ROFL!
Man, I hear ya... I was a fiber contractor for ten years; during most of which I was saddled with having to drive my Bucket-truck thousands of miles to where ever the contract required. (No air-ride plush neither...
) And I had MANY a sphincter puckering experience with Big-rigs careening by me, upgrade, downgrade... You people are KUH-RAZY!
Occassionally, in talking to family I'd be speaking with my Uncle Jimmy who was a long-hauler when I was born and only retired a few years ago due to a back injury sustained after falling off the flat-bed... but I'd tell him about some rig that nearly killed us both and he'd just grimace and retort with something like 'Yeah, these damn kids drivin' today, got no respect for themselves, their truck or nobody... they ain't been doin' it long enough to know that they can get killed or kill someone else. All they're looking at is getting paid. So they don't think about what happens when you flip it into a ditch and that it's pretty hard to get paid on a load scattered across 5 acres of highway'
You know I totally agree with your Uncle Jimmy, truck drivers today (CDL school nubs is what I call them) I have absolutely no respect for. Kids today are not being taught professional courtesy, code, how to share the road, they don't speak English for the most part, they can't drive, they can't back up and they are always on the road and always in the way. In my younger day, yeah i drove fast but there was a time and a place for that usually from 12 to 5 am out on the open road and we all had professional courtesy. We would stop and help each other all the time, today that doesn't happen, these kids just blow right by you and not even give you a one lane breather. I could rant further but you get the idea.
But it's amazing how much power the new diesels are laying down today.