Where I drive (UK), truck drivers are by far the worst drivers on the road. It might vary by state, but in general in the USA truckers nowadays are pretty well

Where I drive (UK), truck drivers are by far the worst drivers on the road. It might vary by state, but in general in the USA truckers nowadays are pretty well behaved. IMO. But go back 50 years and they were insane. They were usually the fastest vehicles on the road. They'd blow by you in the fast lane almost like you were standing still. Also truckers had licenses from multiple states and/or fake licenses. So they didn't care much if they got tickets. And if there were restrictions on how many hours they could drive, they weren't enforced. So, not only were they crazy, they were tired or strung out on pills. And the sides of the highways were littered with the carcasses of retread truck tires that happened to disintegrate with depressing regularity. Trucker behavior really changed a few decades ago when the Federal government got more serious about enforcing various laws. E.g. time limits and not allowing truckers to have multiple licenses. So then the worst drivers were the morons in SUVs, yakking on cell phones, oblivious to the world. Why should they care, they're in a giant SUV so they're invincible, right? Whenever I spotted a driver drifting around in his lane, or speeding up and slowing down erratically, the odds were at least 80% that a cell phone was involved. It's gotten a lot better now, because many states have made it illegal to use a non-hands-free cell phone in a car.