Using Flashers when climbing up a grade

personally, i find flashers do the opposite

sometimes the eyes cannot be sure what is approaching in a thick fog, the flashers help differentiate colors and bring attraction to the object

have you ever driven thru fog and saw something ahead, but not sure? flashers help alleviate that uncertainty in fog or even heavy rains

uphill, if there are a hundred trucks all going up hill slowly, you dont really need your flashers, and going thru the grapevine, i would not put them on because everyone is going slow

but on a remote hill where a truck may not be able to tell that i am going extremely slow (i68 in maryland), i always put them on

 

you are getting smarter that more i post

this is a good thing

 

In Oregon, at least on I-5, the signs recommend lugging on the shoulder. They don't require it, as I understand the sign, but suggest that you do so. As has been said, OR shoulders are essentially a rightmost lane with a solid white line. They are in better shape than the driving lanes in some states.

 

Havin just spent the past week in VT, MA, NY, OH, PA, IN, IL, WI, IA, and NE, I can't find it in me to even consider disagreeing. The road's just gotta suck if it's throwin' 78K pounds around like a toddler with a busted rattle.

 

I used to drive transit buses in Calif and I drove Greyhound buses in Calif during training. In the Transit bus I used to drive up a steep grade on an express run (Kirker Pass between Pittsburg and Concord) and I did a lot of mountain driving in the Sierras. I used my flashers whenever I slowed to more 10 mph under the posted limit. Never had any issues. It's a matter of safety and to alert the 4 wheelers who couldn't buy a clue as to how to drive.

 

Read This......

CALIFORNIA CODES
25250. Flashing lights are prohibited on vehicles except as
otherwise permitted.

25251. (a) Flashing lights are permitted on vehicles as follows:
(1) To indicate an intention to turn or move to the right or left
upon a roadway, turn signal lamps and turn signal exterior pilot
indicator lamps and side lamps permitted under Section 25106 may be
flashed on the side of a vehicle toward which the turn or movement is
to be made.
(2) When disabled or parked off the roadway but within 10 feet of
the roadway, or when approaching, stopped at, or departing from, a
railroad grade crossing, turn signal lamps may be flashed as warning
lights if the front turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed
simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side are being
flashed simultaneously.
(3) To warn other motorists of accidents or hazards on a roadway,
turn signal lamps may be flashed as warning lights while the vehicle
is approaching, overtaking, or passing the accident or hazard on the
roadway if the front turn signal lamps at each side are being flashed
simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps at each side are being
flashed simultaneously.
(4) For use on authorized emergency vehicles.
(5) To warn other motorists of a funeral procession, turn signal
lamps may be flashed as warning lights on all vehicles actually
engaged in a funeral procession, if the front turn signal lamps at
each side are being flashed simultaneously and the rear turn signal
lamps at each side are being flashed simultaneously.
(b) Turn signal lamps shall be flashed as warning lights whenever
a vehicle is disabled upon the roadway and the vehicle is equipped
with a device to automatically activate the front turn signal lamps
at each side to flash simultaneously and the rear turn signal lamps
at each side to flash simultaneously, if the device and the turn
signal lamps were not rendered inoperative by the event which caused
the vehicle to be disabled.
(c) Side lamps permitted under Section 25106 and used in
conjunction with turn signal lamps may be flashed with the turn
signal lamps as part of the warning light system, as provided in
paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (a).
(d) Required or permitted lamps on a trailer or semitrailer may
flash when the trailer or semitrailer has broken away from the towing
vehicle and the connection between the vehicles is broken.
(e) Hazard warning lights, as permitted by paragraphs (2) and (3)
of subdivision (a) may be flashed in a repeating series of short and
long flashes when the driver is in need of help.

25251.1. Any implement of husbandry displaying a slow moving
vehicle emblem, as defined in Section 24615, and being operated at a
speed of 25 miles per hour or less, may be equipped with double-faced
amber turn signals which may be flashed simultaneously as warning
lights.

 

I use the the hazzards anytime I think It may be nessesary.

Whats going to cost more...
A Traffic Ticket?
Or
A High Speed Accident????

Looks Like A No Brainer To Me​