Canadian Reacts to Australian Truck Driver Dash Cam Videos - Close calls & crashes

[@stevenmccloskey4866]

That truck making the left turn wide was in the right legally. They have big signs on them that say Do Not Overtake Turning Vehicle.

[@joandsarah77]

The last guy is out in our area in rural Queensland. That particular road between Dalby and Toowoomba has quite a few overtaking lanes, all you need is a bit of patience and overtake there. It's also long and flat for a lot of it with good visibility. Zero need for stupid stunts like that.

[@taniaPBear]

The thing that I love most about your reactions, is the intelligence, common sense, honesty and mostly compassion, that is very rare on these types of channels. Maybe that's not what sells these days, I don't know, you should have so many more subs IMO. Just want to say, I love your work. ✌❤

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

Yes the truck was making a left turn from the right lane and the truck was in the right. The truck need to go wide to make the turn. DumbD-Head in the car did not look for that flashie lightie thing on the truck, but you can't do that when you an facebook on you phone

[@jennybowd2962]

Couldn't have said it better lol

[@georgescott6967]

In Australia one vehicle has to give way to another, but no one has "right of way".

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Wow, our truckies really have a tough job! We recently had ads on tv about truck awareness, by putting people into the driver's seat and describing what they could see, many failed to pick up the obvious obstacles! As the last guy said, they have to drive under a defined speed, time limit too! The other drivers were idiots, it's just not worth the 5 minutes saved by passing, each life is important! 🙋

[@grahamejohn6847]

You are so right about defensive driving it seems to be a lost art. When I learned to drive I was taught to look ahead and plan ahead people now seem to randomly cross multiple lanes to make a turn because their attention was elsewhere. Lack of awareness on the roads seems to be a major problem.

[@jayweb51]

Road rules in Australia, allow semi-trailers to make a wide turn from the middle lane; all trucks have signs on the rear, which states "DO NOT OVERTAKE TURNING VEHICLE". The moment a truck has put their indicator on, to make a turn; you are required to hold back, to allow the truck to complete the turn(without interference).

[@guccigasbag2780]

@4:19 truck was in the right lane turning left. They had right of way as they had to take it wide to make it. There are signs on the back of trucks “do not overtake turning vehicles” 🤦🏻‍♀️ @9:29 there’s a sign that say form 1 lane you’ll see it. The silver car was being an arsehole trying not to let the truck in. Silver car was in the wrong. Yes the truck had to merge into another lane but the truck was in front. Silver car was meant to let truck in. But too much of an arsehole to let truck in.

[@boeingfan7179]

It’s scary to see this stuff, and equally infuriating to see egos at play.

[@Pomdownuder]

3:35 these sections of freeway have plenty of signage for kilometres prior to the exit. It's a little more understandable in built up areas with multiple junctions converging. How some people don't see 30 / 40 tons of truck coming at you is beyond me

[@gregoryparnell2775]

All three cars crossed the centre line on the corner before the Orange truck caught the black car.

[@goaway2803]

In these vids all the trucks weren't at fault. I don't understand why people don't realise how trucks need to turn and worse, they don't bother with the Don't overtake turning vehicle signs that are on the back of all long hauls. Thank you for reviewing even more moron drivers, Mate XD

[@retrozmachine1189]

09:20, there is a form one lane sign. When the dividing line stops in the middle of the road as it does here, the merge method is each vehicle takes it's turn in natural order. What ever vehicle is partially ahead of another is the one that goes first. If the natural order sees 4 vehicles in the other lane go before you, then that's how it's done. There is no concept of 'like a zipper', which implies one to one merge, in Australia. The car driver should have braked and fallen in line behind the truck. If the dividing line truncates a lane then traffic in the truncated lane must give way to all traffic in the continuing lane.

[@johnchrysostomon6284]

Coight said to leave the trailer behind so it would not have been him

[@spiderrabbit1556]

Trucks travel too fast. They almost always are speeding because they get paid by the number of runs they make. The more runs they can do the more money they make. It is in their financial interest to speed. Yes there are idiots on the road In all shapes and forms. So you drive slower and carefully, it is not rocket science.

[@kevkoala]

Umm...trucks travelling too fast...they're speed limited to 100 k an hour you galah! How much slower do you want them to go?

[@glenod]

im not sure if its the rise of dash cams that we get to see more of this, or its been happening a long time. some mother fu ckers have no situational awareness what so ever. on top of that, people using devices when driving, i see it every day. too many inept, incompetent and impaired drivers on our roads.