Who says the highway patrol is against the trucking companies ? Here is an article that ran not to long ago that says quite the opposite.’
In February, the North Carolina state Highway Patrol started a safety campaign that focuses on aggressive drivers. They call it “Operation Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks, (TACT) and are looking at both truck drivers and those driving too aggressive near the trucks.
The same thing happened last summer in an Idaho county. They were looking specifically for drivers driving aggressively near trucks.
Paul McDaniel, an instructor for the SAGE Truck Driving School in the area, stated, “Aggressive driving includes tailgating big trucks, cutting them off, or staying in their blind spots… It’s a huge problem for everybody, especially for trucks.”
The Idaho State Police were very clever and were passengers in a truck on I-15. The police gave out 34 citations to drivers in Idaho and handed out brochures on why the police are cracking down on reckless driving around trucks and how to drive safer in their vicinity.
Last September, Alabama police ran a similar campaign because of safety issues rising in their state from reckless drivers around trucks.
These ticketing campaigns bring the issue to the front about safety and the road. It looks like states are starting to look into it pretty seriously.
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/7072105/
http://www.kidk.com/news/local/51521397.html
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/09/alabama_to_continue_targeting.html
