Someone is going to get killed if Waste Management doesn’t order their drivers to never stop in the slow lane of PCH to pick up trash and dumpsters. Three times in the last two weeks I have been driving along Pacific Coast Highway, in the slow lane, and had to stop completely behind a Waste Management truck that was stopped completely in the slow lane. I couldn’t get over to pass because traffic was whizzing by in the fast lane and each time I stopped in the slow lane, I tried to pull over to the right as I watched a big rig and other cars coming up behind me, too fast, and just getting over or stopping before they rear-ended me into the dump truck. Not a fun thing to see.
The most dangerous word in PCH is “highway.” That road ripping through a residential area is a highway in every sense of the word, and if Waste Management wouldn’t want their drivers stopping and blocking a lane on the 101 or the 405 or the 10, then they can’t have them doing that on PCH, where the speed limit is 45 mph but the actual speed is usually much more. I don’t want to cause problems for the company or its drivers and I don’t know what the solution is, especially where PCH is so tight on the ocean side, but someone is going to get killed soon and Waste Management is going to be sued for millions because they let the drivers do something they shouldn’t.
Ben Marcus