America depends on trucks just as you depend on your family car to transport you to and from the office, the grocery store, or the shopping mall. We depend on trucks to do more than transport goods such as the fire trucks and emergency vehicles that bring help in life threatening situations. On highways and city streets trucks are at work right now. Every minute of every day trucks are working in thousands of roles, performing tasks that are as different as the sizes and shapes of the vehicles themselves. This information is designed to help you better understand the differences between cars and trucks.
Every vehicle has blind spots and in general the larger the vehicle, the larger the blind spot.
There are three blind spots on a truck - the driver's side, passenger side. If you are following a truck, make sure your vehicle is positioned so the truck driver can see it in his side mirrors. The blind spots on either side of the truck are the most critical areas You can never feel safe in any blind spot and should avoid traveling in these spaces for more than a few seconds. A good rule of thumb is that if you can't see the truck driver in his mirror, then he can't see you. For more information on this you can check the Department of Transportation's web site.