You are in a residential neighborhood at 9:30 AM, getting "Honk" signal from child on sidewalk

Before I departed the Truck Parking property, I would usually TEST the HORN at the Fancy Shmancy Fuel Island where I could wake up a few nitwits napping near the pumps but only in DAYLIGHT, also I cud scratch the glass and wipe som lights UNLESS IT WAS TAINING.
Other Air Horn testing was leaving the Twicky Twuck Slop property, however I didn't perform a Pre-Trip every morning, so i suppose that was being a bad driver. I rode solo so there wasn't anyone to punish me.....the way the punisher liked.....oh my, never mind.

I've been parked up at some fancy Truck Stop Location, like Military Road on I-30, exit 106 (??), and some nice Person driving a 18 was testing his/her/its Excessively Pleasing Air Horn, somewhere nearby.
I thot that was just wonderful and it was snowing (frozen tain) .

 

Want some pink salve for the hurt butt?

 

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D.O.T. regulations were constructs devised to be challenged by we the people delivering the goods nationwide with our trusty steeds and comic/coloring books by our sides whilst seeking the visions of a better day and night without the Dogs Of Terrors and their minions restricting our adventures because we weighed in a wee bit over allowed weight.

I've met some number of Truck Drivers and every one of he or she had their own solution to pre trip wiles & woes.
They either did or did not release their ideas of Pre Trip proclivities, because of such plain proudly professional productions plesantly producing pleasing as well paultry performances.

I was often pleasantly pleased to blow my own horn but then just to impress some nearby nobody, for logistical purposes, before tuning up the Air Horn and splitting that scene.

I don't anymore drive Commercial Vehicles. Haven't done such since early '20. Had an accident in a yard of a local company but it wasn't from not using an air horn, just from not paying attention and gored the left (sight) side of the 5th wheeled locked on 53' Loaded Dry Van with the front left of a Skateboard. Opened the Van like a plastic cup of soured bloomer pudding.

I took that as "A Big Shining Sign" to get out of Trucking, but it failed to alter my visionary quest of enlightening people in neighborhoods with a city horn in a 4 wheeler, usually in Light Time, yet not as often as it used to be, when it was more better and funner to be A Truck Driving Manipulator.

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So how many of yer friends shat themselves?
I wooda had a blast with such setup as well irritating a neighborhood.

 

I used to do turns from GSO, NC To West Side PA and the 2 tubes on I-77 in Virginia were ripe for Air Horning, as well blowing into or out of West Virginia.

Other Tunnels were fun regardless of other vehicles, like getting on up I-95 to Baltimore, Maryland, and that Wonderfully Trashy Truck Plaza, where air horn enemas were heard as the word.

 

I've never done this yet. But take a horn and wire to a pickup trailer light connector. Then walk up and plug it into your buddy's pickup. Have it on turn or brake circuit. Enjoy.

 

I don't want to reignite the pre post trip debates that have gone on in the past. In the clearest technical sense, there is no regulation that actually requires an inspection. The rule basically says a driver must be sure the vehicle is in operating shape. As to the horn itself the only FMCSA rule I know about is found in 393.81 and it says--

§ 393.81 Horn.
Every bus, truck, truck-tractor, and every driven motor vehicle in driveaway-towaway operations shall be equipped with a horn and actuating elements which shall be in such condition as to give an adequate and reliable warning signal.

I have had this debate with a diesel cop in Missouri about 20 years ago. I was driving a Prostar that a driver before me popped the airhorn off and all I had was the city horn. The guy said my city horn was not loud enough. I would like to think almost everybody in these forums knows that a city horn is good enough for non CMVs what can't it be loud enough for a CMV? This regulation is another one of many all over 49CFR that leave a lot of things up to how a cop interprets the rule.

Back when I was active at least once a day I would toot my city horn while driving. That was my inspection of that horn for that day.

 

I work the night shift, and I would much rather be woken up by an air horn than have a kid feel disappointed because some driver wouldn't blow the horn for her. We need all the help we can get with our public image, and that starts with making a good impression on kids.

 

So much fun. Tunnels, school buses, anywhere attention is requested or required.

“Toot TOOOOT” gets a better response than “BLAAAAAAAAAAAH!”.