Don't Flash Your Brights

A lot of n00bs don't seem to realize trucks didn't always have mirror heat, so when one truck passed another, the head lights were flipped on and off so the driver knew he come back over without runnin a 4 wheeler into the ditch! Don't bother flashing your brights in my mirrors!

 

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I hear you. My truck wasnt governed when I bought it. I found myself running 75 with traffic most of the time getting about 4 mpg. I tried keeping up with those bull haulers a few times. 80 - 85 was just too much.

I locked the speed at 72 when I had my ecm replaced. Now I mostly cruise between 63 - 65 and like you.. when I see them coming.. I brace for it.

Hurst

 

It is not a matter of necessity, it is a matter of courtesy between professional drivers, which is a a severe shortage these days.

 

just wish more ppl that come off the shoulder or ramp slowly, would use the flashers.

why they stop on the shoulder I don't know. never drove for the Megas.

but when you come onto the interstate at 15 MPH use those flashers, warn people !!!!

 

That and the mirrors were smaller and had a convex like a fish eye built into them which made it difficult to judge distance. I was driving a 72 Mack twinstick back in 88 and backing and changing lanes in traffic could be stressful.

Hurst

 

Our automatics don't get up and go by any means. When turning from MLK onto i95 south in Jacksonville it's a tight hairpin type turn. You merge onto the interstate at about 20mph if you're lucky. I always turn on my 4 ways as soon as I come out of the turn on the ramp. Some guys don't and I don't know why.


Also, I've learned the local guys I work with who have never been OTR don't know jack about courtesy. They're always used to being cut off by 4 wheelers and other drivers I guess they just don't care anymore. Which sucks because they've even cut me off and I'll see them at the rack or the yard and let them know they don't know how to drive.

Only a few of our trucks have cb radios, I wish they all did but since I'm not in the same truck all the time, I don't wanna put on in a truck. When I'm in a truck that does have one though, it makes it a lot easier communicating with OTR guys. Plus they usually don't expect you to answer them lol.

 

This ought to be a capital crime! Been once or twice where I've been pinned in, because the idiots stop on the shoulder around a blind curve, leaving you no time to get left, and then they pull that. Only the fact I was already slowly kept it from being a very bad day. Makes you wonder if they even look in the mirror, or are they so deep in the midst of a cranial-rectal inversion, that they see space without thinking about speed? Either way they deserve a hearty Red Forman at the very least; "#######!"

 

This is a topic worthy a thread of it's own. Lately I've come across a lot of people stopped just around curves or just over the crest of the hill.

If you need to stop on the shoulder please do your best to do it in a place where you are visible from a distance.

 

Want everyone to think about the law on using flashers on a moving vehicle. The thinking , according to my reasearch, is more toward the 4 wheelers than us. On many cars, the brake light and turn signals are connected in such a manner that the turn signal over rides the stop light. Meaning , if your flashers are flashing, and you hit the brake, the stop light light will not come on, but the bulb will still flash. Imagine a 4 wheeler with his flashers on, in the rain, suddenly stops and the vehicle behind him has no way of knowing this. All he can see is the 4 ways flashing. Now not all cars are like this, but plenty are. Of course our trailer lights are separate, so we would not have the problem.

 

I always turn lights off then back on. Flashing brights for quick second looks no different then what normal headlight does when you hit a bump in the road. Could be a very dangerous situation if you have another trucker passing you and you hit bump in the road and the passing driver thinks you just signaled him that lane is clear to get over.