Thread: Driving w headlights

Originally Posted by Zute

But my biggest pet hate are drivers who dont think they have to dip they're high beam, just because they cant see my headlights through the nature strip.

One of the funniest things I witnessed years ago were two semi drivers who had wedged a car driver between them. The news must have got around by CB radio about a car driver who wasn't dimming his headlights when coming up behind trucks when heading north on the hume. They stopped outside my shop at about 3:00am (I was doing an after hours job inside)- this is when the Hume Highway went through my town - both of them went around to the car driver who had been forced to stop in the one lane highway and the truckies proceeded to give the car driver a verbal lesson on dipping his lights. Thank goodness it was only a verbal....... All my front business lights were off and so I just sneaked a peek through the window as to the raucous noise going on outside. I bet the driver never drove up behind a truck with his high beam on again.

Originally Posted by cookiesa

And that sort of intimidation is what gives the good drivers a bad name, like those that drive B-Doubles and insist on sitting up the rear end of the B double in front with no room for another vehicle to drop between them for overtaking. (Yes it saves fuel but trucks on 100 versus trying to overtake and keep to 110 on the highway vertaking 2 becomes downright dangereous)

And it is quite common between adelaide and whyalla. (I also believe it is illegal)

Don't get me wrong the majority of truckies are responsible, considerate and doing a good job but then there are the ratbags.

Sounds like the over nighters most of them are cow boys , When i did interstate years ago i used to pull off the highway at the time we called happy hour ,

That was when all the over nighters would be passing , and at times it was down right dangerous and also it was the time the cops were most active (funny)