More could be said for the regular daily drivers in their cars and trucks, talking on their cell phones putting on their makeup eating their food all the while tooling down the road breaking the speed limits and every other law they can think of then toss in them 70 yr old RV drivers in their 40 foot motor coaches towing a 28 foot trailer or boat they don't need any medical card or a special license nor follow any limit of driving hours, they're extremely unpredictable.
In my 33 years of driving professionally the high majority of accidents are always by non commercial vehicles and usually when there's a commercial vehicle involved with four wheelers 80% of the time or greater its always the four wheelers that started it by doing something stupid around a commercial vehicle so having everything automated driving I just don't see it happening. I take my job very seriously I wish others around me would.
amen brother. when you throw the "four-wheeler" factor into the regular demands of the job; i.e. shippers and recievers that refuse to load in a specific time frame, have no safe parking when I get caught there out of driving hours for the day, a rotten attitude about their job to start with, the weather, dispatch that can't seem to keep one load after another so I can maybe plan a couple of days off, the D.O.T., scale houses, California, my house and family (have I forgotten any....I'm sure).........
point is with all that and more I still have to maintain a professional demeanor at all times when I'm in my truck. so next time you feel the need to wave because I needed to pass another slower truck
please use all fingers........
