Originally Posted by
KD5NRH
Better would have been to find out who insures it and complain to them. It's near impossible to insure a large commercial vehicle around here without a strongly enforced "no backing without a spotter" rule. I'd be surprised if it's not the same there. Virtually everywhere, a driver backing up in the roadway will be at fault for anything that happens.
I don't know where you live, but there's no law requiring a spotter to back up a truck trailer on a city street here in NY.
This was a non-event that proves that nature is more forgiving than people here on BF. Both the OP and driver were somewhat careless, one in not being attentive while standing out in the street, and one for backing without a thorough scan of what was behind him. Yet despite 2 errors, nothing happened, the OP moved out of the way, and life went on.
We can speculate about what
might have happened an whose fault it might have been, but that's just idle speculation since NOTHING happened. While we speculate, we might consider that if the OP hadn't moved, the driver might have stopped, and then too nothing would have happened.
So, IMO, this is simply a cautionary tale, reminding us to be alert out there.