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It just could be that he's on the defensive. I certainly understand why he would be. Because four wheelers, by and large, a vast majority, are the one's who are always jumping the gun when it comes to an accident...."always assumes the big rig is at fault". When usually it's the exact opposite. The four wheelers are too busy putting on their mascara or lipstick, or reading the newspaper or one of these "me first, me first" kind of people. Or they have this appendage attached to their ears that lessens their concentration of what's around them. Those are the kind of things that create accidents.
I went on a trip with my trucker husband and was floored by how unaware people were of a BIG RIG when they were YIELDING to traffic getting on the freeway. Do they think the trucker can see them by osmosis? Are they that stupid or arrogant to think that that truck needs to yield to them? What about the millions of fourwheelers who are in perpetual tailgating mode? Or the four wheeler who waits til the last minute to make a lane change? Or what about the millions of fourwheelers who don't go the speed limit?
If the general public had to do and know the same things the average truck driver had to know there'd be a lot less drivers out there. Yes, there's some bad, bad truck drivers. But the percentages are way low in comparison to the common driver.
Hwy 50 going to Sac and back I stay in the slow lane and do the speed limit while most everyone around me are blowing my doors off. I wish the hp would inforce the speed limit but they don't. Maybe if they made the fines as harsh as they do for the truck drivers, they would stay in line. But that's asking too much. Or, I don't know, maybe patrol the highway? Now that would be a novelty.