I've noticed a strange new trend in the trucking industry...

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APPARENTLY if a driver has his signal on it automatically gives him the right of way...case in point:

I'm driving down the interstate in the right lane doing the speed limit. There is a truck passing me, he's not passing me real fast and not real slow all the while he has his right signal on. I figure he will get up past me and move over...Just as he is about half way passing me he JERKS his truck violently into my lane, how he missed me I will never know but did nearly run me off the road.

He then hits his brakes hard lays on his horn as long as he can and falls in behind me and takes the next exit...At this point it becomes apparent to me I should have known by his signal he wanted me to SLAM on my brakes so he could get over to make his exit.

Now when I got home i pulled out my 23 year old CDL manuel to see where I missed this, couldn't find it anywhere then I thought it must have been updated in all that time that a driver with his signal on has the right of way...

This has happened to me twice in the last month and since it has never happened in all my 23 years of driving I figured it has to be a new CDL requirement...

Perhaps the newtimers can catch me up on the new regulations....