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wafflycat <remove celebrities and change caps to obvious> wrote:
>Up the road from where I live and where I cycle frequently is a large
>quarry. Large trucks are a frequent sight on the road going to and from the
>drivers of these huge vehicles are, for the most part, extremely courteous
>to little old me on my bike, in terms of how they treat me as another road
>user.
This isn't all that surprising. In my experience (and the experience of
every motorcyclist I've ever heard comment on the subject, who typically
spend more time driving near big trucks than most cyclists), the big
trucks tend to be driven by people who actually know how to drive, and
who spend enough time on the road to realize that doing things properly
is actually important.
In general, anything with more or less than four wheels is likely to
be pleasant to share the road with; the two-wheelers are driven by
people who know that their safety depends on being aware of what's
going on around them and being able to react appropriately, and the
eighteen-wheelers are driven by people who know that there's a reason
why being aware of what's going on around them and being predictable
is a Good Thing. It's the four-wheelers that you have to worry about,
not so much because they can be expected to have incompetent drivers
(most are at least competent and aware), but because it's where the
incompetent ones are almost universally found.
dave
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Dave Vandervies
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Why on earth would you expect a problem to occur? Are you saying I'm
incompetent or something?
--Peter Seebach in comp.lang.c