Flashers or no Flashers?

I drive a 10 speed and when going up a hill, once I hit 45 the first step is hit the flashers and second step is drop to 9.

When I come up on any semblance of a back up, flashers are on as soon as I see it. I pull a flatbed and have a huge fear of someone rear ending me. With my luck it'd be a nun in a Prius, decapitating herself on the back of my load.

CYA.

 

Idiots who put there flashers on taking a way from their brake lights...

 

Because brake lights create a bigger sense of emergency than flashers.

The roads are not all full of truck drivers who have common sense. There are four wheelers, and they are dumb.

 

jerez,, so you're saying that no slow trucks (say,, 25-40 mph) day or night, should ever use their 4-way flashers on a 65-70 mph highway upgrade/hill because in the case of an actual stopped truck, it 'confuses' the drivers approaching it by their wrong 'assumption'?

If that's the case, then the real problem is the person approaching it has a problem with 'assuming' way too much, and not paying attention to the actual vehicle they're approaching. The problem really isn't the hazard lights, it's just lack of attention, lack of caution, and wrongful assuming.

 

jerez,
OK,, understood, but in that particular case of that stopped truck on the hill (likely a newbie that blew a shift, or a broken down truck) in the right lane of traffic, (aside from wondering why he couldn't make it to the shoulder before stopping), he should have also placed his triangles on the roadway behind him and spaced/positioned them correctly, asap.

I place mine on a 'slant' pattern, so that drivers approaching see them as 'pointing to the left'.
Farthest one behind the truck about a foot in from the shoulder. Middle triangle in center of lane. Closest triangle to the truck is placed at the far left side of lane, approx 10' behind truck. (if broke down in right lane, as in your example)

He should have done this immediately after realizing he was not going anywhere.
Maybe he just blew a shift on the upgrade, screwed up and couldn't get it back in gear, and had to come to a stop (tho it sounds like he was stopped 'too' long for that possibility).
Depending on traffic, and being night-time, it's often a bit 'heart-rate elevating' to run out there and place each one,
but it's a necessary safety action to get those triangles placed, asap.

 

Well isn't that the reason that we're supposed to put cones / triangles / flares out when we actually stop? Push people into the other lane so they don't drive into the back of us?

 

I use them when I have a drastic/abrupt reduction in speed, when pulling a hill below 45, backing up, or stopped on the shoulder for an emergency. The LTL company I work for REQUIRES they be used at all times while inside the gate...I think several companies have the same policy.