Public Perception of Expediters

[Baack]

I can't count how many times a day I see truckers swerving in and out of traffic going over the speed limit.
They need to be slowed down to about 5 to 10 miles slower than passenger vehicles and they need to stay out of the left hand lanes."
"Why do truckers stay in the left lane and not get back in the slow lane more quickly?"
"I'm sick of truck drivers tailgating me at 80 miles per hour, and most of them look and act like slobs."
"I hate truckers, but what's an expediter?
"We've all heard these comments before. Perhaps it was on the editorial page of a local newspaper or maybe in an interview on a local TV station. The subject of trucks and truck drivers comes up and out come the anti-truck comments and those are the ones that get the press.

Just saying the words "big trucks" is enough to put the typical motorist on edge. This fear and loathing comes by way of personal on-the-road experience and hearing years of news reports of terrible truck-car collisions.

http://www.expeditenow.com/news/publ...-truckers.html

[yendor_65]

Stats show a majority of truck-car collisions are the falt of the driver of the car.

[teddy_bear6506]

Big trucks scare me less than 4 wheelers. I know the type of training truckers have to go through just to get on the road. More 4 wheelers should have to do the same type of training.

[yendor_65]

I think that drivers ed should be a 6 mo class in high school.