Hardly uninformed. I do have the stats. And I wonder why the City of Toronto is paying such special attention to dealing with large vehicles on the road. The greatest majority of Toronto cycling fatalities in recent years were due to collisions with trucks. That's a cold hard fact that's impossible to deny.

Umm... in central Toronto?.. Doubt it somehow. When I look on a busy Toronto road, cars far outnumber trucks. I don't care if those trucks dominate on a superhighway - that's not where cyclists ride.

Look, my statement was not criticizing the abilities of truck drivers per se, and I am not sure why you took it as such. It was a mere statement that a cyclist in Toronto is more likely to be killed by a truck than by something else. In part that's because trucks are just bigger, and some cyclists don't ride around them with enough respect (failing to consider blind spots, crunch spots etc.) It's also that when a collision with a truck does occur, regardless of who's at fault, the results tend to be more serious than colliding with a car. It's also that SOME truck drivers (and I am counting smaller trucks here like, say, UHaul trucks for which you don't need any addicional licensing) are driven by people who aren't used to driving that type of vehicle or people who drive particularly aggressively (which tends to be even more dangerous than aggressive car drivers, because of a truck's larger size).