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I love how everyone condemns drafting. And yet unless you live in boon country you drive in traffic. I live in Ohio, and people regularly ride my ass anywhere from 15 feet to three feet away. This is when I am doing the speed limit, and they want to do 80 or 90. I can safely say that I regularly drive close to 50 feet or even less to the car in front of me. Do I have a choice? Not really, rush hour doesnt give you many options, people are all around you.
Truck drivers 9/10 times are superior drivers to 90% of the idiots I encounter on the road in a day. I feel much safer behind a Semi than I do the average person in traffic that taps the brakes every .025 seconds... On rare occasion a semi may change lanes to seemingly get away from me, if he does, I move on to another trucker. I work at UPS and alot of the truck drivers I talk to, dont really mind as long as they can see you (I.E you can see their mirrors)
If you really feel the need to talk about how dangerous drafting is, thats nice. Most of the people raising your premiums most likely dont even visit car forums, much less know what drafting is. Why dont you go to a street racing forum and preach there, I am not endangering anyone but myself, I seriously doubt the truck driver is getting injured in any way. And if anyone behind me gets involved they were following too closely. And on the subject of deer, do you know what happens when a semi hits a deer? It isnt often that the deer goes under the truck, usually there isnt much deer left over.
Anyway, figured I would put this to bed. I mean really, there are more people that tailgate other motorists than semis. If you feel the need to bash drafting go look up the soccer mom forums and give them a piece of your mind.
And FYI I dont draft regularly. I do it on long trips, but I dont take those that often. For the most part I get stuck, with little to no choice, in bumper to bumper 80 mph traffic.
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