gray_nw:
It does amaze me that car drivers dont check their lights before the set off, it seems to be a lot of newer cars these days running around with one side/headlight out and/or front fogs on instead think its 50/ 50 if a copper stops a car for lights out , but they will always stop a nasty scary big lorry ā¦ Iād be happy to be stopped if there was something wrong though.quick fix and be on my way ā¦no harm done.
Front fogs on newer cars might be DLRās
Trucks are just as much guilty for running around with front fog lights on.
DRLās are easy to spot compared to foglights as they are only bright when no other lights are on and go off or dull down when sidelights are turned on. Fog lights are only on when sidelights are turned on and are distracting to others. If you need foglights on to drive then you really need to get your eyes tested as you should be reading to road a lot further ahead than a fog light will illuminate.
118steve:
I was quite pleased by the copper, he was nice as ninepence.
Thing that ā ā ā ā ā ā me off was the golf driver stopping in the outside lane, blocking the road and grassing me up!
Lesson learned hereā¦
Thanks,
Steve
I think you are trying to say youād rather the car had alerted you directly rather than telling the copper to alert you, you feel the car driver was being a grass?
Thatās my take on it anyway.
Maybe the car driver was trying to grass you but on the other hand he maybe thought you wouldnāt know what he was on about if heād tried to alert you. Either way, you wouldnāt want to be having any one go in to you with no lights on the trailer, the Mags would have a field day on your back side with that one!
tortoise:
Do cars have lights!! You wouldnāt think so; the numbers on the motorways in the fog the other day; with no lights on.
I went over the 628 yesterday morning and the fog was hellishly bad. The numbers coming the other way with either no lights or sidelights only was unbelievable. I did not notice a single lorry driver in this category I am glad to say, all cars and vans.
118steve:
I was quite pleased by the copper, he was nice as ninepence.
Thing that ā ā ā ā ā ā me off was the golf driver stopping in the outside lane, blocking the road and grassing me up!
Lesson learned hereā¦
Thanks,
Steve
I think you are trying to say youād rather the car had alerted you directly rather than telling the copper to alert you, you feel the car driver was being a grass?
Thatās my take on it anyway.
Maybe the car driver was trying to grass you but on the other hand he maybe thought you wouldnāt know what he was on about if heād tried to alert you. Either way, you wouldnāt want to be having any one go in to you with no lights on the trailer, the Mags would have a field day on your back side with that one!
So youāre driving along and a car starts flashing his lights at you in an attempt to get you to stop, a few things go through your mind, do they want to give me a good hiding? Do they want to rob me or the lorry? Is there something wrong with the lorry?
On the other side, youāre flashing your lights at a lorry, trying to get him to stop as his trailer has no lights, the driver thinks that options one or two are possibilities so he stops, jumps out and comes towards you in a threatening manner or even gives you a slap as you get out to tell him the problem.
Easiest way to avoid any of those situations would be to tell the old bill that you see on the side of the road a few hundred yards away, not grassing as such, more like preventing a potential problem further down the road.
Personally I would have let the lorry driver know with a few flashes of my main beams and then turning my lights on and off, although with a lot of cars having automatic headlights now, the driver may not have known how to do that.
All things considered, nothing to get all worked up about
How can you not notice yourself that your trailer isnāt lit up in the dark? Unless your journey from ripping the suzy out to getting pulled was absolutely straight for its entirety (which Iād bet my house wasnāt the case), how could you not notice?
You see those big reflective things sticking out the side of your cab? Try looking in them once in a while.
Not sure id describe driving with an unlit trailer trivial dangerous,yes.
And Iām not sure the car driver is a grass, probably figured the best way to go was to let the copper do his job rather than try an do it for him.
DRLs are a stupid idea, they really annoy me, if I ever buy a car that has them Iāll disable them or programme them to work as sidelights when I want them toā¦!:evil:
Contraflow:
Please explain why the copper was a ā ā ā ā ā ā .
For stopping a colleague of ours for such a trivial thing & listening to a grassā¦!
Comments like this are why respect for truck drivers is at a low
Having no lights on a trailer at night is not trivial, and as others have said you wouldnāt stop for a lowly car driver so the only option is to get to police to sort you out.
You are the kind of idiot who makes truck drivers look stupid, which is a shame because most arenāt .
Probably best you go back to the playground and play with the other pre schoolers
Good to hear - what with the way forward otherwise appearing to be one of faceless camera surveillance negativity & cheap-jack, minimal wage agency pseudo-plod skulking in meaningless 4x4ās
I have just retired but wish to say when ever I made a turn when on nights I would check marker lights where working and if I drove through a town I would check shop windows to check my lights ,but these days if some one flags you down you just donāt know what to expect so I think car driver did the right thing as it was only the light cable came adrift it was obvious what had happened no harm done if some one had run into the back of you you would have been hammered
The ones Iām on about are in bumper where youād typically have front fogs. They go out completely when the steering is turned (obviously the opposite hand light goes out)
I know proper DRLs dim when you indicate
VW and Peugeot seem to be a fan of these directional lights Iām on upon
think its 50/ 50 if a copper stops a car for lights out , but they will always stop a nasty scary big lorry ā¦ Iād be happy to be stopped if there was something wrong though.quick fix and be on my way ā¦no harm done.
dangerous,yes.