Originally Posted by
KraneXL
If you don't have your 3 ft., or determine that its just unsafe, you have every right to take the lane. If the semi drive doesn't understand that that's his ignorance.
As for the shouting part, I try to avoid it, since you're unlikely to change anybody's position in a shouting match in the street. At worst, it will provoke anger and he's a lot bigger than you. If I do say anything, I keep it passive and succinct, and simply state: read the handbook. And ride on.
My only real objective by shouting at him. Was so he could hear me above the noise of his engine, and the noise of the mid-day traffic. That aspect was achieved by his responding hand gestures.
As for 'effecting' change in his thinking, correct. That would have been pointless, if that had been my goal.