>> Maintaining my lifestyle depends much more on truck drivers than on car drivers. Without truck
>> drivers shops and stores would be empty. I need truck drivers much more than I
>> need other car drivers.
Excellent point, Les. I find that, on the whole, truck drivers are very good at their job. Almost as good as bus drivers... ;-)
Seriously, I have a fair idea of how hard it is to manouevre a large, heavy vehicle around even if the ones I drive don't bend in the middle (if they do, something has gone badly awry) so I always try to give ample consideration to truck drivers, both Class 1 and 2. Generally, I find that this consideration is repaid in spades to me when I'm behind the wheel of my bus.
I'm amazed, though, by the thoughtlessness of some car drivers. To me, it's fairly obvious that, if a lorry swings over to one side of the road with the hazards on then it's going to attempt a reversing manouevre. Sadly, so many car drivers just carry on a squeeze past the back end of the lorry even once it has started reversing. And that's not the only example of a lack of consideration. On the motorway it isn't unusual to see some numpty in a car dive into the gap in between two lorries trundling along in lane one, the driver blissfully unaware that the lorry he has just cut up can't stop on a sixpence.
I've said it before but I do think that all learner drivers should have to have some experience of driving larger vehicles as part of their training.
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