Tips for merging
What are your tips for merging with traffic when the lane you're approaching is at a near-45 degree angle from your lane? For example, a highway on or off ramp. As you get close to merging, you have...
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rgatijnet1 wrote:gemert wrote:
First VA is not my choice of a Common wealth, not even a State by their own choice. Sorry stationed there for years and hated it. What I have found in my 40 footer with 505 hp is that I am at a disadvantage merging into traffic. I accelerate as fast as I can and aim for a hole! If an uncooperative driver uses his acceleration advantage to try to cut me off then we are in trouble because usually I can no longer see them by that point. They will be surprised when I don't stop in the acceleration lane to let them, the idiot, by me. You think it's unsafe trying to fit in the hole at speed, try it from a stand still on a busy interstate. I always change lanes for buses, RVs and Semi's because I know how tough it is. It is not hard for a car or PU to adjust their speed and then pass after the big vehicle is safely in the through lane. I know people hate me because I dislike VA. Sorry.
And if that uncooperative driver is in another Class A, with traffic beside him and behind him so that he cannot pull over, what then tough guy?
tough. Guy is headed for a real serious wreck. Won't be an accident either. He will hopefully lose his drivers license while dispensing his brand of road courtesy . The courts will surely call his antics Road rage.
