Trucking and motorcycles.

The opposite ends of the spectrum in all aspecs. Weight, speed, braking, maneverability. All on the same road. Been driving for a long time. Before I started in a semi, I drove straight truck, I was a chauffer, Rescue, Lawman. All of them require you to qualify continually to keep your job.

A few years back, I wanted to buy a bike. Went through one of those motorcycle safety courses. The biggest problem that most in that safety course had was looking where they want to go. We spot the rookies in the truck, because rookies hog the zipper...its what they're focused while driving. Pulling really big and wide loads, you have to learn to do the opposite. You put your steers on the fog lines. If I'm in the right lane, my right steer will be on the fog, even if I am looking out my left mirrors. The average veteran driver looks wayyyyyyy off ahead of him. He centers his truck by looking far down the road. You train yourself to do this. What happens when 2 rookies go big truck dragracing down a highway and both of them are focusing on the zipper? BANG! They collide.

So, I got my M on my license, went out bought a bike and hopped on the highway. EZ Rider, right? Wrong. It feels like youre naked in public. You're conscious of everything...especially tailgaters. What do you do when youre on a bike and you have an idiot four a few feet off your back tire? See, the roles have reversed. If you tailgate someone in a truck, you will not be able to stop to avoid hitting him. If youre on a bike, that car will not be able to stop in the distance that bike can. So, what do you do? Increase your following distance to insure that idiot tailgating can stop in time. In other words, you start driving for the idiot.

If some idiot four is going to try to get around you and passes you on the right so he can cut in front of you, you try to block him, because in an accident, he's going to lose. But if you're on the bike, in a line of traffic and some imbecile is coming around on the right and plans to cut in front of the line, and he sees the space in front of you because you've increased your following distance for the tailgater behind you, what do you do? In an accident, you're going to lose. You back off the throttle and let the idiot go. Hey! You avoided an accident. Good job! Sure the dingleberry dangling off your behind is ticked, but thats fine...hopefully that dingleberry will go the way of the dingleberry and drop off your arse.

When you're on a motorcycle, and you see another rider, you wave at him. When you ride a motorcycle and are behind the wheel of your rig, you look for and see every motorcyclist.

Well, thats why I dont ride a motorcycle. Too much danger on the road

And you drive a truck because there is no danger, correct? You know how you see those big billboards advertising some scum lawer going to bat for you against the evil truck drivers? The motorcyclist have the same advertising of biker lawyers going out against all the morons on 4 wheels. Do you REALLY want to be a good, safe driver? Go ride a motorcycle.