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And when the other driver doesn't back down. You get that race to the tollbooth picture that was posted not long ago.

Is it really worth risking a crash to prove you're the Alpha Male?

I'm on the road 8-9 hours per day. The VAST majority of bonehead moves are executed by four-wheelers. When I encounter a big truck, 9 times out of ten I can predict exactly what he is going to do. Are there bad truck drivers out there, yeah (most driving for BFI, most just steering wheel holders). But there are far fewer good drivers of POVs.

Go look at the crash stats and tell me what clbutt of driver is the best and which are the worst. It comes out that school bus drivers are the safest drivers around, it's not even close. Then come the other CDL holders. For 2004, school buses had 0.01 pbuttenger rests per 100,000,000 miles, pbuttenger cars 0.94. In that year over 37,000 baneities to occupants of motor vehicles as a whole. Of those, 5 where on school buses.

I don't care how many racing schools you've attended, it doesn't teach you to drive safely in traffic. A non-CDL holder just isn't held up to the scrutiny of a CDL driver. Unless you are a professional driver, you just don't get it. You don't understand what it is to have safety as your number one concern, always. Being safe enough isn't good enough. If you are concerned with how much time you're wasting in traffic, your mind is not on safety. If you are peeed off at the idiot that just cut you off, your mind is not on safety. If you are trying to get ahead of the LLB, your mind is not on safety. You've just put in a 12 hour day and all you want to do is get home and get some food, your mind is not on safety.

Don't have a bicycle. But I'm still a safer driver than you.

Doug