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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seramus" data-source="post: 9819282" data-attributes="member: 6812658">Increased awareness of roadway threats in general, increased knowledge of traffic flow, and specific experience of how a semi maneuvers so you can anticipate their behavior on the road and what they need from you.A semi reacts slowly and poorly, requiring you to scan far further ahead and use more advanced anticipation skills than the vast majority of 4 wheel drivers exhibit. You have a higher vantage point as well, giving you a better viewpoint to see other vehicles and how they move.There's also some more niche skills you learn more often, like skid training and black ice training, and just learning to effectively pre-trip puts you ahead of most 4 wheel drivers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />It's certainly not impossible to pick up those skills just driving a 4 wheeler, but it's a level of awareness usually only found in other professional drivers like state troopers.</blockquote>