I think we all can relate. There are a couple of things that really bug me in additon to the unbeleivably dangerous "blind double yellow pass."
1. The bad rep they give truckers in the press up here. Truckers are subject to more rules and have more experience and hours than any housewife or accountant on his way to work and yet the truckers are always painted bad in the press.
2. People who ignore school bus rules. In Ontario, you MUST stop for a stopped school bus on both sides of an undevided road. People blow past buses all the time.
Yes, the truckers have more rules and in most cases more hours behind the wheel, and they do sometimes get an undeserved bad rep, but there's a number of problems:
1. getting paid by the mile or load means some drive too fast and too many hours,
2. tight delivery schedules sometimes mean the same thing,
3. independent truckers sometimes don't make enough profit to properly maintain their trucks, so some of the trucks are dangerous themselves, and
4. some of them could be a bit more courteous, especially when a couple of them get side by side on the Interstate and block other traffic, or when they tailgate other traffic.
But fortunately, the majority of them
are good drivers (or we'd really be in trouble
). Not only was I in law enforcement for many years, but both of my brothers used to be truckers; one owned his trucks and the other just drove for a larger company. It's not an easy way to make a living, as some seem to think.
RVers, of which I was one for many years, also get a bad rep; sometimes deserved, sometimes not.
As for the school busses, we have the same law about stopping for a stopped school bus, but I almost never see anyone violate that one.
