A tractor-trailer truck has gigantic blind spots. These are areas where the truck driver cannot see you. Thus, you should not linger in the trucker’s blind spots. Instead, move through them as quickly as possible if you cannot avoid them.
The front of a big rig has a 20-foot-long blind spot, while the rear has a 30-foot-long blind spot. When you are behind a truck, if you cannot see the driver in their mirror, you are in the truck’s blind spot.
The left side of a tractor-trailer truck has a blind spot as wide as the next lane. It starts at the driver’s door and goes about three-quarters down the trailer.
The right-side blind spot takes two lanes and starts at the truck’s front bumper. The blind spot ends about 15 feet past the end of the trailer in the second lane.