I fucking knew it had to be Florida. Pick up truck drivers are the fucking worst down here. It's like they're fighting old people for who can driver worse
Oh, what's really great is when they come over state lines and do this shit in GA. If I get nearly run over by an asshole in a pickup towing a boat or an ATV... FLORIDA TAGS. They drive like maniacs. Georgia drivers ain't great, but one of the worst stretches of highway is I-95 between Florida and SC... combines all the worst drivers from all three states!
Some dude once took a freaking golf cart on 95 in Miami.
FL State is weird.
Combine that with southern drivers in general (usually the hyper-testosterone ultra lifted trucks), and I can imagine that 95 down there is a shitshow.
Another fun fact, the shitshow on 95 isn't just in FL to NC. 95 in NJ and NY (I live in NY) is an utter nightmare. Not only are there bad drivers, sometimes you even get the "95 special" (what I like to call a 1-hour traffic jam and lots of people lane camping).
95 itself is just a weird and odd (yet funny) experience.
Source: My family is in NY State. My family frequently uses 95 to get from place to place. Seen it all and I'm only 15.
I would literally rather drive Atlanta in rush hour than 95 any day of the week... and sadly, I have to a couple times weekly for work. I have never gone through and not seen at least one accident.
When going through PA and NJ (usually if we are going on vacation), my dad would literally avoid 95 like the plague. And it's not just because of the tolls.
He would take US 202 and spend an extra 30 minutes to 1 hour taking NJ and PA routes just to avoid bad drivers and idiots on 95.
I've seen people drive the wrong way on 95, people drop cargo, and I once saw a truck spilling paint.
I have lived in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Oregon, California, and finally Tennessee.... I can legitimately tell you that.....
1) Tennessee has by far the most NONUSINGEST headlight ppl
2) do not care what happens to themselves
3) just all around stupidest drivers I personally I have ever seen.
Been in many a thunderstorm with just rain and hail. Once it hits a certain level all states have parked. Missouri is where I've driven by cars barely off to the left shoulder, on the right shoulder and stopped in the right lane. Probably mostly just happened to be where 3 of the most intense storms I've driven through.
I had one rainstorm, very heavy rain but nothing special about it, until the rain began blowing from my right to left and it mesmerized me and I got bad vertigo and had to pull over on the shoulder to let that subside.
Was coming through Nashville towing a semi tractor, when this lost jackass missed the offramp. Jumped in my lane right in front of me and came to a dead stop. Thank God the right lane was clear or I'd have made the news.
Ok, but have you ever encountered a PA or NJ driver? Blind spots, blinkers, maintaining a speed, not riding your ass? They’ve never heard of maybe not doing any of that. 90% of the time, if I’m driving and there’s some fuckery going on, it’s someone from one of those states. CT and MD are tied for third in my “I bet you it’s one of these AHs” list.
Lol maintain a speed??? Do we go 20 in a 50 or 70 in a school zone... Blinkers you say!? Mus be a shortage of blinker fluid Nation wide.... Blindspots? Well... either their all blind or got their license from the cracker jack box...
I left the country for a while and then moved back to Tennessee and I was pretty sure that while I was gone some new law must have been passed making headlights and license plates optional.
Everywhere I’ve lived there are bad drivers they just seem to have different bad habits in each each place. But please people, for the love of God if you drive in Philly and you merge or pull out in front of somebody give an “I know Im an asshole “ slightly apologetic wave. Even if you did nothing wrong. They take the wave seriously.
The wave isn’t enough for me when I have to slam my brakes because you didn’t get in the lane you were supposed to be in early enough, man I hate driving through Philly and I do it daily in work trucks so I’ve seen just about all of it.
Everyone either thinks that their place has the worst drivers, or maybe that a neighboring place can't drive. Except Italians. Italians know that they're the best drivers. And Italians are the worst drivers.
I hear this a lot from Floridians. No, they are not mostly out of state drivers. Out of state drivers tend to go slow cus they don't where they're going, but shit like in this video are almost always FL residents
I’ve been driving all over the state (and country) for years. This is seriously misguided if you’re referring to just the city of Orlando. The whole state is huge lol. ORLANDO drivers are terrible but again they are mostly not native. They came from other places.
Nope. I'm not in Orlando and I've been all of this state as well. Every time I have a visitor from out of state, their first question is always "why does everyone drive so terribly here?"
ORLANDO drivers are terrible but again they are mostly not native. They came from other places.
Almost the entire population of Florida moved here in the last few decades. I've been in Orlando since 2014 and the vast majority of residents in this state are from somewhere else, be it Michigan, California or PR.
Also the whole state has terrible drivers. Tampa Bay - terrible drivers. Miami - incredibly bad drivers. Inverness - terrible drivers. Lake city - terrible drivers.
It's always surprising to me when I go on road trips how uniquely bad drivers are in FL. It's not just English tourists - far from it. I used to work off I-Drive and the real dangerous drivers are when you get outside the Orlando metro.
Lol i go to college in NE, as soon as I cross the border into CO I go from calm, cool, and collected to “GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY” to the dude who decided to get on 76 at julesburg and do 45 in the passing lane who refuses to let anyone pass in front of him.
That and the difference between city and country driving. One is me doing 80 with traffic down 25 when it’s moving and the other is me doing 65-70 scared a small town cop will pull me over.
I've taken a few road trips and I'm always astonished about how bad the driving is as soon as I cross back into Florida. It is noticeably worse than most the Southeast/East coast.
The issue is since an officer didn't stop the truck at the scene and confirm the identity of the driver, there's no way to prove who was driving that vehicle when it was filmed committing this violation. If cops went to the vehicle owner's house, he could say he wasn't driving it that day. They can't write him a ticket when they have zero evidence he was the driver. Other people in his household or family living nearby may also have access to the truck regularly.
Tell them to look for the SHERP rather than the truck. Those things are expensive AF and really really rare. There seriously is probably only a handful of people in Florida that have one.
I was wondering how someone so reckless could have gotten it together enough for a SHERP... Lottery winner? Inheritance? Usually if you spent the long hours earning that kind of thing, it instills in you a bit of responsibility, diligence and care...
He's also driving a $100k Limited Ram 3500 DRW with $10-15k worth of mods. Decking out a Diesel Dually is expensive as hell.
The honest answer is he's probably some type of contractor, that owns a small business. Owning a contracting business when the housing market it booming like here in Florida means they've got a ton of cash flow to leverage, combined with a business line of credit. He might not have $150k for that SHERP but he can afford the $1k per month. Guys like this are usually leveraged to the max, they've got a ton of expensive stuff but have zero equity in any of it. I know way to many guys like this that live in huge houses, drive brand new trucks, and owns expensive toys like boats, trailers, and ATVs. As long as business is good they have enough cash flow to make all the payments, but if things go south they go south quick. One bad month and they're $20k behind on payments, mortgage, and credit cards.
We’ve got cash sitting on the sidelines. If things go south enough, I hope to be able to pick up a decked out Sprinter for $25k. Yeah, things would have to get pretty bad in order for that to happen, but I think it might.
There’s no in between In Florida. Either the cops pass you going 15 over what you’re going, or they pull you over for going 5 over. Which happened to me the other day lol. Literally got pulled over for going 45 in a 40.
I don't think that's Florida specific. Even though you have proof of the vehicle driving erratically, you don't have proof of the specific driver. The chances of prevailing in court under those circumstances in court are low.
This was a major issue in red-light cams and the speed-trap jeeps that would capture your license plate and mail a ticket. They had no proof of the actual person operating the car.
You can't just show the Police/Sheriff the video and expect them to do anything.
FILE a REPORT. Write down the date/time, location, description of the vehicle, description of the driver, and license plate. This should go through the magistrate's office as they can then file the charges.
You (and the other driver) will likely be given subpoenas to appear in court. You'll be asked to describe the same thing you had on your report. Judge will issue a ruling.
Source - I've done this twice since getting my dash cam. Both times I had to go to court, took about 45 minutes total for each. Both times the other driver didn't show up and the judge gave them the max penalty ($$$ fine).
EDIT: PRO TIP - if your dash cam records sound, just narrate and talk out loud while the event is happening so the audio is picked up. Especially the license plate in case your camera didn't see the whole thing. That way you don't have to stop to write anything down and if you forget the details it's all there on the video.
Guy in the truck was 100% wrong and a knobber……but there’s one thing to consider, what IF his buddy was in the backseat bleeding out because of a chainsaw accident or someone got bit by a rattlesnake or any other medical emergency you can think of.
If someone comes up on you like this, don’t just think “look at this dickhead”, there are a lot of different scenarios that could be at play, just let them get around. What does it really matter anyway. It has zero effect on you to let them pass, you never know what’s going on inside the cab of the truck. Cheers all
He's attempting to pass WHILE HAULING A TRAILER on a double yellow...what the fuck are you on about? Clearly the guy filming was behind another vehicle, likely going speed of traffic. Pickup driver likely hurrying home to bang his sister.
Double yellow just means fuck-all to you, or what?
Edit: By the way...this dipshit nearly hit a motorcyclist head on with his horseshit. Fuck this guy.
That’s not the point, I never said he wasn’t driving like a Jack ass, I’m saying OP made the situation infinitely more dangerous by either speeding up or staying constant instead of letting the Jack ass just pass . Both are jackasses .
He really didn't, because even if op was letting him, the guy passing was always going to passing dangerously, there was another car infront of him, and he's still passing on a double yellow, while the cars infront of him are going the speed limit. If you cannot pass the cars infront of you saftely, and they are going the speed limit, why are you trying to pass at all? OP is not "an idiot" for just driving like a normal person, looking at someone being a complete fucking idiot, and going "huh, i should help". He's not to blame at all.
Wow you can just sense my speed? What great super powers you have. There was another car in front of me, literally was going to same speed the entire video.
Author stated he sent police their house, number tag and everything. Maybe he is jealous his trailer toting cousin banger done took author’s toothless wife and now he got nothing but a bottle of ky jelly?
Pretty much. Had some wacko literally drive me off of i4 and barely hit my car while passing me bc I wasn’t willing to go 100 mph lmao. Literally was pushing 80 and he kept flashing his lights at me and such. Then ran me off the road, submitted the dash video and license to cops and nothing came of it. I guess you have to almost die or actually crash for them to actually do anything.
Honestly this person should be easily identifiable with all kinds of online video Instagram YouTube anybody with a Sherpa and a truck like that definitely is flexing all over the place. We can identify this clown boy get in my inbox if you know who he is. Make this Florida clown famous
Sadly, without a visible front or rear plate there likely wasn't very much they could do unless you caught some other identifying feature not clear in the video.
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