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Originally Posted by jarawhead
I will occasionally follow a truck at a safe distance on the interstate. I am no tailgater by any stretch of the imagination. But one thing puzzles me. For some reason, the truck drivers seem to loathe cars following behind them. They will slow down, change lanes, and cut in front of other trucks in order to get the car out from behind them. At the same they are on the CB radio griping and complaining about it. If they paid as much attention to the road ahead of them and not driving through their rear view mirror, they would be a lot safer and the following car would be safer. There is this myth that being in a blind spot behind a truck is dangerous, when it is only really dangerous to be in the side blind spots of a truck. What is behind a truck is not going to hurt the truck or the driver. I wish they would realize this.
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If you're pissing them off, you're following too close.
Why do they not want you invisible? Because they CANNOT trust you to stop in time if they have to brake. Keep in mind they have no idea HOW close you are if you're too close for them to see. Are you wedged under their bumper or a full second back? They don't know. Imagine for a second you have something very low behind you... say a very fast recumbent bike on a slower road. Would you be comfortable with it behind you if you had zero visual reference on them? No. If the drive cannot see you he has to operate on the assumptions that you are right on his bumper and not necessarily sane/attentive.