This trucker says:
He missed ya by a country mile. For you guys that talk about what it was like "back then", you're right. There have never been so many cars, mattress delivery trucks, vans, traffic lights, hidden driveways, utility trucks and crews, orange cones, flaggers, glaring ad signs, drunk drivers, digitally-impared drivers, drivers in over insulated, sound deadend, super amped SUV's and yes, morons (or not) on bikes.
There is a mini-mall at almost every corner. Or, a set of commercial driveways wider than some intersections. Coffee huts with three to ten cars lined up, sometimes blocking the only delivery entrance or exit that a semi can use.
There is the growing trend in business to send out tractors pulling 53' trailers because they can push the drivers to work longer hours and deliver to more stops in a shift that way. Used to be that a very large combination was rarely used on urban routes. Not any more. It's the explosion of business that is driving this. We buy more $#!+ from China every year because we love it. What do we expect? There is very little we can list that does not comt to us from a truck - even bottled water. It's one of the all time biggest selling beverages here in the Seattle area - a place that has the finest snow fed drinking water in North America, right out of the tap.
"Back then" was a far more peaceful place - and a far more courteous one. And yes, companies are screaming for good truck drivers. Obviously, the one in the vid did not set himself up for that right turn in time to do it in a safer manner. Hard to say what kind of driver he was - maybe very skilled, as there was no collision. Or maybe very lucky.
In our company, there are 54 drivers. We all drive the big combos. We have to because that's what the economy demands. As far as driving slow in the left lane: that's largely a result of having been cut off from moving over to the right in a timely manner. Usually, a cager won't notice that the rude bastard who caused it has long since moved ahead, leaving the trucker looking like he wants to be there.
Just play heads-up ball on a bike, be predictable, we'll all be fine - mostly.