This is increasingly irritating and dangerous. Old time truck drivers continue to discuss this as one of the reasons they want to get out of the field.
Americans spend Billions of dollars each year, traveling around the world looking for people who will love us ... yet we often refuse to talk with the neighbor who lives right next door.
So what happens when you get these people ... who NEED social interactions in cars and TRUCKS ... who have either zero social skills or worst, a Personality Disorder or two?
Answer: Here comes the peek-a-boo driver ... edging up to peek into your mirror ... hanging just behind your shoulder ... waiting for some kind of response to their childish behavior.
It's getting worse.
I'm a flatbed driver. We can't take turns with the same speeds that van drivers can ... so I don't really like van drivers hugging my mirror when I'm coming down a hill with lots of curves ... but I realize that a lot of drivers are so bored that they need some kind of adventure in their life.
But the biggest irritant is after I've just left a truck stop ... and I've tried to talk to divers at the fuel line or inside ... and all I get is, "Hmmph" or some attempt at macho behavior.
Five miles up the road ... what do you get? That same damn bozo creeping up to look at another human being in the saftey of his or her cab. Somebody give me a freaking taser.
And it's worse when I'm driving Heavy Haul. I've got becons (flashing yellow lights) going on top of the cab and two at the rear of the load. I've spent a fair amount of time mounting HUGE yellow and black banners in front of and rear of the truck ... "OVERSIZE LOAD" ... and I've got red flags at every corner of the truck and trailer. (six ususally.)
WHAT MORE DOES A YA-BOB NEED TO REALIZE THEY NEED TO DRIVE PAST THIS TRUCK??
Things are happening on the shoulder of the road ... I have no where to go because mr. lonely has to linger and look at my headache rack, dream about my chains ... and puzzle over my load ... then assess me in the rear view mirror.
WHAT? Are we kids now? What happened to the mature driver. Is everybody ADD or something ... "can't get good attention so they get negative attention???
Look at all these truck accidents. Why can't drivers just maturely realize that the windshield of their truck is not a television screen and just drive up the darn road?