Just like irrational fear of airplanes, truck drivers suffer a bad rep because of the availability heuristic[1]. *Edit: The article and comments also relate to

Just like irrational fear of airplanes, truck drivers suffer a bad rep because of the availability heuristic[1]. *Edit: The article and comments also relate to the fundamental attribution error[2], where we often think someone is a "jerk" if they are speeding for example, but we often fail to take into account their perspective and situation. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error