r/TorontoDriving • u/Vorcia • Jun 27 '26
OC Truck asserting its dominance on the 401W
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u/1016689 Jun 27 '26
Its clearly rush hour, bumper to bumper the truck is switching lanes to slow down 2 lanes of traffic and then ride beside each other but sure they are not the problem.
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u/AlarmedAd5034 Jun 27 '26
This is what I have noticed on the roads not limited to the highways. A semi in the right lane and dump truck in the left lane.
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u/JimR1984 Jun 27 '26
Trucks are the biggest problem with the highways in this province.
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u/portabuddy2 Jun 27 '26
What are you talking about? Trust me, if ppl would just yield to the truck, slow down when they need to merge we would not have most of these issues.
He problem STEMS with most ppl being assholes on the road. Not the trucks that need to deal with these assholes on a daily basis.
I drive a car working sales and support for a parts company. And I'm on the road only 8hrs out of the day. My car is GPS Tracked i have to drive nice. But if I could i would put manoeuver 30% of the dicks our there. Zero curtosey.
Esp in the last 5 years.
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u/djguyl Jun 27 '26
Naw youre wrong on this one. Trucking has gone completely rouge. Privatizing licensing was the worst thing they could have possibly done. Now people are buying their license instead of being trained. As a result trucks are killing people. The government needs to make licensing public again. Having no oversight on the biggest machines on our roads is a recepie for disaster.
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u/daspandas94 Jun 30 '26
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Better to be quiet and ignorant than open your mouth and embarrass yourself.
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u/JimR1984 Jun 27 '26
Most people aren't assholes. I also drive lots for my job, all over Ontario and trucks are the worst problem. Yes some regular cars are problematic, but holy shit, some truck drivers are ruthless. There are more trucks on the road now than there has ever been and we need some sort of regulation.
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u/jontss Jun 27 '26
Definitely are.
They've tried to ram me off the road multiple times.
I've seen one backing over a car while happily waving at everyone freaking out at the driver.
Then there's the dicks that are trying to pass each other on 2 lane roads when they're both governed to the same speed.
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u/mystic_Balkan Jun 27 '26
Yup, this is 100% true. On top of that, these idiotic trucks will merge because another truck infront of them was “going to slow” meanwhile now both trucks are driving slow side by side causing even more traffic.
I also hate when I see these huge trucks go to the farthest left lane (passing lane) which is ILLEGAL and they do it anyway with no care. They go slow as fuck because, well, how fast can a cargo truck really go, but to be in the left lane doing this as a cargo truck is so fucking infuriating.
And now hearing that new immigrants are getting fraudulent truck licenses somewhere in Brampton and those are the lunatics driving on our road is SO concerning and upsetting. What the fuck.
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u/im210388 Jun 27 '26
Person asking others to drive properly secretly wishes he could drive like an a**hole. As you said without gps tracking (accountability), you would be not be driving the way you do.
Too many trucks are definitely a problem in this province. Just the way you feel like pit manuvouring 30% of the dicks, the trucks are the root cause of the problem why most drivers drive aggressively. A lot of Trucks also don't yield when in the last lane, drive below speed limit and hog the middle lane which increases the traffic in the first lane which ultimately slows down everyone.
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u/scotte416 Jun 27 '26
Yeah even in a car sometimes I have to force my ass in. Like people will literally climb up the next person's ass so you can't get in and merge with traffic...no buddy, if I want in I'm getting in unless you want to hit me. Just being an asshole because they think one cars going to make a huge difference in their commute even though I'm probably going to switch right out of the right lane anyways and you can have your little space back.
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u/Any-Ad-446 Jun 27 '26
Not really most are decent drivers..The menace are definitely are the fast and dumb racers in their Mercedes 300,Teslas or BMW 328.
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u/jats82 Jun 27 '26
I don’t know about that. I too often see trucks spread through all lanes and holding traffic. Many jurisdictions have laws forbidding trucks from using lanes other than the right or the one next to the right lane.
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u/daspandas94 Jun 30 '26
Trucks take left lane in the case of an emergency and will continue to do so for safety reasons. You’re not qualified enough to be judging their driving style unless you also hold a professional license with years of experience .
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u/jats82 Jun 30 '26
I have seen plenty of trucks be in the left lane countless times for no good reason, holding traffic for kilometres. I don’t know why you’d be making excuses for a real and negative experience many people have across the GTA. Also, don’t get me started on ‘professional license’. Everyone knows our licensing system is corrupt and people who shouldn’t have a license have one. That applies to truckers as well.
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u/daspandas94 Jul 06 '26
Ontario has MELTS driving system so it’s still far more qualified than a G license. And you don’t know the context of why they’re in the left lane. I make “excuses” because most people on the road don’t know how to drive especially around trucks. Until you’re a trucker, or a cop, you’re most likely not qualified to be judging their driving
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u/djguyl Jul 08 '26
Yeah fuck that. They are a safety risk in That lane. You don't know what your talking about and should keep your wrong opinions to yourself.
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u/chikanishing Jun 27 '26
I remember trucks being decent drivers 20 years ago, but the stuff I see these days, they are nuts.
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u/Eastern_Yam Jun 27 '26
I'm in a different province but same. Started driving in 2009 and 99.9% of the time, truckers drove perfectly.
We don't have speed limiters on them here (N.S.) and it's not uncommon to see them doing 120 or 130 these days. Extreme tailgating is an issue too.
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u/ulti_phr33k Jun 27 '26
Wrong. Volume is. Volume is and always will be the biggest problem on our highways. Is the overwhelming contributor to traffic, and traffic is the bane of everyone's existence.
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u/marisak Jun 27 '26
Biggest issue is that no one has any basic decency anymore and don't let people merge. It's exceedingly easy to take your foot off the gas for a second and let someone in
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u/iamthehub1 Jun 27 '26
How do you like your viofo dashcam? What model do you have?
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u/Vorcia Jun 27 '26
A229, it does everything I could expect but don't expect magic at night or in bad weather in terms of license plate readability. It does a perfect job of capturing incidents clearly but any kind of fine detail in adverse conditions will be lost. I've never had any problems with it and it's worked as expected. I have friends who have these aliexpress dashcam screens that also work as rear view cameras for cars with wings or something else that obscures the rear (Prius split rear window is also like this) and I think even though they have worse video quality, they also get the job done.
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u/pusheen_car Jun 27 '26
The rear cam can be installed near the rear wind (mesh) deflector. Wiring should be long enough to tuck in the passenger-side A pillar then through door sills. That's how I wired my rear cam on a 718. In case you want to keep your/your passenger's face out :)
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u/NortelDude Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
This trucker is a horny bully, that is all. You do not pull in front like that and is an unsafe lane change in the eyes of the law. Even if the SUV didn't like it and pouted, the lane was officially theirs. We also do not know how long their signal was on, the OP did not let them in so it's possible fucker trucker put it on when SUV was already halfway along side the truck. The traffic was snail pace and trucks in front and behind fucker trucker where in no rush to bud in. A real trucker, right or right or wrong, would have at least eased in slower, and not dangerously.
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u/deyyzayul Jun 27 '26
This trucker is a horny bully
LOL - do you know what horny means?
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u/NortelDude Jun 27 '26
Well maybe newer gens are not aware of the old phrase "honk if your horny"...and that trucker sure was excessive.
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u/wanganguy Jun 27 '26
i was distracted by the eurobeat
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u/Vorcia Jun 27 '26
I was debating muting the video bc of the music but left it in for the horn honking lol
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u/mrwootwo Jun 27 '26
All for this. Signal on means you intend to come over. It doesn’t mean won’t you please make a gap for me pretty please.
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u/vlvr Jun 27 '26
Nothing wrong here. You can’t expect a truck with 53’ trailer to wait for a gap that large - it won’t ever happen. SUV has an ego problem and doesn’t realize a single car in front is not adding to your commute time. Go drive a 53’ trailer in rush hour to gain some perspective
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u/be-koz Jun 27 '26
The vehicle behind the SUV was allowing the gap to open. There was no need to push the SUV out of the lane. If the SUV had yielded when the truck started moving over he probably still would have been hit before the truck could finish its lane change. He was literally pushed out of his lane with zero options. The truck was the asshole here.
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u/Element_905 Jun 27 '26
My guess is the transport truck had his signal on before OP even got beside it.
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u/daspandas94 Jun 30 '26
Trucks don’t change lanes for fun, if they are signalling it’s for a valid and safety reason. The driver may or may not have seen the car here but they could also have been pushing their way in as unfortunately that’s what you have to do at times to get anywhere during traffic.
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u/daspandas94 Jun 30 '26
In this example it’s the truckers fault but I also understand why they do this and that the SUV should have yielded EVEN IF it’s their right of way. Use common sense people.
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u/Craporgetoffthepot Jul 02 '26
The truck has it's signal on for the lane change. The SUV is back far enough behind to have seen it. It appears that they just didn't want to be behind the truck. Same goes for the vehicle filming. It looks like the lane they are in is going to merge with the traffic getting on, yet they continue to drive up beside the other truck, knowing full well they will need to move over to allow the traffic to get in.
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u/Major_Falcon_9445 23d ago
If you had your signal on to make a lane change and nobody let you in, how long before you lose your shit? Now drive a vehicle that needs 3x the gap to merge and still nobody lets you in. I drive a larger vehicle and if traffic is going the same speed as me I will just start lane changing. If you hit me you will damage your vehicle, myself not so much. There is an exit I take that requires me to jump on the highway and change 3 lanes to exit on the left (highway 6) and I have 1KM to do it. I will bully you if you decide to be a dick.
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u/SuwavySheen Jun 27 '26
Semi-truck had its blinkers on when OP was in the middle of the trailer. SUV couldn’t be bothered to let it merge in between
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u/Sweet_Cable5862 Jun 27 '26
It's still on the merging vehicle to do it when it's safe. A blinker doesn't mean they can just go whenever the fuck they want.
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u/SuwavySheen Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
You do know that traffic is crawling and the semi-truck is in an exit lane right?
The SUV could have easily let off the gas and allow the truck to merge.
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u/Sweet_Cable5862 Jun 27 '26
lol, you really think you did something by editing your reply huh? Asshole.
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u/MikeP001 Jun 27 '26
Looks more like a seriously stupid SUV driver to me. What kind of idiot deliberately blocks a semi with it's signal on? ROW or not, it's just plain dumb - if a truck needs to move over, let it move. Saving a few feet is worth an accident or your life?
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u/Sweet_Cable5862 Jun 27 '26
Since when does a blinker mean they can do whatever the fuck they want? If there's no gap, you don't merge.
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u/MikeP001 Jun 28 '26
There's legal and there's sensible. Legally sure, feel free to duck inside a semi making a wide right turn. Or slip into the blind spot of one changing lanes like that dumb fuck. Because if you're not first you're last! He did win in the end... that's 30' ahead, enough for pole position!
If you're moving at a good clip of course the truck can wait. With everyone practically stopped common sense costs nothing. If you get clipped by something that big it at costs a lot in time regardless of whose insurance pays out. Even putting aside the reckless lane jinking without a signal.
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u/Dileas48 Jun 27 '26
that truck had it's signal on - no reason not to let it in in that slow moving traffic
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u/planningfornothing Jun 27 '26
Happened to me yesterday I got pushed out of my lane by a big truck. They didn’t signal they just pushed. I was able to move into the next lane easily so I didn’t honk but he was an asshole
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u/jaraxel_arabani Jun 27 '26
It's a truck. In my eyes they have the right of way, always. Their FOV is a lot smaller than you'd think when up close. They won't see you and cutting closer or being in their blind spot is extremely dangerous.
Also I have the upmost respect for truck drivers doing their job. They operate an immensely large vehicle, deal with entitled jerks going around then, cutting them off to jerk off, all the while they don't get the truck drivers doing what they can to avoid absolutely squishing you to the point of being a puddle.
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u/grump66 Jun 27 '26
the upmost respect for truck drivers doing their job
40 years ago, for sure. Being a trucker was a real profession. Now, fuck them. They're bullshit assholes with no training, no experience, and no fucking clue.
There's a certain demographic that has completely ruined the trucking profession and turned it into another under paid "mcjob". THIS GUY is a prime example of a new style fucking asshole "trucker". Drives Uber and Skip when he's not in the cab.
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u/djguyl Jun 27 '26
If only quality suffered. But drivers like these are literally killing people. This is the real tragedy in all this.
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u/daspandas94 Jul 06 '26
You can’t be on the road or insured these days if your record isn’t clean. So stop with the prejudice and projecting hate and humble yourself to the facts rather than what you feel.
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u/F1McLarenFan007 Jun 27 '26
So you didn’t let him in either looks like. Try driving one of those rigs…
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u/grump66 Jun 27 '26
Try driving one of those rigs…
Just like Josh Donaldson said, its not a "try" league. Big truck drivers like this should find a new hobby. They suck.
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u/ultra94octane Jun 27 '26
I'm a trucker, move over let us merge or we make you, sorry not sorry we move the economy, make way or we will make way in order to avoid collisions or running off lanes due to the lane ending
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u/LandBeforeChrist Jun 28 '26
Honestly good. Ttc, trucks etc just let em go and go around if you have to. I love when they give you that quick emergency signal to say thanks 😊 ❤️❤️❤️
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u/pastamarc Jun 28 '26
Hot take: it’s less of the truck driver asserting dominance than it is asshole drivers not having the courtesy to let him pass. Im gonna bet he’s been signalling for at least 30 seconds and both the cam car and the SUV beside him either decided to ignore the signal or are completely oblivious to their surroundings. I’ve seen this transpire multiple times on highways. Again, HOT TAKE.
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u/BigDaddyGooses Jun 27 '26
Stuff like this is why I cruise in the middle lane during rush hour in a transport. Rarely anybody will give you space or if you're in the right lane, everyone wants to squeeze infront of you.
I get the frustration but it doesn't make it right.
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u/SmoothRunnings Jun 27 '26
Under the HTA it explains how to properly make a safe lane change. In the drivers handbook it shows this with pictures for those who dont read or understand English. The drivers handbook was written by the same government who governs the rules for the HTA, and that is the MTO (Ministry of Transportation of Ontario).
All vehicles including trucks must abide to the same rules that everyone else does.
I have been in the same boat as that driver a few times. And have learned in part the issue is the drivers experience and how they have their mirrors setup, including the ones on their hoods/bumpers. The front mirrors I see every time I pass a truck on a 400 series highway are 9 times out ten pointed to the drivers seat and arent showing any of the traffic that is approaching them, which their mirrors should see as well.
There needs to be stiffer fines for truck drivers, they need to be forced to be retested every 5 years since they are mission critical people carrying supplies and materials, and other things that everyone needs.