Using high beams on a divided highway?

So you're the guy that keeps blinding everyone...

 

As a student, you need to get your drivers manual and learn it inside out if you are going to be a truck driver.

Your answer is your suppose to dim your headlights within 500 feet either behind someone or oncoming taffic. A divided highway makes no difference. You can use common sense if theres a forest of trees in between you. Drivers don't like seeing high beams. It hurts their eyes.

 

I've done it many times in a four wheeler (never in a truck, although it shouldn't make a significant difference) and no one has ever flashed their lights at me. If your high beams are shining across a 30' median, they're probably not aimed correctly.

 

Still should not be running your high beams if there is oncoming traffic, no matter how wide the median is. Not only is it rude, it's dangerous.

 

I'll flash you back, lol. Common courtesy ought to be the root of all drivers. Unfortunately it's not. If your rules differ from the drivers handbook, you need to get them to change them to your new and improved methods. Why would they say not to do it? It's not the sideward angle as it is the up, down that blinds you. Bright is bright from any angle.

Fog lights point towards the ground, but they still are blinding from their intensity. Get caught in TN using them outside inclement weather and you'll get a ticket.

 

Though I don't do it, some regions such as the prairies have very wide medians. For example the Calgary Trail highway that runs between Edmonton and Calgary has a median of over 300' wide according to the scale indicator on google maps (The section north of Leduc anyway). Maybe with that kind of space it is acceptable but probably still annoying to many. Rolling across North Dakota in the wee hours of the morning I flashed my brights at a couple trains blinding me with their intensely bright lights. Both times the train driver had enough courtesy to shut off the high beams for me.

 

trains can sometimes melt your eyeballs right out--but usually they are pretty good about dimming them if you flash
trucks on the other hand can be pretty inconsiderate--you dont really need high beams all that much on a well travelled highway

 

The nanosecond your high beams crest a rise, they blind or impair the vision of oncoming drivers... whether you're in a four-wheeler or a big truck, divided highway or no divided highway. Common courtesy calls for dimming your lights as soon as you see the glow of oncoming lights, BEFORE the oncoming driver can see your headlights. For those wanks who steadfastly refuse to dim their lights, a 1/2-million-candlepower searchlight beam shining across the comedian into those inconsiderate wanks' eyes usually makes a pretty good comeback statement. And YES, I'VE DONE THAT... makes a pretty handy educational tool for idiots too stupid to dim their lights out of courtesy and safety. Got no problem with anyone who wants to argue the point...

 

Should have mentioned that if your lights need adjustment, whether you're in a big truck or four-wheeler, you can put your front end square against a wall, leaving 5-15 feet between your lights and that wall, then adjust your lights accordingly. Your lights should be directed straight ahead and slightly downward, not only to illuminate the roadway but to keep your lights from shining in the eyes of other drivers and blinding them. It ain't rocket science, and it doesn't take long either... do yourself and other drivers a favor by adjusting your lights whenever necessary. End of story... Thx.