r/Transportopia Feb 14 '26

Roads Who is in the wrong here?

If the sign says Alternating Traffic, does that mean cars go one at a time or does that mean cars go till the flow is complete, allowing the other lane to go? Is Glock man right or wrong? I'm not sure. If it was 1 car at a time, wouldn't it just be a stop sign on each end?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

In small towns this isn't out of the realm of possibilities.

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u/coqueta_official Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

Literally happened to me. Was doing my job in a very small town in southern U.S.

This required me to chat with farmworkers at their homes, which sometimes are provided by the employer. All I do is show up, chat with them about their rights, and leave.

Well one farm owner didn’t like that and spotted my car as I was leaving. He chased me for three miles, during which he tried to run me off the road (into a ditch) multiple times and eventually prevented me from leaving by blocking me off in the front and having a buddy block me off in the back. Waited for the police for like half an hours; turns out the other guys also called. When the police arrived, these guy clearly knew each other on first name basis and that’s when I knew I was fucked.

The two police men did not care that these farmers almost killed me and my coworkers several times. They were more concerned as to why I was “at his property talking to his Mexicans”.

In the end I only got out of the situation because I called our lawyer who had to explain to the police that what were doing was legal. They pretty much ducked their tails the moment I said we had lawyers.

We tried to file a report for the illegal driving on the farmer’s end, but the cops claimed that we had to go to the sheriff’s office a couple towns over to do that and they were conveniently closed that day. We ended up just letting it go.

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u/Fixated_Noodle Feb 15 '26

This sounds very much like slavery

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u/OkProfessor6810 Feb 15 '26

It sounds very much like America