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If you ask me, it’s because they make trucks come to a stop at the tracks. You’re much more likely to stall leaving from a dead stop than if you were approaching the tracks at low speed, and crossed without stopping.
Buses are another example. It’s such a brain-dead rule. Despite depending on the driver to evaluate the conditions and drive safely hundreds if not thousands of times during the day, they cannot make a decision that it’s safer to cross a siding without stopping. Instead they come to a complete stop in the middle of a 4 lane road with a 50 mph speed limit, as though that’s safer.
Near me there is an industrial warehouse section of town with tracks all over the place. When a train actually runs through there to drop off train cars, the conductor walks ahead of the train with a flag. The train is going slower than a walking pace, because of all the uncontrolled crossings.
There is one particular warehouse where the train track crosses the street, goes up the driveway and dissappears into the building behind a closed roll up door. Yet, when the bus comes by, it faithfully stops in front of that track, as though a train might suddenly come crashing through that door.
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