Flashing your headlights to signal another driver over after passing?

Then there are those who wait too long,and 4wheelers start moving into the lane.LOL

 

Maybe its a western thing.... I interrupt my running lights when someone clears me, and they generally blink theirs back in thanks... I do it in the truck, and when pulling the RV. Maybe that means I have no common sense.... maybe its just common courtesy

 

It's difficult for some people to tell....

 

Can you explain what made it go from an item of courtesy and a line of safety to somehow a negative safety??
oh and btw off and own works just as well in the daytime, unless you have daytime running lights, that can't be turned off

 

I flash highbeams during the daytime except for container haulers, any truck/trailer with CA license, and a few others.

 

As has been mentioned many times in this thread and others on the same topic, not all drivers do it properly. Example: going to high beams at night momentarily blinding the driver who is returning to the lane at precisely the time he is concentrating on the mirror. Safety negative.
In this day and age, where you are only allowed to touch one button on the side of your head to use a mobile phone, and automated manual transmissions are the most common configuration, powers that be are seeking to encourage keeping both hands on the wheel as much as possible. Reaching to turn a switch on the instrument panel on and off could be considered an unnecessary movement, with no real safety benefit.
All drivers have a different perspective on what is a safe distance returning to the right lane, some think 10' is enough, some think a truck length is not enough. If someone who thinks 10' is enough and flashes accordingly, it is a safety negative.
My point is that on a 2 or more lane limited access highway there is no need to quickly return to the right lane, very different from an old US highway, one lane each direction, hills, passing zones, oncoming traffic and underpowered overloaded trucks when it was a safety imperative and the custom began.

 

So you think CA drivers, maybe especially container jockeys, are too good/undeserving of your bright lights?

 

I will agree that hitting a driver with brights could be a negative safety, but that is and never was the way to signal another driver, just what some VERY lazy drivers decided to do.
I remember, because it was funny a guy I passed once that instead of signalling me he just said over the cb, flash flash, because my A.S.S. is to lazy to reach the dash, worked as intended .
If a guy doesn't think he can control the truck for the time he hits a switch, HE or SHE is an actual safety negative.
If a guy has traffic behind him in the hammer lane, or we are on a 2 lane I will flash him at 10 foot, he is going faster than I am, so not possible for me to hit him, unless I speed up and make it a safety issue, it would be a safety negative I suppose, but why in the world would I do such a thing.
To my way of thinking, it would be more of a safety and courtesy issue now even on the big roads with all the passing with speed limited trucks, some of which runs a half mile faster than others.

I will sometimes when hauling wide loads kill my headlights completely and turn on my work lights when meeting oncoming trucks, so my load is visable to them, instead of guessing where I am at.
I suppose a lot of the new breed would find that practice appalling, but that is ok by me. lol

 

Too good? ummm OK, let's go with that.

 

Well today on i 35 there was a truck on the shoulder with his 4 ways on and then 2 secons s later he put on his left turn signal and started getting goin on the shoulder ..i was a good distance back from him goin about 60mph nobody between,me,and this truck, i got slowed down alittle bit and flashed my brights at him to let him know i got his back and he can get in travel lane and get up to speed , he didnt have no radio on i tried to tell him but atleast he was payin attention in his mirror and not just swerve out in traffic from the shoulder like i see some guys do... He was in a bad spot to merge and anybody knows how hard it is to merge on the interstate from the shoulder so i helped him out he gave me a wave when i passed him about 1 mile down the road, it still possible to work together out here im tellin ya,fellers.., i hit brights during the day and turn off the lights at night if theyre needed, usually only oversize guys or guys thats got some overhang or something goin on i usually reserve the lights for them , but they usually got the radio on anyways.. Whatever u do dont frickin blind me and flash ur brights at night on a open road with no traffic one of these days ur gonna do it to the wrong trucker and hes gonna floor that brake pedal when he gets in front of u and guess whos fault it is if u rear end somebody