All About Big Trucks

• September
• 16

4:15 am Trucks

Every year it seems there are more commercial vehicles like big  trailers on the highway and it shows no signs of easing up. To stay safe when driving on the highway really need to know as much as can about how these big trucks operate. Let’s take a look at some tips to help stay safe on the road.

Sitting up high the drivers of these large commercial vehicles have a much better forward view but even with much larger side mirrors they have more blind spots than the typical driver does.Don’t want to follow these big trucks in their blind spots.Have probably seen the stickers on the back of some trucks stating “If can’t see my mirrorscan’t see” and this is true.

Larger vehicles like these need much more time and distance for accelerating and braking as well as much wider turning room. If driving in front of a big truck like this should signal intentions to change lanes or an upcoming stop sooner than would normally to be on the safe side and give the truck driver time to respond to actions properly.

Another big issue and one that personally get aggravated with is that of excessive spray from the tires of these large vehicles in rain, snow, and slush.Live in Florida and can tell that when it is raining traveling on the major highways used by large semi trucks is extremely dangerous and at times can see nothing due to all of the spray from the big trucks. My advice is that if don’t absolutely have to be on the highway in those conditions stay off of it.

Not only do weather conditions affect visibility but so does time of day. Early morning and early evening hours can be dangerous as well when many people don’t use their headlights properly.Also need to be cognizant of the fact that many truck drivers are also driving long hours and may be overtired so need to be cautious around them.

Big used trucks are a necessity in our society and will not being going away any time soon. We have to be extra careful when sharing the highway with these vehicles because as stated in many cases they cannot see us.