Trucker here and we don't want to be anywhere near you either.
Go around or stay back don't just ride right beside us. We can't see you very well when you are beside us and if s**t happens you're gonna go splat.
It is very very very rare that any driver wants to slow you down it's not like we get our rocks off on making you late. We work extremely long hours on very little sleep and we just wanna get where we are going without getting in an accident and killing someone.
Trust me if we could go faster we damn sure would.
Also if you give us the fist pump to honk our horn you just made our whole week. That's one of the greatest joys in a truckers life.
Be safe out there!!
Edit: A reoccurring comment is that most of you get it and are very cool but you hate when a truck driver hops in the hammer lane when you're trying to pass them at a reasonable speed. I'm with you on that and Im here to tell you most truck drivers are not a******s like that and the real truckers hate the ones that are. Every profession has a group of a******s that ruin it for the good ones.
Edit Edit: This has gotten an unexpectedly high response and I really appreciate all of you joining in the conversation. If we would all just communicate like this more often we could solve a lot of problems in this world.