Maybe it’s just the fact that I live in North Carolina where the majority of people dominating the roadways seem to own SUVs and pickup trucks. However, it was recently brought to my attention via numerous conversations with friends and acquaintances, just how aggressive people in pickup trucks seem to be. And after paying closer attention to this, I realized that the stereotype is right. What is it About Pickup Trucks and Aggresion? In the opinion of one of my friends, when discussing why people in pickup trucks are reckless, he responded: “I think it’s because they feel like they have a sense of entitlement…Because they are typically driving a bigger vehicle, they feel like they own the road; that and the fact that I think they watch too much Nascar…” One thing is for certain, I actually tested out the theory that those driving pickup trucks are, indeed, extraordinarily aggressive. For three days, when I drove to and from work, I purposely paid attention to how many cars were driving aggressively past other vehicles. Surprisingly (or perhaps not), the overwhelming majority of aggressive drivers were those behind the wheel of pickup trucks. In my daily travels, I was able to observe them weaving in and out of lanes without signaling, speeding to get around other “slower” drivers without indicating, running red lights, cutting others off and revving their engines at stoplights. And so now I pose the question: “Do you think that people who drive pickup trucks are more or less aggressive than other drivers?”

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