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not a thing he can do about it.

When you see that situation, we beg you, please don't jump into the slower lane, come up behind that slower car that the truck was trying to pass. Want to know why? Because now, you too have become the block wall preventing the truck from finding its way back into the slow lane. Honestly, that's all the trucker wants. He just wanted to pass a slow vehicle and now he finds himself hanging out there' in the show-off lane'. Car drivers are getting frustrated because of the truck, which is now a road block and it seems this is when the cars do just about everything possible to jam up the works, keeping that truck in the passing lane where he's literally trapped.

The best thing to do, is to get behind that passing truck and simply wait. I promise you he will do everything he can to make his way back into the slow lane. As long as you have a car in the slow lane, matching the speed of the truck, there is no way around them except to trust the trucker.

It sounds bitter on my part, but in truth there are people who will do this on purpose and I have yet to figure out just why. The upshot is, if you are moving slower than the rest of traffic, please hold a steady speed instead of speeding up and slowing down, trapping a truck in the passing lane. You have no idea how tempting it can get to just bump that spastic vehicle right off the road just to put an end to a nightmare.

One thing, every truck driver will agree to is that there is no such thing as an accident. Every accident is preventable. Better to call it mistake'. Cooperation would cut down on those mistakes'.

One of the most dangerous things to do is torment a truck driver for no good reason.

And I do mean torment. Most car drivers are courteous and safe but there are those in the crowd who, in my opinion, have no business being behind a wheel. If they haven't killed somebody, it just hasn't happened yet. Can I share with you, a couple of my own experiences?

I was driving west on I-80, through Wyoming. My trailer was heavily loaded and as I began to climb a hill, I noted a slower truck up ahead. There was very little traffic but I noticed a car about a quarter mile behind me moving fast, so I waited for him to pass on by before pulling out to pass the other truck. The timing should have been perfect but as soon as the car was side by side with my truck, the driver slammed on the brakes and matched my speed to prevent me moving over. There were no other cars in sight so that wasn't a

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