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Originally Posted by alanwalne
I would be scared between the lorries, as they tailgate for the economy (especially European ones so they can get back to Calais without having to fiil up), they must sit right on your rear bumper to get as close to the lorry in front as possible.
I hate the thought of them using the back of my car as part of their braking system
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It's a little nerve-wracking to start with, what I tend to do now is find a French or Polish (Racist, me?) truck on their own, preferably nice and tall and hang about 15 metres back.
The air tunnel effect can strech up to 100 metres behind a truck for a car, it's only really other trucks that need to be so close. There also seems to be a sweet spot about 50 metres behind a large truck, you'll notice on a dusty road or when there is litter etc that a certain distance behind the truck are little whirlwinds of dust and rubbish moving with the truck but not really being affected by 60mph of wind. That is where you want to be!