What's With The HIGH BEAMS?

[patriciajnsn]

Ya I figure why be nice and make it a quick signal to turn your brights off heck with it since u like brights so well.I hate to say it but alot of trk drivers do the same thing.I dont know why anyone needs brights on especially the interstate,thats pretty well lit up.Then u get a few morins turning brights on when its real foggy or white out conditions.Do they not realize that only makes it awole lot worse.

I guess I'm more forgiving, I'll flash once then leave'em on bright, mine can stay on too. And you're right about certain locations with a shortage of dimmer switches or is it a gathering of idiots?

 

[Sandman]

It's that or they have have their road lamps, which they think of as foglights, aimed so high they blind themselves and everyone else.

 

[Racer X 69]

I do about 170,000 miles a year. Alot of them are at night. I get flashed alot. It does not bother my eye sight at all.

What bothers me is the practice of running the brighter headlights and misaligned that I have no choice but to see them.

Again, I am not bothered nor is my vision. There are some that are, but there are many that are not.

It is not a subject justifying the reverse lights to be used, that started my participation in this thread. Such actions are immature and show the type of drivers we are.

We should be professional enough to deal with it.

Wow. You must have Kryptonite eyes man!

For me the brightness of the lights feels like a searing red hot steel blade slicing through my optic nerve. In short it f*@%n' hurts.

A lot.

There is absolutely no reason any one should put a fellow driver through that kind of pain and abuse.

 

[Sinister]

I'm honestly not sure how this is even debateable. To me...it's simple.

If someone flashes a bright light in your eyes and it's dark out, they are going to cause you slight discomfort, and create a safety hazard by blinding you for a bit.

I really don't see how getting flashed in the eyes at night can "not bother" someone. I just don't get it.

Shine a flashlight in your own eyes, then walk through a dark room.

It has to be close to the equivalent of a quick high beam flash in the eyes at 65 or 70 mph...

 

[boone315]

Its weird. Back on Long Island, say you were coming up a hill and saw headlights coming up the other side. As soon as you saw the lights from the headlights (even before the other vehicle got to the top) you dimmed your lights as a courtesy. In Wisconsin one of the first things I noticed was that people wait until they've high beamed you for a millisecond before they dim them.

It's kind of annoying really, and I don't understand how this particular thing has persisted.

Being a country boy I can explain this, in Long Island, there is less of a chance of running into a cow or horse maybe a moose, some kind of animal that is big enough that if it runs in front of you and you hit it that could kill you, that is why we leave them on as long as we are comfortably able to, or maybe it is just a female driver, At least it is not the days off the old three way foot switches, the old farm pickups, those switches used to be so corroded by dirt and cow manure, you would have to literally stomp on them requiring you first smash your knee into the steering wheel, then you swerve like a drunken man and get pulled over by the cops 'cause they think you are drunk(that is what I told my dad anyway)

 

[Sinister]

Well, I grew up out east and it was still pretty rural then, but yeah, there wasn't any livestock to speak of. Cabbage, potatoes, rhubarb....corn...that stuff don't really run out in front of you much. If it does, I want some of what you're on.

 

[Gased]

forget I said that, misunderstood, I meant turning the lights lights on and off, yes the brights are killers at night

Yea and in the rain! Quit using your brights, kill the lights and if you can't I know how to use my mirrors, I will leave you enough space.

I was looking for this thread because I got hit with some bright lights from CRST last night running across 70 and I saw spots for at least two miles.

After reading this entire thread, I have come to the conclusion that roadmedic is the super trucker because it does hurt my eyes when drivers do it. My headlights dim, and that is what I do, dim em'. If you were riding my a$$ or driving like an idiot you get nothing. It is courtesy to help another trucker.

As for people running with their brights on, 223 in Misheetgan is really bad for that. A dark, two laner that has Bambi at every turn prompts folks to run with them on and keep em' on. I don't get angry, I just focus on the white line and don't stare into them.

Hehe, oh the things we have to deal with. It may be trivial to some but with Uncle Sam on our tails at every turn, these small issues become big ones when our way of eating is on the line.

 

[gravybird]

I'm sure it's been said.... But I much prefer no sigmas at all vs a flash of the high beams. Especially at night.

 

[8978]

In case I missed it but nobody mentioned this. Most new trucks cannot turn their lights on and off. They are on non stop or automatically controlled by night and day. I see more and more trucks idling at night with their lights on because they can't turn them off.

So....Flashing their high beams is their only option.

 

[That guy]

So....Flashing their high beams is their only option.

And is extremely annoying so f**g stop it! If you NEED someone to tell you when your clear, driving is not for you!

 

[Injun]

In case I missed it but nobody mentioned this. Most new trucks cannot turn their lights on and off. They are on non stop or automatically controlled by night and day. I see more and more trucks idling at night with their lights on because they can't turn them off.

So....Flashing their high beams is their only option.

No, it's not. Their other option is to do nothing. It is not a requirement to "clear" a passing truck.

 

[Duck]

In case I missed it but nobody mentioned this. Most new trucks cannot turn their lights on and off. They are on non stop or automatically controlled by night and day. I see more and more trucks idling at night with their lights on because they can't turn them off.

So....Flashing their high beams is their only option.

I've never seen a truck that doesn't have a headlight interrupt button.

In the daytime, I only flash my high beams to signal a set of triples, turnpike doubles, or something really long like a windmill blade that he's clear. Anyone who can't tell in the daytime if their 53 footer is clear, doesn't need to be on the road.

At night I turn my lights OFF and keep them off for 5 seconds, or until I see a turn signal, whichever comes first.

At night, I also do that for pickup trucks pulling campers or other long trailers. They have tiny mirrors and sit lower so they don't have quite the "birds eye" perspective.

And I do it for safety, not as a courtesy. I'd rather have somebody looking at the road instead of staring into their right mirror trying to judge distances.

 

[8978]

I've never seen a truck that doesn't have a headlight interrupt button.

In the daytime, I only flash my high beams to signal a set of triples, turnpike doubles, or something really long like a windmill blade that he's clear. Anyone who can't tell in the daytime if their 53 footer is clear, doesn't need to be on the road.

At night I turn my lights OFF and keep them off for 5 seconds, or until I see a turn signal, whichever comes first.

At night, I also do that for pickup trucks pulling campers or other long trailers. They have tiny mirrors and sit lower so they don't have quite the "birds eye" perspective.

And I do it for safety, not as a courtesy. I'd rather have somebody looking at the road instead of staring into their right mirror trying to judge distances.

The new Freightliners at the shop where I park my truck have headlights that are on non stop, can't turn them off....PERIOD.

 

[Duck]

The new Freightliners at the shop where I park my truck have headlights that are on non stop, can't turn them off....PERIOD.

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[Injun]

The new Freightliners at the shop where I park my truck have headlights that are on non stop, can't turn them off....PERIOD.

[MENTION=7569]Rubber Duck[/MENTION], he's right. That POS Crapcadia I had was programed like that. The lights went off only when the tractor brake was set.

 

[Duck]

@Rubber Duck, he's right. That POS Crapcadia I had was programed like that. The lights went off only when the tractor brake was set.

Ahem....

I said, ...

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[rebel]

The new Freightliners at the shop where I park my truck have headlights that are on non stop, can't turn them off....PERIOD.

Ahem....

I said, ...

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I've seen this word used in the English language before, still not sure what it means.................can't​.
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[mike Striegel]

My Drill Instructors said there's no such word as " can't".

 

[Tiny]

I really shouldn't do it but I usually return the favor by blinking the snow plow lights on the box
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[Southern Fried]

Just to add to the confusion...... Mack Penocle has the full-time headlights(low beam) and a high-beam flash switch. No "kill yer headlights" and the marker interrupt is cab only.