NY Biker, a fire truck did something similar to me a while back. I was so stunned and that it was from our local station just a half mile up the road. After that I checked out the drivers everytime they passed by. I noticed the younger drivers were not as cautious as the older appearing drivers. Nothing scientific here, just observation. It's gotten better since then. But I did realize that should this happen again, I will note the time, place, direction, truck number and notify whoever is in charge over there. I thought, of all the people to cause an accident with bicyclist because they didn't drive safely, that would be quite the black eye to them.

In fairness to our fire dept., they have gotten better about it. I'm not sure why but I'm glad they are doing it. This area is heavily used by cyclists, especially on the the weekends.