Flashing your headlights to signal another driver over after passing?

Y’all have convinced me, I’ll stop signaling you’re clear. Foolish me, I thought it was just good manners.

 

It's always good manners at night to cut off your headlights to signal it is safe to come over. It's NEVER alright to flash your high beams.

 

I’m not talking about flashing my high beams. I blink my lights when trucks passing me are clear to come over, and maybe one in ten acknowledge it with a thank you blink. I thought it was because no one teaches that to new drivers anymore, but here I read that many have the attitude of “fork you, I know I’m clear!”

Like I said above, simple good manners, apparently a thing of the distant past.

 

Hands down this is probably the most dangerous practice associated with this custom. I have seen many drivers pull back into the lane because of a CB transmission at the wrong time because a similar transmission either in the opposite direction or somewhere within reception range was mistakenly taken for a safe move.

 

We will have to agree to disagree on this one. Under no circumstances should 2 trucks traveling at highway speeds be within 10 feet of one another IMHO.

 

I don’t flash.
Sometimes they will flash on an empty highway and I ask myself, why? Nobody behind me, why do I need to cut you off, and you are asking for it yourself?
Few times I had an “agressive flasher”, that would passionately flash until he achieved his goal (btw, what’s the goal again?). That pisses me off the most. I actually aborted my line change because of crazy flashers before, just to show them that it’s confusing what they do.
To me flashing lights is a safety signal just like a horn, use when you want to bring someone’s attention etc.
For courtesy merging there’s that dimmer switch. If there’s no switch/button, just leave it alone. Don’t flash.
I will still thank with my clearance lights even to flashers, but once only, and when the maneuver is finished, I don’t do circus on the highway with those lights either.
It’s always hilarious to me, when one is flashing, and the other is thanking with some outrageous lightning sequences even before he merged, yet none of the cars backed up behind them admires the performance. Rather they all seem to be screaming in their cars “just move the #### over”

 

I dont do alot of passing, i generally run on the open road at 60 mph.. But i notice if end up hitting the lights for a guy that passes me its usually a guy thats not gonna cut me off anyway.. And really i adjust my speed to the passer so no matter what happens they are never gonna be closer than a truck length when they get in front of me.. Some of em try real hard at taken that bumper off tho its really disrespectful

 

Nobody in front.Truck passes with a line of cars behind him.I trust that the driver isn’t going to slam on his breaks,if I signal he’s clear 4 feet in front of me.

 

Screw that man , i dont trust no truck drivers out there, when im paasing somebody even if theres a line of cars behind me im still gonna give that truck room, if the cars wanna take that space on the right then go ahead.i will get back over when theres enough room and its clear to do so.. The truck can see over the cars if they come over and see the road ahead but when u got a 13'6 inch wall in front of u at 65 mph 10 ft from ur bumper its not so much about trusting the drivers as it is not being able to see whats goin on in front of him .. To each their own i suppose

 

Please don't flash your high beams. It's irritating and sometimes painful for the person passing.

Staring off into the black abyss for hours on end, then all the sudden, the brightest bright ever... It should go without saying.