Communication question.

I haven't used a headlight cut off or interrupter toggle in decades.
Back when there weren't as many rigs on the road it was more common to help a fellow driver.
Today I'd wear out a switch for all the times I am passed in a day..lol
Majority don't know what they are for and/or how to use them.
A sign of the times I suppose.

 

I reckon. When I bought my new truck it came with DRL and no interrupt switch. It drove me nuts until I turned off the DRL and wired a switch in. Most people can’t turn the headlights off and on because of those dang DRL’s. So they flash the high beams instead.

However I wish they’d quit selling fog lights on a truck.

 

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Not to mention the delay or lag time for the new headlights. DRL are a PIA.

 

I’m new school.

I power up the linear, fry your wires with “C’Mon BACK THERE BUMPER JACK, YOU MISSED ME, 42, GOOD BUDDY IN THE GAYEST WAY - TEN FAWWWWW!”

Then I accelerate and we have a race for about 7 miles or so, blocking up traffic.

Eventually you back off, get in behind, I brake check you a few times -

We pull into the truck stop and chuckle with each other at the fuel island about how bad ##* we are, and go inside and take our showers after exchanging websites on the best flip flops out there.

Aaaaah - fun times.

 

Just as long as we ain’t taking the same shower.

 

I disconnected my DRL just so I could kill my headlights for signalling. I like doing it, and every now and then they hit the interrupt, and I like that too. I don't want the old "trucking stuff" to go away. I also hit my air horn for every fist pump, no matter what. Even did it near my house the other day, and IDGAF what the neighbors think about it. Nothing more disappointing for a kid than not getting the air horn.

I mean there's probably more disappointing things, like not getting a pocket knife for Christmas, but that's got to at least be in the top five!!!!

 

I drive all the time with my lights on. During the day, I'll tap my highbeams a couple of times to let a passing truck know they are safe to get back over. At night, I flick my lights off a couple of times to let them know they can get back over.
As for the 'thank you' signal, I just usually flick my marker lights off a couple of times. I have a switch in my steering wheel for that and keep forgetting to learn TY (Thank You) and YW (You're Welcome) in morse code to use instead. Few know Morse code, but I think it'd be cool to tap TK in Morse code with the blinker lights to send a Thank You acknowledgement. But, like I said, I keep forgetting to look it up and write it down so I can remember it. One ofmthese days I guess.

 

Since the industry has turned into the Star Wars bar scene, compared to years ago, just waving hello can start a fight any more. There were hand signals in common use when 2-lane roads were most of the roads.

 

In Oz the driver being passed will flash his high beams to indicate the vehicle is now clear and can merge back across, the driver passing will sometimes use the opposite indicator to say thanks, or usually which makes the most sense by simply saying on the radio "thanks mate have a good day".

 

Gotcha - this was just a matter of saying 'G'day mate" on approach - by way of one single right flash. I was pretty new to trucking in 2000.