I have been around trucks all my life. Dad was a diver. So was I for a while. Did a lot of transportation type stuff in the Army. I now own a freight brokerage. Seems to me that if auto drivers would pay more attention to DRIVING instead of phones, stereo, kids, food etc. that things would be much safer. Also it would be nice if people understood inertia. Yer just not gonna stop 80,000 lbs as fast as a car.
Diver = Driver
While no defender of idiots in cars... Hardly were the people in the cars in stopped traffic who got plowed into by a semi that didn't stop at fault in this or other accidents like it.
80,000lb trucks don't stop as fast as a car, you are right... so tell me why when I'm doing 5 miles over the speed limit and look in my mirror the Semi behind me isn't remotely far enough back to stop if there was an emergency??
That should be a required sign on every interstate. It would sure have me on my toes.