Dealing with fog & speeders

The reason hazards are not a good idea is because they add glare (especially on wet roads) and make it very difficult to see certain things. So I wouldn't use hazards if it was me. You drive at whatever speed and following distance you feel comfortable with. Let the idiots be idiots. You are right, most would probably not be able to stop in time if they came up on something unexpected.

 

Just understand if somebody slams into the back of you , it is their fault and they will be citied for to least for conditions, let the idiots go around you and let them taste that mud in the ditch while u drive around and keep on trukin

 

Use hazards if you go below 55. I can imagine how many people calling you a dumb ### when you drive 45 without hazards

 

You can use C/B after you talk to truck in front of you for a bit then fall back to where you can still talk to each other and drive on down the road?

 

If you’re going slow enough to be a hazard, use hazard lights. That’s my rule of thumb.

Hazards are brighter than just tail lights. And will be seen sooner. Dispite what some may think.

 

We called them a stooge,,,driving in fog is the 2nd worst, like driving with your eyes closed, freezing rain the 1st. I never did follow the stooge. If they hit something, you're next.I'd go fast enough, that if I had to mash the brakes, I could, generally, no more than 45. Lot of big riggers would pass me in the hammer lane. Their mentality was, people in the fog usually stay in the right lane, and to be honest, I never had the guts to do that left lane in the fog, but I don't ever remember any wrecks, so there must have been something to that philosophy.

 

You're doing as good as you can.
Other than parking it. I understand, most times you really can't. Not bad enough.

 

Two things about running with flashers on.
Depending on the conditions, you can actually make things worse. The brightness of the lights can cause a bad glare. Essentially blinding other drivers, both directions.
Second is other drivers getting “target fixated “
The steady flash of the lights put the following driver in a sort of transfixed state, they stop focusing on the surroundings and will drive into the target, the back of your truck.

This is why most emergency vehicles now have random patterns for the lights.
Drunk drivers are more likely to do this, but can happen to any one.