Four wheelers and their high beams

i usully hit them with the work lights and if that dont work

 

If a car is approaching me with their fog lights on...I turn mine on. If they approach me with brights on, I turn mine on and leave them on until they turn theirs off.

If someone is coming up behind me with brights on, I give them a quick flash with the work lights. If they don't turn them off I wait until they are closer and then turn them on again and leave them on until they turn theirs off or they pass me. If they left them on while passing me then I turn my high beams on the second they are in front of me and I only turn them off when another car approaches, or if I see that jerk start to be more courteous to other people by turning their high beams off.

 

I just try and look the other way or I quickly flash my hi beams at them and they usually turn them down; I have had them come at me from behind and blind me through my side mirrors and then if I can (if I have automatic mirrors) I turn them towards them and it reflects back into their face and they quickly turn down thier hi beams; that is what makes me pissed.

 

I think some of you are confusing driving lamps with fog lamps. True fog lamps are amber. Driving lamps are white.

As someone mentioned, the regular headlights on the Freightliners stink. I always run with the road lamps on in addition to the headlights at night. Increases my ability to see quite a bit.

 

As long as they are properly adjusted, there are no problems. When I drove a Freight shaker I had a hard time keeping the driving lights adjusted. I'm thinking it had something to do with the mount it's self. Been a few years and really do not remember. That happens when you get older and CRS sneaks up on ya... LOL

 

Something you may all want to remember here is this: While usually a person driving with high beams on, is just being inattentive, that is not always the case.

Drunks tend to drive with their high beams on all the time. In fact, "failure to dim" gives excellent probable cause for a traffic stop that will often lead to a DUI arrest.

So my point here is this. If a quick flash of your lights does not wake the driver up, it may really be dangerous for you to turn your bright lights on and leave them on. Do you really want to be involved in a head on with a drunk, who is actually steering INTO your bright lights?

Just something to think about. . .

 

This high beam problem has gotten noticeably worse in the last 5 years. I really started noticing these stubborn high beamers a couple years ago when I worked in the oilfield. They would refuse to dim their lights when I hit them with my hi beams. I used to do a courtesy flash then I just went to leaving them on. Even with that they leave them on. After I installed two spotlights in addition to the driving lights, the problem stopped real fast.

My last few trips has shown this trend is even worse, along with the horrendously bad driving of four wheelers! As a long time biker I have had little respect for cagers, now as a trucker in training I have NEGATIVE respect.

 

You make an excellent point, I was thinking about this very thing. That sometimes it's a drunk behind the wheel, and how they react... Thanks

 

I always quickly flash my lights off and then on. This gives them a chance if they are not doing it on purpose to figure it out, and it is safer than having me hit me high beams so that there are two drivers flying blind and toward each other.

 

If it's not the driving lights it's the "blue lights". Sure they give the driver a better field of vision but they give the oncoming driver LESS of a field of vision. They are blinders!!!