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consequences are so grave? They simply don't take safety in driving seriously enough. The continuing rise in driver costs reflect our lack of respect for this modern double edge sword that driving has become.

A professional driver with a million DOT logged miles rides next to a mom who travels less than twenty miles a day, on a short commute, and a retired senior who goes out twice each month, and a teenager with everything on their minds, but the task at hand. How well did they examine their vehicle before they took it out of the garage? How well did they plot their course? Don't ever become complacent most accidents occur with 10 miles of home! Chances are they planned a phone call along the way, or they will be applying their makeup or running an electric razor across their face with the visor mirror down in rush hour traffic, all of these things I have seen for myself day after day my whole professional driving career spanning over two decades, I do bear witness to these bizarre truths, even if I can't understand them. I think about whom I'm driving next to all the time, strangers reliant on each other and never do we ever meet, yet we are tied together in this delicate daily balancing act. The skills of the driver next to you have grave consequences on you and me and deserve our serious consideration.

When I go out driving I'm watching YOUR every move, so it doesn't have an adverse effect on my course of travel. I know where I need to go, I wish you would put down that cell phone and use that blinker so you can tell me what you intentions are. A professional keeps his actions predictable and intentional with the use of turn signals and even pulling aside to stop, and wait for the right moment to make the next move. The only way to understand trucks is to live trucks which we all simply can't do, so most of you can't know why truck drivers drive the way they do? The professional driver usually uses the same lanes and the same approach and the same maneuvers learned from an experienced hand!

Experience and sharing those experiences imparts knowledge. If no one teaches, how's anyone going to learn?

Truck driving is thankless hard way to make a living today as it has always been. Moving the products of our society is done by dedicated professionals who have to share their work space with drivers who seem to lack any concern or consideration for other drivers with which they share the road, especially trucks! Does a ship captain have to interact with pleasure

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