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Actually, there are risks that go beyond braking distances.
#1. Trucks have a huge draft, and they suck up/throw up a lot of trash.
#2. Trucks can drive over road hazards that'll take your undercarriage out. So if it's heavy enough for the truck's draft to leave on the ground, it's gonna break something going under your car.
#3. One word: "Gators". Semi tire treads.
When riding motorcycles, (no windshield or fairing) drafting behind a semi just made the trip easier. Until I saw a gator take out a Crown Vic's front fender. Maybe with a very "aero" car one could expect minimal damage, but what about the undercarriage?
Now, if traffic is bumper-to-bumper, and you have to be behind something, and that just happens to be a semi...
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'96 Escort LX, now known as "deerslayer"
'84 Merc Grand Marquis, affectionately known as "le barge"
~35,000 mostly 2 lane highway miles a year.
I was born a Rambler man, but with the passing of AMC (sigh), just give me another Ford.
How many kids with A.D.D. does it take to change a light bulb?
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Hey, ya wanna go ride bikes? 
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