Headlights On While Backing In A Truckstop

A quick shot of wd-40 on their windshield is appropriate action after you spray the headlights with undercoating.

 

Your avatar is picture of a parked truck with its lights on...

 

Call The Wambulance

 

Yes, ALL trucks can turn off the headlights. It's easy. Just... "GASP!"...

...TURN. OFF. THE. TRUCK.

For God's sake, it's 65°F outside. There's fresh air if you open a vent.

YOU. WON'T. DIE.

 

Dude. The conversation was about backing with them on and got sidetracked to parking like an idiot with them on.

 

I'm not going to read through 14 pages of senseless arguing but in this modern era of computerized trucks many trucks have the headlights come on when the yellow button on the dash is depressed which for you old timers who seem to have forgotten more than us new breed of drivers will ever know MUST be pushed in to go forward AND BACKWARDS. In the past 5 years I've had 2 trucks that the headlights came on when the yellow button was pushed in regardless of which way the headlight switch was turned. And just to add to that I had one that the headlights would come on when the wipers were on regardless of the where the headlight switch was positioned OR weather or not the yellow button was pushed in. I had to have the ECM flashed to disable this oh-so-awesome feature.

Now I have also been the guy in the truckstop with the curtains closed and the headlights on. My APU ate itself for dinner and I wanted to cook dinner. Running cooking appliances off the inverter will kill batteries and the same computer that decides the truck doesn't need to idle because it's not -30 or 110 forced me to push the yellow button in order to keep the big battery charger running while running an electric skillet and electric steamer cooking my dinner which also meant for almost 45 minute in the dark of night I was sitting there with the curtains closed and the headlights on.

 

Try setting your cruise to on when parked and pressing the cruise set button. Many trucks like mine will stay idling at a slightly higher rpm, I do a lot of cooking in my truck to, fridge, microwave, crock pot, Geore Foreman grill, toaster. Of course I don't run them all at once. If that doesn't work for your truck, use your hand brake to just barely set the trailer brakes, this fools the computer in many trucks and it will stay idling, by passing the 5 min auto shutdown

 

Those will probably work in some trucks. It won't in mine, guess it just depends on the truck and how it is set up.

 

This thread makes me want to go back to driving, and when I park, leave my hi-beams on.