As a trucker, I do know what its like to take a tailgaters off the road. I had a tire blow out with a recapped tire, on a van trailer. The recap flew as high as the trailer, was spinning backwards, and rolled as soon as it hit the ground. It rolled right under the car that was right on my bumper, and clean everything from under it, trans mission, engine pan, exhaust system, you name it. One other time I had hit a deer at night. I had a car right on my bumper. The deer tried to go across the highway in between the tandems of the tractor, and the tandems of the liquid tanker trailer, I was pulling. The deer flew out from behind the trailer, and the car swerved to miss the deer, and drove into the guardrail, that was along a cliff. It is very dangerous to even think about tailgating a liquid tanker trailer. First what is loaded in that tanker. Second. Those steel rear fenders are held on by two pieces of thin walled pipe. If a tire blows out that fender will fly off, and it will shear right through your vehicle. I had a blow out on my tractor one night, and there was not much left of that steel, front fender of the liquid tanker I was pulling. It was bent up really bad. So how do you feel about drafting. Do you feel lucky? its your call. Those trucks run an average of 6.5 to 10 miles per gallon, while your car runs over 30 miles per gallon. Tailgaters used to cost me money. Now there was another complaint, about a semi trying to pass another semi. The semi that was doing 65 miles per hour, probably sped up to stop the other semi from passing out of shear ignorance. I encountered that a lot from other drivers when I was driving truck. Then they would slowdown again, after you pulled back in behind them. Once again pure ignorants, and all this does is give the good drivers a bad name, and make the good drivers look bad.
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