Originally Posted by sbhikes
DC, I think these last few posts are in response to Serge who said in response to me that when a beer truck came barreling down on me from behind, clearly signalling to me that I should get the heck out of his way, Serge thought I should have gotten more into the road, more into his path to show I wasn't budging and knew my rights as a vehicle driver, rather than shrink off to the right like I did. I chose to shrink off to the right out of self-preservation.
I've had large semi-trucks intimidate me like that before as well. I remember one rainy morning, when traffic was really bad due to accidents, I was stopped in the outer lane at a red stop light, and this construction trailer truck start blaring its horn maybe 100 meters back, BROOOOOOOONK, BROOOOOONK. Clearly he wanted me to move so he could make a right on red without stopping. Big hurry. I hesitated. BROOOOOONK!!!! Then I got the hell out of the way. I really believe he would have run me over. I won't play chicken with a 5-ton truck. These "Tianmen Square" incidents happen more frequently than we'd like to admit.