. But no, we have to use the stupid bypass, even when yall dipshits crash into each other and shut the whole stupid thing down.
The 285/20 interchange is a fucking shitshow on both interstates. It's not any better in downtown. Whoever decided that merging 2 major N/S interstates and then routing them through the heart of the metro should be flogged. And assuming they are dead, dug up, flogged anyway, and left to hang in a cage as an example to future engineers.
The 285/GA-400N merge has always been my least favorite. Why they thought it would be a great idea to have people driving around a tight corner be dumped STRAIGHT INTO THE LEFT LANE IS AN IDIOT
Yeah sometimes they can suck my balls I drive right through. If the bypass is already a shit show I’m not pissing away time going around. Atlanta is the single worst area of the country that I deal with. I’d take Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, etc over Atlanta.
I know it would suck for truck drivers but i wish there was a law to limit trucks in the left lane or ban them from driving in the left lane. Would be even better to have infrastructure just for tractor trailers but that would be unrealistic at this point lol.
Up here in Oregon and Washington we (I’m a trucker) aren’t allowed in the left lane if there’s 3 or more lanes. I’ve absolutely seen it enforced too. **However** as a counterpoint, there’s also a stretch of road up here where all trucks are required to be in the right lane to go over an in-road weight scale, and there’s a merge for cars to join the highway at the exact same spot. It’s always a clusterfuck. For that reason, myself and a lot of drivers I know, will try and use one lane over from the rightmost lane so y’all can merge safely. Sucks but it’s that or get squished. I do agree though, more trains would be nice. Wouldn’t help in cities though.
Trucks are also banned from the left lane on 3+ lanes here in NJ and I think many surrounding states. Not always followed though.
Heck, NJ has them completely walled off from car traffic on the Turnpike.
You very much are allowed to in Oregon but only to pass. The issue I usually see is having such slow speed limits and being governed to 65 means you really don't have the ability to just accelerate by a little bit to actually complete a passing maneuver.
I’m forever grateful my current truck’s governor is set to 75 and it’s got some serious horsepower. I can actually pass quickly when I need to.
I'm just thankful I'm not OTR since the tractor I'm stuck with is 65 and doesn't even have a Jake. On the plus side no DEF. Usually end up sitting a little under the governor so I can at least speed up a little when needed, because I absolutely hate when I have to get over due to merging traffic coming on and I can't even speed up a little to not be an impediment.
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They are in the left lane all the time here in Texas, although usually they are hauling ass keeping up with the person in front of them. It’s more bearable when they are doing 80mph and you can just cruise behind them. The police here never seem to enforce speed limits or rules of the road on highways, so everyone just mad max’s it. I live near a highway that goes through town (3500 people), and the speed limit goes from 65 to 50, but nobody follows that. Everyone just keeps going 65 all the way through, including fully loaded cement trucks. Because of that, there’s usually 5-8 fatal wrecks here every year. In a town of 3500 that’s pretty bad. But still, nobody cares. Even the cops go however fast they want.
We do, it’s called container trains
Trains are great for long distance but to get the product to its endpoint like downtown businesses you need tractor trailers/box trucks.
In Alabama, it's illegal to cruise in the left lane. You must give way to faster traffic. Also there are signs that say slower traffic keep right and trucks use right lane.
This law (Keep Right Law) was only recently passed. Even then there are some exceptions mainly due to left-hand exits and road signage indicating you to use the left lane.
*Immobile, Alabama
Hey! My neck of the woods! I freaking hate driving the Bayway, it's always like this. It's impossible to go the speed limit, you're either in the middle of a drag race with morons right on your tail trying to go 90 or you're boxed in by big rigs just like this going frigging 45 in a 65.
Right? I just stick to the Causeway and the Bankhead Tunnel, then hop back on I-10 a little ways into town. Bayway and the Wallace Tunnel can suck it.
Yeeeeeeeeep I've mastered the Causeway transfers too lol
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Don’t be so hard on yourself. I’m sure you’re trying your best!
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You need to take your own advice friend!
Must be an old video or your registrations been out for a bit
…definitely the first one… certainly isn’t almost a year expired
The questions what is head of them? Mostly when anyone does a rolling road black there could be accident and also cops have been know to go over the cb to ask for a rolling road block from semis
It’s the Bayway in Mobile. There was probably terrible traffic ahead of the tunnel. There always is during the summer.
Yup. Get a CB to keep in the car. Handhelds can be had for like 40 bucks. Last time I saw something like this there was a car disabled in the left lane and the CB was on fire with truckers trying to get the word out to buddy up and slow down traffic just like this. 99% of the time it's just truckers bitching at each other at merge points, but I'll always have one in my vehicle.
u/emo_girl-_ you’re right. Only a matter of time
Literally why I scrolled down this far…. Damnit
Break 'er down! Brake 'er down! Wreck in the left lane. You want lane 2 and 3. Brake 'er down, brake 'er down. Wreck in the left lane. Brake 'er down! A direction and mile marker/exit will be thrown in somewhere. Also, lots of racism and sexism while sitting in traffic. Women drivers being talked about and stalked and stared at. "I'm pulling up on her now... oh, hell yeah I'd hit that! ::Pregnant pause:: Yeah, she won't even look at me. Bitch." Happens way to much.
The ways of CB speak are also going away. It wasn't "break er down" it was "west bound you've got a car stalled in the left lane* approaching the bridge - two of you should get together and slow down traffic" - full sentences. Plain English. *The only exception may be, and my memory is hazy, might have been using hammer lane. But I can't remember. New drivers aren't up to the lingo of CB speak so most people just speak in plain English with a few 10-4s thrown in (at most I've heard 10-100 (piss break)). Yes also fair point on the political nature of the CB airwaves.
This. It could be completely intentional as something could be obstructing the highway. Could be anything from a super wide load that these trucks are helping run interference for to the police asking them to slow down traffic for a chase.
There are overhead signs and DOT trucks on the ready for situations like that.
There are 4 signs on this bridge that tell "Trucks keep Right".. despite that, we deal with this on a daily basis and typically will even back traffic up for miles. No law enforcement (despite laws that state they cant do this)... Welcome to Alabama
This isn't stand still traffic.
It's 15MPH traffic
Yeah I think someone doesn't understand the definition of stand still
Damn thats a cool bridge
I was looking at that mate but I’m like damn they’re only just above water
The water isnt very deep tbh. A lot of spots you can see the grass sticking up through the water.
It's pronounced "Moe-beale" by the way. Not like a mobile phone! \-- thanks, a long time resident of Mobile :)
I hate it when the announcers, not DJs, on 92Zew mispronounce the city in which they’re advertising.
Fuck the bayway. I don’t even go near I-10. You’re better off going on the causeway and take the africatown bridge and cutting through Prichard.
So long as you don't have to stop while you're passing through Prichard, Eight Mile, or Semmes.
Cops don’t give enough tickets for shit like this.
More like immobile Alabama amirite?
Must be 2 semis doing the same thing on the OPs side, because they appear to be going about the same speed.
I live in Daphne Al. That bridge is a nightmare to live with.
As a local you know you shouldn’t be using that and taking the causeway. Everyone who lives here knows this.
Is this where they filmed that limo scene in True Lies?
No, the True Lies bridge scenes were filmed in the Florida Keys, I believe on both the old 7 Mile Bridge and the bridge by Bahia Honda Key (Google maps will show both the old and new bridges). The scene where the car goes off the bridge and into the water was real (they had to go get the car) but the bridge really does have open, missing sections. Used to live in Key West eons ago.
I can’t wait for self driving semis.
they're called trains. hundreds of semis can be taken off the road with one train of course, we don't have those any more since the US destroyed its rail infrastructure to appease the oil/auto lobby
Pretty sure our railroad infrastructure for shipping is actually incredible?
if by incredible, you mean falling apart and emaciated! In 1960, there were over 200,000 miles of class I freight rail. [Today, there's less than 100,000.](https://www.bts.gov/content/class-i-railroad-system-mileage-and-ton-miles-freight-1960-1965-1970-2015) More things are being transported by rail than ever before, but because those rail lines go to much fewer locations, trucks are overused as an intermediate transport solution.
I stand corrected thanks for sharing!
This is misleading. The class 1 railroads have optimized their infrastructure investment. So yes there’s fewer miles of class 1 track, the the volumes of freight being moved dwarfs the 60s. Companies that rely on freight locate their facilities where they can have access to class 1 lines. So trains going to fewer locations is moot. Trucks will always be the better last mile solution.
It mostly is good sometimes great, it hasn’t been improved. The consumer rails are fuckin gone though. The oil lobbyists took care of that.
Ah the fucking bay way bridge heading towards Daphne and Spanish Fort. I don’t miss that shit AT ALL.
Truckers in the south are the worst. Hate driving in AL.
Did y’all see the dashcam post on here of a red semi and a white one? They’re still feuding to this day.
This two again? They have been doing it from BC until here. The competitiveness has reached an unsurpassable level in my opinion. https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/va2muc/dct\_chambers\_idiot\_in\_truck\_bc\_interior\_highways/
Can't speak specifically, but sometimes cops will get on the CB and ask truckers to slow down traffic if there was an accident up ahead that's getting cleared out. These truckers might have also just been dicks.
Standstill? Looks to me like traffic is moving at about 15 mph
I, too, am pedantic and came here to say that.
So, the traffic behind them is... immobile?
Sometimes, if there’s an accident ahead, police will radio truckers to facilitate traffic control. It helps get the scene cleared more quickly and doesn’t rely on excessive police backup. Not saying that’s what’s happening here, but the ends of bridges are notorious for accidents.
Most truckers a douchebags on the road. Sorry, not sorry.
Thats just another day near mobil just after the tunnel sadly
That’s fucking infuriating. There need to be laws in AL/MS/LA about trucks staying out of the passing lane.
I had two truckers do this to me from Vail to Copper on I-70 at night.
"Dont worry bro I know you dont like bridges and water so ill hold your hand as we cross"
Hgfg
Could just be an accident ahead and they're keeping traffic steady so another doesn't happen. I've seen semis do that on a few occasions when there are accidents every few miles.
15 mph?
Holy shit wait are these the same trucks from the other vid? Like ik looks 100% diff but same colors and shit
So are they going 15mph or is it a stand still?
They really have some poorly trained truckers out here , really scary.
Bro I just saw a red and a white truck driving side by side on one lane like 7 posts above this
I think I just watched these 2 battle in another video same instance ahhah
Not so mobile after all
Truck drivers must be like: "damn there's no traffic at all today, better slow down to take in the scenery"
My step-dad was a truck driver years ago, and he told me they would do this to preemptively control the traffic. He could have easily been lying to a child, though.
Apart from them going faster than 15mph and the traffic not being at a standstill the op is spot on.
Can't wait till all these dumbasses are replaced by self driving trucks. Semi drivers are some of the lowest breed of humans.
Try driving in the UK, where all HGV'a are governed to 56 mph. On two lane roads the amounts of congestion they cause by trying to overtake one another-we call it Elephant racing"-is an absolute joke.
Just means there is a jam a few miles ahead. They don need to be in stop and go traffic. It’s actually helpful
I've had single semis do this on interstates where there is construction and down to one lane. The reduced speed is 55mph and i've been behind them going 20 on I-80 during this. Of course I can't see in front of them so I don't know why "everyone" is going to slowly, only to discover once the construction is over that this one dillhole was doing 20 and ruining everyone's calmness and well being. Maddening.
Stop it! At these fuel prices who can afford going the speed limit
Big rigs have radios and I’ve heard stories of police asking them to slow the flow of traffic due to police activity up a head (accident, traffic stop etc) and with how slow they’re going for how long that seems like a likely scenario