Truck rolls over onto car in Nashville.

So now you are saying that this is the cars fault for being in a lane of his own next to the truck? This is a 2 lane ON ramp. It could not possibly be that the truck was passing them???? What a ridiculous comment.

Percentage wise I see equal amounts of bad drivers with cars and big rigs. I mean if the speed limit is 70 and there is less than 1 car length between my back bumper and your 70000 lb front bumper you need to be parked. I ran into this recently on a bus ride when the driver was doing 65 in a construction zone and had less than one car length from the car in front. I said something about it and she said we were fine. I then asked if 1 car length distance on a 30000 pound vehicle was enough. following distance increased for the rest of her drive. It was only one lane with a semi in front of the car and they were not going to go any faster. I was in the 3rd seat behind the driver and could not see the bumper on the car.

Not always is it the driver of the truck that is at fault but they do have a target on them. Personally if I am being ridden like that(car or truck) I slow down so that I have more reaction time to things in front of me and thus giving the person riding my bumper more time also. Plus I know it really pisses them off. Just an added benefit. 2 to 5 mph usually does it.

Sorry for the rant but trying to blame this on the car was just stupid. That is like saying you should avoid green lights because someone once ran one. As long as you are in a place that the driver can see you, i.e. not in the blind spot, there is no reason to avoid big rigs.

Sorry for the rant.