In the movies we see trucks crashing through buildings, police roadblocks etc and emerging unscathed, well I got sideswiped by a van today and I came off much worse! Hollywood it aint. 
I loaded in Wigston for Nuneaton so I’m in lane 1 of 2 on the M69 watching a Transit pulling a trailer pass me. To be honest I’d backed off a tad for him 'cos he appeared to be struggling. Anyhoo he passes me when I felt the impact to my right and sees a dropside Transit stuck to my front offside quarter, I veered onto the H/S which kind of “released” him and he ended up spinning and going into the grass in the centre just before where the third lane appears.
I checked he was ok (the fact he was the spit of Vin Diesel made me bite my tongue) and was amazed that his van had no damage whatsoever whilst my plastic MAN looked like it has seen active service in Helmand! I’d post the pics but I’m computer illiterate and have tried and failed.
There was a time when anything tangling with a HGV would come off second best, but it seems them days have passed now.
Sounds like the ■■■■ forgot he was towing a trailer ? 
It’s not always the case. Take them pics from the m6 crash yesterday near Crewe. Not a lot of damage on the trucks but 2 unrecognizable cars and a van that looked like it had been dropped from a great height over and over again.
I had an accident some 10yrs ago while driving a foden double drive and it was like the movies. I was driving on a duel carriageway approaching a petrol station when I noticed car coming from the pumps to join the bypass. As she the driver got closer I could see she wasn’t slowing so I started to adjust my position in the rd and straddle two lanes in the hope she saw me but no. Boom she drove straight into my first drive axle which sent her car straight into a hedge from the direction she came. 
the outcome was the car had smashed suspension, mangled wing, missing bumper grille and smashed light. The damage to my foden was a scratched tyre 
The funny thing was she tore into me saying it was my fault but when the cops turned up they could see she was talkin ■■■■ and was clearly a loon for suggesting that I had tried to go into the petrol station at 50 mph
I have a very similar incident to the OP but with a car, I was in a Premium, the car pit manoeuvred across the front of me and was totally battered down the side, Premium had a crack in front bumper, scuff on the plastic headlight cover and a smashed side repeater, oh and that damned front cover on the bumper fell off (no surprise there lol)
Thought the truck did quite well tbh.
Some car drivers bloody ask to get wiped out by a truck the way they try and join roads.