One of the wisest statements I've seen in a long time.
Everyone disparages the 'trucks" - but, take it from someone who knows, the non-truck drivers drive the truckers mad.
They're always trying to 'beat the truck" - pass on the right, race into the highway to get in front of the truck, expecting the driver of a vehicle weighing upwards to 80,000 pounds to be able to just switch over into another lane on a dime - the texters, the 'mail readers', the putting on the make up and the eating lunchers' --- etc.
there's little to NO respect for the truckers...and a clue as to how to drive around trucks.
Do you KNOW, for example, that if you follow a truck too close - to take advantage of the 'save gas' space - you can be sucked in under - and, literally, lose your head?
DO YOU KNOW that if you dash in too close in front of a trucker - he is obligated BY LAW - NOT to try to avoid you - but to run your ass over??? That is to protect otherwise innocent drivers that might be run over should the trucker try to avoid YOUR sorry ass. (If the trucker hits someone else while avoiding YOU - THEY go straight to jail. If they have to run over you - tough on you . You won't do it again. Ever. Guaranteed.
Have a little more respect for the truckers - for your own hide AND, remember: "If you bought it, a trucker brought it." Your local grocery store , for example, shelves would empty out in a day if not for the truckers.
Maybe you should be giving them a high five instead of a finger.
I don't know how you deduced that from my post but I have respect for the truck drivers. That's why I think they should have their own dedicated lanes. I know there are a lot of clueless automobile drivers out there that don't know how to handle themselves around them.
I’m with you on everything you said. I drive a carpool from Alexandria, VA to just south of Baltimore. I take 295 to the DC Beltway to I-95. I know to give the truck drivers respect, but every day I see the idiots (they treat me just as badly).
Just the other day I saw someone ahead of me in his shiny new BMW. He proceeded to cut off an 18-wheeler on I-95. I slowed down quickly, expecting the worst. Luckily, the truck driver reacted in time, avoiding an accident. Idiot Beemer-driver went merrily on his way.
The ones I really laugh at are the morons who tailgate the tractor trailers.