When a shrinkage is approaching“smart” drivers always appear who They don’t intend to waste time. Even if in this case the ideal is to position yourself little by little in the right lane, many drivers decide to save time. all possible terrain on the open road and cause a traffic jam. Its main problem, according to a Spanish truck driver, is that They do not respect or do not know the zipper effect.
It is for this reason that a widely used technique among professional drivers such as truckers consists of stay in the left lane and slow downorganizing traffic and forcing those coming from behind to leave the left lane if they want to go faster.
The international trucker (@turbo.2.1 on TikTok), save as up to five companions played This maneuver near a funnelbut with a special component, one of the cars on the left lane was A patrol of the Gendarmerie. The French police, far from shining their flashing lights on the truck which was cutting the lane in front, stop the car that, refusing to adhere to the law after this, overtakes the Gendarmerie itself in the left lane.
Why do these truckers force the zipper effect?
The zipper effect is a technique to relieve traffic congestion which works when drivers move in both lanes in harmony and, like a zipper, one of each route passes to access the narrowingso that traffic is paralyzed as little as possible.
When that doesn’t happen, truckers like those in the video shared by @Turbo.2.1 on TikTok may appear, forcing vehicles to roll. change lanes gradually, control road traffic of Ahas so that even a patrol of the French gendarmerie approves and let it happen to avoid traffic jams in Mayr. In this way, a sort of forced zipper is created.
As the carrier itself explains in the video: “If we all did our part…, but since most people are on the list and what they want is to take advantage of the path that goes all the way to the end, normally the one on the right remains blocked, that’s why the partner cut off the path on the left.”
How much does an international truck driver earn?
Spanish international truck drivers They earn around 37,000 euros gross per yeara figure lower than the European average, around 45,000 euros. Even if this average is 7,000 euros per year more to that of the rest of the Spanish truckers who work only on the national territory.
The working conditions of truck drivers have started to improve with the aim of attract new drivers and retain those already active. However, these initiatives are not yet fully effective or sufficient. Currently, the transport sector needs approximately 15% more professionalswhile driver availability has only increased by approximately 5%.
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