[Fat Charlie]

I've lost windshields to rocks before, but that was from the road being crowded, not drafting. If a rig is worth drafting then it'll give you a solid (even if not optimal) benefit at a safe distance. When I draft I'm no closer than usual, I'm just behind that guy on purpose. I can be spotted drafting only because I don't pass him, not because it looks like he's towing me.

last night going home I got passed by a charter bus just before the top of a small downhill. The way traffic and that downhill works I start down it at about 60, glide down about halfway and have to pulse again because I'm already down below 55 and this isn't a stretch of road to be screwing around on. Anyway, last night the bus passed me. I moved left and ran it up to 70 then headed downhill. I was still doing 70 at the bottom and had to brake for traffic, and I wasn't any closer or farther from him than I would have been with any other vehicle there.