I speed by those truck as fast as I can and get the hell away from them. They are a menace.
I speed by those truck as fast as I can and get the hell away from them. They are a menace.
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Yup. I remember being on the highway and a semi-trailer several hundred feet in front of me blew a tire. Steel belted fragments exploded out sideways into the high speed lane. By some small miracle, no one was along side the truck to take the flak.
I’m retired now, but when I was working I handled liability cases for a major insurer. I handled a great many truck cases over the years. Big trucks have always been problematical, but it has become worse over the last 25 years or so. Independent trucking contractors have a great number of foreign drivers, especially Russians and guys from former Yugoslavia. They have been involved in more incidents than any other group of drivers that I dealt with. They are almost kamikaze in their handling of big rigs.