A viral video uploaded to Facebook showing a pair of tractor trailers driving side by side at a snail’s pace on a Ho Chi Minh City street has triggered a heated debate among local netizens.

The two trucks in the video each occupy one lane of a two-lane street, believed to be the pathway from Phu My Bridge in District 7 to My Thuy Roundabout in District 2, leaving a growing traffic jam in their wake.

The footage was first shared to a Facebook page titled “Traffic safety – Traffic culture,” by one of the drivers obstructed by the tractor trailers.

At some points in the video, the trucks came to a complete stop, fueling anger of commuters forced to wait.

While some motorbike drivers managed to pass the trucks by slipping through a small gap between their semitrailers, larger vehicles had no choice but to crawl along.

The final minutes of the video show the driver who filmed the video fed up to the point that he stepped out of his vehicle to confront the truck drivers.

“Why did you stop here? You have to move to one lane for us to pass you,” the cameraman told the truck driver in the right lane.

The truck driver fired back, “You can pass but you won’t be able to travel much further,” implying that there is a traffic jam blocking the road ahead and traveling faster would be pointless.

The car driver insisted that the trailers make way for other vehicles, underling that “every inch [we can move forward] counts.”

The three-minute video immediately went viral and sparked a social media debate on Vietnam’s traffic culture.

Some netizens criticized the tractor trailers in question as “lacking traffic culture” and “violating traffic law” for traveling side by side and blocking traffic flow. 

Others said the truck drivers violated no traffic regulations and they were only trying to avoid worsening an existing traffic jam.

The last side of argument reasoned that while the truck drivers appear to have good intentions, their actions could warrant fines from traffic police and trigger conflict with other drivers, leading to worse consequences than sitting in a traffic jam.