They take our stuff to the store and we cut them off in traffic.

Think about it. Pretty much everything you have got there on a truck: the food you buy, the chair your sitting in, the computer you are looking at, the ipod you listen to, the car you drive, the clothes you are wearing.

Everything.

Truck drivers keep America moving and functioning. They have a tough job. They drive for hours, days, weeks on end. Some of them are away from their families for long periods of time. You get in your car, get there and get out. They've been driving all day. Sitting for long hours and dealing with selfish drivers zipping around in their small cars who take extreme risks around a truck that could kill them in an instant.

Yet we're in such a hurry to cut in front of them, with no thought about how much longer it takes them to slow down to avoid rear ending us.

We get so frustrated when we are stuck behind a truck, but give no thought when one of them is stuck behind us.

Those people driving those big machines are probably better drivers than most of us. They certainly had to pass extra tests and get extra training. And they put in a week's worth of your driving every single day.

Be kind to those men and women who work hard and keep America moving. Smile and wave at them on the road. Go ahead and let them enter the road ahead of you. And certainly be sensitive to the fact that it's harder for them to accelerate, slow down and turn. And remember they're not out there on the road to make your life miserable. They're out there to earn a living for their families...and they're doing it for you.