Hope to hell other Raven drivers aren't like the o...

Hope to hell other Raven drivers aren't like the one I saw in R4143 on the Washington Beltway Sunday Jan. 3. Serial tailgating is unsafe to begin with, but there is no way in hell a tractor trailer going 70mph can stop in an emergency when it is riding the back of sedans. One after another after another. Are Raven drivers so ill-informed that they don't realize 1) a truck requires several hundred more feet to stop than an auto, and 2) if it does collide, the chance of it killing auto passengers is extremely high? A loaded tractor trailer outweighs an auto by the same ratio as a grown man to a newborn infant, about 20 to one. A truck hitting an auto isn't like an ordinary auto crash - it's more like the driver stomping on the infant. Are the drivers simply callous or are they under so much pressure from management that risking others lives doesn't factor in for them?

Tell you something else: that kind of driving on a light-traffic Sunday is utterly inexcusable. It suggests either that the route and schedule was poorly planned or that the driver was in a big rush to catch an NFL game.

On top of that, it's unbelievable that the motor carrier industry would lobby for extended drivers hours. Do they really not give a s**t about others on the road?