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I don't but my goodness... glad you're okay. That was close.

An Ambro Transport trailer.

How fast were you going?  
 
Hydro poles are about 90 meters apart. It took you 3 seconds to pass them so that's about 30 meters per second or 110 km/h.

Obviously the truck driver chose to pass at the wrong time and broke just a few traffic laws by doing that and created an unsafe situation.  
 
BUT AND THIS IS A BIG BUT,  
 
You seen the situation developing and chose to not drive defensively by not slowing down and/or taking the paved shoulder to help avoid an accident.  
 
I believe you both to be in the wrong, but you more so than the truck driver as you chose to play chicken with the semi, that placed your life, the oncoming truck driver s life and the driver in the semi being passed...

dfd881 said "Obviously the truck driver chose to pass at the wrong time and broke just a few traffic laws by doing that and created an unsafe situation.     BUT AND THIS IS A BIG BUT,     You seen the situation developing and chose to not drive defensively by not slowing down and/or taking the paved shoulder to help avoid an accident.     I believe you both to be in the wrong, but you more so than the truck driver as you chose to play chicken with the semi, that placed your life, the oncoming truck driver s life and the driver in the semi being passed... "

How do you know the OP didn't slow down and played chicken? Your making an assumption. I doubt anyone would play Chicken with a semi coming right at them and from watching the video you can clearly tell the OP slowed down. Sound like your trying to defend the steering wheel holder in the semi. A professional driver would of never passed.

B said "Attached video near Nesbitt MB on February 22/2017 about 230pm. Semi was eastbound on highway #2. Anyone recognize it and can give me a plate number and/or company name? Video can be seen here     https://youtu.be/WAGx1USaaxc     Edited by B, 2017-03-01 19:35:17"

Doesn't matter who's truck it was you are the total dick in this situation. Telling him to step on it? You're a moron, put your brakes on for a couple seconds and let him pass, a semi can't just step on it and zip around someone to pass. Probably best you don't let too many people see that video if you are looking for sympathy.

kevlar said "    B said "Attached video near Nesbitt MB on February 22/2017 about 230pm. Semi was eastbound on highway #2. Anyone recognize it and can give me a plate number and/or company name? Video can be seen here     https://youtu.be/WAGx1USaaxc     Edited by B, 2017-03-01 19:35:17" Doesn't matter who's truck it was you are the total dick in this situation. Telling him to step on it? You're a moron, put your brakes on for a couple seconds and let him pass, a semi can't just step on it and zip around someone to pass. Probably best you don't let too many people see that video if you are looking for sympathy. "

you had a long time to react and pull off to the right regardless of the semi driver and his 'passing fail'.

The young man.... watch the video, hydro poles and yellow road lines stay at a consistent speed in the video, so easy to assume the OP did not slow down.

kevlar said "    B said "Attached video near Nesbitt MB on February 22/2017 about 230pm. Semi was eastbound on highway #2. Anyone recognize it and can give me a plate number and/or company name? Video can be seen here     https://youtu.be/WAGx1USaaxc     Edited by B, 2017-03-01 19:35:17" Doesn't matter who's truck it was you are the total dick in this situation. Telling him to step on it? You're a moron, put your brakes on for a couple seconds and let him pass, a semi can't just step on it and zip around someone to pass. Probably best you don't let too many people see that video if you are looking for sympathy. "

Maybe the OP should of reacted different. But cleary the semi driver didn't have enough time and space to safely pass the other truck and shouldn't be passing in the first place.

It is or was an Ambro Transport Inc trailer, the phone number on the trailer also matches, managed to pause the frame to read it, yes, out of business since 2015.  
 
What I don't get is why didn't you slow down?? Can clearly see that didn't happen. Seems like you wanted to make a point to this semi-driver in a nearly fatal manner.  
 
Drivers are taught to drive defensively.  
About every time I leave Brandon going west towards Kemnay (going at or below the speed limit), it seems more often than not a retiree will unsafely pull out of riverheights terrace(the big retirement home) to turn east, forcing me to break hard to avoid T-boning them, it's crazy how often this happens, could only imagine how many serious collisions would have occured if my only recourse was to mumble step on it step on it step on it...  
 
As for the semi driver, how do you know if perhaps the other semi he/she were passing hadnt increased their own speed while unknowingly being passed by the semi in question? Turning what was a sure to be safe pass into a hazardous position compounded into outright dangerous by your bullish driving.

Wow! seriously? Why did you not back off some? You realize not only were you risking your life but at least 2 other people's ..to what prove a point of some kind? Hope to hell I'm never driving where you are...assanine move

As someone who is out on the highway more often then not, and driving as many kms of this country as I have, I can say the mentality of the OP seems to be the norm out there now. Everyone out there is so desperate to hold onto that little piece of pavement they are on like they own it, And heaven help you if you need them to give an inch!  
Your litttle sense of "right" isn't going to do you a lick of good after your dead. Although that 18 may have passed at a very inopportune time with that curve, you should have been the defensive driver and gave way to save a possibly horrendous situation.  
Hope you keep your life insurance premiums paid up with tuts attitude,

You Played chicken with a semi!  
 
Nicely done, I hope you think you proved something to him..  
 
I don''''t disagree with the bad pass, I just don''''t understand your actions..  
 
FYI! You will always lose in that battle!  
 
I also suspect your new camera might prove you are guilty of some for of dangerous driving, let us know how this goes.  
 
Edited by loeog, 2017-03-02 08:07:59

Many people have never heard of the defensive driving course, which became manditory for drivers that were not good drivers, and had the tickets to prove it. I never had to take the course, but after talking to people who had to, thought it was a course that should be included in the process of getting a license.  
The course covered the three C's of defensive drivining, they were care, caution and courtesy, and put the responsibility of driving on YOU, to make the roads safer.  
There are always things that we cannot judge with 100% accuracy, things like distance, speed of oncoming traffic, road conditions, visibility and many others. People make mistakes while driving, but the idea of safe driving means one must use care, caution and courtesy while driving.

I'm pretty sure that the guy with the video could have slowed down more than he did (which was very little) and pulled out of the lane at least a little bit? His vehicle never left the lane. What are you trying to do, putting your life at risk like that? I hope you weren't with family, or drive like that with family, just to get "it" on video. The shoulder looked like an excellent option, otherwise it wouldn't have been as close as it was.  
 
From the looks of things, the video taker was just coming out of a left curve. It's possible that the semi driver committed to making a pass and maybe couldn't see around the semi and around the right hand curve coming up? Maybe he didn't know there was a right hand curve coming up? Its possible he may not have seen him coming because the other semi was blocking. I don't think this would be intentional, as he does appear to pass on a broken line. The semi driver was probably already committed and beside the other truck, when he saw the video taker coming out of the curve, and therefore had no choice but to finish his pass.  
 
In the end, nobody was hurt, and that's all that matters. Good luck in trying to determine who the truck belongs to.

yup i agree with the masses, im going to say the op didnt do everything in his power to help the situation at all and while the semi driver did end up in a bad spot there was only a few choices the driver had once they were in that spot.  
 
it takes a long time for a semi to pass another semi and sometimes the drivers misjudge because its hard to see that far ahead, the few things that the driver could have done was either break hard and fast and gotten back in line or speed up so they made it hoping the other semi (or the op) slow down to help either option isnt great because once you're beside another semi it takes a bit to get back in line or continue the pass  
 
so reality is that if you value your life and others on the road we should all help each other out, we have all made mistakes, cut things close ect, its EVERYONE'S responsibility to a=minimize the risk, the OP defiantly didnt do that, next time dont be a D

to be that close face to face with a semi I would be in a concern panicking voice and I would be moving to the shoulder because if a hit collision the vehicle and driver would be a bad shape.

If i did know who was driving that rig I wouldn't tell you anyway. You didn't all down or move over to make sure he had the room to finish the pass. Did you have headlights on to make you visible to oncoming traffic? Given the distance he may not have seen you when he pulled out and once he was committed to passing he didn't have too many options for getting out of the way. The correct thing is you and the driver being passed both pull over to the shoulders to allow him to get through safely. Why on earth would you want to play chicken with a semi?? You could have moved onto the shoulder with no problem whatsoever. Please remember in future that if you tangle with a semi you will come off the worst-even if you are in the right, what's the point in getting yourself killed just to be right?

I would be interested to know that speed at which the OP was travelling, as I don't see any slowing down happening. Is it possible that BOTH drivers might have done well to be more cautious or pay more attention?  
 
Very scary though, yes.

The driver of the car is a complete idiot !!! Being someone who used to drive semi I often came into that situation when it want my doing. The car would see me pull out to pass-with plenty of room-and they would excelerate just to see what would happen. Lucky no one got to find out what could happen !!!!

No matter what wrong the driver of the semi committed, the correct course of action for the other driver (OP in this case) would be to slow down and pull to the right. In this case there seemed to be plenty of opportunity to do so.

legally didn't have to do anything different. It's only an opinion that he should of. He was in his lane and the semi driver going the opposite way when he passed another semi. It's still the responsibility of the driver passing to ensure it's safe to do so. The semi being passed should of slowed down to allow the truck to get back in that lane when they saw an oncoming vehicle coming.  
 
From the Professional Drivers Handbook for passing.  
'Being passed Drivers should not direct other drivers to pass, as this may encourage them to overdrive their ability. However, when other drivers pull out to pass, help them to pass  
safely by reducing speed. Avoid travelling alongside another vehicle for a long period of time.'  
 
https://www.mpi.mb.ca/en/PDFs/ProfDriverHBookComp.pdf  
 
The OP is not in the wrong.

to say this. But from Facebook it looks like I know the OP. I'm very disappointed. I thought he had better driving habits and manners than displayed in the video.

fargobob said "No matter what wrong the driver of the semi committed, the correct course of action for the other driver (OP in this case) would be to slow down and pull to the right. In this case there seemed to be plenty of opportunity to do so. "

cite the legal text for the OP to do that course of action? I don't see in in either the Drivers Handbook or the Professional Drivers Handbook.  
 
From the Manitoba Highway Traffic Act.  
'Passing on very narrow roadways  
s. 114(2)  
114(2) Except when overtaking and passing on the right is permitted, a driver of a vehicle being overtaken,  
s. 116(2)  
116(2) Without restricting the generality of subsection (1), no driver shall drive a vehicle to, or upon the left side of, the directional dividing line of a roadway in overtaking and passing another vehicle unless the left side of the roadway is clearly visible and is free of oncoming and overtaking traffic for a sufficient distance ahead to permit the overtaking and passing to be completed without interfering with the safe operation of another vehicle.'  
 
I see no requirement of an oncoming vehicle to have to slowdown and pullover to allow for vehicles to complete a pass in the opposite lane.

You are correct Trevor. But wouldn't it be better to take evasive action & be alive than be dead trying to prove a point ?

Hey! said "How fast were you going?     Hydro poles are about 90 meters apart. It took you 3 seconds to pass them so that's about 30 meters per second or 110 km/h. "

http://www.countcalculate.com/cars-and-speed/average-speed/result  
 
He was going 108 km/h in a 100km/h zone, little above but not extremely faster. And that was by plugging in what you said about poles 90m apart and taking 3 seconds to pass.

LarryRobins said "You are correct Trevor. But wouldn't it be better to take evasive action & be alive than be dead trying to prove a point ? "

Maybe in this case the OP should of taken evasive action given the road conditions. But the semi driver still would be in the wrong since he caused another driver to take that action.  
 
Edited by Trevor B, 2017-03-02 17:22:47

have my Class 3a and operate large trucks. Maybe not a semi, but it's all the same rules sans having a trailer. The trucks are the same except instead of a 5th wheel hitch, there's a dump box.