I had it all go pear shaped on me a few weeks ago . Driving along with our other truck about a k ahead when a garbo truck slowed and stopped with his right hand blinker on . I could see another B double behind him and didt really look to close for a start than thought shitee he's coming hard . Looked to the left of the garbo and thought no room , looked to my left yep there's room and started steering left , as I did the other truck came out from behind the garbo , ok keep going left , yep all clear get back on the road , no cars coming use it all , back trailer dragging full power now get it straightened up . This took all of about a second to happen as we both were doing 100 kph , I was on cruise control and the worst thing I could have done was hit the brakes , if I had been loaded I would have had to go bush and things would have been different . I later spoke to the other driver and he was caught out and did the only thing he could see to do and was very relived when he saw me going to the left . We were talking about it to other drivers and all the older drivers said the same thing keep the power on and steer around it and all the younger drivers said they would have hit the brakes .
I am very thankful that in the worst possible situation I have ever been in on the road in 38 years of driving that I had a older experienced driver coming at me .
