There are a couple of general rules that all of my littler rules stem off of. American cars are driven faster than Japanese cars but usually not as fast as German cars, if there is a small dent in the body work of the car that person is more likely to drive recklessly and fast. Well I also have a general rule involving big trucks, namely that they are driven 10-20 mph over the speed limit, and the drivers usually drive like they have a small sports car weaving in and out of traffic.
There are all kinds of big trucks that you need to keep an eye out for and this one over here was no 
exception. I break these big trucks up into more specific categories like farm trucks (the ones with six wheels and extended mirrors), off road trucks (raised and covered with dirt), and compensating for something trucks (raised and immaculately clean). This truck started off behind me and was content to ride my bumper really close for the mile where Pecos Rd is only two lanes. Once we crossed over to the four lane part of the road, it took about two seconds before he started spewing his $5 diesel all over the road because 10 over the speedlimit was just not fast enough he needed to go 20 over. So this episode served to reconfirm the rule that I have in my head which is stay away from big trucks because generally they will only drive more recklessly if you mess around with them.
Try to keep this in mind as you play with traffic.
Tags: big truck, extended mirror, six wheels, truck
