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Video: Why motorcyclists should not stop right in front of large trucks

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15 minutes ago, Myran said:

Couldn't be seen my ass. The bike is several meters ahead of the truck and is easily within his line of sight, unless the driver is 50 cm tall.

3 cushion Somchai but only using 1 cushion that day.

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  • gunderhill
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    Truck driver must be BLIND, then again they often have almost all the windscreen blacked  out and a slit to see thru +  all the dangling crap and flowers  etc.

  • The bike rider was in front of the truck, how could he not be seen?

  • mercman24
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    all these comments have any of you driven a big truck ? i very much doubt it by your comments, that is why you will see UK trucks with mirrors for this very purpose, stop posting stuff you know nothin

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3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

I can agree with this. However, if you look at the pics, the mc rider is waiting for traffic/red light to clear. Meaning that he was at the intersection long before the truck turned up. There's no way the truck driver could not have seen him.

 

Book him, throw keys (and his mobile phone).

You presume too much without knowing facts.

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

I can agree with this. However, if you look at the pics, the mc rider is waiting for traffic/red light to clear. Meaning that he was at the intersection long before the truck turned up. There's no way the truck driver could not have seen him.

 

Book him, throw keys (and his mobile phone).

Sorry NO... it does not mean he was at the intersection long before the truck arrived... I've seen it at almost every traffic intersection I have ever stopped at, a car/truck stops at the red light, then slowly but surely motorcycles creep alongside & push themselves out in front because they can't wait 5 seconds behind the first vehicle. I expect this is the case here, truck is stationary, motorcycle arrives after and goes to the front, truck driver didn't see him arrive or cannot see him or isn't even looking for him in front!

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1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

Yes I am, the motorcyclist was another 50% at fault for taking off so slowly, and for being in the wrong lane. 150% total faults !

That's nutty.  The Motorcyclist has been sitting in front of the truck for some time. The truck clearly ploughs through him from behind having also been stationary.  You simply can't drive in to the back of a stationary vehicle at a traffic light and not be totally at fault.  To suggest otherwise is bonkers. 

47 minutes ago, ChiangMai101 said:

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This is a good reminder of how many blind spots there are around heavy vehicles.

 

Source: https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/road-safety/behaviours/blind-spots/visibility-around-heavy-vehicles/

Even more reason to be careful and professional 

Oh, forgot this is Thailand, do as we like.

 

The truck driver needs to go to jail now.

he had easy visibility of the bike in front,

but decided to just go with out looking again.

Pigs of the road. all day long here.

and cops do F all, as usual.

it will only get worse, before better.

Trucker pigs of Thailand. 

 

 

 

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he could not even hear when he hit the bike ? 

A golden rule when on a bike (and perhaps on any other vehicle).....always anticipate a fault from a third party.

11 hours ago, Vacuum said:

 

The bike rider was in front of the truck, how could he not be seen?

When your windshield is full of crap and amulets and you’re on your phone, it’s tough to see.

10 hours ago, mercman24 said:

all these comments have any of you driven a big truck ? i very much doubt it by your comments, that is why you will see UK trucks with mirrors for this very purpose, stop posting stuff you know nothing about, car drivers.

I agree, having driven some large vans, I can assure you that is is easily possible for a motorcycle to sneak into a blind spot while the driver is scanning his multiple other mirrors

3 hours ago, Maybole said:

I agree, having driven some large vans, I can assure you that is is easily possible for a motorcycle to sneak into a blind spot while the driver is scanning his multiple other mirrors

Think that was a Typo,  did you mean scanning his phone ?

I pull up to the line awaiting the green light. Idiot, selfish ,helmet-less knuckle-headed unlicensed noisy motorcyclists position themselves just in front of my bumper and have a quick look at their mobile as they also wait.  Lorry drivers, with their ecclesiastical nick-knacks hanging from the rear view mirror, 5 years of expired tax stickers neatly pasted across the windscreen, a curtain across the width of the  lower half of the windscreen, numerous stickers and umpteen mirrors blocking the edges of the screen couldn't give a damn. Traffic police are happy to these stupid motorcyclists and lorry drivers around the roads so what hope is there for an improvement in road safety ? The attached photo just one example !!

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