How's the West is looking?

I get PTSD just reading that last part. <shudder>

 

That’s on all the newer equipment. I had to get an update back a few years ago, the tech avoided hooking up the computer from the cab and went straight to the engine compartment, I asked why, he said it will update everything in the cab including the brake lights coming on when your using the Jake. I said thank you for bypassing it.

 

willing to bet a lot of drivers appreciate that.
It can be turned off in the settings. Just have to dig for it.


Side bar; the company bought me a computer and hardware to do the California emissions testing. They would not spring for the software to fix the problems with crappy programming…..

 

It’s a setting in the ecm that can be turned off.

 

option on the order sheet when i specced mine end of ‘23

 

Me too.

 

Only time I use them while moving is if we are about to come to a halt. Anymore we have beet truck doubles and construction trucks with amber strobes on all the time. Drives me nuts.

 

Unfortunately, at least for a lot of us that have done this for some time, the use of four ways has become so common that they are largely ignored.

 

In '93 when I got my CDL we we're trained to turn on 4-ways while climbing hills if we could not maintain 40 MPH or more, also if stopped on shoulder. I drove that way everywhere, including CA until about 2000 when I heard several drivers in CA climbing hills argue on the CB about CA law and CA Highway Patrol CHP. Online, I saw an argument about the topic and someone posted the CA regulation that prohibits using 4-ways as I had been trained. Then in last 10 years it seems like everyone in 4-wheelers started using 4-ways, but not headlights, when the first rain drop hit their windshield. Then I noticed all of the trucks using 4-ways like 4-wheelers and using them to creep slowly for ELD/HOS purposes. Now, as was said, 4-ways are used so often by so many drivers they are ignored and have little effectiveness. They should not be used in heavy rain/fog as it delays another driver from noticing your brake lights until they watch a couple of flash cycles. In a line of trucks, say climbing a hill, all the traffic in the passing lanes will see are your left-side lights and they can't tell what's a 4-way light and what's become a turn signal for the 0.001 seconds before you pull into their lane. There's just too much traffic and too many drivers using bad 4-wheeler habits. I'm glad I've retired.