While I do agree that there are very good Truckies and appreciate that they are needed and have a tough job to do. I do have to say that when you come across a bad one it does tend to make you forget all the good ones because they are just so big and scary one of the many bad ones I have come across happened only a month ago. My wife is currently getting her license and is on a learners and she was driving on the highway and were in an overtaking section keeping to the left and doing the speed limit until we saw a pilot car coming towards us with warnings about line marking ahead as our lane was ending meaning we had to merge and that lane was full of the lane marking truck we had to slow down there was nowhere to stop except on the road. There was a embankment on our left with maybe 1 meter of room before it. Well this big SEMI decided he would not stop but put his truck right in the same space on the road we occupied now remember the Line marking truck was driving with the center line down the middle of his truck leaving no room for us the SEMI and the line marking truck. Now my wife had only been driving for 1 month the car was clearly marked with learner stickers and I have to say she was really becoming a very good driver. Well I am sitting in the passenger seat trying to decide what to do its difficult from the passenger seat to make emergency life saving decisions so I called for my wife to make an emergency stop and pull over as far as she could to the left all this happened in a very short amount of time the SEMI was just following us to closely remember we were traveling at the speed limit of 100 going up hill and round a right hand bend. This SEMI just managed to get between us after our emergency stop and the lane marker which I would be surprise if he didn't leave some paint behind if we hadn't made the stop we did we would have been shoved by that SEMI into the embankment and wouldn't be telling this story now.
