Brett, only speaking for myself...personally i have a lot of difficulty with trucks. Not because theyre heaps slow, because youre right....you get stuck behind an old nanny in her hyundai getz on the wrong day and its the same thing. Hell, when i attempt to do the speed limit on the bridge, knowing that theres cameras on it, i still get people gesturing at me rudely to shift lanes so they can continue on their way...rather than them switching lanes to avoid me. But thats another topic. Basically, personally, my problem with trucks is that its a well known fact that they have a number of blind spots...and being the smaller car in that equation, its only natural to be afraid that the driver of the truck may not see you and attempt to change lanes on top of you...because while this same thing occasionally happens with a car driver not paying attention, its safe to say that in that case the result might be less life threatening. You might be able to walk away. With a big, heavy truck, the odds of that are decreased.
3-4 lane streets are difficult to navigate, particularly for people like me from rural communities where the most lanes we have is 2...i occasionally have difficulty gauging which lane a car is in, and have had a few problems with changing into the middle lane at the same time as someone from the far left or right (depending which side im on) who have sped up to move into that lane while i have not, and almost hit me, which they feel gives them the right to toot their horn at me for cutting them off...city driving is an acquired skill for those of us not born there u know