Flashing your headlights to signal another driver over after passing?

You saying you leave your brights on when somebody passes you normally? If that's what you're saying, exactly how many times were you dropped as a child?

 

I don't need the flashing or dimming. I know when it is safe to move over, and it is usually with a far greater distance than most drivers give me when cutting in front of me.

 

Sounds like another part of a truckers professionalism has gone by the way side for the most part. And you guys complain that a driver is now classified as unskilled labor.

 

The only thing I want flashing me is college girls.

 

Turning your lights off then back on is the right way to do it. And it's still appreciated even if it's most times unnecessary. But there is nothing professional about being that tool who blinds you with high beams when you start to move back over.

 

People flash me over too soon. I don't need to be that close. I wouldn't want someone that close to me if being passed. No reason either, nobody behind the truck passing, no need to come over "ASAP".

I think people do it because they think they should, or that's what "real" truckers do. If you flash me over for no reason am I going to thing you are a "real" trucker? or just someone with no common sense?

It's even better when they flash their bright lights. Why do people think someone wants bright lights in their eyes.

 

If you have a mirror that is hard to see out of because of the rain, fog or dew on it it might be a nice thing to do.

 

It's a subjective question/situation to say the least. "Flash vs Dim... Day vs Night..." and ediquette and courtesy are just as subjective. It's the actual situation that would determine an answer. But I have been told, never flash your high beems day or night unless it's to alert other drivers to danger.

 

I never said there was, infact when drivers first started getting to lazy to hit the light switch or even the courtesy or interupt switch that was expressly in many of the trucks at the time, was when we started talking about the new generation.
Up until approximately that point in time, a new driver was just that a new driver, heck even a lot of four wheelers would turn their lights off when you cleared them. Along about that time driver respect started going down hill from the general public, and drivers alike. It has been a long down hill slide, kind of glad I am on the down hill run. lol

 

If you are driving a B model Mack in 1963, and I have a GMC Crackerbox with a 671 Detroit pumping out all of 238 horsepower and you are passing me on one of the many hills of RT 22 west of Allentown PA, before I-78 was built, by all means I will turn my lights off and on, or the other way during the day. The headlight switch is separate from all other lighting circuits then so tails and markers stay on.
Now, not worth the effort and could be a safety negative.