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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
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It may sound good in theory, but lets look at the European reality :
You'd be tailing a professional driver. Sounds good, doesn't it ?
In reality, you may very well be drafting an outsourced, often overworked and underpaid new-age slave : an eastern European truck driver without a clue of local traffic regulations.
If he messes up, you'll be messed up, with no chance to intervene - there simply won't be enough time to react.
Check the UN product code over the wireless internet to decide wether you really want to draft that cargo.
Check the shredded rubber on the side of the road.
It usually isn't from a passenger-car, it's too big for that. Way too big.
You could well be drafting a trailer with a few bald tyres about to blow out. Only a few meters ahead of your own car.
What's going to happen if such a train passes an on-ramp to the motorway ?
It'll be pretty hard to get on the motorway.
No thanks !