The reason why, it started from the days when tiny mirrors vibrated on lorries in the 50,s and 60,s.
Modern vehicles have large enough mirrors.
We all get the sarcastic driver who did not get flashed in, so he does the left right left right indication .
You flash in a professional, he does not thank you back, just ban all of the nonsense.
I was in lane two, the Muppet in lane one flashed me in , if I had moved over to lane one , I would have ploughed in to almost stationary traffic queuing to exit the slip road.
Another sport among brain dead lorry drivers, is to pull out in to lane two with a few clicks on the indication, resulting in you hauling up the anchors or in some cases to avoid a collision, forcing a lorry to shift over to lane three .
Lastly, trucks joining the motorway from a Msa or slip road, indication does not give you the right of way .
We share the roads with these idiots, we all allow for car drivers cutting us up, but fellow drivers and their standards of driving is nothing short of being not allowed to drive a wheel barrow .
I have found UK registered trucks the worst, I have no clue of the drivers rationality .
Foreign trucks are the most courteous and polite on UK roads.
toby1234abc:
The reason why, it started from the days when tiny mirrors vibrated on lorries in the 50,s and 60,s.
Modern vehicles have large enough mirrors.
We all get the sarcastic driver who did not get flashed in, so he does the left right left right indication .
You flash in a professional, he does not thank you back, just ban all of the nonsense.
I was in lane two, the Muppet in lane one flashed me in , if I had moved over to lane one , I would have ploughed in to almost stationary traffic queuing to exit the slip road.
Another sport among brain dead lorry drivers, is to pull out in to lane two with a few clicks on the indication, resulting in you hauling up the anchors or in some cases to avoid a collision, forcing a lorry to shift over to lane three .
Lastly, trucks joining the motorway from a Msa or slip road, indication does not give you the right of way .
We share the roads with these idiots, we all allow for car drivers cutting us up, but fellow drivers and their standards of driving is nothing short of being not allowed to drive a wheel barrow .
I have found UK registered trucks the worst, I have no clue of the drivers rationality .
Foreign trucks are the most courteous and polite on UK roads.
limper! You’re getting old 
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Can’t even be arsed to respond to this cack.
Oh ■■■■! …I have 
I’ll agree that foreign reg’d trucks tends to be the politest. Doesn’t make them a better driver than an impolite one automatically Tobes.
The rest of what you’ve put there son is just stream of consciousness, diatribe, and rant.
Cheer up mate, you’ll live longer!
And who is going to police it ?..?
Efil a teg 
Its a bit of courtesy on our roads which are filled with ignorant, jack barstewards. It also doesn’t cost a thing and takes a staggeringly tiny amount of effort.
The fact you’ve came out with something like that indicates you’re an utter helmet.
A.
Waiting for the resident double entendre champion to arrive and give me one… of his quips about flashing is only an invitation and any touching should be saved for the second date.
i see the sad lad in the corner of the bar with half a lager that doesnt speak to anyone has come to the trucking world get a life its always gone on billy no mates
I’ve always Flashed, always will.
& given a thank you, so Toby— ‘Chill’.
In my case I seem to find its how my truck is for when people flash me in or out if I want to overtake someone.
For instance if I run the unit 7.5t loaded or unloaded no one flashes at all for anything but I soon as I hitch up my trailer all of a sudden everyone has had there blown bulbs fixed
Iv always flashed for other drives regardless and reply to there’s too.
blue estate:
Efil a teg
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Toby what’s happened to you, have they changed your medication or has the real Toby been abducted by aliens and replaced with a miserable negative clone? 
You used to be one of the most positive posters on here, ok positively out in la la land, but still entertaining and a change from the normal miserable whines about the job, Stobart, East Europeans, VOSA and Stobart.
Dear Aliens once you’ve finished probing Toby or what ever it is you do, please send him back and take you clone with you. 
Disco Street:
In my case I seem to find its how my truck is for when people flash me in or out if I want to overtake someone.For instance if I run the unit 7.5t loaded or unloaded no one flashes at all for anything but I soon as I hitch up my trailer all of a sudden everyone has had there blown bulbs fixed
Iv always flashed for other drives regardless and reply to there’s too.
Don’t take it personally bud. I never flash a car (unless it has flesh on show) but if that car has a trailer or a caravan, they are a trucking buddy and my beams are lit up like Conor’s eyes when he gets asked back to the same company for a second day.
It’s only the thick ■■■■ drivers that need to be flashed in anyway and they shouldn’t be on the road if they don’t know where the rear end of their vehicle is. I await the ex-owner driver £500/week tramper types that “used to do the continent” coming along and telling me it’s about the “camaraderie” and all that BS that has never existed since trucks were invented and is nothing more than a figment of their imagination.
There are a couple of situations where it can be helpful I suppose :
- if the sun is low and directly behind you so all you see is the truck’s silhouette in your n/s mirror that you’re overtaking. A bright flash can help there.
- if it’s absolutely bouncing down with rain and road spray that your leccy heated mirrors can’t keep up with keeping them dry. A bright flash can help there too.
Rest of the time it’s a pointless exercise.
Carl Usher:
It’s only the thick [zb] drivers that need to be flashed in anyway and they shouldn’t be on the road if they don’t know where the rear end of their vehicle is. I await the ex-owner driver £500/week tramper types that “used to do the continent” coming along and telling me it’s about the “camaraderie” and all that BS that has never existed since trucks were invented and is nothing more than a figment of their imagination.There are a couple of situations where it can be helpful I suppose :
- if the sun is low and directly behind you so all you see is the truck’s silhouette in your n/s mirror that you’re overtaking. A bright flash can help there.
- if it’s absolutely bouncing down with rain and road spray that your leccy heated mirrors can’t keep up with keeping them dry. A bright flash can help there too.
Rest of the time it’s a pointless exercise.
I won’t dissapoint you Carl I’m here 
Btw Do you think everybody is thick? …a tad paradoxical given some of the comments you come out with, but hey, it’s entertaining if nothing else. 
For the record your presumptions are a bit off, Carl, it has ■■■■ all to do with camaraderie or as you rightly say all that BS.
From my point of view, I do not give a ■■■■ if it is one of the …yawwwn I don’t need flashed in, I know exactlyyyyy.(sorry nodding off again Carl) passes me, as long as he does not take my front end off when he cuts in. as that ’ type’ 9 out of 10 invariably do.
Also for the record me and most of us thick whatevers…Carl, do not NEED flashed in either, cos believe it or not 
I/we also know exactly where the back of my/our trailers are, it is more about good manners and not invading one’s space.
And of course the scenarios you have already mentioned.
Hope that helps Carl x
What’s Truckbling’s opinion on this Carl?..
Obviously the ones who want it banned know exactly where the back of there truck is usually two foot in front of my windscreen, plonkers whats wrong with being helpful and polite. They must be the same people who instead of helping if your struggling video it and put it on youtube.
Well here’s something I was pounding over during the week, at what point do you flash? For those that do.
Been a few times now Iv waited once a truck has passed to the point I think it’s safe for him/her to pull back in front of me and then I flash. However some think if fine to start indicating and pulling in wards when there barely an arms length away from my windscreen!
Now in these cases I end up easy off quicker than normal and applying the brake to build a gap as soon as I can as I don’t want to say hello to the man up stairs this soon in life.
And on the other side I have been flashed in myself and looked and thought “give it a bit more than I’ll pull in and say thanks” but then there flashing like mad making me starting think I got something wrong with the truck! Because I didn’t pull in straight away.
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