silcom

On 8/5/2019 at 11:38 PM, taiwanatoa said:

Have now tried Chrome, Firefox, Edge, IE, AND the android app and none of them work. Why do we continue to be surprised ????

A few facts in defence of the truck driver for those TV posters who know everything about everything.....

It's clear that nobody berating the truck driver has ever driven anything bigger than a family hatchback.

10 seconds into the video the truck is clearly 30-50 feet behind the other truck. By the time the arse in the van makes his ridiculous move there's little more than the van's width between the 2 trucks. This shows without doubt that the truck driver is making a legitimate overtaking manoeuvre and overtaking the slower truck in what should correctly be referred to as 'The Overtaking Lane" not the "fast lane" or the "outside lane", and while this may be inconvenient to cars.vans behind trucks travel at different speeds and some do need to overtake, accept it.

Something the hatchback crew of you will also be blithely unaware of is that in a truck, particularly one partially or fully loaded and weighing up to 44 tons, you can't just drop it a gear and swiftly pull around the chap in front; momentum is required and once you lose that it often takes 10 minutes to get it back again, particularly on an uphill gradient. This would be why the truck was unwilling to slow down I believe. Not to mention that he had the legitimate right of way in any country, even Thailand

While Thailand does indeed have probably the worst drivers in my experience (including working and driving in such places as Morocco, Turkey and India, trucks included) Many truck drivers here are among the few Thai drivers who are competent and courteous. Most minivan drivers on the other hand should all be rounded up shot for the risk they put other people in to satisfy their arrogant egos.

With regards why he swerved, if he felt it necessary to brake heavily to avoid obliterating everyone in the minivan (you know being the courteous type - see above) and his trailer brakes were not as strong or defective (probably not his fault as a driver, not business owner) then the heavy trailer would have continued pushing from behind with considerable force thus creating the swerve witnessed in the video; similar in effect to a jack-knife on a slippery road.

Just thought I'd add an opinion based on knowledge and experience. Now there's a novel idea eh )