I guess, like many other truckers, the message I hope to relay to anyone that reads this blog is about safety awareness and the overall image of trucking. An example of safety would be a frustrating look at how impatient motorists continue to take chances around big rigs. I mean its pretty silly to watch a guy push his minivan way past its limit to pass one more truck just to, at the last minute, whip into a rest area. Sometimes I feel like following these people into the rest area and explaining to them the risk they took in endangering themselves and their families with that foolish maneuver, not to mention the bad example they just gave their kids.

Another frustrating example of a safety problem is merging. It's not in ANY driver handbook, but somewhere during their many years of driving, motorists have convinced themselves that they ALWAYS have the right-of-way when it comes to merging onto a freeway. To them, big rigs are supposed to move over or slow to a crawl to give them a chance to jump into a highspeed situation at their own pace. This type of reasoning is how most traffic jams and accidents happen: (1) if motorists happen upon a big rig that CAN'T move over, they should accelerate or slow down until they can safely MERGE into traffic; (2) unless they came from Krypton and were blessed or cursed with X-ray vision, they shouldn't always assume that a truck CAN ALWAYS move over. There may be a car beside us that they can't see.

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