Opinion: Consider the Truck Driver Before Flipping the Bird


Before you flip the bird to another truck driver, there’s an opinion piece you should read in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune. It’s written by Dan Hanson, a fleet operator who dealt with the personal tragedy of one of his drivers last week. Hanson says semi drivers aren’t trying piss off other drivers when they pass another truck, they’re simply trying to balance a tricky equation of long hours, fuel economy and mandated speed limits. Fuel economy is especially important to driver because they pay for their own gas, something I didn’t know.

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