Likely there was a lane closure up ahead and despite the right thing to do being a 'zipper merge', its hard to perceive when the lane actually ends and so lots of people often decide to queue up really early, making the whole thing way more congested than it needs to be.
Then when cars try to merge later on (within reason) its like they are cutting in line, and the lorry driver decided to try and stop that from happening, even though the whole thing shouldn't even be like that.
Maybe similar here as UK. Queuing in one lane almost always happens in UK as some people incorrectly think they need to get over ASAP and those that know better do it anyway so as not to get into the inevitable rage incident by those that don't know better. We end up with a long single line backing up on to the previous junction/roundabout causing gridlock on other roads. Guys like this truck driver like to play pretend cop and stop "queue jumpers" when if everyone just merged in turn in the first place like they were supposed to there'd be no problem and no queue jumping (and crucially no excessively long queue blocking other junctions). Most video clips on social media attract the clowns into the comment sections where they'll argue against using both lanes but these are usually the kind of driver that can only look 6ft in front of their own car. They need re-educating. Professional drivers like this truck driver should be fined or suspended as they should know better.
Professional drivers are often the worst. It feels like they're thinking "well I'M driving for a good reason unlike all those others" or possibly "I lose money by being nice to others "
Also, one of the biggest problems, at least in the U.S.A is everyone is ME ME ME! Or they JUST HAVE TO get in front of a truck to save a couple seconds, there’s no way they can be behind a big slow truck…. Yes I am a truck driver and yes unfortunately I drive a slow truck but I’m one of the considerate ones…. Also in this video, sometimes you have to do this depending on the city for the reasons stated above…. However getting out of the truck was definitely a dipshit move!
The weird thing is merge in turn seems to create anger and often anticipated anger, drivers are on high alert to block lanes or drive on the ass of the car in front to prevent merging but then most drivers in an almost gridlock situation will allow alternating junction entries. So say I'm on the main priority road and it's queuing, I let one car enter and move on, the car behind will do the same even though we have priority. It suddenly turns into a 'we're all in this together let's drop priority and work it out' but merge in turn seems to create this massive conflict of me vs the rest. I understand it is annoying to see one car flying past everyone else but he wouldn't be able to if the queue was set up properly. The anxiety of conflict caused the single file and the single file causes the conflict.
There is a permanent merge in turn near me where they've installed permanent bollards down between the lanes so you can't change lanes until the merge, it seems to have fixed the majority of issues
In polish law, you ride to the end of the line and merge. And each car on the right lane must let at least 1 car in for merge, just like in zipper. Also blocking the left lane like that, called Sheriff is illegal.
Depends on many factors. Ideally if you know when the merge is happening, you have time to neatly zip together in an alternating fashion. If nobody is doing that then I don't think there is an issue unless you're doing it right at the last second
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u/demonchee 22d ago
What was the truck even raging about though?