Big Trucks **Old Post from 4-07**

I was at a gas station that big trucks stop at, getting something to drink and eat. There was a truck driver talking to the man behind the counter. He was talking about how he has such a difficult time now compared to years back. He has a family to take care of and he's having a hard time doing it. He said that people on the roads don't drive the same as they used to. People don't lookout for big trucks anymore and they don't give way to them. He said that now he has to work twice as hard and long. He said that now he doesn't have the time to worry about what is going on and that with insurance, he doesn't have to really worry about hitting someone. If someone gets in his way, he's not afraid to move them. He's the biggest so everybody should get out of his way.
We payed for our stuff and left. I thought about what that guy was saying all the way home. Is this how everybody is now? Is this how it's suppose to work? How can you not fear killing someone? It's my fear when I drive. My fear is not if the car gets a dent, if I can be sued, if I'm late for anything, if I miss my favorite show, or anything like that. My fear is that I wipe out a family going to church. My fear is that I cause someone to be disabled and unable to take care of themselves or their family. My fear is to destroy someone's life in any form. But I don't see this fear anywhere else. I don't see it in truck drivers or in regular people. No one cares about anyone else. There's no fear of lose of life or even financial lose. We have insurance to take care of that. If someone is killed in a car wreck, their family will be payed insurance. So everybody just plows ahead. As long as you don't hit someone you know, it's ok.
This is just sick. See I think it's fine to be careless with your own life. That is a personal thing. What isn't fine is when people are careless with other people's lives. Insurance may give people a financial safeguard but it does nothing to protect anyone. If you are dying on the side of the road, I doubt if the one thought going thru your head is "I hope he had insurance". When you see a car coming at you, insurance is no protection. It doesn't have a force field included with it. It's just nothing. But it enables people to drive with little fear of repercussions. Is this actually a good thing? Is this the true purpose of insurance? If not, why do we allow it to be?