She flashed me so I flashed her back.

Haha! Yeah, ya gotta love the guys who think that safety comes from technology instead of people...

 

First of all, i drive at night, in the winter i don't even see the sun for about 4 months. Here's what burns my butt. Truckers that use their high beams to signal you over at night. I have enough problems with the idiot 4 wheelers that have no idea how to use their high beams as it is, i have to deal with a so called "professional driver" that blinds the crap out of you by leaving his beams on for 3 seconds at a time in your mirror. If you're too freaking lazy to bend over and dim your lows for a signal then just don't do anything. Trust me, i'll make it back without you helping me and not getting blinded even.
Then you got the idiots that still high beam you even when you're the only 2 moving vehicles within 10 miles of your area. I could stay in the left hand lane for 10 miles before i had to move over and this idiot keeps blasting his high beams at you.
Stop using your high beams at night to signal drivers, it isn't safe and it only blinds that driver. Turn your lights off and then on or don't do a #### thing.

 

Sigh... I'm not even going to argue with this... clearly, you haven't been listening; why should you start, now? All I can really say to this is...

You're welcome.

:-/

 

sigh........... it's a statement. My feelings on this subject on a discussion board. That's what this is right? There are 8 pages of peoples points of view on this one point, not one of them were mine until i responded. Clearly you don't get the concept of this website yet, why should you start now? If you want a one side discussion, talk to yourself in a mirror, that might help, but i doubt it. Look, there's a difference between being courteous and dangerous. Blinding another person with your high beams is just plain stupid. If you can't see that then you need some one to tell you you're being an idiot. If you have already been told and continue to do it then you're a freaking moron doing it for spite. Which makes you a danger on the road and should be removed from driving. Then you use the "slip seat driver" excuse to try and make a point of something, easy fix. Turn your lights off/on, or just don't do anything at all. Getting into a new truck is part of your precheck. I slip seat as well, but you can bet your wheel holding hands that before i leave the yard i know where everything is and how to work them. Your statement on slip seating just shows me that you are a typical wheel holder that has a "job" and couldn't care less about safety and being courteous. And please don't say you're welcome to me, if you're using your high beams to blind me you're not helping me. I'm telling you this from a drivers seat, not a suit and tie office sitter. If you continue to use your high beams at night to signal other drivers after reading this "discussion" then you are either an idiot or doing it for spite.

 

Nope. It's not a simple statement; it's trolling. It's been said more than once, that we briefly "flash" high beams, when turning the headlights off is impractical. If you find a momentary flash blinding, then you might want to wear night glasses, because there are enough people driving down the road with them on that you're probably in considerable danger. Yes, in those cases where I don't have an interrupt switch, I could still turn off the lights, but to do so, I'd have to turn them all off, making my truck much less visible to people who don't pay enough attention. We clearly have none of those, here, so I'm equally certain that there will be no one like that on the road. Safety before courtesy; I'm not turning off my running lights *and* headlights, at the same time, for you.

But go ahead and be angry. Don't recognize it for the attempt at courtesy that it is. I'm not going to stop being courteous to everybody else, because you're a special squirrel who has to be offended by someone else trying to be nice. Go ahead and be angry - it only hurts you.

Here... I'll get you started: "You're welcome".

 

While I appreciate the attempt at courtesy of those that don't have the option of turning off and on their headlights independently of their other lights, I have to agree with the others that say so here: if you are unable to do so, then please don't do anything. More than once I have glanced over just as a well meaning driver has flashed high beams at me, and then I'm left with an afterglow for several seconds. Not exactly safe, is that? Any driver, whether seasoned or wet behind the ears should be halfway smart enough to make sure they have enough distance ahead before moving over.
I know you mean well, and you've always done it, but maybe it's time to let the other guy do his job. If you want this to remain a brother/sisterhood, encourage other drivers to go back to that horrible, awful dinosaur, the CB (tongue in cheek, you know). I remember training back in '93, I was passing another truck, and the driver came on, "Come on over, Skunk." my trainer reached over and responded, "Much obliged, driver." That's the way it was done, and the way it should go back to.

Sorry, but any driver that complains that the comradeship is gone, but refuses to have a CB on, is full of it.

 

DO NOT Flash your high beams around other traffic! Regardless that they are passing you and you want to be courteous, just don't do it. The unwritten etiquette protocol is to briefly turn off you headlights for a moment the turn them back on still in low beam. If your new truck won't allow that, then just don't do anything at all with your lights.

In the old days the high beams were activated by a switch on the floor and the driver would tap that switch with their foot once to turn the high beams on and tap once again to turn them off. I asked the driver above what they meant by 'tap' the lights since out of the 7 major truck manufacturers, none have the floor switch anymore. Most of them have it set up to push or pull the turn signal arm to activate the high beams today; certainly I wouldn't characterize that as "tapping" the lights by moving the turn signal lever, that's why I was asking.And I most definitely would not characterize momentarily turning the lights off then back on as "tapping" the lights. I just wanted the driver to qualify and clarify their statement.

I am disappointed most of these threads degrade into a confrontational war almost every time.

 

That's the best way. As you can see by the varied replies there are a hundred schools of thought on this.

That kill switch does it too fast though. I still using the actual switch.

And the marker interrupt now does 3 quick flashes. I preferred the old one where the markers would stay off as long as I held the button in.