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robroy:
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 [zb] all to do with camaraderie or as you rightly say all that BS.
From my point of view, I do not give a [zb] 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 xWhat’s Truckbling’s opinion on this Carl?..
The whole discussion is moot because they’ve pulled in well before you’d have flashed them anyway. Ergo, just give up this “good manners” flashing BS as no-one cares.
Stuff like this just highlights the selfish couldn’t give a toss about anybody attitude that is modern Britain.
In 30yrs of driving lorries I doubt I have ever needed a flash to tell it is safe to come back over, I kind of had it figured out before I started passing that I had enough room to complete the maneuver and get back in lane in a safe manner, so I’ve never needed the flash.
However it’s just a little bit of courtesy and a friendly gesture between kindred spirits. It’s how things used to be, people tended to help each other out, now people just want to film stuff and rant and rave about it on a keyboard.
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.
Given some of the crap you have posted under the handle of Rob K in the past - stuff such as knocking down a bus shelter when you were stupid enough to think that being a heavy haulage jockey ensued doing a day’s work every couple of weeks, for example - then I would suggest that you’re not as good a driver as you think you are despite the raging superiority complex you display at every opportunity.
robroy:
Can’t even be arsed to respond to this cack.Oh [zb]! …I have
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Carl Usher:
The whole discussion is moot because they’ve pulled in well before you’d have flashed them anyway.
Yeh because they know ‘‘Exactly where blah blah yawn ■■■■ blah’’
Looks like you’ve finally caught up with the rest of us thick ■■■■ Carl. . Well done. 
Olog Hai:
I would suggest that you’re not as good a driver as you think you are despite the raging superiority complex you display at every opportunity.
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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.
No, it isn’t pointless, it makes me feel loved and that I’m one of the boys when I get flashed back in, it gives me the opportunity to have one of those joyful dances with my indicators, or better still, quickly turn my lights on and off and have a daring moment in the dark
toby1234abc:
We all get the sarcastic driver who did not get flashed in, so he does the left right left right indication.
Christ I always thought that was how you said thanks and now I learn it’s completely the opposite! 
bazza123:
toby1234abc:
We all get the sarcastic driver who did not get flashed in, so he does the left right left right indication.
Not on your own there lad, I did it wrong for 20+ years it seems? 
No wonder nobody ever talked to me! 
Pete.
It’s being helpful that’s all.
Most people are capable of opening a shop door but it doesn’t mean you don’t hold one open for someone or have the decency to say “thank you” when someone holds a door open for you.
Clearly the OP and the other bell end have issues with human interaction - being helped they see as a sign of weakness. ■■■■■■■
newmercman:
Stuff like this just highlights the selfish couldn’t give a toss about anybody attitude that is modern Britain.In 30yrs of driving lorries I doubt I have ever needed a flash to tell it is safe to come back over, I kind of had it figured out before I started passing that I had enough room to complete the maneuver and get back in lane in a safe manner, so I’ve never needed the flash.
However it’s just a little bit of courtesy and a friendly gesture between kindred spirits. It’s how things used to be, people tended to help each other out, now people just want to film stuff and rant and rave about it on a keyboard.
What a load of crap, mr perfect never needed a flash or a helping hand, O life is so perfect and I am the best, even in the rain don’t flash me in, god there are some tulips on here
nightline:
newmercman:
Stuff like this just highlights the selfish couldn’t give a toss about anybody attitude that is modern Britain.In 30yrs of driving lorries I doubt I have ever needed a flash to tell it is safe to come back over, I kind of had it figured out before I started passing that I had enough room to complete the maneuver and get back in lane in a safe manner, so I’ve never needed the flash.
However it’s just a little bit of courtesy and a friendly gesture between kindred spirits. It’s how things used to be, people tended to help each other out, now people just want to film stuff and rant and rave about it on a keyboard.
What a load of crap, mr perfect never needed a flash or a helping hand, O life is so perfect and I am the best, even in the rain don’t flash me in, god there are some tulips on here
did you actually read what you just quoted?
as for the OP-
I always flash other lorries (and vans/cars towing caravans etc if they are struggling past) and always will.doesnt take much effort does it? if you don’t want to bother then don’t FFS. why do you feel the need to spill your guts about it on here?
as for all the indicator flashing to say thank you,remember when a simple on off of the lights was the done thing? lol
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.
When it first started was before motorways and dual carriageways, the following driver would flash to say he wanted to pass, the driver in front would flash or not to say if it was safe to pass, then flash him in once he had passed, the overtaker would flash his side lights on and off twice (off and on twice at night) to say thanks,
It was the Scottish boys, followed by the northerners that started the winker stuff,
nightline:
newmercman:
Stuff like this just highlights the selfish couldn’t give a toss about anybody attitude that is modern Britain.In 30yrs of driving lorries I doubt I have ever needed a flash to tell it is safe to come back over, I kind of had it figured out before I started passing that I had enough room to complete the maneuver and get back in lane in a safe manner, so I’ve never needed the flash.
However it’s just a little bit of courtesy and a friendly gesture between kindred spirits. It’s how things used to be, people tended to help each other out, now people just want to film stuff and rant and rave about it on a keyboard.
What a load of crap, mr perfect never needed a flash or a helping hand, O life is so perfect and I am the best, even in the rain don’t flash me in, god there are some tulips on here
Never said that I never needed a hand, what I said was I didn’t need flashing in, not that I have a problem with being flashed in. Now you state rain as an example, but you see if it was raining that much that I needed a flash from the lorry I was overtaking in order to complete my maneuver safely as I couldn’t see 50ft behind me, well I wouldn’t be tear arsing down the road in the first place!
For the record I always flash another lorry in, no matter which country it comes from or what size it is, I’ll flash a caravan or a Transit in as well if I can see the driver looking in the mirrors.
I also always say thank you when flashed in, at night by flicking my lights off twice, during the day with a left, right, left or right, left, right depending on which side of the road I’m driving on at the time.
So how about you? Do high horses have lights?
Toddy2:
It was the Scottish boys, followed by the northerners that started the winker stuff,
We were certainly using indicators to send a thanks on night trunking in the 1980’s and that wasn’t a new thing even then.That was based in the Norvern heartlands of…Feltham which as I remember it is saf of Watford.
newmercman:
I also always say thank you when flashed in, at night by flicking my lights off twice, during the day with a left, right, left or right, left, right depending on which side of the road I’m driving on at the time.
Blimey have you got that the right way round. We used indicators at night because using the lights obviously means turning the headlights off which wasn’t really advisable on an unlit motorway.
I always used the light flashes, but I’m an old ■■■■ from way back. 
At night, someone wanted to overtake it was a flash on mains to me and the same back if it was clear. On the good old A4 on my way to Bristol one morning (dark) got flas from behind but couldn’t see if there was enough room, another flash, still couldn’t see for bends and dips etc. Dickead behind pulls out and gets halfway past and guess what !! F*****g near killed three of us.
When I came to Oz, I was looking to overtake a semi when he flashed his right indicator, so I stayed tucked in behind him, as I started pulling out to have a look, he did it again, still nothing coming. This happened three or four times before I thought, this gits taking the ■■■■, so I pulled right out, he flashed the indicator and I said f**k you and went for it. Said a few words and got past no problem. Miles and miles down the road I was in a caff in Hay having a cuppa when he came and sat at my table. I thought here we go, but he asked quite affably what was wrong so I told him. He said new ‘chum are ya’ I said yes and then he said that’s how we tell you it’s ok to pass. 
That was back in about 1975.
That’s how they signal to let you know it’s good to go in the US and Canada too, the offside indicator, to me that meant stay put, the nearside indicator meant it was safe to go by, bloody confusing!
I actually have two buttons on my steering wheel for flashing in, the top one knocks the headlights out, which is better than high beams in the mirrors at night I think and it has another button that turns off the marker lights on unit and trailer and depending how the trailer is wired it will turn them all off.
CF, I always used the lights to say thanks at night, even before my Gucci steering wheel, a couple of seconds of darkness is no more dangerous than looking in the mirrors, changing a CD, sneezing or lighting a ■■■. .
I learnt something new this week. When other drivers stick their hand out of the window and do a ’ coffee shaker ’ type gesture, they are NOT inviting you for coffee at the next services.
For the last 2 years I have been thinking I was really popular, and loads of people wanted a drink with me.
No wonder when I get to the services, they aren’t there.