Pickup truck drives over curb to get ahead

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Chairman Mills truck stops in the left lane to get in the right which turns into the highway. In the process blocks the left lane. A pickup truck drives over the curb to pass the Chairman mills truck and all the other vehicles in front of him.

 
I would do the same. Selfish morons that inconvenience so many people and do not care about the outcome.
 
I have often mentioned how bad the signage is in Ontario compared to what little in the way of driving I have done in Michigan. I drove in Michigan maybe 6 times ( 3 arrival and return trips) in the early 90's and had no trouble getting around road. Heck in one of those cases it was weeks before I started to wear glasses and my only struggle was with my vision. Although I never drove on I-75 from Detroit to Florida, from what I can recall as a passenger is there more advance warning signs. Like a minute or two before before an interchange, much better than Ontario that rarely does that. Even city signs leave a lot to be desired.

This is one of those cases there is no signage until the last minute. The sign at the bridge is the FIRST sign that the right lane goes on a highway (401 East) and the left can go to the 401 West or to a city road . To complicate matters, one has just gone around the corner and there are cars stopped on the lane to the right or sometimes even in the right lane to pickup and drop off people to the mall or subway.


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Does it excuse the white delivery truck. No. As a lot of people here mention, if you miss your exit don't make a reckless lane change or in this case, hold up traffic from the lane you are turning from. If you miss your exit, go to the next turn or exit and turn back.
 
My wife and myself were talking about things, so I removed the audio. Horns blaring. I also removed the portion where the white delivery truck passed me to cut down on the length of the video. At the time , there was lots of room between me and the white Ford pickup truck.

@jokiin comments a fair bit of how there is image quality loss when a video is uploaded to Youtube. This is one of them. The license plate was visible, even with the head glare, in the video prior to it being uploaded. It isn't in Youtube.

Here is the still image.

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Kind of amusing when you think about it.
 
All that interchange needs is some spaghetti sauce :ROFLMAO: Early signage can go a long way to preventing situations like this and we do OK with that here, yet you still see plenty of people who aren't paying attention and wait till the last monument to get where they should have already been :( With early signage there is no excuse, but lacking it makes this at least somewhat understandable even if it is still wrong.

Phil
 
OMG :rolleyes: my PO meter would have been thru the roof, and i am pretty sure i would have to mute the soundtrack too:mad:

People like that need to be taken out of the motor vehicle operation equation, though i am not even sure i would want to share a bus with a person like that.

I am pretty sure he/she knew where he was going, i bet he pass by there every day.
 
I was stuck in traffic once for 3 hours due to two semi trucks ahead. That was in small Ford Escort. The only time I had back then not had a truck. When I had my trucks, and Jeeps (brand) I would go anywhere I chose. Why would you or anyone deny me the ability to route around such hazards?
 
Thats why the curb are there, to prevent people from driving where they should not be driving.

I would assume this scenario are a daily thing there, so if anyone with a truck did that the ground on either side of the road would be plowed up and look bad in no time, plus you would probably soon have soccer moms stuck out there in their 4x4 suv with street tires that are useless as soon as the grass or dirt get just a little wet.
And not forgetting the 4x4 guys that did do that they will drag dirt and mud onto the street making it even more dangerous and probably cause even more accidents at the site.

Just becuz you can it dont mean that you should.
And dont get me wrong boilers i do totally understand you, but i think its just one of those feelings that we should do our best to suppress.

My first 4x4 the Mitsubishi L200 got stuck on a wet level lawn with 4x4 engaged and the diffs locked, that prompted me to get better M&S tires ASAP, and that did make my land rover driving friend shut up cuz with better tires my long ( ext cab ) pickup pretty much drove the same places the shorter land rover did ( 110 inch WB on the LR Vs the at least 130 inch of the Mitsubishi pickup )

Only places i dident go was the ones where i would have ruined my car due to the long WB and lower ride hight, and my friend fully acknowledged that and shut up dissing Jap 4x4 cars cuz he was a Land Rover fanboy.
 
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There is a signage. Though drivers have only a few seconds to see it as they go around a curve and then pass it.

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Also, if one is coming from the south and wants to go east, its pretty obvious that one need to be in the right lane if there is what appears to an on ramp on the right hand side and no room for half circle ramp to the left. Either inconsiderate, non observant or lacking common sense to block traffic like that delivery truck did that provoked the Ford to go over the curb.
 
It would still be better with earlier signage too which could be placed wherever is convenient. In today's world where intelligence and common sense in drivers on the roads is so poor you have to compensate somehow or you will get this kind of thing as a result :(

There are several places here where it's not easy for non-locals to know which lane they need to be in until they get there. When I see out-of-state plates in those locations trying to get over I make room for them to keep the overall traffic flow going smoothly :cool: But when I see it's a local driver who is doing this just to get ahead of everyone else who have done the right thing by getting over early they get no quarter from me at all :mad:

Phil
 
The round signs here indicating speed limit you often see paired with one either side of the road, approaching major turnouts or traffic loops ( not Canadian major it seem ) then you will have overhead signs too, and before that a roadside sign but i do think its just a single sign a half to 1 Km before.

But it might very well be that many of the people passing by here are well aware of where they are going, and its just poor planning and arbitrary things that take away their attention to driving, and so force them to make stupid last minute changes.

The pic above are just so OMG to a little Dane like me, its like taking every similar stretch of road we have in the entire Jutland and then throw them all on top of each other.
I would be so GPS dependent over there :D
 
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