Passing

Never more than four

 

You clearly misuderstood me. I will take fault for that for not being descriptive enough. So I will try again.

My default lane is the Right Lane. Passing on a 2 lane divided roadway is easy. Like I said, I hug the shoulder of whatever lane I am in. However, street signs and light poles are always taken into consideration.

On roadways with 3 more more lanes and I am making a pass with traffic lanes on both my right and left, my lane placement is most likely dead center. However, I may stay a little to the right as they have the shoulder. If traffic in the lane to my left has light traffic, I may move a little to the left. I may even take the second lane, staying right, wait for the third lane to open up, then move left to make the pass giving the vehicle I am passing more room.

I am very keen to situational awareness. Every pass I make may be a little different. I may be a rookie yet, but wide loads do not intimidate me. I am cautious and courteous, but that does not mean I shackle myself to the right lane.

 

We need a lot more noobs like you, as you seem to already have a pretty good grasp of how it should work.

 

oh, ok, you clarified that. I thought it was being said you are traveling in the middle lane, you know like cruising, not passing, glad you clarified that.

 

I didn't read the full post in thread, but I read some...

I don't like when a car\truck is approaching me (either from behind or towards) with high beams on especially in the night, but seriously anyone who complains about a quick blip of the high beams needs a new hobby... The driver who blipped his lights is just being courteous nothing not rude.. He is just letting you know your good.. Appreciate the good deed even if you don't require it...

If you haven't noticed, Police/Fire/Ambulance/Tow Truck and more have very bright LED flashing lights... They are like 10x brighter then a quick blip of the high beam flash (even brighter then high beams left on)... So while your ######## about a blip of the high beams remember just how bright those LED lights are.. Sure they provide safety for those above mentioned (and more) but they are just as un safe.. I posted a thread about it... They are blinding and most of the time at night you can't even seen the people around the vehicles on the side of road... We have some new snowplows running our roads here.. They have a trailer attached that has another plow (trailer axles pivot trailer out) on it allowing to clear like 2 lanes with one truck... These things have multiple blue LED lights on the truck and trailer w/ plow and when you get close they are blinding... So yeah I know mind a 2 second blip with HB because all those LED light bars etc.. are worst... I appreciate a good gesture from a fellow trucker even tho I don't need the "blip"..... It just too me shows that there is drivers out there looking out for me..

Now I don't use high beams most of the time, I usually just flip my switch down from ON to Running Lights... Since we have the DRL running lights on (lights on with pushing button in) if you running at night and your lights are turned to the ON position when you put them down to running light position (or off) they run at a different voltage so the light actually goes dimmer when you do this... I just flip it up and down a few times and they can see both my lights dim and brighten but they also would see my cab running lights and trailer running lights go on and off...

Just my .02 Canadian cents....

 

Lots of noobs are trying and get it... But for every 1 noob that gets it, there's 10 other idiots.

Its a vicious cycle...

Im in agreement with you govt_trucker (though I cringe at your improper use of your and you're, blame my English-teacher mother) on those. However not everyone quickly flashes their brights. I've come across some who think they've got to keep their brights on until I move over or keep flashing.

Pensky and Ryder trucks annoy me as well. I never can tell if they are using their brights, or ridiculously bright low beams. I tend to stay away from those in rigs with that name on them; I've never been impressed by anyone's skills while running in those.