Never understood why people would try to instigate a semi truck, or any large truck. Don't they know they're most likely going to lose? Badly?

This happened to me once when I was a truck driver. I'm glad I had a cam too because I put that whole family in the hospital for 12 days. The ignorant mother who was driving was almost killed. They sued but, I won.

Moves in front of the truck and slows right down, as if thats not bad enough he waits for the truck to change lanes and then forces his way in a very unsafe gap in front of him again, what a prick. And their are idiots here defending the hilux??

I'm thinking here, the only reason why you didn't keep on going was to avoid damaging your truck! I understand that! My suggestion would be, get an older truck!

It's absolutely amazing how these idiots manage to keep their licenses with the way some of these idiots drive their cars. I'm a truck driver here in the US and I'll do everything possible to keep from hitting them when they do something stupid and I get the middle finger as they drive off. Most of these people still don't realize that most of us have dash cameras for our protection and use in court.

You're a nice man for submitting this to Vic. Police. I would have just handed it over to the coroner.

Hilux driver needs to be removed from the road never to be allowed back, dangerous to everybody around.

"trying to intimidate a truck driver" change it to intimidates truck driver. because mission success, you should rammed him =}

This is why I love driving a shit car, I'll happily slam into a dickhead in an X5 if they're at fault just to prove a point =)

Get a result from the cops

No rear facing camera to see what you did to him when you unnecessarily made your way out from the slip road into the middle lane and overtook fresh air for a mile.

I wonder why no one has attatched a loudspeaker system on the outside of their cab yet. Just imagine how fast someone would stop break checking if they heard 'attention dumbass you are on camera.'

Good to see the mail was going to be delivered on time.

If he keeps doing that sort of thing he will find out how un unbreakable his hilux really is.

I personally enjoy when people get in front of me and slow down. It's hilarious. They want to go fast. And now to bother someone else they aren't going fast. They are literally stopping themselves from doing what they want to do. Morons... but then the part where he cut you off... that was criminally insane.

Bravo, I think you handled it very well! I congratulate you for your coolness, self-control and foresight! You saved yourself and the other driver a lot of trouble! You can be proud of yourself and keep a conscience for avoiding an accident with unforseen results.

Driver if it's you or the guardrail....plow the road ...maintain your lane!!!

It seems the Hilux driver did a good job of intimidating the truck, hence the lack of a crash.

Why merge across two lanes when joining and not stay left? Are lane rules in Australia same as UK? Stop calling lanes slow, fast, middle, overtaking etc - lane 1, lane 2, lane 3 etc! All lanes are for overtaking, all lanes have same speed limit!

My bet is he was busy texting or on the phone, and we all know that takes priority over driving.

I wonder if you cut him off at first.

If that was Russia the Hilux would have been pitted (hit from the side and forced into a spin).

How about: "Idiot trucker, frivolously driving in the 3rd lane", without even attempting to overtake anybody. 500 euro ticket for you buddy !

Do people really think a 3000 pound car is going to intimidate a guy/girl in a fucking metal beast weighing 80-100 thousand pounds?

I believe this is Australia, one of few countries known for driving on the correct side of the road. As u might imagine I am a bias prick from the UK.

He was showing you how annoying lane hoggers are, just like you were lane hogging when you joined the carriageway.

I would of stood my ground and kept going.

This video is exactly the reason why I could never be a truck driver; I would lose my license the first time someone tried that by bulldozing my way right through their car. Kudos to keeping it professional.

I'd have kept going when he tried to cut me off. He's beside you, which means you can accelerate past him. But then I have little patience for crap like that.

seems to me he succeeded in intimidating you. you done good. no harm, no foul. happens every day.

a professional truck driver has a higher level of accountability, and you weren't using your horn defensively, you were using it offensively

He was really testing the "unbreakable theory" that they advertise on TV? lol

Good thing there were road safety cameras (speed cameras) operating in the area to prevent that sort of thing happening....Oh wait, they don't!!

Man this is nuthing , come to Russia and try again..that red Hillux would be history and full with bangs ..that driver would get weeped for sho !!!

That's a normal day of driving a truck in the USA.

people who try and do this to trucks do it because they know it takes a period of time for the truck to slow down giving them time to get rear ended but then the truck shows the video of them slowing down with a huuuuuuuuuuge gap infront and they dont get to claim no insurance

i would not have yielded to him

Why move straight into the middle lane?

Hopefully you shared this with the appropriate people.

That Toyota driver; I'm reasonably sure if you were able to pace him, he'd give up or risk having his truck destroyed. Hopefully, you notified your highway patrol/state police agency and, showed them the video.

My oh my...that was exciting footage...made my day.

We need to be able to use the outside lane in the UK, middle lane hoggers are infuriating!

The instinct is to maintain speed and teach him a lesson when he refuses to yield and strikes the semi. But a cop would say, "Why didn't you slow down and yield to him? Just to prove a point? I'm citing you for reckless endangerment." And the officer would be completely within his discretion to issue such a citation Denting an ego is a small price to pay for not causing a death.

someone did this to me in my truck a few months back I just let him hit me! my wheel studs made one hell of a mess to the side of his car

I guess you should also learn about lane hogging though

When I get my license I will always respect truck drivers because they deserve it.

i used to be scared of big trucks on highways like that, but then i realized that the drivers are professionals and it their job to drive big rigs , they know what they are doing, not like some people who go from a small hatch to a big ute or 4x4 and think they are king of the road.

He needs the chart. Pedestrian loses to car, car loses to truck, truck loses to cargo van, cargo van lose to rig, rig loses to train, train loses to plane and plane loses to mountain. It should be on every drivers test. LOL

had exactly the same situation yesterday. Someone cutting me of... my reaction was the same + a finger :)

The guy in the red Hilux went a bit too far, but I think maybe he was cut off a little when the truck indicated across two lanes without a 5 second pause. I could be wrong. I've seen much worse from people on Aussie roads.

He didnt "try" to intimidate the truck driver. He DID intimidate the truck driver. Rightly or wrongly the truck driver backed off.

The Hilux driver shows no road awareness or just simply does not care about other road users, i have suffered from the same type of deluded halfwit here in the UK.

I'm a UK Class1 Truck driver firstly, before being criticised "I don't know what I'm talking about" And yes we see Assholes on the road all day long like this, there is No excuse for the idiot in the red Toyota Hilux playing cat and mouse with a Heavy goods vehicle !! But that said, Don't Truck drivers in OZ know anything about "Lane Discipline" ? You guy's in OZ drive on the same side as the UK, we keep to the right hand side unless overtaking. We don't "HOG" all the other lanes, we leave that to the "Car driver" as we accept half of them got their licences in Corn Flake packets !! First rule of thumb when joining a highway dual carriage way etc, is to keep to the nearside lane, unless there is a slower vehicle or otherwise advised by Police or Highways. Not as this video clearly shows, the Truck driver pulls straight across 2 lanes and is sitting there for some time, when clearly the inside lanes are clear of traffic !! The trucks seem to be using any old lane, Most of the truck drivers in the UK class our profession, as "Professional Drivers" nothing I've seen here in this video convinces me of that, and looks to be a snipet of total mayhem. I need to make one thing clear here, I'm in No way backing the Arsehole in the Hilux, cause driving like that ends up in one place "The Morturary" But I seriously can't say the driver of the Truck was without fault either ! Education for both parties, but the Truck driver should know better.

I have a legit curious question. Let's say that you do submit the video to police. What does police do? What can they do? Ticket the driver after tracking the license number ?

Roo bars! I would have customised his hilux for him it would have been called a TOYOTA SHITLUCK. .

Dear sir/madam, On behalf of all us Toyota truck/suv owners, I apologize for this POS. Im sure we all believe that POS should not represent us Toyota owners and should be stripped of this Taco ownership. Sincerely, A '14 4Runner owner

I swear trucks are not aloud in the 3rd lane and even the 2nd lane unless over taking

i'm gonna call it a tie. both of you could have handled it better.

That's what I call a good driver, Truck driver that is. Despite the stupidity of the red Hilux, the truck driver avoided an accident. Way to go mate!

As a trucker I am forced to pass people on their right ALL THE TIME because morons never finished drivers ed. We are banned from the left lanes in my state so middle and right are the only choices and everyone thinks the middle is the slow lane. If it was me driving I would NOT have activated my breaks. He made a lane change with no signal and was driving slower than the traffic to his right. Had he hit the truck it clearly would have been counted as his fault for failure to yield and distracted driving since he could have only made such a dumb move if he wasn't looking..... unless he admits he did it deliberately.

Poor lane choice - what's wrong with the inside lane? But - the Hilux was changing lanes, not you. I'd have held your ground and let him hit you. His fault.

ZSW 337, hope that reg number is on another car now. (hint:driver beaten up and car destroyed). Slowing a semi down before an uphill should be considered illegal.

There are two idiots here. First Hilux was wrong to impede progess of traffic, but once he had demonstrated agression it was no surprise to see him demonstrate stupidity at 1.34 and again block the truck. At 1.35 truck should have been off the throttle. Blowing the horn doesn't help either. It inflames, not improves a situation. The truck backed off to avoid a collision so nothing was gained for the truck in the end. If a collision had occurred both drivers would have shared blame.

See this is where if I was a truck driver, I'd end up being a serial killer!!

The truck driver's mistake: Merging lane and then continues to change lane. That's one of my pet peeves. I think he must have forced the Hilux to suddenly slow down because the truck driver kept merging and switching to next lane without pause.

So the cops had no problem with you failing to give sufficient indication of a lane change, failing to keep left, and failing to maintain a safe following distance? Cool story bro.

It angers me that people think driving is a game...

Tailgating and preventing someone from entering your lane while they are signalling illustrates the lack of patience and road decorum that invites contempt from law-abiding drivers out there.

Careful buddy, you failed to pause to look before changing into the second lane. Fine and demerits coming up soon. One lane change at a time.. Period

Wasn't even worth posting.

A semi would be the LAST vehicle I’d mess with. Some people are just ignorant

Down 1 and keep ur boot in it, thats wot bullbars are for.

Not the sort of car you want to use to intimidate trucks. That's straight out bullying!

My husband is a retired truck driver. He pulled off the side of the highway and was building up his speed when a pickup came up behind him. Since it was a 2 lane highway and hilly the truck couldn't get around. Now the pickup wasn't in sight when my husband pulled out just that the truck the company had were geared down. Anyway the pickup managed to get around my husband then got on the CB to harass my husband. Pickup driver slowed down so my husband lost the speed he built up for the hills and the guy said he was going to slam on his brakes so the 18 wheeler could hit him. My husband told him to go ahead but who did he think would really win that fight?? Pickup driver must have finally gained an ounce of sense and got on out of the way.

I don't know if the rules are the same in Aus, but in the UK, a lorry pulling straight out into lane 3 for no reason with no intention of overtaking anything would be considered poor driving. The lane chop in front of you was obviously just stupidity though.

I drive trucks for a living,,, and everyday I'm in the slow lane doing the speed limit,,, you always get the cars that speed up to get in front of you only to go slow and try to piss you off

i feel your pain mate, the stuff i see each day doing the run to Port Kembla never caeses to amazme me. I have now started sharing some of my vision with the boys and girls from Wollongomg LAC.

Well, eventually he DID intimidate the trucker.

You're driving on the wrong side of the road, for one thing! :D

I wouldn't slow down, I would of just ran right into him. He wants to play the intimidation game with a massive truck then ill play.

I would have fed him the back of that lorry. You're too kind.

when i was in the truck, the red toyota would have a lot of damage on the right side. I wouldn,t go one inch on side for such an idiot.

He was trying to get you to hit him. I’m glad you have the dash camera.

Should have given him a lesson in physics.

Hilux didn't 'try' to intimidate him. He DID intimidate him.

This sort of driving is a given when one owns a hilux.

Trying to intimidate?! Looks like he did! Dude backed the fuck up!

Hilux driver = A complete and utter BELL-END !!

That Hilux driver should have been taught a lesson. He was bang out of order.

It could be that the driver really had no idea what he was doing. Though it is all very coincidental. Braking for nothing and exactly shifting lanes when the truck tries to overtake. Strange indeed.

Aww that must suck in your position at that moment. Was he trying to get in your lane or something? It was not quick enough when he wants to merge into your lane. Keep the honking coming because its there for a reason! Your videos made my moods and days! LoL

You don't need to say idiot in a Hilux. They're automatically linked.

I wouldn't have given him a full centimeter of relief. He was requesting the results he would have received.

As soon as I read "Idiot in a hilux...." I thought "yep".

He's probably wondering why you joined and went to the third lane!!!!!!!

A middle lane hogging truck driver to boot

You put them into the wall once and they never do that shit again.

First thing I do when I get my truck: Camera.

it says "tries to intimidate". the truck backed off, so technically it worked

out of curiosity are trucks allowed in all 3 lanes?!!..In uk only lanes 1 & 2 trucks can use!..