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Gators are referred to by truck drivers when they see a piece of a retreaded tire laying on the road because with it's tread facing up it often looks like an aligator sunning itself on the warm road.  But dodging gators in Florida does not only consist of strips of blown out retreads these days.  Many drivers are reporting actual aligators coming on to the highways in Florida and other southern states, and it's becoming a problem.  Truck drivers are told to "keep it straight and upright" when a deer is seen in their truck's path.  The truck will win that contest every time, despite sometimes causing major damage to the truck.  So when a deer is unfortunate enough to get in the headlights of a trucker, that deer is a goner.  But a recent trend has emerged in Florida that has become alarming to some insurance companies.  Despite the training and years of experience telling a driver to keep it straight when an animal gets in their way, aligators seem to have a unique effect of making the truck driver swerve no matter what.  Maybe it's a fear that an aligator will hurt them personally, after all, we've all heard horror stories about aligators, and not much about deer.  It's become such a problem that many Florida Trucking Companies are retraining their drivers to run over the aligators just like they would a deer or other animal.