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It only takes one moment where your entire family almost dies because of a truck driver to jade your opinion of all of them - or at least to be nervous every si
by dpcan 15y ago
It only takes one moment where your entire family almost dies because of a truck driver to jade your opinion of all of them - or at least to be nervous every single time one comes within a 100 feet of you. I don't flip off truck drivers, but I get an uneasy feeling every time I'm around them and I try to avoid them.
- bigohms 15y agoComplacency and misplaced trust is a big danger when operating any moving vehicle. Your wariness is warranted, on a sweeping highway curve, I once watched a large truck devour a compact car because it cut too much into the right lane during the turn. Similarly, all it takes is one texting teenager to trust the fact that they're going straight, while in fact they've just cross into oncoming traffic.
- anonymous246 15y agoFrom your comment, it doesn't seem like you were ever almost killed by a truck driver. Were you? Then why so afraid? I second the previous poster that in my experience big-rig drivers are the safest.
- munificent 15y ago> It only takes one moment where your entire family almost dies because of a truck driver to jade your opinion of all of them How is that statement any different than "it only takes one moment where your entire family almost dies because of a woman driver to jade your opinion of all of them" or "because of a white driver" or "because of an old driver"?
- nate_meurer 15y agoMaybe not much difference, but I would say that it's rational to be cautious around very old drivers (as well as very young), since this demographic is statistically far more dangerous behind the wheel than average.