Trucks of death..

I can never understand how in the movies, trucks can just come out of nowhere without a sound to hit someone or someone's car. I mean yeah it is a very effective technique to shock people but actually it doesn't make sense at all. And the more times I see it in movies the more I find it preposterous that there are directors or writers still employing this old and tired movie trick for a cheap shot at scaring people (perhaps waking them up from being bored to death by the movie?) I think they should dig deeper to find more original and creative ways rather than resort to such a cliched by-the-book trick..