Narrowly avoiding a collision where someone pulls out in front of you unexpectedly is the sign of a good driver.
If someone was driving along and a deer jumped out from the side of the road, would they be a bad driver for hitting them? No, because there was no logical way they could have stopped in time, even while following the speed limit.
The same applies here, this is a heavy load and really doesn’t seem to be travelling more than 30km/h. They can’t crawl along a road at half of the speed limit just because they have a heavy load, otherwise every dump truck would have to be followed by route navigators like wide-load operations have to be.
The guy was a great driver and sacrificed a small bit of his cement load for someone’s vehicle to not be totaled. I wholeheartedly agree with the other person who said they are a good driver.
Source: DZ Licensed driver who has driven plenty of these vehicles before.
Narrowly avoiding a collision isn’t the sign of a good driver.
Good drivers are the ones who prevent the risk of narrow misses to begin with.
I wholeheartedly agree with the other posters that the truck driver was driving too fast for that road and the load they were carrying.
I don’t know how people can downvote this. You’re 100% correct.
Narrowly avoiding a collision where someone pulls out in front of you unexpectedly is the sign of a good driver.
If someone was driving along and a deer jumped out from the side of the road, would they be a bad driver for hitting them? No, because there was no logical way they could have stopped in time, even while following the speed limit.
The same applies here, this is a heavy load and really doesn’t seem to be travelling more than 30km/h. They can’t crawl along a road at half of the speed limit just because they have a heavy load, otherwise every dump truck would have to be followed by route navigators like wide-load operations have to be.
The guy was a great driver and sacrificed a small bit of his cement load for someone’s vehicle to not be totaled. I wholeheartedly agree with the other person who said they are a good driver.
Source: DZ Licensed driver who has driven plenty of these vehicles before.